Danko Nikolić
Danko Nikolić (born 10 April 1966) is a Croatian-German psychologist, cognitive scientist and data scientist. He is best known for introducing the concept of ideasthesia, according to which synesthesia is induced by the meaning of the stimulus[disambiguation needed] rather than by its sensory properties.
Life[edit]
Danko Nikolić is born at 10 April 1966 in Zagreb, Croatia. He received a degree in Psychology (1994) and a degree in Civil Engineering (1992) from the University of Zagreb. The masters degree (1997) and the PhD (1999) he received from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma, USA. In 1999 he joined the Department of Neurophysiology at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany and soon after started a pioneering work on highly parallel recordings from cat visual cortex by using multiple Michigan probes simultaneously. Since July 2018 he is working as Chief Data Officer and Head of AI at savedroid AG, reflecting his growing interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He also has an appointment as Research Fellow at Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2010 he received a Private Docent title from the University of Zagreb, and in 2014 an Associate Professor title from the same university.
Danko Nikolić is a brother of theoretical physicist Hrvoje Nikolić.
Research[edit]
Synesthesia/Ideasthesia. Nikolić and his team have conducted a number of studies conjointly indicating that synesthesia is not a sensory-sensory phenomenon, as it has been largely held. Instead, this is a semantic-sensory phenomenon in which the meaning of the stimulus induces perception-like experiences. Hence, Nikolić proposed that a more accurate name for the phenomenon is ideaesthesia, which is Greek for "sensing concepts".[1]
Practopoiesis. Nikolić has proposed[2] an ambitious theory of mind called practopoiesis [1], which generalizes the principles of evolution in biology. It is a theory on how life organizes, including the organization of a mind. It proposes the principles by which adaptive systems function. One the same theory covers the life and the mind. It is a general theory of what it takes to be biologically intelligent. Being general, the theory is applicable to the brain as much as it is applicable to artificial intelligence. What makes the theory so general is that it is grounded in the principles of cybernetics, rather than describing the physiological implementations of those mechanisms such as inhibition/excitation, plasticity, etc.
Visual Cognition. Nikolić and his collaborators investigated the mechanisms underlying the formation of visual long-term memory. They found that visual long-term memory is formed within visual working memory: The amount of information that can be stored in visual working memory determines our ability to store information into long-term memory.[3] In addition, they investigated the relationship between visual working memory and the mechanisms of visual attention. In an fMRI study they found a very close overlap between the brain areas activated by an attention task and the brain areas activated by a working-memory task.[4] This suggests that working memory and attention largely rely on the same neurophysiological mechanisms.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Nikolić, D. "Is synaesthesia actually ideaestesia? An inquiry into the nature of the phenomenon". Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Synaesthesia, Science & Art, Granada, Spain, April 26-29, 2009.
- ↑ Nikolić, D. (May 2015). "Practopoiesis: Or how life fosters a mind". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 373: 40–61. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.03.003. PMID 25791287.
- ↑ Nikolić, D.; Singer, W. (2007). "Creation of visual long-term memory" (PDF). Perception & Psychophysics. 69: 429–448.
- ↑ Mayer, J.S.; et al. (2007). "Common neural substrates for visual working memory and attention" (PDF). NeuroImage. 36: 441–453.
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