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Dr. Sarah Weigelt Homepage: www.neuromance.de |
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Research Areas
- Development of vision
- Social perception and cognition
- Visual illusions and Gestalt phenomena
- Motion processing
- FMRI in children and adolescents
- FMRI adaptation
- Autism
Academic CV
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Scientist Institute of Psychology, University of Münster |
| 2009- | Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT |
| 2008-2009 | Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt |
| 2005-2009 | Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt University of Maastricht |
| 2003-2004 | Diploma Thesis Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt |
| 1998-2004 | Psychology and Philosophy University of Düsseldorf |
Publications
Weigelt, S., Singer, W., Kohler, A. (in press). Feature-based attention affects direction-selective fMRI adaptation in hMT+. Cerebral Cortex.
Weigelt, S., Koldewyn, K., Kanwisher, N. (2012). Face identity recognition in autism spectrum disorders: a review of behavioral studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36:1060-1084.
Weigelt, S., Limbach, K., Singer, W., Kohler, A. (2012). Orientation-selective fMRI adaptation in primary visual cortex revisited. Human Brain Mapping, 33:707-714.
Weigelt, S., Koldewyn, K., Doehrmann, O. (2010). Cross-category adaptation reveals tight coupling of face and body perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. 104:581-583.
Maus, G.W., Weigelt, S., Nijhawan, R., Muckli, L. (2010). Does area V3A predict positions of moving objects? Frontiers in Psychology, 1:186.
Doehrmann, O., Weigelt, S., Altmann, C.F., Kaiser, J., Naumer, M.J. (2010). Audiovisual fMRI adaptation reveals multisensory integration effects in object-related sensory cortices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30: 3370-3379.
Kaas, A.L., Weigelt, S., Roebroeck, A., Kohler, A., Muckli, L. (2009). Imagery of a moving object: the role of occipital cortex and human MT/V5+. Neuroimage, 49: 794-804.
Weigelt, S., Muckli, L., Kohler, A. (2008). Functional magnetic resonance adaptation in visual neuroscience. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 19, 363-80.
Weigelt, S., Singer, W., and Muckli, L. (2007). Separate cortical stages in amodal completion revealed by functional magnetic resonance adaptation. BMC Neuroscience, 8:70.
Weigelt, S. (2007). Seeing Things: illusory contours in the human visual brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 5269-5270.
Weigelt, S., Kourtzi, Z., Kohler, A., Singer, W., and Muckli, L. (2007). The cortical representation of objects rotating in depth. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3864-3874.
Awards and fellowships
| 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Daimler und Benz Foundation (Postdoktorandenstipendium) |
| 2011 | Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation ("Fast Track program") |
| 2010 | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Simon's Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT |
| 2009 | Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society |
| 2009 | “Cum Laude” (highest distinction) of Maastricht University |
