I am working on an algorthitmic model to study recognition memory. The goal of my current project is to account for the shape of ROC-curves obtained from recognition memory tasks (curvilinearity and y-offset) . While other models, such as the dual process and single process approaches, try to explain the shape of ROC-curves in terms of the memory processes involved, our model studies the role of the input as well as pattern separation on the recognition performance.
I completed my M.Sc. degree in Cognitive Science at RUB. The topic of my thesis was "Propagation of sequential activity in feedforward neural networks". I obtained my Bachelor's degree at the Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences (thesis: Cognitive Linguistics: History, methods and felds of study).
We study, on the one hand, how episodic memories are stored and retrieved in interaction with the sensory and semantic systems. On the other hand, we investigate how episodic memories influence these sensory and semantic systems.
The Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) is a central research unit of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. We aim to understand the fundamental principles through which organisms generate behavior and cognition while linked to their environments through sensory systems and while acting in those environments through effector systems. Inspired by our insights into such natural cognitive systems, we seek new solutions to problems of information processing in artificial cognitive systems. We draw from a variety of disciplines that include experimental approaches from psychology and neurophysiology as well as theoretical approaches from physics, mathematics, electrical engineering and applied computer science, in particular machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.
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