From categories to concepts: Neurophysiology of network dynamics during abstract learning (B13*)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 122679504

The organisation of the sensory world into semantic categories and more abstract concepts is fundamental to cognition. These processes place high cognitive demands on a species and can be studied only in very few animal models. Corvid birds are such a model. Here, I propose to study category learning in corvids using modern multisite neurophysiology. The aim of the project is to understand interaction of multiple structures and their respective plastic contributions at different levels of abstraction.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 874: Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Dr. Jonas Rose