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
- 658

Cognition, Language and Neurosciences

Participants

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)

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