Bernhard Hommel
Guest
- Name
- Prof.dr. B. Hommel
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- b.hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4731-5125
Prof. Bernhard Hommel studied psychology and literature sciences at the University of Bielefeld, from which he received his MA degree (Diploma) and PhD (1990). Then he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich (Habilitation at University of Munich; 1997). He is co-founder and board member of the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition (LIBC).
Prof. Bernhard Hommel studied psychology and literature sciences at the University of Bielefeld, from which he received his MA degree (Diploma) and PhD (1990). Then he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich (Habilitation at University of Munich; 1997). He is co-founder and board member of the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition (LIBC).
Visit Bernhard's personal website for up-to-date information on his work.
Research by Bernhard Hommel
His research focuses on cognitive, computational, developmental, neural, and neurochemical mechanisms of human attention and action control, and the role of consciousness therein. Recent work also addresses the role of emotion, creativity, and religion in human cognition, and cognitive robotics.
Awards
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
Grants (selection)
- Cognitive and motivational components of decision-making: an integrated approach. NWO, Netherlands, Programme of Excellence
- ROBOHOW.ORG: Web-enabled and experience-based cognitive robots that learn complex everyday manipulation tasks. EU-Integrated Project grant
- ERC Advanced: a five years research on metacontrol; a study of how we determine the impact of our goals on our actual behaviour. A 2,5 million euros grant by the European Research Council (ERC).
Relevant links
PhD candidates (current)
- Roel van Dooren
- Saskia Heijnen
- Diana Kim
- Alberto de Luca
- Vera Mekern
- Luisa Prochazková
- Maria Prokofieva
- Yanyan Qian
- Linlin Shang
- Anne Trutti
- Xin Xia
- Weitao Zhang
- Chenyan Zhang
Position:
- Full Professor, Chair of General Psychology
- Governing Board of Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
Guest
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Cognitieve Psychologie
- Haazebroek P., Van Dantzig S. & Hommel B. (2011), Interaction between Task Oriented and Affective Information Processing in Cognitive Robotics. Lecture notes for the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommuniations Engineering, 2011. [lecture].
- Van Steenbergen H., Band G.P.H., Hommel B., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Nieuwenhuis S. (1 October 2011), Humor regulates cognitive control. Presentation at ESCoP Conference. San Sebastian, Spain. [lecture].
- Van Steenbergen H., Nieuwenhuis S., Band G.P.H., Rombouts S.A.R.B. & Hommel B. (1 February 2011), The affective regulation of cognitive control: behavioral and neural evidence. Presentation at Behavioral Science Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen.. Nijmegen, Netherlands. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (26 January 2001). In the beginning was the act: a plea for an action-oriented approach to cognitive psychology. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Hommel B. (2 October 2000), Control and automaticity in stimulus-response translation. Summerschool European diploma in cognitive and brain sciences. Delmenhorst. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (1 June 2000), Feature integration in perception and action. Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (1 February 2000), Erwerb und Kontrolle Intentionalen Handelns. Symposium on adaptivity and autonimy of human action. Seeon. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (1 March 2000), Welche Handlungen machen uns blind wofur? Wie Handlungsplanung unsere Wahrnehmung beeinflusst. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Braunschweig. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (2 October 2000), The cognitive representation of action. Summerschool European diploma in cognitive and brain sciences. Delmenhorst. [lecture].
- Hommel B. (1 March 2000), The emergence of voluntary action. Symposion on voluntary action. Delmenhorst. [lecture].
- editor Frontiers in Cognition
- editor Psychological research