Dissociating impacts of social, emotional, and motivational relevancies on perception and cognition (A02)

• Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454648639

Humans are highly social beings, thus stimuli that are specifically important for successful social dynamic interaction gain selected perception and beneficial processing. This has been demonstrated particularly for stimuli that convey increased social, emotional, and motivational relevance. The temporal course, possible hierarchies, and the nature (i.e., parallel, additive, interactive) of the processing of different relevance dimensions are yet largely unknown. This project aims at a functional and temporal segregation of effects of the three different relevancies by developing paradigms with orthogonal variations of relevance dimensions and means of event-related brain potentials.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1528: Cognition of Interaction
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Anne Schacht