Research Interests
Constantin Rothkopf's research interests revolve around the distinction between 'looking' and 'seeing' and how this distinction relates to vision in goal directed behavior in an ambiguous, uncertain, and variable world. The aim is to better understand the interrelationship between perception and action in humans, i.e. how we use our perceptual systems actively during natural extended behavior to guide decisions and actions with our bodies. This leads to the study of how we use sensory input, specifically vision, form beliefs about the world by carrying out computations on the basis of our cognitive representations, and then employ decision making processes to act in goal directed behavior. To achieve this goal he uses experimental studies in humans as well as computational modeling involving methods from statistical and machine learning.