About the project
Adapting to changes in the environment is important for everyday functioning. The ability to cancel an initiated action when internal or external cues suggest that what we were about to do is no longer desirable is important for this kind of adaptability. It appears to vary across people, contexts, disorders, as well as throughout the life span.
However, there are still many unknowns in our understanding of how we cancel something we’ve already started. Earlier research on cancelling actions has largely ignored that flexible behavioural control also involves aspects like sensation, attention and continuously evaluating both oneself and the environment.
That is why the aim of this project is to increase the knowledge about the roles and contributions of the many processes involved in adaptive action control. To understand more about this, we want to investigate what happens in both the brain and the muscles before, during and after you’ve tried to cancel an action.
Financing
The project is supported by UiO: LifeScience through the convergence environment ConsciousBrainConcepts.
Contact
Please don't hesitate to contact PhD candidate Christina Thunberg at christina.thunberg@psykologi.uio.no if you have any questions.