Project A11 (Klaes / Axmacher)
The relationship between implicit and explicit visuomotor task learning in hippocampus and parietal cortex
Summary
The parietal cortex and hippocampus are involved in the acquisition of visuomotor tasks to a varying degree, depending on explicitness, the difficulty and novelty of a task. We scrutinise the interplay of the two structures during learning and execution of visuomotor tasks using EEG, fMRI, EEG-fMRI, electrocorticography and single neuron recordings in humans. To accomplish this, we investigate visuomotor adaptations, transformations and associations in virtual reality tasks to better understand the role and interaction of parietal cortex and hippocampus during skill acquisition.
Principal Investigators
Project A11
Prof. Dr. Christian Klaes
Department of Neurotechnology
Universitätsklinikum
Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum
In der Schornau 23-25
44892 Bochum
Medical Faculty
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Phone: +49 - (0)234 - 299 - 80262
Projects A11, B11
Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher
Neuropsychology
Faculty of Psychology
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
IB 6 / 185
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Phone: +49 - (0)234 - 32 - 22674
Fax: +49 - (0)234 - 32 - 14622