Publications
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What Determines Social Behavior? Investigating the Role of Emotions, Self-Centered Motives, and Social Norms
(2016)
Human behavior and decision making is subject to social and motivational influences such as emotions, norms and self/other regarding preferences. The identification of the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying ...
What can we make of theories of embodiment and the role of the human mirror neuron system?
(2016)
In recent years, work surrounding theories of embodiment and the role of the putative mirror neuron system (MNS) in humans has gained considerable attention. If humans have developed a net-work of neurons that fire in ...
What can simple brains teach us about how vision works
(2015)
Vision is the process of extracting behaviorally-relevant information from patterns of light that fall on retina as the eyes sample the outside world. Traditionally, nonhuman primates (macaque monkeys, in particular) have ...
What can neuroscience learn from contemplative practices?
(2016)
A recent wave of brain research has advanced our understanding of the neural mechanisms of conscious states, contents and functions. A host of questions remain to be explored, as shown by lively debates between models of ...
Vibrio ecology, pathogenesis and evolution
(2014)
Vibrios are Gram-negative bacilli that occur naturally in marine, estuarine, and freshwater systems. Some species include human and animal pathogens capable of causing gastroenteritis, wound infections, cholera, and fatal ...