Bernhard Hommel
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NameMr Prof. Dr. phil. Bernhard Hommel
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Professur Biopsychologie
Professur Biopsychologie
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Forschungsschwerpunkte
Bernhard Hommel widmet sich der theoretischen und empirischen Forschung über die kognitiven, computationalen, entwicklungspsychologischen, neuronalen und neurochemischen Mechanismen menschlicher Aufmerksamkeit und Handlungskontrolle, inklusive der Rolle des Bewusstseins in diesem Zusammenhang. Jüngere Forschungen beziehen auch Aspekte der Emotion, der Kreativität und religiösen Überzeugung mit ein, ebenso wie Fragen des menschlichen Selbst und der kognitiven Robotik.
| 2020 - 2023 |
Team Leader |
| 2020 - 2021 | Senior Researcher TU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine |
| 2008 - 2019 |
Co-Organizer of the University's |
| 2006 - 2019 | Co-Founder and co-director Leiden Center of Brain & Cognition |
| 2000 - 2016 | Head of Cognitive Psychology Unit Leiden University |
| seit 1999 | Full professor Leiden University |
| 1997 - 1999 |
Head of working group "Executive Functions" |
| 1997 | PD Dr. habil. Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich |
| 1990 - 1999 | Senior Researcher MPI for psychological research |
| 1990 | Dr. phil. University of Bielefeld |
| 1987 - 1990 | Research Assistent University of Bielefeld |
| 1987 | Diplom Psychologie University of Bielefeld |
| 2018 - 2020 | President of the European Society for Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 2017 - 2024 | Speaker/scientific director of the DFG Priority Program “The active self” |
| seit 2017 | Senator of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) |
| 2016 - 2020 | Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the FET-Open EU project “GOAL-Robots: Goal-based open-ended autonomous learning robots” |
| 2016 - 2018 | President-elect of the European Society for Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 2008 | Head of the Department of Psychology, Leiden University |
| 2007 - 2010 |
Head of the Science Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Leiden University |
| 2007 | Board member of the Department of Psychology, Leiden University |
| seit 2006 | Co-founder and co-director of the Leiden Center for Brain and Cognition |
| seit 2006 | Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance |
| seit 2004 | Member of Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance |
| 2003 - 2010 | Treasurer (and elected Committee Member until 2006) of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology |
| 1997 - 2007 | Organizing Committee and Speaker of DFG Priority Program "Executive Functions" |
| 1997 - 1999 | Speaker of Association for Experimental Research on Cognition |
| 1995 - 1997 | Member Foundation Committee of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 1993 - 1997 | Member Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society |
| 2018 - 2020 | Self as a feature bundle: Unraveling the mechanisms underlying self-representation. DFG, Germany (PI: ~340.000 €) |
| 2016 - 2021 | Cognitive control in context: Neural, functional, and social mechanisms of metacontrol. European Research Council, ERC-Advanced (PI: 2.500.000 €) |
| 2012 - 2015 | ROBOHOW.ORG: Web-enabled and experience-based cognitive robots that learn complex everyday manipulation tasks. EU-Integrated Project grant (PI: ~500.000 €) |
| 2011 - 2012 | LUMC grant (PI, with Band) (~150.000 €) |
| 2011 | The virtual identity lab. NWO, Netherlands (PI: ~200.000 €) |
| 2010 - 2015 | Cognitive and motivational components of decision-making: an integrated approach. NWO, Netherlands (PI: ~500.000 €) |
| 2006 - 2009 | Hot cognition: How emotions shape information processing (PI, with Band). NWO, Netherlands (~180.000 €) |
| 2001 - 2009 |
Executive functions (PI, Speaker/Organizer). |
| 2001 - 2009 | Development of executive functions. Priority Program "Executive functions" of the German Research Community (DFG) (PI: ~400.000 €) |
| 2000 - 2003 | Neurophysiological mechanisms and temporal dynamics of feature integration in perception and action planning (PI with Schnitzler & Shapiro). Volkswagen Foundation (~420.000 €) |
| 1997 - 1999 | Executive functions. Max Planck Society (PI: ~250.000 €) |
| 1996 - 2002 | Integration of sensorimotor feedback and motor control structures (PI with Aschersleben & Prinz) German Research Community (DFG) (~315.000 €) |
| 1996 - 2000 | Spatial coding in perception and memory. German Research Community (DFG) (PI: ~260.000 €) |