Research Group
Jürgen Jost
Contact: Email
Phone:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 550
Address:
Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Administrative Assistant:
Antje Vandenberg
Email, Phone/Fax:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959
- 552
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Cognition, Language and Neurosciences
External collaborators
- Peter Dayan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
- Christian Doeller (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
- Tobias Elze (Harvard University)
- Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
- Joe Lizier (The University of Sydney)
- Gabriele Lohmann (Eberhard Karls University and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
- Jochen Triesch (FIAS)
- Massimo Warglien (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Graduate students
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
- Partial information decompositions
- Theoretical neurobiology: Processing of sensory information, learning mechanisms
- Theory of metaphors
- Theory of consciousness
- Spectral analysis of neuroanatomical and neurobiological networks
- Dynamics of neurons; stochastic perturbations
- Coding properties of neurons
- Cognitive principles of language