This centre was established in April 1998 at the Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark. The THOR Center hosts a number of related projects concerning neural networks, functional neuroimaging, multimedia signal processing, and biomedical signal processing.
The Center is funded by the Danish Research Councils through the THOR plan for Technology by Highly Oriented Research . The THOR Center was established in collaboration with Professor Olaf B. Paulson, Neurobiological Research Unit, Rigshospitalet and the Danish Center for Magnetic Resonance, Hvidovre Hospital, and Professor Benny Lautrup, Computational Neural Network Center (CONNECT), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Neuroinformatics is a research field rooted in classical disciplines like signal processing, biology, physics, computer science and engineering. Neuroinformatics combines learning from the brain and learning about the brain. By studying information processing in the brain neuroinformatics invents new computing paradigms (e.g., artificial neural networks) with the objective of understanding the dynamics of the conscious mind.