Dynamic modelling of training-induced, response-optimised mobilisation of neural resources (C01)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience ; Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 425899996

This projects tests if neural resource mobilisation can be optimised by adapting the task demands relative to the subject’s current ability in healthy older participants. We refer to the gap between task demand and ability as the Ability Prediction Error (APE). Using computational modelling and longitudinal quantitative MRI (qMRI), we aim to explore how APEs control sensorimotor performance improvements, behavioural transfer and the time course of neural resource mobilisation at macro- and mesoscopic brain levels in a defined (pre-) frontal brain circuit.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1436: Neural resources of cognition
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Project Heads: Professor Marco Taubert, Ph.D.; Gabriel Ziegler, Ph.D.