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Wolf Singer
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolf Singer studied Medicine in Munich and Paris, obtained his MD from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and his PhD from the Technical University in Munich. Since 1981 he is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main. In 2004 he was the founding director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and in July 2008 he initiated the foundation of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for cognitive neurosciences. His 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.
His work was honored with many scientific prizes and two Drs. honoris causa.
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