Motor control under uncertainty in the healthy human brain (B04)

• Subject Area: Molecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology ; General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2021 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 431549029

Project B04 analyses motor network changes depending on the predictability/uncertainty of an intended motor response in younger and older volunteers. Using a combination of computational modelling of behaviour, fMRI, and novel connectivity models, this project will focus on how uncertainty about upcoming motor responses is estimated, how this affects the activity of the brain’s motor control networks, and how simulated lesions may cause disruption of flexible motor behaviour.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1451: Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Dr. Paola Mengotti; Professorin Dr. Simone Vossel