Noradrenergic enhancement of amygdala responses to fear (2009)
Onur, Oezguer A., Walter, Henrik, Schlaepfer, Thomas E., Rehme, Anne K., Schmidt, Christoph, Keysers, Christian, ...
Multiple lines of evidence implicate the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the noradrenergic (norepinephrine, NE) system in responding to stressful stimuli such as fear signals, suggesting hyperfunction...
Gazzola, Valeria, Keysers, Christian
Many neuroimaging studies of the mirror neuron system (MNS) examine if certain voxels in the brain are shared between action observation and execution (shared voxels, sVx). Unfortunately, finding sVx...
Valeria Gazzola, Lisa Aziz-zadeh, Christian Keysers
How do we understand the actions of other individuals if we can only hear them? Auditory mirror neurons respond both while monkeys perform hand or mouth actions and while they listen to sounds of...
Christian Keysers, David I. Perrett
For humans and monkeys, understanding the actions of others is central to survival. Here we review the physiological properties of three cortical areas involved in this capacity: the STS, PF and F5....
determination of n eural selectivity in area STSa (2008)
Dengke Xiao, Christian Keysers, Robin Edwards, David Ian Perrett
Abstract: We show that rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) in combination with a progressive reduction of the stimulus set is an efficient method for describing the selectivity properties of...
Explicit and Implicit Strategies in Decision Making (2008)
Güth, Werner, Keysers, Christian, Boyd, Robert, Cohen, Jonathan, Merlin, Donald, Johnson, Eric, ...
The BOLD signal in the amygdala does not differentiate between dynamic facial expressions (2007)
Van Der Gaag, Christiaan, Minderaa, Ruud B., Keysers, Christian
The amygdala has been considered to be essential for recognizing fear in other people's facial expressions. Recent studies shed doubt on this interpretation. Here we used movies of facial expressions...
Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition (2006)
Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola
Abstract: Humans can effortlessly understand a lot of what is going on in other peoples ’ minds. Understanding the neural basis of this capacity has proven quite difficult. Since the discovery of...
Rapid serial visual presentation for the determination of neural selectivity in area STSa (2004)
Peter Földiák, Dengke Xiao, Christian Keysers, Robin Edwards, David Ian Perrett
We show that rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) in combination with a progressive reduction of the stimulus set is an efficient method for describing the selectivity properties of high-level...
Color sensitivity of cells responsive to complex stimuli in the temporal cortex (2003)
Robin Edwards, David Perrett, Dengke Xiao, Dengke Xiao, Christian Keysers, Christian Keysers, ...
and David Perrett. Color sensitivity of cells responsive to complex stimuli in the temporal cortex. J Neurophysiol 90: 1245–1256, 2003; 10.1152/jn.00524.2002. The inferotemporal (IT) cortex of the...
Jabbi, Mbemba, Bastiaansen, Jojanneke, Keysers, Christian
Similar brain regions are involved when we imagine, observe and execute an action. Is the same true for emotions? Here, the same subjects were scanned while they (a) experience, (b) view someone else...
The BOLD signal in the amygdala does not differentiate between dynamic facial expressions
Van Der Gaag, Christiaan, Minderaa, Ruud B., Keysers, Christian
The amygdala has been considered to be essential for recognizing fear in other people's facial expressions. Recent studies shed doubt on this interpretation. Here we used movies of facial expressions...
Testing Simulation Theory with Cross-Modal Multivariate Classification of fMRI Data
Etzel, Joset A., Gazzola, Valeria, Keysers, Christian
The discovery of mirror neurons has suggested a potential neural basis for simulation and common coding theories of action perception, theories which propose that we understand other people's actions...
Gazzola, Valeria, Keysers, Christian
Many neuroimaging studies of the mirror neuron system (MNS) examine if certain voxels in the brain are shared between action observation and execution (shared voxels, sVx). Unfortunately, finding sVx...
Schippers, Marleen B., Gazzola, Valeria, Goebel, Rainer, Keysers, Christian
Communication is an important aspect of human life, allowing us to powerfully coordinate our behaviour with that of others. Boiled down to its mere essentials, communication entails transferring a...