One main research focus is the question, how people create a representation of someone or something they know well. We therefore investigate several related processes like:
- Identification
- Recognition (in cooperation with Helsinki)
- Familiarity
- “Knowing”
Another of BPCN’s research focuses is the role of the temporal context regarding perception. We are conducting researches on a large range of topics, like
- Expectations and predictions (Brisbane)
- Priming
- Adaptation
- Stimulus repetitions
- Context (Bielefeld)
- Expertise
- Mismatch negativity
Furthermore the BPCN does research on:
- The hierarchy and parallelism of the face processing network (Perceptual vs Semantic learning)
- Memory
- Autobiographical memory
- Pattern separation/completion (Budapest)
- Inter-individual perceptual differences
- Prosopagnosia
- Implicit/procedural learning
- ASRT (Lyon)
- How visual noise affects perception
- Numbers in the brain
- Human bodies in the brain
- Person Gestalt
- Sign-language
- Music in the brain
- Machine learning
- Brain Stimulation techniques (Göttingen, London)