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Prof. Dr. Harald Lachnit

Research interests

My research concerns fundamental processes of learning and cognition in humans and other animals, using behavioral, computational, and neurobiological techniques. In particular, I take care of how the input of the “learning machinery” has to be specified. To this end, my research focuses on properties of stimuli (including context), attention, the flexibility of stimulus processing, and aspects of time in acquisition and extinction. In order to enhance the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of associative learning, I rely on the logic of convergent operations. Many of my findings point to a similarity between the basic mechanisms of learning in animals and humans.