Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0066361

Zusammenfassung

Brain plasticity is thought to be the backbone behind specialized perceptual skills, for example, in professional musicians or radiologists. Numerous brain-imaging studies have shown that we can train our brain to make better sense of incoming sensory inputs. Nevertheless, can we train our sensory organs to become more sensitive to those inputs to begin with? The central hypothesis of this project is that eardrum oscillations can be brought under cognitive control to help combining audiovisual information before it even enters the brain. Such a result would revolutionize our understand...