GRK 1182: Function of Attention in Cognition

研究培训小组的目标是调查注意力在超越知觉的高级认知功能中的作用。在一种跨学科的方法中，我们打算调查注意资源在高级认知操作中的分配，如语言习得和理解、记忆和动作控制。尽管注意力在这些过程中起着纯粹的功能作用，但我们计划找到这个问题的答案，即这些过程是否与感知过程相互作用，并可能损害或调节感知过程，如选择性刺激处理。到目前为止，人们对这些相互作用知之甚少。为了回答这些高度复杂的问题，将使用当代认知神经科学的所有方法，如脑电/脑磁图、成像(FMRI)、患者研究和儿童研究。科学环境由来自三个机构的八个小组提供，即莱比锡大学(心理学和生物学)和马克斯·普朗克人类认知和脑科学研究所以及进化人类学。这些小组提供创新和跨学科的研究。

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.