Projects
The CRC 940 comprises 23 finished and ongoing projects on volition and cognitive control. The research projects are grouped in three categories and are supported by central facilities.
A. Mechanisms of volitional control
- A1: Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions
- A2: Neurocognitive processes supporting flexible voluntary action
- A3 (completed): The adaptive regulation of cognitive control in dual-task performance (completed)
- A4 (completed): Volitional Control Development in Children (completed)
- A5 (completed): Volitional emotion regulation: The costs of control (completed)
- A6: Mechanisms of self-control: The role of anticipated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation
- A7: Brain states representing dynamics of meta-control
- A8: The balance between perseveration and volatility: The interaction dynamics of meta-control parameters and situational demands across different control-dilemmas
- A9: Computational modelling of cognitive control over multiple trials
B. Modulators of volitional control
- B1 (completed): Emotional modulation of cognitive control: Effects of positive affect and reward cues on goal shielding and switching (completed)
- B2 (completed): Affective modulation of volitional control: The moderating role of action tendencies, ambivalence, and motivational conflict (completed)
- B3: Aging and dopamine modulation of complementary control processes
- B4 (completed): Serotonergic modulation of meta-control parameters: Temporal discounting rate, probabilistic discounting rate, learning rate, and habitisation (completed)
- B5: Chronic stress and executive functioning – a longitudinal perspective
- B6: Individual differences in effort discounting and adjustments in volitional control
- B7: Lifespan age differences in the arbitration of learning strategies
- B8: Functional neuroanatomical and neurobiological modulators of the interaction of volitionally controlled and automatic behavior
C. Dysfunctions of volitional control
- C1: Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors
- C2 (completed): Affective modulation and dysregulation of cognitive control in bipolar disorder in different states and stages of the disease (completed)
- C3: Anorexia nervosa as a model for increased volitional control: temporal dynamics, intrinsic costs and alternative explanations
- C4 (completed): Fronto-striatal dysregulation of motivational and cognitive flexibility (completed)
- C5: Avoidance behavior as a result of one-sided exertion of cognitive control in specific phobia