The balance between perseveration and volatility: From meta-control parameters to system structure across different control-dilemmas and areas of application (A08)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178833530

A key question of the CRC is how the balance between behavioral stability (perseveration) and flexibility (volatility) is adapted to changing environmental conditions during goal-directed action. Project A08 investigates this question from a dynamic systems perspective and aims to elucidate general principles, which explain how processes in perceptual, cognitive, and motor subsystems give rise to behavioral stability and flexibility. To this end, we will combine neural attractor models with the measurement of behavioral and neu-ral indicators of the stability-flexibility dynamics (hand- and eye-movement trajectories, EEG frequency analyses) across different tasks, including applied setups that mimic everyday work contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 940: Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators and Dysfunctions
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Sebastian Pannasch, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Stefan Scherbaum; Dr. Caroline Surrey, since 7/2020