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Year of election: | 1998 |
Section: | Neurosciences |
City: | Frankfurt (M.) |
Country: | Germany |
Wolf Singer's research is focused on the neuronal substrate of higher cognitive functions, and especially on the “binding problem”. How the distributed sub-processes in the brain are coordinated and bound together in order to give rise to coherent percepts and eventually conscious awareness is a central question of current research.