How humans react to change
Professor Constantin Rothkopf, Darmstadt spokesman for the TAM cluster project, in a video interview
2024/10/07
Researchers working on ‘The Adaptive Mind’ (TAM) project can hope for the approval of a prestigious Cluster of Excellence. Professor Rothkopf explains what’s behind the project on the adaptability of the human mind. Third and final part of a video series on TU Darmstadt's three Cluster of Excellence applications.
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Researchers from the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt, among others, are contributing their expertise in the fields of cognitive science and artificial intelligence to this research cluster under the leadership of the University of Giessen. “The Adaptive Mind” investigates human behavior under changing external conditions – in some situations, people react through stability, in others through adaptation. A central question in the cluster is the balance between these strategies in the context of adaptive and learning systems. It is also about new approaches to understanding and computationally modeling human perception, thinking, decision-making, action and learning. The topic is relevant in many sciences – in the cognitive and neurosciences, in psychology, in learning robots or in the training of neural networks.
About the excellence strategy of the federal and state governments
To further strengthen the international competitiveness of research at German universities, the federal and state governments have established the Excellence Strategy as a funding programme . The key objective of the Excellence Strategy is to strengthen top-level research in areas that are internationally competitive, to institutionally strengthen German universities, and to advance the development of the German higher education system.
To this end, the Excellence Strategy comprises two separate but intertwined funding lines. The “Clusters of Excellence” funding line, coordinated by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) provides project-based funding for internationally competitive research areas at German universities. The “Universities of Excellence” funding line, coordinated by the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat – WR), is designed to fund institutional strategies that promise to strengthen universities as a whole and create outstanding framework conditions for excellent research.´
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