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Christian Keysers's Degrees

PhD Neuroscience University of Parma
Masters Physics University of Konstanz

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According to Wikipedia, Christian Keysers is a French and German neuroscientist. Education and career He finished his school education at the European School, Munich and studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz, the Ruhr University Bochum, University of Massachusetts Boston, the Shepens eye research Institute of the Harvard Medical School as well as with Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then started his research career at the University of St Andrews by investigating cells in the temporal cortex with David Perrett, and described cells that respond when the monkey views particular faces in a way that correlates with conscious perception. After that, he moved to the University of Parma where he was part of the team that discovered auditory mirror neurons in the frontal cortex of the macaque monkey. He then expanded the notion of mirror neurons to emotions and sensations, by showing that your somatosensory cortex is active not only when you are being touched, but also if you see someone else being touched, and that the insular cortex is active not only if people feel disgusted, but also if they see someone else being disgusted. Together this indicated a general principle in which people process the actions, sensations and emotions of others by vicariously activating their own actions, sensations and emotions. Jointly, this work laid the foundation of the neuroscientific investigation of empathy. In 2004, Keysers and collaborator Gazzola opened the Social Brain Lab at the University of Groningen where they provided evidence for abnormal activity in somatosensory, motor and limbic brain structures in patients with abnormal empathy and that rats experience distress when they witnessed another animal in distress. This showed that rats can experience emotional contagion, a predecessor of empathy

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Christian Keysers's Published Works

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Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula The Common Neural Basis of Seeing and Feeling Disgust (2003) (2146)
A unifying view of the basis of social cognition (2004) (2033)
Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions: Action Representation in Mirror Neurons (2002) (1741)
The Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange: Towards Large-Scale Evaluation of the Intrinsic Brain Architecture in Autism (2013) (1732)
I Know What You Are Doing A Neurophysiological Study (2001) (1217)
A Touching Sight SII/PV Activation during the Observation and Experience of Touch (2004) (823)
Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world (2012) (789)
Somatosensation in social perception (2010) (724)
Empathy and the Somatotopic Auditory Mirror System in Humans (2006) (691)
The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions (2007) (664)
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008) (644)
Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective (2004) (594)
Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex (2007) (545)
Integrating simulation and theory of mind: from self to social cognition (2007) (472)
Audiovisual mirror neurons and action recognition (2003) (449)
Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions, and sensations (2009) (398)
Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition. (2006) (361)
Evidence for mirror systems in emotions (2009) (355)
The Speed of Sight (2001) (336)
A Common Anterior Insula Representation of Disgust Observation, Experience and Imagination Shows Divergent Functional Connectivity Pathways (2008) (316)
Mapping the information flow from one brain to another during gestural communication (2010) (285)
Facial expressions: What the mirror neuron system can and cannot tell us (2007) (280)
Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy (2013) (254)
Probabilistic tractography recovers a rostrocaudal trajectory of connectivity variability in the human insular cortex (2011) (254)
Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch (2012) (254)
Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence (2020) (252)
Increased Functional Connectivity Between Subcortical and Cortical Resting-State Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2015) (251)
μ-Suppression during Action Observation and Execution Correlates with BOLD in Dorsal Premotor, Inferior Parietal, and SI Cortices (2011) (232)
Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation (2019) (206)
Synchronized Drumming Enhances Activity in the Caudate and Facilitates Prosocial Commitment - If the Rhythm Comes Easily (2011) (203)
Visual masking and RSVP reveal neural competition (2002) (201)
Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans (2010) (200)
Programmed to learn? The ontogeny of mirror neurons. (2009) (197)
Mirror neurons (2009) (190)
Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adults: the Use of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Module 4 (2010) (187)
Inferior frontal gyrus activity triggers anterior insula response to emotional facial expressions. (2008) (172)
Aplasics Born without Hands Mirror the Goal of Hand Actions with Their Feet (2007) (167)
The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the Relationship between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain (2016) (160)
Experience Modulates Vicarious Freezing in Rats: A Model for Empathy (2011) (159)
Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions (2014) (144)
Dissociating the ability and propensity for empathy (2014) (122)
Testing Simulation Theory with Cross-Modal Multivariate Classification of fMRI Data (2008) (119)
The mirror neuron system: New frontiers (2008) (116)
Group analyses of connectivity-based cortical parcellation using repeated k-means clustering (2009) (113)
Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex (2019) (112)
Age-Related Increase in Inferior Frontal Gyrus Activity and Social Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2011) (108)
Human amygdala reactivity is diminished by the β-noradrenergic antagonist propranolol (2010) (107)
An introduction to anatomical ROI-based fMRI classification analysis (2009) (106)
The effect of intra- and inter-subject variability of hemodynamic responses on group level Granger causality analyses (2011) (103)
Modeling a Negative Response Bias in the Human Amygdala by Noradrenergic–Glucocorticoid Interactions (2008) (101)
Noradrenergic enhancement of amygdala responses to fear. (2009) (100)
Mapping the flow of information within the putative mirror neuron system during gesture observation (2011) (97)
Color sensitivity of cells responsive to complex stimuli in the temporal cortex. (2003) (86)
Acting together in and beyond the mirror neuron system (2009) (86)
Neuronal representation of disappearing and hidden objects in temporal cortex of the macaque (2001) (85)
Action Understanding: How, What and Why (2008) (79)
Seeing the future: Natural image sequences produce “anticipatory” neuronal activity and bias perceptual report (2009) (78)
Empathic brain : how the discovery of mirror neurons changes our understanding of human nature (2011) (75)
Playing Charades in the fMRI: Are Mirror and/or Mentalizing Areas Involved in Gestural Communication? (2009) (73)
Rapid serial visual presentation for the determination of neural selectivity in area STSa. (2004) (63)
The BOLD signal in the amygdala does not differentiate between dynamic facial expressions. (2007) (63)
The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour (2018) (61)
Neural pathways of embarrassment and their modulation by social anxiety (2015) (60)
Oxytocin reduces neural activity in the pain circuitry when seeing pain in others (2015) (53)
cTBS delivered to the left somatosensory cortex changes its functional connectivity during rest (2015) (50)
Vicarious Neural Processing of Outcomes during Observational Learning (2013) (48)
Inter‐individual differences in audio‐motor learning of piano melodies and white matter fiber tract architecture (2014) (45)
Responsibility modulates pain-matrix activation elicited by the expressions of others in pain (2015) (43)
Primary somatosensory contribution to action observation brain activity—combining fMRI and cTBS (2016) (43)
Puddles, Parties, and Professors: Linking Word Categorization to Neural Patterns of Visuospatial Coding (2011) (41)
The impact of certain methodological choices on multivariate analysis of fMRI data with support vector machines (2011) (40)
Harm to Others Acts as a Negative Reinforcer in Rats (2020) (40)
Repeated Witnessing of Conspecifics in Pain: Effects on Emotional Contagion (2015) (35)
Early Life Adversity and Adult Social Behavior: Focus on Arginine Vasopressin and Oxytocin as Potential Mediators (2019) (34)
What Neuromodulation and Lesion studies tell us about the function of the mirror neuron system and embodied cognition (2018) (34)
Learning piano melodies in visuo-motor or audio-motor training conditions and the neural correlates of their cross-modal transfer (2012) (33)
Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia (2019) (32)
EEG sensorimotor correlates of translating sounds into actions (2013) (31)
Mirroring Fear in the Absence of a Functional Amygdala (2013) (30)
Unifying Social Cognition (2008) (29)
Bidirectional cingulate-dependent danger information transfer across rats (2019) (29)
Granger Causality Mapping during Joint Actions Reveals Evidence for Forward Models That Could Overcome Sensory-Motor Delays (2010) (29)
Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species (2021) (25)
Reply: Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism. (2014) (25)
Mirror neurons: A sensorimotor representation system (2001) (24)
Empathy: shared circuits and their dysfunctions (2010) (23)
Object visibility alters the relative contribution of ventral visual stream and mirror neuron system to goal anticipation during action observation (2015) (22)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity Analyses Reveal Efference-Copy to Primary Somatosensory Area, BA2 (2014) (22)
Where and how our brain represents the temporal structure of observed action (2018) (22)
Corticolimbic hyper-response to emotion and glutamatergic function in people with high schizotypy: a multimodal fMRI-MRS study (2017) (22)
Obeying orders reduces vicarious brain activation towards victims’ pain (2020) (20)
Erratum: Somatosensation in social perception (2010) (20)
Weight dependent modulation of motor resonance induced by weight estimation during observation of partially occluded lifting actions (2015) (20)
Negativity-bias in forming beliefs about own abilities (2019) (19)
Changes in brain activity following the voluntary control of empathy (2020) (19)
Representing Multiple Observed Actions in the Motor System (2018) (19)
Neural activities during affective processing in people with Alzheimer's disease (2013) (18)
Does higher sampling rate (multiband + SENSE) improve group statistics - An example from social neuroscience block design at 3T (2020) (17)
A Plea for Cross-species Social Neuroscience. (2016) (17)
Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats (2019) (17)
Hebbian Learning is about contingency, not contiguity, and explains the emergence of predictive mirror neurons. (2014) (14)
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents (2022) (11)
The Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition (2011) (10)
Is Brain Activity during Action Observation Modulated by the Perceived Fairness of the Actor? (2016) (9)
Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in spinocerebellar ataxia patients (2018) (8)
The straw man in the brain (2015) (8)
Response to “ Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience ” by Vul et al . – summary information for the press (2009) (7)
Neural correlates of empathy in humans, and the need for animal models. (2018) (6)
Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making (2008) (6)
Emotional contagion: Improving survival by preparing for socially sensed threats (2021) (6)
How to Make Social Neuroscience Social (2011) (6)
The vicarious brain. (2014) (6)
Predictive coding during action observation - a depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation study at 7T (2021) (4)
Does higher sampling rate (Multiband + SENSE) benefit the detection of task correlated BOLD for cognitive neuroscience applications at 3T? (2019) (4)
Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex (2019) (4)
Intracranial Human Recordings Reveal Intensity Coding for the Pain of Others in the Insula (2021) (4)
Author Correction: Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats (2020) (4)
Parametric tests for Leave-One-Out Inter-Subject Correlations in fMRI provide adequate Type I error control while providing high sensitivity (2020) (4)
Rebuttal of “ Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience ” by Vul et al . – summary information for the (2009) (3)
Author Correction: Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence (2020) (3)
Cingulate dependent social risk assessment in rats (2018) (3)
Broca’s Area: Linking Perception and Production in Language and Actions (2011) (3)
Editorial overview: New advances in social neuroscience: from neural computations to social structures. (2018) (3)
Hearing what you are doing - An FMRI study of auditory empathy (2005) (3)
Harm to others acts as a cingulate dependent negative reinforcer in rat (2019) (2)
Perceiving Hesitation requires both the Motor and Mentalizing systems (2018) (2)
Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula (2022) (2)
Primate cognition: Copy that (2012) (2)
Commanding or Being a Simple Intermediary: How Does It Affect Moral Behavior and Related Brain Mechanisms? (2021) (2)
The role of the theory of mind network in action observation - an rTMS study (2015) (2)
From Vicarious Actions to Moral Behavior (2016) (2)
A multivariate brain signature for reward (2022) (2)
Emotional Mirrors in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex (2018) (1)
Bayesian statistics show a lack of change in excitability following bi-hemispheric HD-TDCS over the primary somatosensory cortices (2020) (1)
Significance tests for Leave-One-Out Inter-Subject Correlations in fMRI (2020) (1)
Neuro-computational mechanisms and individual biases in action-outcome learning under moral conflict (2023) (1)
Stimulation of the somatosensory cortex using HD-tDCS modulates others' pain perception; Combined evidence from behaviour, EEG, fMRI data (2017) (1)
195. Relationship Between Prefrontal Glutamate Levels and Functional Activation During Emotional Processing in Individuals With High Schizotypy (2017) (1)
Emotion observation, recognition and imitation : Towards an understanding of empathy of individual emotions. (2005) (1)
Small non-significant increments in single-subject voxel-wise statistics lead to significant group level improvements with multiband for task-based fMRI (2019) (1)
Individual respond to stimulation does matter: Combining bi-hemispheric hd tdcs and sep in empathy for pain (2015) (1)
A Cross-Species Approach to Empathy, its Neurobiology and Relation to Prosocial Behavior (2022) (1)
What competition? (2002) (1)
The mirror neuron system : a special issue of Social neuroscience (2009) (1)
Neuro-computational mechanisms of action-outcome learning under moral conflict (2020) (1)
Assessing Hand Actions with the Mirror Neuron System (2009) (1)
Decision letter: Dorsal raphe nucleus to anterior cingulate cortex 5-HTergic neural circuit modulates consolation and sociability (2021) (0)
Challenges in assessing voxel-wise single-subject level benefits of MB acceleration (2019) (0)
Drumming together increases activity in the caudate and prosocial behavior — If drumming comes easy (2011) (0)
Learning piano melodies under visual or auditory training conditions and the neural correlates of their cross-modal recognition (2011) (0)
The neuroscience of empathy: shared circuits for actions, emotions, and sensations (2005) (0)
Neurotypical Cerebral Tuning to Task Irrelevant Biological Motion in Autism (2017) (0)
Predictive coding during action observation revealed by human electrocorticographic activity (2023) (0)
Studying connectivity in Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia (2010) (0)
University of Groningen Synchronized Drumming Enhances Activity in the Caudate and Facilitates Prosocial Commitment-If the Rhythm Comes Easily Kokal, (2011) (0)
Sparse coding with a global connectivity constraint (2014) (0)
Functional connectivity in the human mirror neuron system. Combined TMS and fMRI research (2008) (0)
Inter-individual differences in auditory learning of piano sequences and white matter fiber tract architecture (2011) (0)
Crossmodal transfer for newly learned finger movements on a piano keyboard (2010) (0)
Inter-individual differences in motor learning and white matter fiber tract architecture (2010) (0)
Supplementary Material 6 (2008) (0)
Depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation of 7T BOLD signals reveals increased stimulus related information sharing across deep layers in premotor and parietal nodes for predictable actions. (2022) (0)
Supplementary Material 5 (2008) (0)
Supplementary Material 3 (2008) (0)
Depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation (0)
Multiband acceleration can provide moderate improvements in single-subject voxel-wise statistics in block-design task-based fMRI (2019) (0)
Investigating the mechanistic role of painful self-experience in emotional contagion: an effect of auto-conditioning? (2022) (0)
Amygdala, insula, and selectivity for particular emotions (2004) (0)
Empathy in the social brain (2004) (0)
I learn from what you do: an fMRI study of social learning (2009) (0)
Christian Keysers -selected References (2014) (0)
The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the ( between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain (2016) (0)
SHARED CIRCUITS AND EMPATHY IN PSYCHOPATHY (2012) (0)
Neural mechanisms of costly helping in the general population and mirror-pain synesthetes (2023) (0)
The healthy sexual brain (2008) (0)
Emotion observation, recognition and imitation (2005) (0)
Cross-species characterization of transcranial focused ultrasound (2019) (0)
Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats (2020) (0)
Author response: The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour (2018) (0)
Utilizing eight-channel multi-transmit system for whole-brain 7 Tesla MRI (2013) (0)
Receptive fields as prediction devices: A comparison of cell tuning to single images and to natural image sequences in temporal cortex (2006) (0)
O6.2. NEUROBIOLOGY OF PSYCHOMETRIC SCHIZOTYPY: INSIGHTS FROM MULTIMODAL IMAGING RESEARCH (2018) (0)
Crossmodal repetition suppression for auditorily and visually perceived actions (2010) (0)
Supplementary Materials S1 (2008) (0)
University of Groningen Experience Modulates Vicarious Freezing in Rats (2011) (0)
Supplementary Material 7 (2008) (0)
Predictive coding during action observation – A depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation study at 7T (2022) (0)
Supplementary Material 2 (2008) (0)

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