Heinrich Bülthoff

Heinrich Bülthoff (born December 18, 1950 in Zetel ) is director of the Department for Perception, Cognition and Action at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen.

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Heinrich Bülthoff received his doctorate from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and worked from 1980 to 1988 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He then became professor of cognitive science at Brown University in Providence / Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and since 1996 has also been an honorary professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

Heinrich Bülthoff researches primarily in the fields of object and face recognition, sensor-motor integration, spatial cognition and behavior in virtual environments.

Publications

Heinrich Bülthoff has over 100 scientific publications and is the editor in charge of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Bülthoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Bülthoff's homepage
• The Cybernetics Approach to Perception, Cognition and Action. Lecture as part of the EUCog program (2010) on YouTube (English)