Nikolaas N. Oosterhof
Post-doctoral research fellow.
Ph.D. in Psychology,
Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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] |
[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 |
[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. |
[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] |
[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 |
[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 |
[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 |
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] |