Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Lebenswissen­schaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Psychologie

Distributed Cognition and Memory

 

Our Research

We are a new research group at the Department of Psychology, HU Berlin. We are brain imagers and machine learning experts. We aim to combine neural and behavioural data to best understand the miracle that is human cognition. Recent work focusses on the study of the neural correlates of working memory. We are funded by an Emmy Noether research group grant by the German research foundation (DFG).

Our work is driven by the hypothesis that short-term information storage is a distributed cortical process. We use neuroimaging methods (predominantly fMRI) and multivariate pattern analysis techniques (‘machine learning‘) to identify brain regions which store contents held in working memory, study the representational architecture of these brain regions, and ask how memory storage is elicited and maintained in these areas.

 

You can find our recent review on ‘The Distributed Nature of Working Memory’ here.

 

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