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Manfred Fahle |
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Institute of Brain Research, Human Neurobiology & Universität Bremen
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Bremen |
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Prof. Dr. Manfred Fahle was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, grew up in Saarbrücken near the
French border, and performed his 18 months of military service in Koblenz and studied Biology
and Medicine in Göttingen, Giessen, Mainz and Tübingen. His degree in Biology is from the
Institute for Biophysics at the University of Mainz (Werner von Seelen), and the MD from the
University of Tübingen (Elfriede Aulhorn). After finishing Medical School and Internship, he
spent 4 years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen in the group of
Valentino Braitenberg. In 1981, he was appointed the Head of the Electrophysiological Laboratory
at the University Eye-Hospital, Tübingen, became an ophthalmologist and for 5 years treated
patients, including eye surgery. Between 1989 and 1990 he was at the Center for Biological
Information Processing at MIT (with Tomaso Poggio). Since then, he spent most of his time (apart
from teaching and administration) doing basic research on the function of the visual system using
psychophysical functional imaging and electrophysiological methods in normal observers and
patients, first as a Heisenberg Researcher and later as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the
University of Tübingen. During that time, he spent one term as Wiersma Visiting Professor at the
California Institute of Technology (with Christof Koch). From 1998 to 1999, he was full-time
Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City
University, London, where he still work on a part-time basis. Between 2000 and 2003 he was also
a Visiting Professor at University College, London, Institute of Ophthalmology. Since 1999, he is
Head of the Institute of Brain Research IV and the unit for Human Neurobiology at the University
of Bremen. His Current research interest is focused on understanding how the brain is able to
analyse complex visual patterns and which parts of the brain subserve which of the different
submodalities of vision, as a contribution to understanding the human brain.
[1] Fahle, M.: Perceptual learning and sensomotor flexibility: cortical plasticity under attentional
control? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0267) (2009)
[2] Fahle, M.: Sensory Plasticity and perceptual learning. In: Windhorst, U. et al. (Eds)
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer (proofs 11/2007)
[3] Fahle, M.: Perceptual learning and sensory optimization. In: Cleeremans, A. et al. (Eds.) The
Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 2008. |
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