The School of Cognitive Sciences forms part of the
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) in
Tehran,
Iran. The school was called the School of Intelligent Systems (SIS) until 2003 when it was renamed to the School of Cognitive Sciences. The research is predominantly focused on cognitive
neuroscience.
The research programs cover diverse areas including
cognitive neuroscience, neural modeling,
psychophysics
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, m ...
,
linguistics,
neural networks
A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...
and
artificial intelligence. Since its inception the school has been managed by Prof.
Caro Lucas
Caro Lucas Ghukasian ( hy, Կարո Լուկաս Ղուկասեան); ( fa, کارو لوکاس قوکاسیان; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society ...
(School of ECE,
University of Tehran), Prof. Shahin Rouhani (Physics Department,
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, ...
)
Prof. Hossein Esteky(Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences), Prof. Mojtaba Zarei (Institute for Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University) and most recently by Dr. Ali Ghazizadeh (EE Department,
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, ...
).
The school earned enormous recognition with the publication of the article entitled "Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization" by Seyed Reza Afraz, Roozbeh Kiani an
Hossein Estekyin ''
Nature''. The article was published on August 10, 2006.
See also
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
External links
IPM School of Cognitive Sciences
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Research institutes in Iran
Cognitive science research institutes