ERC funds our PI Caspar Schwiedrzik for research into flexible learning

In the project "Flexible Dimensionality of Representational Spaces in Category Learning", a team of neuroscientists led by Dr. Caspar Schwiedrzik is investigating how flexible our thoughts and our perception are and what the neuronal basis for such flexibility is. The ERC is funding the UMG-coordinated project with an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros for a period of five years, one of the highest awards in Europe for excellent scientists. This is already the second grant for Dr. Schwiedrzik, who received an ERC Starting Grant for his research in 2018 and heads the junior research groups "Neural Circuits and Cognition" at the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI), a cooperation between the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Society, and "Perception and Plasticity" at the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen. "I am delighted and honoured that the European Research Council has once again recognised my research achievements and made the implementation of the new project possible," says Dr Caspar Schwiedrzik