Sensorimotor readout of human multisensory networks (A03)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178316478

This project aims at investigating the sensorimotor readout of signals from multisensory networks in rule switching tasks using MEG and EEG. Functional connectivity between sensory and prefrontal/premotor areas underlying flexible sensorimotor mapping and rule switching will be investigated in healthy participants and in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who have impairments in switching of sensorimotor rules. Furthermore, we will modulate sensorimotor mappings and rule switching and their underlying functional networks by transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in healthy participants and by deep brain stimulation (DBS) in PD patients.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 936: Multi-Site Communication in the Brain
• Applicant Institution: Universität Hamburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas K. Engel; Professor Dr. Peter König, until 6/2019; Dr. Till Schneider, since 7/2019