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SFB 462:  Sensorimotor Systems: Biological analysis, modeling and technical applications in medicine

Subject Area Medicine
Term from 1996 to 2003
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5480541
 
Problems of sensorimotor control in biological systems are obviously related to problems of control in technical systems. The collaborative research centre for "Sensorimotor Systems" aims to integrate applied basic neurobiological research and sensory physiology with the modelling of information-processing systems. Our common objective is to address the question of how central structures receive sensory information and how they transform this multisensory information into tasks and goals realized in motor activity. The neurological patient is at the center of these medical applications. From the multitude of sensory modalities and motor actions, we have concentrated thematically on three main project areas in order to make a joint approach to the problems possible. The "sensory division" of these areas deals primarily with vestibular and visual afferences and the "motor division", with the effects of the afferences on eye and hand movements as well as posture and gait control. Each of these divisions is subdivided into methods and functions. The method level comprises 1) analysis of biological sensorimotor systems, 2) modelling and simulation, 3) man and machine. The function level consists of the three project areas A) posture and movement, B) the oculomotor system, and C) eye-hand coordination.
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