Heribert Reitböck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heribert Reitböck

neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1933

Place of Birth: Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 03-Apr-2014

Profession: physicist, university teacher, neuroscientist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Heribert J.
P.
Reitböck (June 22, 1933 in Ried im Innkreis – April 3, 2014; Marburg) was an Austrian neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Philipps-University Marburg (Germany).Reitböck was appointed University Professor at Philipps-University Marburg in 1978 as successor of Hans Wolter.
He established the Biophysics / Neurophysics research group there, and perfected a multi-micro-electrode recording technique he had developed in a collaboration between the Westinghouse Electric (1886) Research Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh.
With that technique, object-related synchronizations in the visual system were discovered in 1989.
Based on that principle he developed concepts and models for figure-ground separation and object recognition in computer vision. Flexible neural couplings via synchronizations became an important branch in brain research for a better understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying associative processes.
Reitböck is considered a pioneer in that field Reinard Eckhorn: Flexible Kopplungen im Gehirn.
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