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Which cognitive mechanisms and neural systems underlie the ability to exert volitional control over one’s actions and emotions? How is volitional control modulated by emotions and stress? Why does volitional control break down in daily self-control failures as well as in mental disorders such as addiction?

These are some of the core questions that are investigated in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 940 “Volition and Cognitive Control”.

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CRC 940 Clusters

Research: Mechanisms
A. Mechanisms

How are intentions represented in the brain, which neurocognitive mechanisms underlie the control of intentional actions and the volitional regulation of emotions, and how are cognitive control processes flexibly adapted to changing contexts?
Research: Modulators
B. Modulators

The institutions involved in the CRC 940 are the Faculty of Psychology and the Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden as well as the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf and the Charité Berlin.
Research: Dysfunctions
C. Dysfunc­tions

Which mechanisms underlie impaired volitional control in mental and neurodegenerative disorders such as addictive behaviors, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and Parkinson’s disease?

CRC 940

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The CRC 940 is funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) since 2012 and combines expertise from experimental psychology, cognitive-affective neuroscience and neuroimaging, clinical psychology, psychiatry and neurology to investigate mechanisms, modulators, and dysfunctions of volitional control on psychological and neural levels of analysis.