Ralf Haefner

Ralf Haefner

Associate Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Associate Professor of Physics

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
318 Meliora Hall
Web Address
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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