Individual differences in effort discounting and adjustments in volitional control (B06+)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178833530

Project B06 aims is to elucidate how individual differences in cognitive effort investment modulate dynamic adjustments of meta-control parameters. To this end, we will use sequential decision-making tasks, which require forward planning and effortful actions to reach goals in uncertain, dynamic environments. A computational model of task behavior based on the active inference framework will serve as the basis for model-based fMRI to link meta-control processes to underlying brain systems. By integrating individual differences into computational models, we expect to improve the prediction of individual behavior and to gain a deeper understanding of the role of personality traits in meta-control processes.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 940: Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators and Dysfunctions
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Stefan Kiebel; Professor Dr. Sebastian Pannasch; Professor Dr. Alexander Strobel