The subject area "Computational Neuroscience" deals with mathematical modelling of the physiology and pathology of neuronal systems and their experimental validation. Knowledge of the basic functioning of ion channels is taught, as well as an understanding of neuronal information processing.
The research group deals with the underlying principles of brain processes of perception and motor action from the neuronal to the behavioural level as well as their mathematical modelling.
Currently our research in third-party funded projects:
how the stabilisation of eye movements is optimised by the central nervous system (in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux).
why patients, e.g. after COVID disease, complain of shortness of breath although physiologically no deficits can be detected (together with the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, , Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine).
what role visual attention plays in individual differences in sensorimotor control (with the University of Tsukuba, Japan).
Further projects are investigating:
how our perceptual system processes uncertainties in sensory input (together with Université Paris-Saclay, Faculty of Sports Sciences).
Navigational behaviour and spatial perception: experimentally with behavioural experiments and virtual reality, and theoretically with mathematical Bayesian models.
Time perception: experimentally with electroencephalography (EEG) and computer-based behavioural experiments
Modelling the control of slow eye movements using data from our collaboration partner MIT Lincoln Lab.