Cybernetics Background

Here you can find some background information about cybernetics:

What does "cybernetics" actually mean?

This question often follows when we are talking about the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics or the Cyberneum. This article is intended to give an impression of what cybernetics is all about. [more]

Why Virtual Reality is used by perceptional & cognitive scientists

We humans perceive the world, move about in it and interact with it with seeming effortlessness. In order to find out how we actually manage that, perception researchers design sophisticated experiments. [more]

Causal Inference in the perception of self-motion

Consider the well-known illusion of self-motion that arises when a person, seated in a stationary train, sees a neighboring train depart: often, this gives a fleeting sensation of self-motion, while the other train is perceived to be stationary. What is happening in the brain that may explain this illusory perception? [more]