Welcome to the Visual Cognition & Computational Neuroscience Lab

From a brief glimpse of a complex scene, we recognize people and objects, their relationships to each other, and the overall gist of the scene—all within a few hundred milliseconds and with no apparent effort. What are the computations underlying this remarkable ability and how are they implemented in the brain? To address these questions, our lab combines recent advances in machine learning with human behavioral and neural data to provide a computationally precise account of how visual cognition works in humans.

Currently based in the Department of Psychology, the VCCN lab will soon move to its new home in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Physics, Geography at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Our research is supported by an ERC starting Grant (DEEPFUNC) and a LOEWE-Start-Professorship. We are also affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception, the research cluster The Adaptive Mind, the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, and the newly founded Center for Applied Computer Science and Data Science (ZAD).

We are always excited to welcome new members! If you are interested in pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's thesis, a PhD, or postdoctoral research—or if you have any other questions about joining the lab—please get in touch.