ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of the experimental methods and techniques in the cognitive neurosciences. It discusses the methodological principles and schemes of neural coding, in particular, the schemes of temporal and population coding on which the temporal synchronization hypothesis is based. The chapter presents the most important empirical-experimental models in perception and cognitive neuropsychology, in medical neurophysiology and in cognitive neurobiology, focusing in paticular on dynamic binding models. It discusses the feature binding in visual perception by means of the integrative neural synchronization mechanisms in more detail. This is done with reference to the Binding-by-Synchrony Hypothesis put forward by W. Singer, A.K. Engel and P. König et al. This hypothesis thematizes the binding problem with reference to visual information processing in the context of integrative synchronization mechanisms in visual scene analysis. The (general) binding problem is to identify mechanisms that integrate neuronal signals and information processes such that sensory information can be "bound" into coherent perceptual impressions.
