Nikos K. Logothetis The departments mission is to understand the neural basis underlying conscious perception. Using the auditory and visual sensory modalities as models, we investigate where sensory objects are encoded in the brain, how they are represented by neuronal activity; and how this representation is shaped by learning.
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Heinrich H. Bülthoff The department is concerned with the fundamental processes of human perception. The primary focus is how the information from different sense organs is integrated to create a consistent representation of the “world in our heads”.
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Bernhard Schölkopf Now at the MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen Campus The problems studied in the department can be subsumed under the heading of empirical inference. This term refers to inference performed on the basis of empirical data.
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Kuno Kirschfeld The main research interests of the department were the primary processes and photo transduction in the photoreceptors of insects, physiological optics, visual pigments and the ion regulation in the nervous system.
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Werner Reichhardt The departments research focused on the processing of information in the nervous system of Drosophila and helped clarify vision in motion.
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Valentino Braitenberg The research in this department was based on the combination of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology with brain theory, with the aim to understand mechanisms of brain functions.
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