Profile Topic Cognitive Science

What makes human agency so intelligent and adaptive has become one of the key research questions of our time. Possible answers will change what we know about human beings and are likely to revolutionize how new technologies will be developed. Our research in the profile topic Cognitive Science helps to better understand human perception, thought and action and to recreate human-like behaviour in machines.

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Coordinators of the Profile Topic

  Name Working area(s) Contact
Prof. Constantin Rothkopf
Coordinator, profile topic Cognitive Science
Department of Human Sciences, Psychology of Information Processing
Prof. Ralf Galuske
Deputy Coordinator, profile topic Cognitive Science
Department of Biology, Systems neurophysiology
Prof. Loes van Dam
Deputy Coordinator, profile topic Cognitive Science
Department of Human Sciences, Sensorimotor Control and Learning