Neurobiopsychology - Cognitive Science

Where do you want Cognitive Science Osnabrück to be in 2010? Tell us your
vision!
• A European centre of cognitive science. We form an institute
concentrating on understanding high-level cognitive behaviour. I believe,
that these topics are tightly interrelated and benefit from a combined
study. The institute should offer a wide range of experimental methods,
develop advanced models of human cognition, and create artificial
cognitive agents.
What do you offer for cooperation with the other research groups of our
institute? And what would you like to be offered by them?
• We offer techniques like, eye-tracking, EEG, robot/mouse behaviour,
simulation platform, …
• We happily use any advanced sensor technology, wireless data acquisition,
mobile sensing, tools for language production,
• We highly appreciate collaboration on the topic of simultaneous existence
of analogue and symbolic representations in the brain.
• Language understanding and language production in HCIs.
What are the most important topics that should be worked on within our
institute?
• I think we should not concentrate on a single topic, but cover a fair
selection of high-level cognitive behaviour. These include, but are not
restricted to, (1) all aspects of attention, as it is pervasive phenomenon,
(2) language of course, (3) action planning, which is a wide open field, (4)
emotions, being very human. We should avoid that there is a one-to-one
mapping of groups and techniques onto topics. All/most topics should be
addressed by multiple groups with many different techniques.