Internal models of stimulus-response and action-outcome associations in ADHD (A03)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2008 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 36555331

During normal development, children learn to refrain from prepotent response tendencies and to choose or withhold actions on the basis of likely action-outcome contingencies instead. Important prerequisites for this ability are intact sensory motor regulation, feedback processing and to model consequences of our own actions. In project A03, we will examine these fundamental aspects of human action in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using established behavioural paradigms in combination with electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 779: Neurobiology of Motivated Behaviour
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. John-Dylan Haynes, until 12/2015; Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Heinze; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Krauel; Dr. Max-Philipp Stenner