Restoring neural resources perturbed by sleep deprivation (C04)

• Subject Area: Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 425899996

Cognitive control plays a pivotal role in (re)allocating neural resources particularly in deprived states. But this regulation also requires supplies, rendering it reliant on individual differences in cognitive reserve and subjective valuation of effortful performance. In a multifaceted approach we will manipulate incentives and efficacy in cognitive tasks to study interactions between effort investment and cognitive control in states with reduced resources such as sleep deprivation and healthy aging. Additionally, we will examine the Orexin system's impact on resource allocation and employ TUS to modulate cognitive control function.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1436: Neural resources of cognition
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Jana Tegelbeckers; Professor Dr. Markus Ullsperger