{"id":1092,"date":"2023-05-22T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/?page_id=1092"},"modified":"2024-06-05T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:24:37","slug":"theory-of-cognitive-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/theory-of-cognitive-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Cognitive Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17365c\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Gregor Sch\u00f6ner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#8dae10\"><strong>Research interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to understand how embodied and situated nervous systems develop cognition. To do that, my colleagues and I have developed the theoretical framework of Dynamical Field Theory. In a set of close theory-experiment collaborations we validate the concept of the theory and systematically build an account of action, perception, and embodied cognition. Exemplary studies include multi-degree of freedom movements, learning of motor skills, perception of motion, working memory for action, space and visual features, sensory-motor decision making and the development of early cognition and motor behavior. In a second line of research we develop of autonomous robots inspired by these same theoretical principles. The main emphasis is on service robotics, in which autonomous robots interact with human users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#8dae10\"><strong>Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>use of attractor dynamics and their instabilities at three levels to generate movement trajectories, to generate goal-directed sequences of behaviors, and to derive task-relevant perceptual representations that support goal-directed behavior<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>modeling to account for neural and behavioral data as well as our own experimental program on naturalistic object-oriented movement tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#8dae10\"><strong>Master theses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Master-projects_Professor-Schoener-2023.pdf\">Suggestions for Master projects in the department <i>Theory of Cognitive Systems<\/i> (2023)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of previously supervised Master theses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understanding &#8216;Nos&#8217; and &#8216;Nots&#8217;: Modelling Negation in a DFT Architecture (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Investigating concept representation and combination with Dynamic Field Theory (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A representational structure underlying flexible action planning (2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#8dae10\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ini.rub.de\/the_institute\/people\/gregor-schoner\/#about_me\">click here<\/a> to find out more about the department of<i> Theory of Cognitive Systems<\/i> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ini.rub.de\/research\/groups\/autonomous_robotics\/#about_us\">Autonomous Robotics<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ini.rub.de\/research\/groups\/theory_of_embodied_cognition\/\">Theory of Embodied Cognition<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Gregor Sch\u00f6ner Research interest I would like to understand how embodied and situated nervous systems develop cognition. To do that, my colleagues and I have developed the theoretical framework of Dynamical Field Theory. In a set of close theory-experiment collaborations we validate the concept of the theory and systematically build an account of action, perception, and embodied cognition. Exemplary studies include multi-degree of freedom movements, learning of motor&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/theory-of-cognitive-systems\/\"> &raquo; read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1092","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/mcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}