Development of bottom-up and top-down communication in visual and multisensory cortical networks in humans (B11*)

• Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178316478

The present study will test two hypotheses in human visual and multisensory neural networks: (1) The development of top-down communication lags behind the development of bottom-up processing; (2) the development of top-down processing depends to a larger extent on early sensory experience than the development of bottom-up processing. Two EEG paradigms, a visual attention and a multisensory paradigm, will be developed in human adults. They will consecutively be adapted to children (5-11 year old, prospective developmental approach) and sight-recovery individuals (retrospective developmental approach) to test these two hypotheses, respectively.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 936: Multi-Site Communication in the Brain
• Applicant Institution: Universität Hamburg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Brigitte Röder