Position:	Professor Emeritus
Email:	kevan@ini.ethz.ch
Work phone:	41 44/ 635 30 51
Location:	55g54-d5

As an undergraduate I majored in Psychology, Logic and Metaphysics, Physiology, and followed these with a Masters in Civil Engineering and a D.Phil. in Neurobiology. Not surprisingly, given this background that my passion is to understand how the structure of neocortex enables the functional complexity we see in our sensation, perception, cognition and action. My unifying ‘astonishing hypothesis’ is that my neocortex achieves its enormous range of competence through neural circuits that are basically the same as those found in the brain of a cat or a mouse. My ideas are kept grounded through decades-long discussions with Rodney Douglas, a lively bunch of critical young colleagues, and a resident flâneur. I explore many aspects of performance in search of an answer to the simple question: what is the relationship between thought and movement? Some of my personal performances are as a member of 4-Brain, a formation skydiving team that trains in Switzerland, and in riding a 1936 vintage motorcycle.