Multimodal Integration with Tool Use

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Christine Sutter, since 4/2016
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2014 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 253094235

Using a tool requires high demands on the human processing system. The main question is how existing cognitive models of action control can be extended or modified in order to explain successful tool use and its underlying mechanisms. Recently, numerous studies deal with the integration and interaction of proprioceptive, visual and auditory information. But how does the human processing weight and expediently use these incoming information -- especially, when it appears to be non-correspondent or even in conflict with another? Actually, there are no homogenous explanations for this phenomenon in the current literature. However, recent findings from our workgroup showed that the respective information loops seem to be evaluated and weighted dependent on their qualitative properties or their reliability with respect to the degree of induced sensorimotor transformations. Following this approach, the present research project aims at assessing the mechanisms of multimodal integrationin terms of aftereffects from transformed movements.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Jochen Müsseler, until 3/2016