Curriculum Vitae

Andreas Nieder

Professor of Animal Physiology (chair)

Director, Institute of Neurobiology

University of Tübingen

Contact information

Animal Physiology

Auf der Morgenstelle 28

University of Tübingen

72076 Tübingen

Germany

Phone: (+49) (0)7071-29-75347

Email: andreas.nieder@uni-tuebingen.de

Web: http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/andreas.nieder/

Education

1999 Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.

1995 Diploma in Biology, Technische Universität München.

Current Positions

2008-present Professor of Animal Physiology (chair), University of Tübingen.

2009-present Director, Institute of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Tübingen.

Past Positions

2003-2008 Independent junior research group leader, Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Tübingen.

2000-2003 Postdoctoral research associate, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Center for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, USA.

Committees and Advisory Boards

2008-present Board member, Werner-Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen.

2009-present Board member, International Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences, Tübingen.

Publications

1) Peer-reviewed original research articles:

23. Tudusciuc O., Nieder A. (2009) Contributions of primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices to length and numerosity representation. Journal of Neurophysiology 101: 2984-94.

22. Diester I., Nieder A. (in press) Numerical values leave a semantic imprint on associated signs in monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

21. Jacob S.N., Nieder A. (2009) Notation-independent representation of fractions in the human parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 4652– 4657.

20. Merten K., Nieder A. (2009) Compressed scaling of abstract numerosity representations in adult humans and monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21: 333-346.

19. Vallentin D., Nieder A. (2008) Behavioural and prefrontal representation of spatial proportions in the monkey. Current Biology 18: 1420-1425

18. Diester I., Nieder A. (2008) Complementary contributions of prefrontal neuron classes in abstract numerical categorization. Journal of Neuroscience 28: 7737–7747.

17. Diester I., Nieder A. (2007) Semantic associations between signs and numerical categories in the prefrontal cortex. PLoS Biology 5(11): e294.

16. Tudusciuc O., Nieder A. (2007) Neuronal population coding of continuous and discrete quantity in the primate posterior parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 104: 14513–14518.

15. Nieder A., Merten K. (2007) A labeled-line code for small and large numerosities in the monkey prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 5986 –5993.

14. Nieder A., Diester I., Tudusciuc O. (2006) Temporal and spatial enumeration processes in the primate parietal cortex. Science 313: 1431-5.

13. Nieder A., Miller E.K. (2004) A parieto-frontal network for visual numerical information in the monkey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101: 7457-7462.

12. Nieder A., Miller E.K. (2004) Analog numerical representations in Rhesus monkeys: Evidence for parallel processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16: 889-901.

11. Nieder A., Miller E.K. (2003) Coding of cognitive magnitude: Compressed scaling of numerical information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Neuron 37: 149-157.

10. Nieder A., Freedman D.J., Miller E.K. (2002) Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science 297: 1708-1711.

09. Nieder A., Wagner H. (2001) Hierarchical processing of horizontal-disparity information in the visual forebrain of behaving owls. Journal of Neuroscience 21: 4514-4522.

08. Nieder A., Wagner H. (2001) Encoding of both vertical and horizontal disparity in random-dot stereograms by wulst neurons of awake barn owls. Visual Neuroscience 18: 541-547.

07. Klump G.M., Nieder A. (2001) Release from masking in fluctuating background noise is represented in a songbird's auditory forebrain. Neuroreport 12: 1825-1829.

06. Nieder A., Klump G.M. (2001) Signal detection in amplitude-modulated maskers: II. Processing in the songbird's auditory forebrain. European Journal of Neuroscience 13: 1033-1044.

05. Nieder A. (2000) Miniature stereo radio transmitter for simultaneous recording of multiple single-neuron signals from behaving owls. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 101: 157-164.

04. Nieder A., Wagner H. (2000) Horizontal-disparity tuning of neurons in the visual forebrain of the behaving barn owl. Journal of Neurophysiology 83: 2967-2979.

03. Nieder A., Wagner H. (1999) Perception and neuronal coding of subjective contours in the owl. Nature Neuroscience 2: 660-663.

02. Nieder A., Klump G.M. (1999) Time course of simultaneous masking in the starling’s auditory forebrain. Experimental Brain Research 124: 311-320.

01. Nieder A., Klump G.M. (1999) Adjustable frequency selectivity of auditory forebrain neurons recorded in a freely moving songbird via radiotelemetry. Hearing Research 127:41-54.

2) Peer-reviewed review articles:

06. Nieder A., Dehaene S (2009) Representation of number in the brain. Annual Review in Neuroscience 32:185-208.

05. Nieder, A. (2009) Prefrontal cortex and the evolution of symbolic reference. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19: 99-108.

04. Jacob, SN, Nieder, A. (2008) The ABC’s of cardinal and ordinal number representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12: 41-43.

03. Nieder, A. (2005) Counting on neurons: The neurobiology of numerical competence. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6: 177-90.

02. Miller E.K., Nieder A., Freedman D.J., Wallis J. (2003) Neural correlates of categories and concepts. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 13:198–203.

01. Nieder A. (2002) Seeing more than meets the eye: Processing of illusory contours in animals. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 188: 249-260.

3) Other articles:

06. Nieder, A. (2005) Techniken der Enttarnung. (in German) Gehirn & Geist 4, 44 - 47.

05. Nieder, A. (2004) The number domain- Can we count on parietal cortex? Neuron 44: 407–409.

04. Nieder A. (2003) Stereoscopic vision: Solving the correspondence problem. Current Biology 13: R394-6.

03. Nieder A. (2003) Interrelation of kinetic and stereoscopic depth: behavior and physiology in vertebrates. Behaviroural Processes 64: 13-16.

02. Nieder A. (2003) Illusions animales. (in French) Pour La Science Avril/Juin: 48-49.

01. Nieder A. (2002) Die Wahrnehmung von Scheinkonturen – Wie sich das Gehirn Illusionen macht. (in German) Neuroforum 3/02: 210-217.

4) Book chapters:

06. Nieder, A. (in press) Neural bases of numerical cognition. In: Michael L. Platt & Asif A. Ghazanfar (eds.): Primate Neuroethology. Oxford University Press

05. Nieder, A. (in press) Representation of numerical information in the brain. In: S. Funahashi (ed.) Representation and brain. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo.

04. Nieder, A. (in press) Intelligence: Numerical intelligence, Neural substrates of. In: L. Squire, T. Albright, F. Bloom, F. Gage and N. Spitzer (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier.

03. Nieder, A. (2006) Neurobiologische Grundlagen der Zahlenverarbeitung. In: H.-O. Karnath & P. Thier (Eds.) Neuropsychologie. 2. Auf. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

02. Nieder A. (in press) Cognitive elements in animal behavior. In: M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa & U. Windhorst (Eds.), Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

01. Nieder A., Miller E.K. (2005) Neural correlates of numerical cognition in the neocortex of non-human primates. In: S. Dehaene, J.R. Duhamel, M. Hauser & G. Rizzolatti (Eds.) From monkey brain to human brain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press: 117-131.