Brain and Cognition

The research group Brain & Cognition is aiming in developing a neurocognitive memory model. Head of the group is Prof. Dr. Hubert Zimmer.

In the neurocognitive memory model two lines of research should meet: the long tradition of behavioral memory research and the rapidly growing field of neuropsychological research on remembering. The aim is to develop a model of human memory that is compatibel with results gathered in brain research. We therefore run experiments using traditional memory as well as recent neuropsychological paradigms, using electrophysiological methods, e.g. recordings of EEG and event-related potentials (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging, in order to examine the electrophysiological correlates and the neural structures of memory.

• memory for nonverbal material, for example, pictures or sounds
• memory for subject performed tasks, i.e. memory for real actions which are self-performed
• differences between explicit and implicit memory

According to our research interests we are in close cooperation with the Experimental Neuropsychological Unit (Prof. Mecklinger) and in the connection of the Brain Imaging Group with the Department of Neuroradiology (Prof. Reith) at the University Hospital in Homburg. We have projects granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the Resarch Group FOR 448 on Binding: Functional architecture, neural correlates, and ontogeny' and in den Collaborative Research Center SFB 378 'Resourceadaptive Cognitive Processes'. For more information on our projects please click here.