Prof. Dr. Stephan Brandt
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Frensch
PD Dr. Birgit Stürmer
CONTACT
Dipl.-Ing. Cornelia Reggentin
Tel. 030-2093 4921
Fax.030-2093 4910
E-Mail: cornelia.reggentin@ psychologie.hu-berlin.de
ADDRESS
Institute of Psychology
Humboldt-University at Berlin
Rudower Chausee 18
12489 Berlin
Whereas the traditional approach to the study of conflicts in
intelligent systems takes a rather passive view, the general goal of the
research group on "Conflicts as Signals in Cognitive Systems" proceeds
from a different assumption, namely that conflicts can be viewed as
signals that are utilized to optimize information processing in the
cognitive system.
Consequently, our research focuses on increasing our understanding of the interaction between conflict signals and subsequent processes of optimization within the system, on unraveling the neuronal implementation of the mechanisms mediating between the registration of a conflict and subsequent processing modulations, on identifying ontogenetic modifications of the nature of the interaction between conflicts and processes of optimization over the life course, and on determining the roles of individual differences and affects in conflict identification and utilization.
