Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1091: Orientation and Motion in Space
Subject Area
Neurosciences
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 449590
The Research Training Group for system-oriented neurobiology is supported by scientific groups from different disciplines and faculties of the Ludwig Maximilians University (biology, clinical neurology, psychology), together with neurobiological groups from the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried. The participating senior scientists together with their cooperating group members will provide optimal training, education and support for doctoral students from various fields (biology, computer science, engineering, medicine, physics and psychology). Programme language is English.
The Research Training Group is of high biological relevance and permits the detailed investigation of complex central nervous processes. It also includes the essential sensory inputs (acoustic, vestibular, visual), as well as to the psychophysical and motor reactions. The latter will be investigated in normal subjects and patients, whereas animal experiments with optical and extracellular single unit recordings are planned in order to study information processing within the central nervous system.
Attention and memory are also decisive factors for adequate orientation and movement in space. These topics will be specifically addressed by projects in the programme. It is also planned to investigate the effect of lesions on orientation and motion analysis in patients and animal experiments. Thus, with the different scientific backgrounds the participants will work on a common theme, using different approaches and problem-solving strategies. In addition, a wide spectrum of methods will be available. These include extracellular recordings from individual neurons, optical recordings to establish maps in central nervous structures, as well as eye movement recordings and psychophysics. The common scientific themes, combined with their different backgrounds and the wide range of methods, will certainly give the graduate students a unique opportunity to apply interdisciplinary approaches and broaden their scientific view. A major goal of the Research Training Group is to look beyond the narrow topic of the individual project. These are the best preconditions for better problem solving strategies and new approaches.
The Research Training Group is of high biological relevance and permits the detailed investigation of complex central nervous processes. It also includes the essential sensory inputs (acoustic, vestibular, visual), as well as to the psychophysical and motor reactions. The latter will be investigated in normal subjects and patients, whereas animal experiments with optical and extracellular single unit recordings are planned in order to study information processing within the central nervous system.
Attention and memory are also decisive factors for adequate orientation and movement in space. These topics will be specifically addressed by projects in the programme. It is also planned to investigate the effect of lesions on orientation and motion analysis in patients and animal experiments. Thus, with the different scientific backgrounds the participants will work on a common theme, using different approaches and problem-solving strategies. In addition, a wide spectrum of methods will be available. These include extracellular recordings from individual neurons, optical recordings to establish maps in central nervous structures, as well as eye movement recordings and psychophysics. The common scientific themes, combined with their different backgrounds and the wide range of methods, will certainly give the graduate students a unique opportunity to apply interdisciplinary approaches and broaden their scientific view. A major goal of the Research Training Group is to look beyond the narrow topic of the individual project. These are the best preconditions for better problem solving strategies and new approaches.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Andreas Straube
