How does our brain create an inner image of the world around us based on the messages from our sensory organs? Medical doctors, neurobiologists, psychophysicists, psychologists, acousticians, engineers, biochemists and neurogeneticists are working interdisciplinarily on this question. The focus is on the processes that create the first sensory building blocks in the sensory organs from the flood of sensory impressions - and the processes that construct a perception from them in the brain. The experts pay special attention to examining the interactions of different sensory impressions.

Neurosensory science is one of eleven main research areas at the University of Oldenburg. So far, more than 30 working groups have established themselves in this field, with the Research Centre for Neurosensory Science forming the umbrella organisation. It bundles the interdisciplinary activities of the working groups and actively promotes cooperation with non-university institutions. The scientists at the centre also see an important task in the targeted promotion of young scientists.

Executive DirectorProf. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Koch

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