Restoring neural resources perturbed by sleep deprivation (C04)

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

In this project we aim to establish and characterise sleep deprivation as a model to test and simulate the effects of declining cognitive functions as a result of reduced availability of neural resources in humans. Cognitive control may adaptively mobilise resources according to needs and availability. To probe mechanisms maintaining cognitive functions in spite perturbed resource availability cognitive control is investigated with model-based fMRI and EEG using a task disentangling contributions of a neural network that facilitates behavioural adaptations. Structural predictors of resource mobilisation will be explored using microstructural MRI.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1436: Neural resources of cognition
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Markus Ullsperger