Dr. Bernd Michael Müller-Bierl, PhD (a.k.a. Bernie Bierl)

My work connects methodological MRI physics and functional neuroimaging with phenomenology, embodied cognition, ethology, biolinguistics, and the cognitive sciences. I am especially interested in how organism--environment interaction, lived experience, learning, and social coordination shape meaning, agency, and language.

A recurring question in my work is how cognition and normativity can be understood without reducing them either to formal models alone or to purely subjective descriptions. My recent theoretical work includes a published forum article in Biolinguistics on bio-ethological 4E linguistics, with further manuscripts in philosophy, phenomenology, theoretical psychology, and cognitive science under review or editorial consideration.

I am also focusing again on MRI and fMRI research and support, especially quantitative MRI, BOLD-based fMRI, mathematical modeling, and clinically oriented methodological development. More information is available in my CV and job presentation.

Notable Book Series in Phenomenological Research

  • 📙 Husserliana
  • 📗 Phänomenologische Forschungen
  • 📘 Phänomenologie
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Foundational figures in behavioral science and ethology

  • Burrhus Frederic Skinner
  • Robert A. Hinde
  • Konrad Z. Lorenz
  • Niklaas Tinbergen