The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in
Tübingen
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,
Baden-Württemberg
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,
Germany
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. It is one of 80 institutes in the
Max Planck Society
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(Max Planck Gesellschaft). It was founded in 1968.
The institute is studying signal and information processing in the brain. We know that our brain is constantly
processing a vast amount of sensory and intrinsic information by which our behavior is coordinated accordingly. How the brain actually achieves these tasks is less well understood, for example, how it
perceives, recognizes, and learns new objects. The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics aim to determine which signals and processes are responsible for creating a coherent percept of our environment and for eliciting the appropriate behavior. Scientists of several departments and research groups are working towards answering fundamental questions about processing in the brain, using different approaches and methods.
Departments
Department for Computational Neuroscience(
Peter Dayan)
Department for Body-Brain Cybernetics(
Ivan De Araujo
Ivan De Araujo is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, along with Peter Dayan. He is known for his seminal investigations on sugar preference and on the reward functions of the gut-brain axis. ...
)
Department for Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems(
Zhaoping Li)
Department for High-field Magnetic Resonance(Klaus Scheffler)
Max Planck Research Groups
Brain States for Plasticity(
Svenja Brodt)
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurotechnology(
Romy Lorenz)
Dynamic Cognition Group(
Assaf Breska)
Molecular Singaling(
Robert Ohlendorf)
Systems Neuroscience & Neuroengineering(
Jennifer Li &
Drew Robson)
Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience(
Manuel Spitschan)
Former departments
Department for Physiology of Cognitive Processes(
Nikos Logothetis)
Department for Human Perception, Cognition and Action(Heinrich H. Bülthoff)
* Empirical Inference (
Bernhard Schölkopf
Bernhard Schölkopf (born 20 February 1968) is a German computer scientist known for his work in machine learning, especially on kernel methods and causality. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, ...
)
* Information Processing in Insects (
Werner E. Reichardt)
* Structure & Function of Natural Nerve-Net (
Valentin von Braitenberg)
References
External links
Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
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