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Nikolaas N. Oosterhof

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Nikolaas N. Oosterhof

Post-doctoral research fellow.

Ph.D. in Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Contact

Address:Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello (CIMeC), Palazzo Fedrigotti, Corso Bettini 31, Rovereto I-38068, TN, Italy.
Email:nikolaas.oosterhof@unitn.it.

Research focus

I work with James Haxby at the CIMeC, and am currently supported by the ATTEND
project. My research focuses on the cognitive and neural representation of actions and attention. In this line of research data is acquired with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

and magnetoencephalography (MEG) and analyzed using multi-variate pattern analysis (MVPA).

Besides emperical work, I am also involved in the development of the PyMVPA (Python) and CoSMoMVPA (Matlab) toolboxes.

Publications

Articles

[NCO+17]Nastase, S. A. , et al. (2017). Attention selectively reshapes the geometry of distributed semantic representation. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 4277-4291. [URL]
[CSG+16]Connolly, A. C. , et al. (2016). How the human brain represents perceived dangerousness or “predacity” of animals. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 5373–5384. [PDF] [URL] DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3395-15.2016, cited by: 19
[NCO+biorxiv16]Nastase, S. A. , et al. (2016). Attention selectively reshapes the geometry of distributed semantic representation. bioRxiv. [PDF] [URL] DOI: 10.1101/045252, cited by: 14
[SHA+15]Sha, L., Haxby, J. V. , Abdi, H., Guntupalli, J. S. , Oosterhof, N. N. , Halchenko, Y. O. and Connolly, A. C. (2015). The animacy continuum in the human ventral vision pathway. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27:4, 665-678. [PDF] DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00733, cited by: 58
[OTD13]Oosterhof, N. N. , Tipper, S. P. and Downing, P. E. (2013). Action-specific and cross-modal: neuroimaging the human mirror system. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 311-318. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.012
[OWC13]Oosterhof, N. N. , Wiggett, A. J. and Cross, E. S. (2013). Testing key predictions of the associative account of mirror neurons in humans using multivariate pattern analysis: Commentary on Cook et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
[RDP+13]Todorov, A., Dotsch, R., Porter, J. M., Oosterhof, N. N. and Falvello, V. B. (2013). Validation of Data-Driven Computational Models of Social Perception of Faces. Emotion. DOI: 10.1037/a0032335, cited by: 100
[LOK+12]Linden, D. E. J., Oosterhof, N. N. , Klein, C. and Downing, P. E. (2012). Mapping brain activation and information during category-specific visual working memory. Journal of neurophysiology, 107, 628-639. [PDF] DOI: 10.1152/jn.00105.2011, cited by: 43
[OTD12]Oosterhof, N. N. , Tipper, S. P. and Downing, P. E. (2012). Viewpoint (In)dependence of Action Representations: An MVPA Study. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 24, 975-989. [PDF]
[OTD12b]Oosterhof, N. N. , Tipper, S. P. and Downing, P. E. (2012). Visuo-motor imagery of specific manual actions: A multi-variate pattern analysis fMRI study. NeuroImage, 63, 262-271. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.045, cited by: 43
[HCO+11]Harsay, H. A., Cohen, M. X., Oosterhof, N. N. , Forstmann, B. U., Mars, R. B. and Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2011). Functional connectivity of the striatum links motivation to action control in humans. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31, 10701-10711. [PDF] DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5415-10.2011, cited by: 60
[OWD+11]Oosterhof, N. N. , Wiestler, T., Downing, P. E. and Diedrichsen, J. (2011). A comparison of volume-based and surface-based multi-voxel pattern analysis. NeuroImage, 56, 593-600. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.270, cited by: 79
[PKO+11]Plumpton, C. O., Kuncheva, L. I., Oosterhof, N. N. and Johnston, S. J. (2011). Naive random subspace ensemble with linear classifiers for real-time classification of fMRI data. Pattern Recognition, 45, 2101-2108. [PDF] DOI: 10,1016/j.patcog.2011.04.270, cited by: 30
[TO11]Todorov, A. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2011). Modeling Social Perception of Faces. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 28, 117-122. [PDF] DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2010.940006, cited by: 94
[TSO+11]Todorov, A., Said, C. P., Oosterhof, N. N. and Engell, A. D. (2011). Task-invariant brain responses to the social value of faces. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 23, 2766-2781. [PDF] DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21616, cited by: 38
[ENO+10]Engell, A. D., Nummenmaa, L., Oosterhof, N. N. , Henson, R. N., Haxby, J. V. and Calder, A. J. (2010). Differential activation of frontoparietal attention networks by social and symbolic spatial cues. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 5, 432-440. [PDF] DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq008, cited by: 41
[OWD+10]Oosterhof, N. N. , Wiggett, A. J., Diedrichsen, J., Tipper, S. P. and Downing, P. E. (2010). Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision-action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of neurophysiology, 104, 1077-1089. [PDF] DOI: 10.1152/jn.00326.2010, cited by: 154
[TLO10]Todorov, A., Loehr, V. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2010). The obligatory nature of holistic processing of faces in social judgments. Perception, 39, 514-532. [PDF] DOI: 10.1068/p6501, cited by: 51
[OT09]Oosterhof, N. N. and Todorov, A. (2009). Shared perceptual basis of emotional expressions and trustworthiness impressions from faces. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 9, 128-133. [PDF] DOI: 10.1037/a0014520, cited by: 216
[TPO09]Todorov, A., Pakrashi, M. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2009). Evaluating faces on trustworthiness after minimal time exposure. Social Cognition, 27, 813-833. [PDF] DOI: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.6.813, cited by: 390
[OT08]Oosterhof, N. N. and Todorov, A. (2008). The functional basis of face evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 11087-11092. [PDF] DOI: 10,1073/pnas0805664105, cited by: 943
[TBO08]Todorov, A., Baron, S. G. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2008). Evaluating face trustworthiness: a model based approach. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 3, 119-127. [PDF] DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn009, cited by: 290
[TSE+08]Todorov, A., Said, C. P., Engell, A. D. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2008). Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions. Trends in cognitive sciences, 12, 455-460. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.tics/2008.10.001, cited by: 414

Miscellaneous

Posters

[NVH+SFN15]Nastase, S. A. , Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Halchenko, Y. O. , Connolly, A. C. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2015). Attention alters animal and action representation in highly-distributed functionally-defined cortical parcels. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. [PDF]
[NCO+OHBM14]Nastase, S. A. , Connolly, A. C. , Oosterhof, N. N. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Gors, J. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2014). Attention locally modulates the discriminability of high-level, task-relevant representations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany. [PDF]
[NCO+VSS14]Nastase, S. A. , Connolly, A. C. , Oosterhof, N. N. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Gors, J. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2014). Attentional allocation locally warps representational space. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [PDF]

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