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 and Neurosciences
External collaborators
- Tobias Elze (Harvard University)
- Joe Lizier (University of Sydney)
- Rudolf Rübsamen (Universität Leipzig, Neurobiology)
- Wolf Singer (Ernst Struengmann Institute Frankfurt)
Graduate students
- Masud Ehsani
- Angel Eduardo Rodríguez Fernández
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
- Spectral analysis of neuroanatomical and neurobiological networks
- Dynamics of neurons; stochastic perturbations