Stefan Treue

Stefan Treue is Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research of the University of Göttingen. His research focuses on the process of visual perception and recently won considerable when his research group was able to find out for the first time how different neural regions communicate to determine what to visually pay attention to and what to ignore. Treue is interested in attentional modulation of visual motion and the selection process regulating that only a fraction of the information received by the eyes reaches visual awareness.