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Nature 437, 946-947 (13 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/437946a; Published online 12 October 2005

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Neuroscience: The maestro of minds

Alison Abbott1

  1. Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.

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With a mathematician's logic and the perfectionism of a concert pianist, Nikos Logothetis is making waves in cognitive neuroscience — and putting the German town of Tübingen on the scientific map. Alison Abbott pays him a visit.

Nikos Logothetis could have been a professional musician: as a student, he used to play the piano in Greek bars to earn his tuition fees. And his undergraduate training in mathematics nearly took him into physics.

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