The department "Physiology of Cognitive Processes" concentrates on visual perception in primates. Their research focuses on the following questions: What influence do (a) the environment or setting of an object, (b) the object's size and (c) its surface structure have on object recognition? Where in the brain is visual perception located? These questions are pursued in combined psychophysical and electrophysiological experiments utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. For these experiments the animals must learn to classify and identify objects.
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