Olaf Sporns
Academic
1963 –
Who is Olaf Sporns?
Olaf Sporns is Provost Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University.
Dr. Sporns received his degree from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Tübingen, West Germany before going to New York to study at the Rockefeller University under Gerald Edelman. After receiving his doctorate, he followed Edelman to the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.
His focus is in the area of computational cognitive neuroscience. His topics of study include functional integration and binding in the cerebral cortex; neural models of perception and action; network structure and dynamics; applications of information theory to the brain; and embodied cognitive science using robotics. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in the Natural Sciences category.
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- Born
- Sep 18, 1963
Kiel - Nationality
- Germany
- United States of America
- Education
- Rockefeller University
- Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
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on July 23, 2013
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