It is a venerable tradition that each faculty of the Ruhr University selects one of its students for the science award of the year. This usually takes place in the Auditorium Maximum as part of a large year’s end celebration. On November 29, 2023, this award was given to Robert Willma. In his master thesis, Robert had meticulously described that pigeons use a pecking code during the delay periods of working memory tasks to not forget the colors that they saw. Thus, the animals use a symbolic motor code for a percept!

Robert, the whole biopsychology lab and the faculty of psychology of the RUB is proud of you!