Stefan Loyalty

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Stefan Treue (born August 31, 1964 in Peine ) is a German neuroscientist, biologist and, since 2001, professor of neurosciences and biological psychology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Stefan Treue discusses the relativity of brightness in the PS memory (2016)

Career

Treue completed a biology degree in Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg and at Duke University in Durham . Stefan Treue received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. He was then employed as a post-doctoral student at MIT and worked there until 1993. From 1993-1995 he then worked, also as a post-doctoral student, at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston , Texas. In 1995 he began his work at the University of Tübingen , where he headed the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience until 2001, and from 2000 to 2001 also as Professor of Animal Physiology . In 2001 Treue was appointed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he still teaches and researches in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience as Director of the German Primate Center .

In 2009, Stefan Treue was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his work in the field of neurobiological attention research , which is the most important German research prize and is worth up to 2.5 million euros. Treue is a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Research priorities

The main focus of his research is visual perception and the investigation of neural processes that are linked to sight . Attention plays a special role , whereby the visual stimuli are filtered. The processing processes of the brain then concentrate on the relevant information. His methodological resources include in particular electrophysiology , with the help of which visual perception and the corresponding neuronal processing are examined. Faithful theoretical approaches include a. functional brain theories.

further activities

Stefan Treue is the chairman of the “Understanding Animal Experiments” initiative.

Publications

  • (with JHR Maunsell) Attentional modulation of visual motion processing in cortical areas MT and MST (1996). In: Nature 382 (6591) : pp. 539-541.
  • (with JC Martinez-Trujillo) Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex (1999). In: Nature 399 (6736) : pp. 575-579.
  • (with K. Hol and H.-J. Rauber) Seeing multiple directions of motion - Physiology and psychophysics (2000). In: Nature Neuroscience 3 (3) : pp. 270-276.
  • (with JC Martinez-Trujillo) Attentional modulation strength in cortical area MT depends on stimulus contrast (2002). In: Neuron 35 : pp. 365-370.
  • Neural correlates of attention in primate visual cortex (2001). In: Trends in Neurosciences 24 (5) : pp. 295-300.
  • (with JC Martinez-Trujillo) Feature-based attention increases the selectivity of population responses in primate visual cortex (2004). In: Current Biology 14 : pp. 744-751.
  • (with T. Womelsdorf, K. Anton-Erxleben, F. Pieper) Dynamic shifts of visual receptive fields in cortical area MT by spatial attention (2006). In: Nature Neuroscience 9 : pp. 1156-1160.
  • (with L. Busse, S. Katzner) Temporal dynamics of neuronal modulation during exogenous and endogenous shifts of visual attention in macaque area MT Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (2008), 105, 16380-16385.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tierversuche-verhaben.de/ueber-uns/

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personal data
SURNAME Loyalty, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuroscientist, biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment