Members - Hauke Heekeren

POSITION AT CILS

PI, Project Coordinator

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, decision making, decision neuroscience, emotion regulation, neuroimaging, fMRI

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin

Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Medical Neurosciences Teaching Award (2007)
  • Emmy Noether Award (2005)
  • Rudolph Virchow Award for excellence in research (2004)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Board Member, Society for Neuroeconomics (since 2010)

 

  • Chief Editor, Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

 

Project: Social Decision Making I

 

The nature and level of advice-taking in human societies is unmatched in the animal world. We developed a paradigm to investigate how people combine individual learning with advice. Having begun to investigate the neurobiological basis of following advice, we investigate the adaptive value of more complex social learning and decision-making mechanisms and their neurobiological implication in an interdisciplinary cooperation between theoretical neurobiologists and cognitive neuroscientists.

 

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Project: Social Decision Making II

 

This project aims to use functional neuroimaging to elucidate the cognitive processes underlying the influence of advice on decision making, with the end goal being the improvement of advice utilization in our society.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Kliemann D, Dziobek I, Hatri A, Steimke R, Heekeren HR. Atypical reflexive gaze patterns on emotional faces in autism spectrum disorders. J Neurosci, Sep 15;30(37):12281-7.
  • Philiastides MG, Biele G, Heekeren HR (2010) A mechanistic account of value computation in the human brain, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2010 May 18;107(20):9430-5.
  • Mohr PNC, Biele G, Heekeren HR (2010) Neural Processing of Risk. J Neurosci, 2010 May 12;30(19):6613-9.
  • Mohr PN, Li SC, Heekeren HR (2010) Neuroeconomics and aging: Neuromodulation of economic decision making in old age. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2010 Apr;34(5):678-88.
  • Dziobek I, Bahnemann M, Convit A, Heekeren HR (2010). Neuropsychological and Neuroanatomical Evidence for social perceptive and social cognitive impairments in adults with Asperger syndrome. Archives of General Psychiatr, 2010 Apr;67(4):397-405.
  • Nagel IE, Preuschhof C, Li SC, Nyberg L, Bäckman L, Lindenberger U, Heekeren HR (2009) Performance Level Modulates Adult Age Differences In Brain Activation During a Spatial Working Memory Task. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2009 Dec 29;106(52):22552-7.
  • Krugel LK, Biele G, Mohr PNC, Li SC, Heekeren HR (2009) Genetic variation in dopaminergic neuromodulation influences the ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt decisions. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2009 Oct 20; 106(42):17951-6.
  • Heekeren HR, Marrett S, Ungerleider LG. (2008) Neural systems involved in human perceptual decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2008 Jun;9(6):467-79.
  • Heekeren HR, Marrett S, Bandettini PA, Ungerleider LG (2006) Involvement of human left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in perceptual decision-making is independent of response modality. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2006 Jun 27;103(26):10023-8. Epub 2006 Jun 19.
  • Heekeren HR, Marrett S, Bandettini PA, Ungerleider LG (2004) A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain. Nature, 431 (7010):859-861.