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Prof. Gregor Schöner is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His work bridges theoretical neuroscience, robotics, and cognitive science, focusing on embodied cognition and neural dynamics. He leads the Theory of Cognitive Systems group, developing the Dynamical Field Theory (DFT) to explain action, perception, and cognition in biological and artificial systems.
Research Interests: Schöner’s research explores how embodied nervous systems develop cognition through DFT, emphasizing multi-degree-of-freedom movements, motor skill learning, working memory, sensory-motor decision-making, and early motor behavior. His second research line applies these principles to service robotics, creating autonomous systems that interact with humans. Recent work includes the ROBOVERINE robotic model for naturalistic visual search and the Cedar framework for embodied cognitive systems.
Teaching: Schöner teaches advanced topics in neural dynamics, computational neuroscience, and autonomous robotics, including courses like *Computational Neuroscience: Neural Dynamics* and *Autonomous Robotics: Action, Perception, and Cognition*. He also supervises doctoral students and runs the INI Colloquium series.
Advising & Labs: He has advised over 15 doctoral students, including works on spatial language grounding (Lins), neural architectures (Richter), and robotic scene representation (Zibner). The INI lab integrates experimental psychology, neurophysiology, machine learning, and robotics to study embodied cognition and develop novel AI solutions.
