Hippocampal Circuit and Code for Cognition Lab (HCCCL)

Max Planck Partner Group

The former Max Planck Partner Group “Hippocampal Circuit and Code for Cognition Lab” (HCCCL) worked towards a better understanding of how the neural code underpinning memory is influenced by maturational and aging-related processes in lifespan development.

The Max Planck Partner Group was active from February 2021 until January 2026. HCCCL continues to be headed by Attila Keresztes, a research scientist at the Brain Imaging Centre of the Research Centre for Natural Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He collaboratesd closely with various projects in the Cent er e for Lifespan Psychology.

Researchers of the lab aimed

to characterize network changes within the human hippocampus, a brain area crucial for memory, and
to identify changes in memory performance that are associated with these network changes. For this purpose, the researchers predominantly carried out longitudinal studies using behavioral methods and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Cooperation with project groups of the Center for Lifespan Psychology.

Lifespan Age Differences in Memory Representations (LIME), Head: Myriam C. Sander
Lifespan Rhythms of Memory and Cognition (RHYME), Head: Markus Werkle-Bergner

Research period: February 1, 2021, to January 31, 2026.

Selected References

Keresztes, A., Raffington, L., Bender, A. R., Bögl, K., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2022). Longitudinal developmental trajectories do not follow cross-sectional age associations in hippocampal subfield and memory development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, Article 101085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101085

Sikora-Wachowicz, B., Keresztes, A., Werkle-Bergner, M., Lewandowska, K., Marek, T., & Fafrowicz, M. (2021). False recognitions in short-term memory: Age-differences in neural activity. Brain and Cognition, 151, Article 105728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105728

Keresztes, A., Raffington, L., Bender, A. R., Bögl, K., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2020). Hair cortisol concentrations are associated with hippocampal subregional volumes in children. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 4865. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61131-x