A1
Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions
Project AIMS
One central topic of the CRC is the cognitive and neural mechanisms of our ability to voluntarily control our actions. Intentions are an essential aspect of volitional action control in that they guide voluntary actions. Project A1 investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms as well as modulators of our abilities to maintain and shield intentions against competing influences, to flexibly switch between intentions and to deactivate intentions that are completed successfully. More specifically, using a variety of behavioral measures in combination with neuroimaging, we investigate the following questions: Do neural representations of intentions change in the face of competing intentions or conflicts? Does acute stress affect our abilities to maintain, perform and subsequently deactivate intentions? How do aftereffects of completed intentions affect subsequent tasks? Are these aftereffects detectable on a neurological level and do they affect neuronal representations of subsequent tasks? Are cognitive representations of intentions deactivated or even inhibited after successful intention completion? Does the shielding of an intention or the demand of an activity affect the size of aftereffects of completed intentions?
RECENT FINDINGS
Prospective remembering is preserved and seemingly less resource-consuming under acute stress.
Project Members
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. John-Dylan Haynes
Professor (W3)
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Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Möschl
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc)
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Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Goschke
Spokesperson CR C940; Professor for general psychology (W3)
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Mitarbeiter
M.Sc. Marie Therese Bartossek
PhD student
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M.Sc. Lara Sophie Knaup PhD student
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Ehemalige Mitarbeiter
Dr. Corinna Pehrs
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc)
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PhD David Wisniewski
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Publications
- Möschl, M., Fischer, R., Bugg, J. M., Scullin, M. K., Goschke, T., & Walser, M. (2020). Aftereffects and deactivation of completed prospective memory intentions: A systematic review. Psychological Bulletin, 146(3), 245–278. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000221
- Möschl, M., Walser, M., Surrey, C., & Miller, R. (2019). Prospective memory under acute stress: The role of (output) monitoring and ongoing-task demands. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 164, 107046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107046
- Loose, L. S., Wisniewski, D., Rusconi, M., Goschke, T., & Haynes, J.-D. (2017). Switch-independent task representations in frontal and parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(33), 8033–8042. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3656-16.2017
- Möschl, M., Walser, M., Plessow, F., Goschke, T., & Fischer, R. (2017). Acute stress shifts the balance between controlled and automatic processes in prospective memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 53–67. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2017.06.002
- Wisniewski, D., Reverberi, C., Tusche, A., & Haynes, J.-D. (2014). The neural representation of voluntary task-set selection in dynamic environments. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 4715–4726. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhu155