This is Centtive
Cognition Institute
We are dedicated to researching the cognitive abilities of individuals. More specifically, we want to understand what motivates individuals to learn new things, what causes the brain to lose neurons in abundance so disorders such as dementia and strokes can emerge, and why individuals behave the way they do (such as buying specific products, maintaining patterns of behavior in everyday situations, etc.). And in the age of these challenges, we are exploring the insidious intricacies of how the SARS-CoV‑2 virus gets into our brains, how it affects our mental and cognitive abilities, and what long-term effects may exist by means of this virus.
A major focus of our research is on the neural bases of higher brain functions such as language, emotion and social behavior, music, and action. We are particularly interested in how these are perceived, processed, planned and produced, but also how perception and production influence each other. Furthermore, we are investigating the brain’s capacity for plastic change and its influence on various cognitive abilities as well as the neuronal and hormonal basis of civilization diseases such as hypertension and obesity. In addition, the further development of imaging techniques for neuroscience and cognitive science is a central focus of our research.
This includes in particular:
- Experimental manipulation of the physical self and its influence on the change of emotional, cognitive, motivational and social processes
- The role and importance of speech production mechanisms in the perception of language
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms of speech perception, speech and voice production
- Changes in psychosocial being in old age and their general progression from neurodegenerative diseases
- The most important information on maintaining the learning mechanism throughout life, cleansing the brain during sleep and changing perception through new media
- Emotion processing of spoken language, acoustic cues, in face processing and especially in lesions of the cognitive structures e.g. due to strokes.