Prof. Leo van Hemmen

• Neuronal information processing arising from mechanosensory perception, such as audition and lateral line, and vision
• Auditory processing
• Theory of time-resolved synaptic plasticity (STDP), the ensuing learning and map formation
• Elementary excitations of biomembranes.

• There is meanwhile a whole zoo of animals whose neuronal perception algorithms have been clarified; for example, the barn owl, the sand scorpion, the clawed frog Xenopus, many fish species (amongst them the blind Mexican cave fish), boids and vipers.

• In the past I have also worked, in part extensively, in the fields of applied (and pure) mathematics, statistical physics, theoretical immunology, and theoretical membrane physics.

• We use mathematical methods from the theory of dynamical systems, in particular, ordinary and partial differential equations and bifurcation theory, probability theory, and the theory of stochastic processes to model detection and early (incl. midbrain) neuronal evaluation on the basis of electrophysiological and behavioral data and to compare the latter with theoretical predictions.

Project B4 – Multisensory Object Representation and Integration in Space-Time Harald Luksch (TUM) and J. Leo van Hemmen (TUM)

Project C4 – How Neuronal Representations of Space-Time Lead to Action. J. Leo van Hemmen (TUM), Martin Buss (TUM), and Gordon Cheng (TUM)

Project D2 – Visual-vestibular and visuo-visual cortical interaction. Thomas Brandt (LMU), J. Leo van Hemmen (TUM), and Stefan Glasauer (LMU)