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Our team

MeRex is a collaboration between philosophers from the Technical University Berlin (TUB), the Ben Gurion University (BGU) and the University of Umea.

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Peter Schulte

External Collaborator

Umea

My statement (following soon)

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Dr. Matej Kohar

Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator

TUB

Representations and mechanisms do not mix! But scaling-up is hard...

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Asaf Menachem Einav

PhD-Student

BGU

My statement (following soon)

Our collaborators

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