How does visual perceptual learning interact with plastic changes and excitability in human visual cortex? (A01)

Subject Area Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
Term from 2010 to 2022
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 122679504
 

Project Description

We shall investigate whether we can find evidence of crossmodal transfer of perceptual learning, excitability changes and plasticity, from the visual to the somatosensory system and vice versa using (A) visual deprivation combined with somatosensory perceptual learning, (B) tDCS over the visual cortex during tactile learning and vice versa, (C) a tactile and visual orientation discrimination task and (D) visual and haptic categorisation learning in a 3d environment. We shall also investigate whether behavioural stress can induce the same changes in perceptual learning as the oral administration of the stress hormone cortisol (E).
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of SFB 874:  Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes
Applicant Institution Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Project Head Professor Dr. Martin Tegenthoff