Prior information and predictive mechanisms in exploration and perception during active touch (A05)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 222641018

Project A05 investigates how people control natural explorations and use information in active touch. In the next funding period, we want to complete our model of information integration by including efference copy-based predictions and investigate higher-level mechanisms that underlie the previously observed optimal use of predictive and sensory signals: Mid-term mechanisms for making prior information usable for exploratory control and mechanisms that coordinate sequential behavior in complete visuo-haptic sensorimotor routines (in particular the interplay of visual and haptic explorations and their termination).

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 135: Cardinal mechanisms of perception: Prediction, Valuation, Categorization
• Applicant Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Knut Drewing