PSYCHOLOGY IN BERLIN AND POTSDAM AND SCIENTIFIC VISITS 

On-site interactive exhibition “Psychology in Berlin and Potsdam”
During the congress, there will be a permanent exhibition area devoted to “Psychology in Berlin and Potsdam” featuring an integrative presentation of the following psychology institutions:

Humboldt University Berlin
Free University Berlin
Technical University Berlin
University of Potsdam
Max Planck Insitute for Human Development

Each institution will be presented in a brochure which is available for visitors. The exhibition area will be subdivided in thematic sections presenting collaborations between the five institutions in various fields such as (neuro-) cognitive psychology, methods and diagnostics, health and developmental psychology, work and educational psychology as well as brain-machine-interfaces. In addition to these demonstrations, there will be computer terminals giving access to various online projects and tests.

The exhibition area will also serve as a starting point and reservation office for scientific visits in and around Berlin. A map will be provided to visualize the various participating psychology institutions and collaborating centers. Two mobile research labs will be featured in the open air section of the congress venue.

Off-site scientific visits
ICP 2008 will take advantage of the rich academic infrastructure in and around Berlin. We will be able to offer a wide range of scientific visits to institutes and research labs. Example visits include:

Norman Foster’s beautiful new Languages and Literature Library, the History of Psychology Collection or the Neurocognitive Labs featuring pupillometric, electrophysiological and neurocomputational techniques for investigating mental processes (Free University Berlin).

A trip to Sanssouci in Potsdam with a visit of the Experimental Psychology Research Station featuring state-of-the-art eyetrakking research in attention and reading research (UniversityPotsdam).

Visit of the Charité in guided tours presenting clinical-psychological projects related to the psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy of childhood and youth (Charité Berlin).

Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig: A journey into the history of psychological research
Wilhelm Wundt, the ‚father‘ of experimental psychology, was appointed professor of physiology at Leipzig in 1875. In the same year, he established the first psychological laboratory in the world. This laboratory became a role model for each scientist who held a serious interest in psychology. Consequently, all subsequent psychological laboratories were closely modelled after the Wundt model.
The journey to Leipzig provides an opportunity to meet the beginnings of psychological research. The guided tour will present the remains of Wundt‘s life and work, and will also include a short tour through the center of Leipzig.
We can offer two possible arrangements:
Short tour: The short tour will focus on the Wundt room  at the University of Leipzig. It contains an interesting exhibit of personal effects, writings, and you will see some of the original laboratory equipment. Moreover, you will see
first editions of Wundt‘s work, such as the ‚Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie‘. The tour will be guided by an expert from the University of Leipzig and all comments will be in English (approx. 45 minutes).
Long tour: Following the visit to the Wundt room, you will be guided to the center of Leipzig - the hometown of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the City of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. The tour will lead you to the preserved old dwellings of Ernst Heinrich Weber, Gustav Thedor Fechner, and Wilhelm Wundt. It will also include a visit of the Fechner memorial and Wundt‘s gravestone at the Südfriedhof. Finally, you will see the so-called Wundt Eiche (Wundt oak) which marks a location in Clara-Zetkin-Park where Wundt regularly stopped to sit while on his daily walk (approx. 3h).

Both options include bus transport from Berlin to Leipzig, and return. More information (dates, fees) will be provided in the newsletters and on this webpage.
In case of interest, please let us know by email to niedegg@zedat.fu-berlin.de whether you would like to join the short or the long tour.
Reservation for these tours will be possible on-site at the booth of “Psychology in Berlin and Potsdam”.