Summary Incoming Short Biography Olaf Blanke is founding director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics and holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He directs the Laboratory of Cognitive...
Summary Incoming Short Biography Peter Hagoort Director – Neurobiology of Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – the Netherlands Web Site
Summary The neuro-biomechanical control of balance Humans and other mammals are capable of learning outstanding sensorimotor coordination skills, which share one crucial component: the ability to maintain balance during movement. This requires coordinating the...
Summary The Drosophila fruit fly as an in vivo model for human neurodegenerative diseases due to trinucleotide repeats Trinucleotide repeat disorders account for more than twenty rare and severe inherited neurological diseases. The repeats can be located in the coding...
Summary Cognitive foundations of mathematics How is it possible that we, humans, as biological creatures, are capable of mathematical thought? In this talk, I will present research looking for abilities that can serve as “cognitive foundations” for...
