Tactile-visual interactions for saccade planning during free viewing and their modulation by TMS (B01)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2011 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178316478

The network mechanisms involved in the spatial integration of tactile information into saccade planning and in the required coordinate transformations from skin-centered to eye-centered reference frames are investigated using EEG-based connectivity measures. We hypothesize that spatial integration relies on interareal coupling and not on local processing. We test this by perturbing the identified network using repetitive TMS. EEG and TMS results will be modeled on a mesoscopic scale based on a subgraph of the human connectome.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 936: Multi-Site Communication in the Brain
• Applicant Institution: Universität Hamburg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Universität Osnabrück, since 7/2015
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Tobias Heed, until 9/2016; Professor Dr. Peter König, since 7/2015; Professorin Dr. Brigitte Röder