Our team
MeRex is a collaboration between philosophers from the Technical University Berlin (TUB), the Ben Gurion University (BGU) and the University of Umea.
Prof. Dr. Beate Krickel
Principal Investigator
TUB
The challenge is real! To meet it, we need a better understanding of what mechanistic explanation in cognitive neuroscience is.
Prof. Dr. Nir Fresco
Principal Investigator
BGU
Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience is often both computational and representational. And that's for a good reason: 'computation' and 'representation' are real and explanatorily useful in describing the mind.
Dr. Peter Schulte
External Collaborator
Umea
My statement (following soon)
Dr. Matej Kohar
Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator
TUB
Representations and mechanisms do not mix! But scaling-up is hard...
Asaf Menachem Einav
PhD-Student
BGU
My statement (following soon)
Our collaborators
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Prof. Galia Avidan (BGU, neuroscience)
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Prof. Verena Hafner (HU Berlin, robotics)