Rainer Maria Bösel

Rainer Maria Bösel (born January 31, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian - German brain researcher .

Career

From 1962 Rainer Bösel studied mathematics , zoology and psychology at the universities of Vienna and Salzburg . He received his doctorate in 1969 with a thesis on glial cells in turtles. phil. After research stays at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, he received an assistant professorship at the Institute for Psychology at the Free University of Berlin . From 1980 to 2010 he was Professor of Psychology and Head of the Working Group for Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Free University of Berlin, where u. a. Axel Mecklinger, Stefan Pollmann, Rainer Wieland and Wolf Schwarz worked. From 2010 to 2013 Rainer Bösel was Professor of General Psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin , where he built up the BA course in Psychology.

Rainer Bösel was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Scientific Film in Göttingen until 2001. He is currently providing scientific advice to the website gehirn-und-haben.de.

Act

Rainer Bösel was mainly concerned with the development of EEG methods with which he examined attentional processes . He is currently working as a non-fiction author on questions relating to the relationship between brain activity and thinking . He takes a naturalistic point of view on the question of consciousness . However, he defends the usefulness of an ascription of free will , not least because psychological research presupposes autonomous persons. He explains the construct of the person as a generalization or continuation of individual observations and external ascriptions and thus as a product of typical functions of frontal lobe mechanisms . In humans, these also access the medial prefrontal cortex , which causes the self (or the other) to be understood as an actor. On the basis of information-theoretical considerations, he concludes that aesthetic sensation arises from aggregates, the creation of which obeys random laws.

Works (selection)

Monographs

• How the brain constructs “reality”. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-030265-5 .
• Wisdom. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7945-3053-3 .
• Why i know what you think Galila, Etsdorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-902533-4-25 .
• The brain. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019183-9 .
• Introduction to Psychology. together with Dieter Ulich. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018414-8
• Think. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-8017-1267-2 .
• Brain and thinking. (CD-ROM), Hogrefe, Göttingen 1999 (2nd edition, 2000), ISBN 3-8017-1346-6 .
• The basic EEG activity. Roderer, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-89073-858-3 .
• Biopsychology of Emotions. DeGruyter, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-11-010961-1 .
• Physiological psychology. DeGruyter, Berlin 1981 (2nd edition 1987), ISBN 3-11-010962-X .
• together with other authors: Stress. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-455-09222-5 .
• Signal processing in nerve networks. Reinhardt, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-497-00832-X .
• Human ethology. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-17-002006-4 .

Research films

• Paula. Scenes from the life of a young woman. Berlin 1976 (university film).
• An attempt at cognitive emotion theory. Institute for Scientific Film, Göttingen 1978.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Maria Bösel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Report with Rainer Bösel on the subject of mind reading on Swiss television People-Technology-Science. January 8, 2004 (from approx. 9 minutes)
• Explanations by Rainer Bösel on selected cognitive performance of the brain published on gehirn-und-sehen.de
• Short interview with Rainer Bösel on the subject of cleverness carried out by Schattauer Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Svenja Radtke: Thanks and appreciation. In portrait: professors on the occasion of their retirement or retirement. Free University of Berlin, January 21, 2009, accessed on September 13, 2014 (Acknowledgments from FU Berlin on the occasion of Prof. Rainer Bösel's retirement). 
2. ↑ Link to the website of the former working group for cognitive neuropsychology at the FU Berlin
3. ^ Profile of Rainer Bösel at the IPU
4. ↑ Link to the subpage "About us" on gehirn-und-haben.de
5. ^ R. Bösel, A. Mecklinger, M. Kranz-Raphaélian, R. Stolpe: Evoked frequencies: New indicators of attention research. In: J. Beckmann, H. Strang, E. Hahn (Eds.): Attention and energization. Hogrefe, Göttingen 1993, pp. 211-228.
6. ↑ Cf. R. Bösel: The brain. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, p. 248.
7. ↑ R. Bösel: Klugheit Schattauer, Stuttgart 2014, p. 151 f.
8. ↑ R. Bösel: The brain. 2006, p. 243.
9. ^ R. Bösel: Why I know ... 2012, p. 169 f.
10. ↑ R. Bösel: How the brain constructs "reality". 2016, p. 76 u. 89 ff.
11. ^ R. Bösel: Aesthetic feeling: neuropsychological approaches. In: J. Küpper, C. Menke (Ed.) Dimensions of aesthetic experience. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 264–283.