Project A5 (Dinse / Höffken)

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Cortical and behavioural correlates of somatosensory plasticity: bottom-up vs. top-down modulation

Summary

Perceptual learning is a form of implicit learning where perceptual abilities improve through practice, training or pure exposure to sensory stimulation protocols. Our previous studies showed that perceptual learning is controlled by input statistics on the one hand, and by inhibitory and neuromodulatory processes on the other hand. We now address the relationship between inhibition markers and brain states, and we explore transmodal and crossmodal sensory processing and plasticity. To study transmodal processing, we extend our conceptual and methodological scope to include nociceptive processing.

Principal Investigators

Project A5

PD Dr. Hubert Dinse

Neural Plasticity Lab
Institut für Neuroinformatik

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
NB 3 / 68
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum

Neurologische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik
BG-Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil

Phone: +49 - (0)234 - 32 - 25565

Fax: +49 - (0)234 - 32 - 14209

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Project A5

PD Dr. Oliver Höffken

Neurologische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik
BG-Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil

Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1
44789 Bochum

Medical Faculty
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Phone: +49 - (0)234 - 302 - 0

Fax: +49 - (0)234 - 302 - 6888

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