# Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
**Domain:** Biological Cybernetics / Perception / Neuroscience
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Max Planck Society]], [[Cybernetics]], perception, [[Embodied Intelligence]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
The **Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics** in Tübingen studies information processing in biological systems, especially perception, cognition and behavior in human and animal brains.
## Corpus Context
Its domain directly joins [[Cybernetics]] to embodiment: intelligence is investigated as an active loop among nervous system, body and environment rather than as abstract computation alone.
## Directory Context
This institution is indexed through the [[Max Planck Society]] in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics](https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/en)