About me

My name is Michal Vavrecka and I work as an assistant profesor in the Biomedical Data Processing Group at the Gerstner Laboratory (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague). I finished the MA degree in Psychology at the Faculty of Arts at the Masaryk University in Brno (2005) and Ph.D. degree in General Psychology at Faculty of Social Studies (2008). My diploma thesis was focused on the comparison of human and artificial intelligence and the doctoral thesis was dedicated to the cognitive semantics and its application in the area of spatial navigation. The empirical part consisted of neural network model for spatial prepositions representation. Here is my CV.

Education:

1/2005- 6/2008 Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Brno, Czech Republic, PhD. Degree, General Psychology, 18.6.2008, Application of cognitive semantics in the model of spatial relations representation.

9/1999-1/2005 Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic, M.A. Degree, Psychology, 1.2.2005, Methods of Human Intelligence Simulation.

Position:

4/2008- present Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Biodat Research Group, Gerstner Laboratory, Prague, Czech Republic, Assistant Professor

Scholarship:

2009 SAIA scholarship at Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mathematihcs, Physics and informatics, Mei:CogSci, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2007 SAIA scholarship at Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and informatics, Mei:CogSci, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2006 Summer school of Cognitive science at Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science Sofia, Bulgaria

michal vavrecka

Briefly about me

I am a researcher interested in the cognitive science. My research combines theories and methods of cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computational modeling. I focus on the knowledge representation in the area of spatial cognition.

Contact

Michal Vavrečka
BioDat research Group
Gerstner Laboratory
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University
Karlovo namesti 13
Prague
Office: E209
email:vavrecka@fel.cvut.cz
phone: +420224357609
cell: +420608661977