Ultrasound can be safely focused at a millimetre scale, even deep within the brain, and modulate neural activity. Ultrasound thus has the potential to provide new insights into how the brain works and help us develop new treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Our human cognitive skills trump those of our primate relatives in many domains, ranging from logical reasoning to managing complex social lives and from tool-use to language. A basic yet powerful faculty might underlie many of these characteristic functions of the human mind: instant conceptual inference.
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The evolutionary emergence of our human ability to quickly infer upon conceptual relationships likely relies on the relative re-organization of large-scale connections in the human brain compared to those in other primates since our last common ancestor.
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I am interested in how we plan and execute social and communicative actions, for example pointing out an object to someone else. This seems like such a simple mundane task that it might be hard to see why it is so fascinating to study.
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Referential pointing is a characteristically human behavior, which involves moving a nger through space to direct an addressee towards a desired mental state. Planning this type of action requires an interface between sensorimotor and...
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Referential pointing is a characteristically human behavior, which involves moving a nger through space to direct an addressee towards a desired mental state. Planning this type of action requires an interface between sensorimotor and...
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Referential pointing is a characteristically human behavior, which involves moving a nger through space to direct an addressee towards a desired mental state. Planning this type of action requires an interface between sensorimotor and...
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We share our thoughts with other minds, but we do not understand how. Having a common language certainly helps, but infants’ and tourists’ communicative success clearly illustrates that sharing thoughts does not require signals...
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How do object perception and action interact at a neural level? Here we test the hypothesis that perceptual features, processed by the ventral visuoperceptual stream, are used as priors by the dorsal visuomotor stream...
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The great promise of comparative neuroscience is to understand why brains differ by investigating the relations between variations in the organization of different brains, their evolutionary history, and their current ecological niche. For this...
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