Computational Sensomotorics

Section Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Giese
Tel. +49 (0)7071 29 89124

Staff
Dr. Winfried Ilg
Dr. Enrico Chiovetto
Dr. Dominik Endres
Tobias Beck
Andrea Christensen
Kathrin Festl
Albert Mukovskiy
Nima Noury
Nick Taubert
Viviane Zwanger

IT Management
Dr. Winfried Löffler

The Section for Computational Sensomotorics is a mainly theoretically oriented research group within the Hertie Institute, and it represents one of two theoretically oriented professorships in the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN). Research of the section focuses on the theoretical and experimental investigation of the perception and control of movements and actions, and its degeneration in neurological disease. In addition, the group develops technical applications. One part of this work exploits technical methods for improvement of the diagnosis of movement deficits and the investigation of motor learning, including applications in rehabilitation. Another set of technical applications exploits brain-inspired principles for the recognition and representation of complex body movements in the context of technical applications in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics. The research of the section is structured in terms of three areas: 1) Clinical Movement Control and Rehabilitation, 2) Theoretical and Neural Basis of Perception-Action Coupling, and 3) Machine Learning Systems for Action Perception and Control.

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