
Ralf Haefner
Associate Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Associate Professor of Physics
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 318 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Research Overview
My primary scientific interest lies in understanding how the brain forms percepts and how it uses them to make decisions, especially in the visual domain. In particular, I am interested in how the brain's perceptual beliefs about the outside world are represented by the responses of populations of cortical neurons. To that end I use tools from machine learning to construct mathematical models that aim to explain neural responses and behavior.
Research Interests
- Computational Neuroscience
- Perceptual decision-making
- Probabilistic inference
- Selective attention
- Neural population encoding and decoding
- Depth perception/processing of binocular disparity