PhD. Topics
Centre of Experimental Medicine SAS
Topic
The neural basis of semantic cognition
PhD. program
Medical Neurosciences
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
MUDr. Igor Riečanský, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Medicine Comenius University
Annotation
Semantic cognition refers to the encoding, organization, and retrieval of conceptual representations and general knowledge about the world. Semantic memory is fundamental for human everyday activity and adaptive behavior as it supports perception, language, and thinking. This doctoral project will focus on the study of the brain mechanisms, which underlie semantic cognitive functions. The aim is to identify the dynamics of brain activity using EEG related to automatic and controlled semantic retrieval as well as to detect and characterize the changes of brain activity due to noninvasive brain stimulation, which affects semantic functions.