Cognition and Neurosciences
Participants
External collaborators
- Tobias Elze (Harvard University)
- Rudolf Rübsamen (Universität Leipzig, Neurobiology)
- Rainer Stollhoff (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Graduate students
- Philipp Benner
- Wiktor Młynarski (DFG Graduiertenkolleg InterNeuro; collaboration with Rudolf Rübsamen, Universität Leipzig)
- Anja Neumann (CEEDs)
Topics
- Neural networks and models of cognition: Information processing in recurrent networks (interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes), interpretation of phenomena from cognitive psychology (visual masking, prosopagnosia,...), synchronization as neural coordination mechanism
- Theoretical neurobiology: Processing of sensory information, learning mechanisms
- Spectral analysis of neuroanatomical and neurobiological networks
- Dynamics of neurons; stochastic perturbations
External funding
- DFG Graduiertenkolleg InterNeuro
- CEEDs (The Collective Experience of Emphatic Data Systems, European Union FP7)
