Ernst Pöppel
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Born | Schwessin, Farther Pomerania, Germany | 29 April 1940
Children | David Poeppel |
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Fields | Psychology, neuroscience |
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Ernst Pöppel (born 29 April 1940) is a German psychologist and neuroscientist. He is the father of Dr. David Poeppel.
Education and research
Pöppel was born in Schwessin, Farther Pomerania. He studied psychology and biology in Freiburg and Munich, before finishing his academic education with PhD in 1968 in Innsbruck, Austria. He did research on temporal perception and circadian rhythms between 1964 and 1968, in the Max-Planck-Institute of Behavioral Physiology, and on neurophysiology of vision in 1969 and 1970 in Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich. From 1971 to 1973, he did research on neuropsychology of vision at the Department of Psychology and Brain Science at MIT, Cambridge, USA. At the same time, he was staff scientist at the Neuroscience Research Program (NRP). At this time, he described together with Richard Held and Douglas Frost a phenomenon of residual vision,[1] which became known as blindsight.
After his first habilitation in Sensory Physiology (Dr. med. habil.) in 1974, and a second one in Psychology (Dr. phil. habil.) in 1976, he became Professor of Medical Psychology (“Ordinarius”) in 1976 at the Medical Faculty of
Human Science Center
In 1997, he and the neuroscientist Gerhard Neuweiler founded the Humanwissenschaftliches Zentrum (HWZ – Human Science Center) of Munich University, and he has been the CEO since then. The HWZ is an interdisciplinary and international platform for research to bridge the gap between academic faculties. With its more than 70 members worldwide, research of the HWZ focuses on “anthropological universals and cultural specifics”. In 1999, for instance, the HWZ started a sequence of Sino-German Workshops together with Peking University. The 7th Sino-German Workshop in 2008, was dedicated to the topic of “Culture and Identity”, which was co-organized with Shihui Han from the Department of Psychology of Beida (Peking University).
Directorships
Since 2000, Ernst Pöppel is also Co-Director of
Recognition and influence
Ernst Pöppel has received several honors, like the Bavaria Constitutional Medal, and in 1992 he became Member of
Research of Ernst Pöppel has globalized in the last years, having moved now more towards the East compared to earlier orientation towards the West, like cooperation with scientists from the US. He has common projects with Chinese colleagues from
His political motivation for such international cooperations besides scientific interests is: “Scientists are Natural Ambassadors”.References
- ^ Pöppel E, Held R, Frost D, Letter: Residual visual function after brain wounds involving the central visual pathways in man. Nature, 1973, 243(5405): 295-296.
- ^ "Mitglieder". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (in German). Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ Pöppel E, Von Cramon D, Backmund H, Eccentricity-specific dissociation of visual functions in patients with lesions of the central visual pathways. Nature, 1975, 256(5517): 489-490.
- ^ Pöppel E, Bridging a neuronal gap. Perceptual completion across a cortical scotoma is dependent on stimulus motion. Naturwissenschaften, 1985, 72(11): 599-600.
- ^ Pöppel E., Long-range colour-generation interactions across the retina. Nature, 1986, 320(6062): 523-525.
- ^ Pöppel E, Stoerig P, Logothetis N, Fries W, Boergen KP, Oertel W, Zihl J, Plasticity and rigidity in the representation of the human visual field. Experimental Brain Research, 1987, 68(2): 445-448.
- ^ Pöppel E, Logothetis N, Neuronal oscillations in the human brain. Discontinuous initiations of pursuit eye movements indicate a 30-Hz temporal framework for visual information processing. Naturwissenschaften, 1986, 73(5): 267-268.
- ^ Pöppel E, A hierarchical model of temporal perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1997, 1(2): 56-61.
- ^ Pöppel E, Lost in time: a historical frame, elementary processing units and the 3-second window. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis (Wars), 2004, 64:295-301.
- ^ Bao Y, Pöppel E, Two spatially separated attention systems in the visual field: evidence from inhibition of return. Cognitive Processing, 2007, 8(1): 37-44.
- ^ Miyake Y, Onishi Y, Pöppel E, Two types of anticipation in synchronization tapping. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis (Wars), 2004, 64(3): 415-426.
- ^ Podvigin NF, Jokeit H, Pöppel E, Chizh AN, Kiselyeva NB, Stimulus-dependent oscillatory activity in the lateral geniculate body of the cat. Naturwissenschaften, 1992, 79(9):428-431.
- ^ Podvigin NF, Bagaeva TV, Boykova EV, Zargarov AA, Podvigina DN, Pöppel E, Three bands of oscillatory activity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat visual system. Neuroscience Letters, 2004, 361(1-3):83-85.
- ^ Szelag E, von Steinbüchel N, Pöppel E, Temporal processing disorders in patients with Broca’s aphasia. Neuroscience Letters, 1997, 235(1-2): 33-36.
- ^ Szelag E, Kowalska J, Rymarczyk K, Pöppel E, Duration processing in children as determined by time reproduction: implications for a few seconds temporal window. Acta Paychologica (Amst), 2002, 110(1): 1-19.
- ^ Kanabus M, Szelag E, Rojek E, Pöppel E, Temporal order judgment for auditory and visual stimuli. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis (Wars), 2002, 62(4): 263-270.