Professor Dr. Nikolai Axmacher

Address Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft
Abteilung Neuropsychologie
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Modification of episodic memories due to integration with a self-model (Research Units)
  - The impact of cartographic cues on neural representations of space (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Neuronale Mechanismen hippocampaler Gedächtnisprozesse (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Reprozessierung stimulusspezifischer neuronaler Aktivität während des Schlafes: Rekonstruktion durch simultanes EEG/fMRT und durch intrakranielles EEG (Research Grants)
  - Interactions between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and visual association cortex during short-term memory maintenance (Research Grants)
  - WMREPS Hidden brain states underlying efficient representations in working memory (Research Grants)
  - Neuronal basis, functional role and pathological relevance of grid cell-like representations in the human brain (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Memory consolidation during sleep and waking state at the level of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Neural mechanisms of context generalization (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Functional role and dynamic change of extinction network connectivity (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Focus Group Neuroimaging and Genetics (Collaborative Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - Neural synchronization in mesiotemporal lobe epilepsy: relation to memory function and pathology (CRC/Transregios)
  - The relationship between implicit and explicit visuomotor task learning in hippocampus and parietal cortex (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Shaping of object representations by cognitive and emotional factors (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - The bi-directional self-memory dynamics: a conceptual framework (Research Units)