Between perception and action

Participation in the newly founded Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) marks an important success for cognitive science at TU Darmstadt. Over the next ten years, the internationally networked SCENE research programme will promote interdisciplinary projects investigating the connection between perception and action – a core topic of the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and the research cluster The Adaptive Mind (TAM), with which TU Darmstadt is currently competing in the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.

With Professor Constantin A. Rothkopf, TU Darmstadt is not only the only German institution in the international consortium. Rothkopf, scientific director of the Centre for Cognitive Science and spokesperson for the TAM cluster, will head the ‘Human Team’ within SCENE. In this role, he will contribute his extensive expertise in computer-based cognitive modelling, machine learning and neuroscience.