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Visit from Paris

1 July 2024, by Ugur Turhan

Stefano Palminteri (research director at INSERM, Paris), three members of his Human Reinforcement Learning lab, and Sophie Bavard (former postdoc in our lab, now in Paris) were visiting us during the first week of July.

Stefano received the Bessel Prize from the Humboldt Foundation to visit labs in Germany, including ours, for scientific exchange.

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