Lorenz Gönner

Lorenz studied Applied Mathematics and Latin American regional studies at Technische Universität Dresden. From 2008-2011, he worked as a research engineer at ciAD competence in AudioDesign, Dresden. In December 2011, he took a post as research associate at the Artificial intelligence lab at Technische Universität Chemnitz, where he performed research on spiking network models of hippocampal place-cell sequences. Since April 2018 he is a member of the Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience unit at Technische Universität Dresden.

• Mechanisms of learning and memory recall in spatial tasks
• Functional role and generation of hippocampal place-cell sequences
• Interactions between synaptic plasticity and cognitive functions
• Population coding in spiking networks

Gönner, L., Baeuchl, C., Glöckner, F., Riedel, P., Smolka, M. N., & Li, S.-C. (2023). Levodopa suppresses grid-like activity and impairs spatial learning in novel environments in healthy young adults. Cerebral Cortex, bhad361. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad361.
PDF of the manuscript here.

Burkhardt , M., Bergelt , J., Gönner, L., Dinkelbach, H. Ü., Beuth, F., Schwarz, A., Bicanski, A., Burgess, N., Hamker, F. H. (2023). A large-scale neurocomputational model of spatial cognition integrating memory with vision. Neural Networks, 167:473-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2023.08.034

Larisch, R., Gönner, L., Teichmann, M., & Hamker, F. H. (2021). Sensory coding and contrast invariance emerge from the control of plastic inhibition over emergent selectivity. PLoS Comput Biol 17(11):e1009566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009566

Goenner, L.*, Maith, O.*, Koulouri, I., Baladron, J., & Hamker, F. H. (2020). A
spiking model of basal ganglia dynamics in stopping behavior supported
by arkypallidal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15082 (* equal contribution)

Goenner, L., Vitay, J., & Hamker, F. H. (2017). Predictive place-cell sequences for goal-finding emerge from goal memory and the cognitive map: A computational model. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 11:84. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2017.00084