GRK 885:  Brain and behavior: neuronal representation and motor control - NeuroAct

• Subject Area: Psychology
• Term: from 2004 to 2009
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273607

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group was established in January 2004 at the universities of Marburg and Gießen. We are interested in identifying and understanding the neural processes underlying perception and action and their modulation by attention, emotion, learning and memory. The laboratories involved in the programme have a wide area of expertise, ranging from experiments on neuronal processes at the level of the synapse to the investigation of specific sensorimotor areas in the brain and up to behavioural studies. Accordingly, the spectrum of applied methods is rather broad, ranging from neurophysiology and psychophysics via neuropsychology and neurolinguistics up to functional imaging and biologically plausible modelling of artificial neural networks. In all projects, regardless of whether they deal with animal models or humans, we study the brain at the systems level. In other words: we always consider the whole system to strive for a better understanding of the processes mediating between sensory inputs and motor outputs.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Frank Bremmer
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Karl Reiner Gegenfurtner, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Jürgen Hennig; Professor Dr. Harald Lachnit; Professor Dr. Jörn Munzert; Professor Dr. Frank Rösler; Professor Dr. Matthias Schlesewsky; Professor Dr. Rainer K.W. Schwarting; Professorin Dr. Gudrun Schwarzer; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Skrandies; Professor Dr. Dieter Vaitl; Professor Dr. Richard Wiese