Cognitive Foundations of Adaptive Behavior
The research groups in the focus on "Cognitive Foundations of Adaptive Behavior" investigate cognitive processes from different theoretical perspectives and with a combination of behavioral and neuroscientific methodological approaches.
Topics
- Executive functions and control processes
- Impulsivity & Inhibition
- Attention
- Judgment and decision making
- Developmental aspects of executive functions
- Learning
- Implicit learning & consciousness
- Evaluative conditioning
- Reinforcement learning
- Expectations and predictions
- Habituation and causal learning
- Memory
- Recognition
- Semantic memory and concept learning
- Episodic recall in judgment and decision making
- Episodic future thinking
- Action control and performance monitoring
- Expectations and motor control
- Error processing
- Individual differences (impulsivity, perfectionism, narcissism, aging)
Methods
- Self-report; psychometric procedures; behavioral studies; eye movements; psychophysics; reaction time analyses; grip strength measurements
- Computational methods (mathematical modeling; simulations; machine learning and decoding)
- Cognitive neuroscience (fMRI; EEG; EMG; neurostimulation methods; lesion studies; neuropsychology
- Innovative methods (virtual reality; ambulatory assessment; olfactory stimulation; multiverse analyses)
Central groups: J. Peters, C. Stahl, J. Stahl, B. Träuble, Vossel
Associated groups: A. Gast, A. Glöckner
Further connections/overlaps:
- Focus on Social Cognition and Social Behavior (e.g., attitudes & memory, social and economic decision-making behavior)
- Focus on Experimental Psychopathology (e.g., basal mechanisms of maladaptive behavior, learning processes)
- With further applied research (Educational Psychology, Media Psychology, Organizational and Business Psychology)