TUDa Professor Constantin Rothkopf participating in new Simons Collaboration
Simons Foundation funds research on ecological neuroscience with 8 million dollars annually for the next ten years.
Professor Constantin A. Rothkopf has been selected as the only researcher from a German institution to join the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE), which will receive over $8 million annually from the U.S.-based Simons Foundation for the next ten years.
He takes over the lead of the ‘Human Team’ within SCENE. In this role, he contributes his extensive expertise in computer-aided cognition modelling, machine learning and neuroscience.
SCENE builds principles from ecological psychology, which posits that one of the brain’s core functions is to encode affordances. An affordance is an opportunity for action available in an environment, for example, a chair affords the opportunity to sit. By encoding affordances, the brain closely links perception with action. Identifying how the brain encodes and uses this information will bridge gaps in our understanding of cognition.
