Cyriel Pennartz

Cyriel Pennartz is a professor in cognitive and systems neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. He investigates neuronal mechanisms of cognitive functions such as memory, motivation, decision making, perception and consciousness. His laboratory uses behavioral and neurophysiological techniques as well as computational modeling to investigate these themes. Professor Pennartz proposed the theory of Neurorepresentationalism of consciousness, described in The Brain’s Representational Power and in De Code van het Bewustzijn.