Project Details
Projekt
EXC 307: Interdisciplinary Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)
Subject Area
Neurosciences
Term
from 2007 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 49762668
This cluster of excellence will advance our understanding of how the brain generates function and how brain diseases impair function. Its scientific programme is guided by the conviction that progress in the understanding of brain function cannot be achieved in a reductionist, bottom-up manner. Instead it calls for an integrative approach that combines knowledge at multiple levels of organisation. This approach is inevitably an interdisciplinary one: thus, the present application brings together a diverse group of researchers, including a substantial number from non-life science disciplines. An important aspect of the proposal is that insights gained into biological information processing will be used to develop brain-inspired technical applications and prosthetic devices.
Research at the Werner Reichardt Centrum für Integrative Neurowissenschaften (CIN) will be carried out in five complementary areas: Research in area A will focus on the task-specificity and embodiment of cognition in humans and animals in the context of reasoning, abstraction and theory of mind. Research area B will investigate molecular and cellular implementation of selected brain functions and disturbances caused by neurodegenerative diseases. Area C will be dedicated to improving the brain imaging technologies needed for research in most of the other areas. Groups in area D will focus on the development of neuroprosthetic devices, while groups in area E will develop brain-inspired solutions for technical and biomedical applications. In order to guarantee a steady supply of bright students, the CIN will also set up a training centre to promote research-oriented training in integrative neuroscience.
Research at the Werner Reichardt Centrum für Integrative Neurowissenschaften (CIN) will be carried out in five complementary areas: Research in area A will focus on the task-specificity and embodiment of cognition in humans and animals in the context of reasoning, abstraction and theory of mind. Research area B will investigate molecular and cellular implementation of selected brain functions and disturbances caused by neurodegenerative diseases. Area C will be dedicated to improving the brain imaging technologies needed for research in most of the other areas. Groups in area D will focus on the development of neuroprosthetic devices, while groups in area E will develop brain-inspired solutions for technical and biomedical applications. In order to guarantee a steady supply of bright students, the CIN will also set up a training centre to promote research-oriented training in integrative neuroscience.
DFG Programme
Clusters of Excellence
Applicant Institution
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Participating Institution
Forschergruppe Diabetes e.V.
am Helmholtz Zentrum München (aufgelöst); Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA; Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme; Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik; Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
Standort Tübingen
am Helmholtz Zentrum München (aufgelöst); Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA; Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme; Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik; Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
Standort Tübingen
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Thier
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Matthias Bethge; Professor Dr. Niels Birbaumer; Professor Michael Black, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Jan Born; Professor Dr. Christoph Braun; Professor Dr. Heinrich H. Bülthoff; Professorin Dr. Sabine A. Döring; Professor Dr. Thomas Euler; Professorin Dr. Olga Garaschuk; Professor Dr. Thomas Gasser; Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin A. Giese, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Mathias Jucker; Professor Dr. Hans-Otto Karnath; Professor Dr. Dieter Kern; Professorin Dr. Marlies Knipper; Professorin Dr. Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann; Professor Dr. Nikos K. Logothetis; Professor Dr. Hanspeter A. Mallot; Professor Dr. Andreas Nieder; Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schaal; Professor Klaus Scheffler, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Cornelius Schwarz; Professor Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf; Professor Dr.-Ing. Alexander Verl
