Predictive coding for tactile detection and tactile learning (A10)

• Subject Area: Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 122679504

The overarching goal of the SFB is to understand how sensory information is integrated by the brain such that representations in the form of cognitive behaviour and memory result. In line with this goal, we shall investigate prediction-based decision-making processes involved in tactile detection, tactile learning and tactile memory formation. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in healthy human participants, we shall run three experiments to explore the central nervous representation of prediction-based decision-making processes as well as their modulation by reward and punishment. We hypothesise that those decision processes are embedded in a recurrent network that consists of somatosensory brain regions, executive control regions, central reward regions as well as the hippocampus.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 874: Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Burkhard Pleger, since 12/2017