Angelika Lingnau

Angelika Lingnau is research assistant professor at CIMeC and she works at the Neuroimaging Labs in Mattarello.

Main interests

My research focuses on perception and action, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), eye tracking and psychophysics. In particular, I am interested in (1) the way our brain extracts parameters such as speed and direction from a stimulus, (2) how we use this information to prepare and execute motor acts such as reaching and grasping, and (3) to which degree we use our own motor system to understand actions performed by others.

Publications (last three years)

Lingnau, A. & Vorberg, D. (2005). The time course of response inhibition in masked priming. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 545-557.

Ashida, H., Lingnau, A., Wall, M. B., & Smith, A. T. (2007). fMRI adaptation reveals separate mechanisms for first- and second-order motion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97, 1319-1325.

Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J. & Vorberg, D. (2008). Adaptive strategies for reading with a forced retinal location. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-18.

Wall, M.B., Lingnau, A., Ashida, H., & Smith, A.T. (2008). Selective visual responses to expansion and rotation in the human MT complex revealed by fMRI adaptation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 2747-2757.

Lingnau, A., Gesierich, B., Caramazza, A. & (2009). Asymmetric fMRI Adaptation Reveals No Evidence for Mirror Neurons in Humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106, 9925-9930.

Lingnau, A., Ashida, H., Wall, M.B., Smith, A.T. (2009). Speed encoding at high contrast in human V1 and MT. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-14.

Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J., & Vorberg, D. (in press). (Un-) Coupling gaze and attention outside central vision. Journal of Vision.

Fabbri, S., Caramazza, A., & Lingnau, A. (in press). Tuning curves for movement direction in the human visuomotor system. Journal of Neuroscience.

For the complete list of publications, visit U-Gov catalogue, here.