Structural and functional determinants of attentional resource allocation in multiple object and feature tracking (B05)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 425899996

This project focuses on the cortical dynamic and structure underlying the flexible allocation of attentional resources in young and healthy aging subjects. We focus on processes that (1) govern the division of resources in multiple-object and multiple-feature tracking (MOT, MFT), (2) that underlie the plasticity and amplification of parallel resource allocation as a function of individual cortical myelination and connectivity. Brain activity and brain structural parameters will be assessed using MEG/EEG and magnetresonance tomography, respectively.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1436: Neural resources of cognition
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jens-Max Hopf; Professor Dr. Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld