Cognitive Neurology

The Department of Cognitive Neurology was founded in the year 2000 with support from the program “C4-Department of Neuroscience at Neurology Clinics“ of the Hermann and Lilly-Schilling Foundation and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Thier was appointed head of the department. … more information

Research groups

The Section for Neuropsychology focuses on the investigation of spatial cognition and object … more info

The Section for Computational Sensomotorics investigates theoretical principles in the perception … more info

The lab addresses a variety of topics that, at first glance, may look disparate. Yet, there is a common denominator … more info

Playing video-games is a widely distributed leisure activity in our society. In order to estimate the consequences … more info

The overarching goal of our work is to understand the operating principles of the neocortex, a unique … more info

Humans are tremendously reliant on the sense of vision to interact with their environment. Such interaction often involves the generation of motor outputs… more info

The Research Group "Neuropsychology of Action" is dedicated to investigations of human action… more info

The research group „Multi-Level Modeling in Motor Control and Rehabilitation Robotics“ focuses on the generation and control of active biological movements. … more info