Revisiting our primate roots in infants grooming.
Scientific Reports
Selected publications
Recent work and landmark papers from the lab
A curated selection spanning social cognition, oxytocin, action, brain plasticity and consciousness.
2026
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2025
Spatio-temporal dynamics of ingroup interactions in macaques.
Scientific Reports
2024
Cost and benefit of parafoveal information during reading acquisition as revealed by finger movement patterns.
Scientific Reports
2021
Differential fate between oxytocin and vasopressin cells in the developing mouse brain.
iScience
Territorial blueprint in the hippocampal system.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2019
Digit-tracking as a new tactile interface for visual perception analysis.
Nature Communications
2018
Implicit preference for human trustworthy faces in macaque monkeys.
Nature Communications
Selective inhibition of volitional hand movements after stimulation of the dorsoposterior parietal cortex in humans.
Current Biology
2017
Restoring consciousness with vagus nerve stimulation.
Current Biology
2014
Switching brain serotonin with oxytocin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Neural representations of ethologically relevant hand/mouth synergies in the human precentral gyrus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2013
Re-establishing the merits of electrical brain stimulation.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2012
Modulation of value representation by social context in the primate orbitofrontal cortex.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2010
Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain.
Current Biology
Promoting social behavior with oxytocin in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2009
Movement intention after parietal cortex stimulation in humans.
Science
Re-emergence of hand-muscle representations in human motor cortex after hand allograft.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2006
Mapping phantom movement representations in the motor cortex of amputees.
Brain
2005
Regret and its avoidance: a neuroimaging study of choice behavior.
Nature Neuroscience
2004
Motor activation prior to observation of a predicted movement.
Nature Neuroscience
The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret.
Science
Altered awareness of voluntary action after damage to the parietal cortex.
Nature Neuroscience
2002
Face or hand, not both: perceptual correlates of reafferentation in a former amputee.
Current Biology
2001
Cortical reorganization in motor cortex after graft of both hands.
Nature Neuroscience
1999
Perception of self-generated movement following left parietal lesion.
Brain
1996
The mental representation of hand movements after parietal cortex damage.
Science