Cooperating Researchers - Andreas Roepstorff

POSITION AT CILS

Associate Faculty Member

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Countries and Regions: polar regions

Education, Teaching and Philosophy: philosophy and history of technology, cognition research, theories of knowledge, science as a social construction

Health and Illness: organs and functions of the body (esp. cerebral and nervous system)

Man and Cultures: anthropology and ethnography, concept of culture

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus Universitet

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Part Time Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Aarhus Universitet (since 2004)
  • Assistant Professor, Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and PET-Centre, Aarhus Universitet (since 2001)
  • Assistant Research Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Aarhus Universitet (1998 – 2001)
  • Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Aarhus Universitet (1996 – 1998)
  • Extra-mural Lecturer, Department of Biology, Aarhus Universitet (1996)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, Det strategiske forskningsråd, programkomiteen for strategiske vækstteknologier (since 2009)
  • Member, Steering Committee, A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics (since 2008)
  • Member, Programstyret: ELSA program for bioteknologi, nanoteknologi og kognitive videnskaber (since 2007)
  • Member, Steering Committee, European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) (2007 - 2011)
  • Member, Utvalget for planlegging av nytt forskningsprogram om etiske, juridiske og samfunnmessige aspekter ved bioteknologi, nanoteknologi og kognitiv vitenskap (2006 - 2007)
  • Project leader, BASIC (Brain, Agency, Self, Intersubjectivity, Consciousness), a ESF EUROCORES CNCC Project (2006 - 2009)
  • Member, Scientific Committee, EUROCORES Project CNCC (Consciousness in a Natural and a Cultural Context) (2006 - 2009)
  • Formand, Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Mind and Culture (2006 - 2007)
  • Member, Scientific Committee, 9th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (2006)
  • Member af bedømmelsesudvalg, Bedømmelse af post.doc til mind-brain initiativet ved Københavns Universitet (2005)
  • Member, Stakeholder forum, Meetings of Mind, Europe (since 2005)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Tylén, K, Weed, E., Wallentin, M., Roepstorff, A. & Frith CD (in press) Language as a Tool for Interacting Minds. Mind & Language
  • Vogeley, K & Roepstorff, A (In press) Contextualising Culture and Social Cognition (Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • Schjoedt, U., Stoedkilde-Jorgensen, H., Geert, A. W., & Roepstorff, A. (2009). Highly religious participants recruit areas of social cognition in personal prayer. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 4(2) 199-207.
  • Vestergaard-Poulsen, P., van Beek, M., Skewes, J., Bjarkam, C. R., Stubberup, M., Bertelsen, J., Roepstorff, A. (2009). Long-term meditation is associated with increased gray matter density in the brain stem. Neuroreport, 20(2), 170-174.
  • Vuust, P., Ostergaard, L., Pallesen, K. J., Bailey, C., & Roepstorff, A. (2009). Predictive coding of music - Brain responses to rhythmic incongruity. Cortex, 45(1), 80-92.
  • Hohwy, J., Roepstorff, A., Friston, K. 2008, "Predictive coding explains binocular rivalry: an epistemological review", Cognition, vol. 108, s. 687-701.
  • Roepstorff, A. (2008). Things to think with: words and objects as material symbols. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1499), 2049-2054.