Dissertations in progress

• Martin Aher Disjunction in Legal Discourse
  Supervisor: Dr. habil Carla Umbach, Prof. Dr. Jeroen Groenendijk
  

• Alexander Alexejenko: Polysemy in Lexical Mental Representation: Semantics of Adjectives
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter Bosch

• Maria Cieschinger: Definite Reference
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter Bosch

• Rainer Düsing: Cognitive Correlates of affect-induced alpha asymmetry
  Supervisor: Prof. Julius Kuhl

• Lucas Eggert Neural Correlates of Impaired Behavioral Adaptation
  Supervisor: Prof. Julius Kuhl

• Markus Eronen: Explaining phenomenal consciousness
  Supervisor: Prof. Achim Stephan
  

• Sascha Fink
  Phenomenology in Pain Science
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sven Walter
  

• Martin Günther: Integrating Probabilistic Belief Revision and Planning for Mobile Robot Control
  Supervisor: Prof. Joachim Hertzberg
  

• Kai Kaspar Visual Attention Correlates of Memory, Context and Personality
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
  

• Tim Christian Kietzmann: Organization Principles in Visual Feature Hierarchies: Computational Modeling and Neuroscientific Evidence
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König

• Shah Khalid: Investigating commonalities between effects of unconscious priming
  Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Ansorge

• Ulf Krumnack: The Modeling of Non-Classical Logical Theories with Neural Networks
  Supervisors: Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, PD Dr.-Ing Helmar Gust

• Miriam Kyselo: The extended and enacted self
  Supervisor: Prof. Sven Walter
  

• Mikko Määttä: A minimalist parser for Finnish
  Supervisors: Dr. Pauli Brattico (University of Jyväskylä), Prof. Peter Bosch (University of Osnabrück)

• Nora Nortmann: Processing of Complex Stimuli in Primary Visual Cortex
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
  

• Selim Onat: Behavioral and Physiological Investigation of Integrative Processes under Natural Conditions
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
  

• Ekaterina Ovchinnikova: Formal Integration of Ontologies and Grammars
  Supervisor: Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
  

• Ilaria Serafini: The role of environment in the representational and computational functions of the brain
  Supervisor: Prof. Achim Stephan
  

• Jochen Sprickerhof: Closed-Loop interpretation of sub-symbolic 3D laser scan data
  Supervisor: Prof. Joachim Hertzberg
  

• Konstantin Todorov: Support Vector Machines Applied at Mapping Ontologies on the Semantic Web
  Supervisors: Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Dr. Peter Geibel
  

• Ulas Türkmen: The origins of symbol use and communication in preverbal categorization: A situated perspective
  Supervisor: Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
  

• Hartmut Wilke: Kin recognition: A phenomenological critique of sociobiological explanations.
  Supervisors: Supervisors: Prof. Dieter Münch (Berlin), Prof. Sven Walter (Osnabrück), Prof. Winfried Henke (Mainz)
  

Master Projects in the PhD programme

• Torsten Betz Selection of fixation points under natural conditions
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
• Nils Heise
  Supervisor: Dr. Ulrich Ansorge
• Martin Schmidt
  Supervisor: Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, PD Dr.-Ing Helmar Gust
  

Dissertations recently defended

• Tobias Thelen: Automatische Analyse orthographischer Fehler bei Schreibanfängern (June 2009)
  Supervisors: PD Dr. Helmar Gust, Prof. Utz Maas

• Daniel Weiller: Modelling the behaviour of rats in an eight arm maze (June 2009)
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
  

• Hans-Peter Frey: Overt Visual Attention Under Natural Conditions (March 2009)
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter König
  

• Reza Maleeh: Accommodating Common Cause Principle to Double-Aspect Theory of Information (December 2008)
  Supervisor: Prof. Achim Stephan
  

• Uwe Friese: Neural correlates of inference and recognition processes in language comprehension (November 2008)
  Supervisors: Dr. Evelyn Ferstl, Prof. Mark Greenlee, Prof. Peter Bosch
  

• Ho-Ming Chow: The Cortical Network for Inference Processes (October 2008)
  Supervisors: Prof. Peter Bosch, Prof. Mark Greenlee, Dr. Barbara Kaup
  

• Saskia Nagel: Moral, Social and Legal Aspects of Neuroscientific Progress (September 2008)
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenzen
  

• Josha Bach: MicroPsi - a Framework for Cognitive Agents (November 2007)
  Supervisors: Prof. Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Prof. Dietrich Dörner
  

• Bettina Schrader: A Hybrid (Word) Alignment Architecture (October 2007)
  Supervisors: Dr. habil. Helmar Gust, Prof. Dr. Peter Bosch
  

• Frank Esken: Geist und Kognition (September 2007)
  Supervisor: Prof. Achim Stephan

• Jan Slaby: Gefühl und Weltbezug (June 2006)
  Supervisor: Prof. Achim Stephan

• Timo Steffens: Knowledge and its interaction with perception in similarity (May 2006)
  Supervisor: Prof. Volker Sperschneider, Prof. Ute Schmid