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).
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 three departments and seven research groups are working towards answering fundamental questions about processing in the brain, using different approaches and methods.
Departments
Department for Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems(
Zhaoping Li)
Department for High-field Magnetic Resonance(Klaus Scheffler)
Department for Computational Neuroscience(
Peter Dayan
Peter Dayan is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He is co-author of ''Theoretical Neuroscience'', an influential textbook on computational neuroscience. He is known for applying Bayesian metho ...
)
Research groups
Dynamic Cognition Group(Assaf Breska)
Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience(Manuel Spitschan)
Computational Principles of Intelligence(Eric Schulz)
Systems Neuroscience & Neuroengineering(Jennifer Li & Drew Robson)
Former departments
Department for Physiology of Cognitive Processes(
Nikos Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis ( el, Νίκος Λογοθέτης; born 5 November 1950 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Greek biologist and neuroscientist. Logothetis studies visual perception and object recognition; he is well-known for his work demonstrating t ...
)
Department for Human Perception, Cognition and Action(Heinrich H. Bülthoff)
* Empirical Inference (
Bernhard Schölkopf
Bernhard Schölkopf is a German computer scientist (born 20 February 1968) 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, Ge ...
)
* Information Processing in Insects (
Werner E. Reichardt
Werner E. Reichardt (30 January 1924 – 18 September 1992) was a German physicist and biologist who helped to establish the field of biological cybernetics. He co-founded the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and the ''Journal of ...
)
* Structure & Function of Natural Nerve-Net (
Valentin von Braitenberg)
External links
Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
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Biological Cybernetics Biocybernetics is the application of cybernetics to biological science disciplines such as neurology and multicellular systems. Biocybernetics plays a major role in systems biology, seeking to integrate different levels of information to understand ...
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