Dr. Dirk Jancke Bernstein-Group for Computational Neuroscience		Real-Time Optical Imaging Visualizing the Invisible
Institut fürNeuroinformatik NB 2/27 Ruhr-University Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany			Line-Motion Illusion    press figure to see movies
phone: +49 (0)234-32-2949-0/1 Lab             +49 (0)234-32-27845     Office email: jancke@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Research interests Visual perception and dynamics of visual information processing; cortical representations of visual parameters; plasticity (SFB 874) cortical reorganization; functional characterization of cortical anatomy; models of neural networks; psychophysics, visual illusions (see contribution in Scholarpedia).		Ruhr-University Bochum press release 25.03.2004 press release 28.09.2010 press release 24.03.2011

   

Nature Neuroscience Reviews - May 2004	Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung - 03.04.2004	Bernstein Newsletter - Oktober 2009 (movie)	Bernstein Newsletter - December 2010
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Member of the Studies Commission of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience

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Collaborations at Ruhr-University

Gregor Schöner, Dept. Neuroinformatics, Bochum, Germany (theories of dynamic neural network interactions)
Christian Igel, Dept. Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (evolving neural network dynamics)
Ulf Eysel, Dept. Neurophysiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (cortical reorganization after retinal lesions)
Onur Güntürkün,  Dept. Biopsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (working memory)
Hubert Dinse, Dept. Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (cortical plasticity)
Hanns Hatt, Dept. Cellphysiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (olfactory function)
Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Dept. Neurobiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (mechanisms of direction selectivity)
Uwe an der Heiden, Mathematik und Theorie komplexer Systeme, Universität Witten/Herdecke
Ulrich Pardey, Institut für Philosophie, Logik und Sprachphilosophie

National & International Collaborations

Amiram Grinvald, Weizmann Institut, Israel (cortical correlates of visual perception; natural scenes)
Misha Tsodyks, Dept. Neurobiology, Weizmann Institut, Israel (natural scenes)
Peter König, Selim Onat, Dept. Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany (natural scenes)
Dahlia Sharon, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, USA (spatio-temporal cortical dynamics)
Frédéric Chavane, C.N.R.S., Marseille, France (function of long-range horizontal cortical connections)
Siegrid Löwel,  Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology,  Magdeburg, Germany  (visual development and plasticity)
Thomas Wennekers,  Andrew  Symes, Centre  for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Plymouth, UK (modelling large scale dynamics in V1)
Yves Frégnac, C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France (visual motion)
Wolfram Erlhagen, Guimarães, Portugal (modeling visual motion)
Howard Hock, Dept. of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, USA (psychophysics of motion)

Current grant support
We acknowledge support from the BMBF (startup Juniorprofessorship, Bernstein Group for Computational Neuroscience Bochum),
and the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN) Bochum.