Humans and animals operate - with seemingly little effort - in complex and ever changing environments. This ability requires their brains to process flexibly the information about the environment provided by their sensory systems and to generate appropriate behaviour. With respect to autonomous behaviour not only humans, but also tiny animals such as insects are much superior to any artificial system. They solve their often complex tasks highly efficiently with modest computational expenditure.

Therefore, we want to elucidate the computational principles, down to the level of neurons and neural networks, that allow insects to generate visually guided behaviour in complex cluttered environments. Our analysis combines a broad spectrum of experimental approaches at various levels of organisation, ranging from the biophysical properties of neurons and neuronal circuits to visually guided behaviour.

Insight into the true nature of a behavioural problem is often facilitated by the implemen

Art der Einrichtung:
Universität

Arbeitsschwerpunkt:
Computational Neuroscience, Verhaltensneurobiologie

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Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
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Heike.Sieb@uni-bielefeld.de

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https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/neurobiology/

Heike Sieb

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Sekretärin