Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1182: Function of Attention in Cognition
Subject Area
Psychology
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 818604
The Research Training Group aims to investigate the role of attention in higher cognitive function, beyond perception. In an interdisciplinary approach, we intend to investigate the allocation of attentional resources in higher cognitive operations such as language acquisition and comprehension, memory and action control. Despite the pure functional role of attention in these processes, we plan to find answers to the question whether such processes interact with perceptual processes and might impair or mediate perceptual processes such as selective stimulus processing. Very little is known as of today with regard to these interactions. To answer these highly complex questions, all methods of contemporary cognitive neuroscience will be employed, such as EEG/MEG, imaging (fMRI), patient studies and studies with children. The scientific environment is provided by eight groups from three institutions, namely the University of Leipzig (Psychology and Biology) and the Max Planck Institutes of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Evolutionary Anthropology. These groups offer innovative and interdisciplinary research.
A further aim of the Research Training Group is to offer interdisciplinary supervision. Two supervisors from a different research group will supervise each student, respectively. This allows for using and generating a maximum of synergies between the research groups. The curriculum is based on international standards, allowing for graduation within a time frame of three years. Besides teaching the scientific background of the proposed theme, the programme communicates basic knowledge in the management of science. Furthermore, the programme allows for controlling evidence of academic achievement on a regular basis. The major aim of the programme, however, is to guide students to independent scientific work.
A further aim of the Research Training Group is to offer interdisciplinary supervision. Two supervisors from a different research group will supervise each student, respectively. This allows for using and generating a maximum of synergies between the research groups. The curriculum is based on international standards, allowing for graduation within a time frame of three years. Besides teaching the scientific background of the proposed theme, the programme communicates basic knowledge in the management of science. Furthermore, the programme allows for controlling evidence of academic achievement on a regular basis. The major aim of the programme, however, is to guide students to independent scientific work.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität Leipzig
Participating Institution
Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Matthias M. Müller
