Resolving and Manipulating Neuronal Networks
Collaborator: Dirk Jancke, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Stefan Herlitze, Dept. Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB and Peter König, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück
Funding:
DFG - German Priority Programme - SPP 1665
DFG Priority Programme
Together with our partners of the University of Osnabrück, we aim at investigating the role of interactions between different brain regions and their impact on motor action planning and learning. Specifically, we address the question how Serotonin modulates sensory and motor processing. Sensation and motor action is influenced through emotional factors like motivation, anger, fear, or attention. There is not much knowledge of how modulation of these factors by serotonergic action affects quantities of sensory-motor integration as anticipation, adaptation, and learning. In our project, serotonergic brain cells will selectively be activated or inhibited using optogenetics.