Research Programm

The central goals of THINK are to develop novel integrative theories of cognition and its underlying neural mechanisms, to test them in experiments, and to develop new therapies and technical applications based on these theoretical insights. THINK will focus on five areas of application with high potential for the future: learning processes, industrial workflows, daily living skills of the elderly, psychological disorders and neurorehabilitation/neuroprosthetics. THINK unites scientists from different disciplines from neurobiology over neurology, psychology and computational modeling to philosophy and, therefore, is highly interdisciplinary.

The research agenda is divided into the following areas:

• Development of new integrative theories of cognition and its underlying neural mechanisms, considering different descriptive levels as well as different cognitive processes and integrating them into a complete conceptual system.
• Investigation of integrative theories of cognition by means of complex behavioral paradigms and measurements of different neural activities and structural parameters.
• Development of new therapies and technical applications based on the special approach of THINK driven by fundamental research.