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| Michael SchaeferSummaryAffiliation: Otto-von-Guericke University Country: Germany Publications
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Neuroeconomics: in search of the neural representation of brandsMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Prog Brain Res 178:241-52. 2009..Thus, along with advanced cultural theories, neuroeconomics may provide important contributions to the understanding of brand-related or economic behavior...
Combining a semantic differential with fMRI to investigate brands as cultural symbolsMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:274-81. 2010..We discuss the results as a different engagement of the prefrontal cortex when perceiving brands as cultural symbols...- Alien hand syndrome: neural correlates of movements without conscious willMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
PLoS ONE 5:e15010. 2010..This study aimed to examine neural correlates of this rare neurological disorder in a patient with corticobasal degeneration and alien hand syndrome of the left hand... - Referral of touch and ownership between the hands and the role of the somatosensory corticesMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
PLoS ONE 8:e52768. 2013..The results suggest that the transfer of tactile information across the body midline could be mediated by neurons with bilateral tactile receptive fields (most likely BA2)... - Close to you: embodied simulation for peripersonal space in primary somatosensory cortexMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e42308. 2012..Thus, we presented touch on a hand and close to the hand either in first-person-perspective or in third-person-perspective... - Touch and personality: extraversion predicts somatosensory brain responseMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroimage 62:432-8. 2012..We conclude that personality seems to depend on primary cortex activity. Furthermore, our results provide further evidence for an inter-hemispheric asymmetry of the social brain... - Striatal response to favorite brands as a function of neuroticism and extraversionMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Brain Res 1425:83-9. 2011..We discuss the results with recent studies on the neuronal substrates of reward related processing of cultural objects and the role of personality in brand loyalty... - Embodied empathy for tactile events: Interindividual differences and vicarious somatosensory responses during touch observationMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroimage 60:952-7. 2012..This link demonstrates that vicarious somatosensory responses for simple touch are influenced by the observer's personality traits, therefore suggesting a role for personality traits in a putative mirror neuron system... 
Morphing the body: illusory feeling of an elongated arm affects somatosensory homunculusMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroimage 36:700-5. 2007..We discuss the results as possible top-down modulations of SI by higher order somatosensory areas...- Observing the touched body magnified alters somatosensory homunculusMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroreport 19:901-5. 2008..We discuss the results as dynamic interactions between vision and touch in SI via back projections from multimodal cortical areas... - My third arm: shifts in topography of the somatosensory homunculus predict feeling of an artificial supernumerary armMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:1413-20. 2009.... - Effects of different viewing perspectives on somatosensory activations during observation of touchMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section and Stroke Neurorehabilitation Clinic, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2722-30. 2009..Moreover, somatosensory responses differed depending on the perspective of the observed touch. We discuss the results in terms of a possible mirror neuron system for observed and experienced touch... - Favorite brands as cultural objects modulate reward circuitMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroreport 18:141-5. 2007..Moreover, social stimuli may function as secondary inducers of reward mechanisms... - Verbal memory encoding in patients with left-sided hippocampal sclerosisMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Neuroreport 17:1219-23. 2006..The temporal lobe epilepsy group showed enhanced activation in left fusiform gyrus. We discuss these results in terms of different strategy use by the groups... - Reliability and validity of neuroelectric source imaging in primary somatosensory cortex of human upper limb amputeesMichael Schaefer
Department of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Brain Topogr 15:95-106. 2002.... - Dynamic modulation of the primary somatosensory cortex during seeing and feeling a touched handMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 29:587-92. 2006..Thus, only if the seen touch is attributed to the own body, SI seems to be modulated... - Task-relevant modulation of primary somatosensory cortex suggests a prefrontal-cortical sensory gating systemMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 27:130-5. 2005..Thus, we conclude that SI maps undergo dynamic modulation depending on motor tasks with different cognitive demands. The results suggest that this short-term plasticity may be regulated by a prefrontal-cortical sensory gating system... - Localization of the human female breast in primary somatosensory cortexYvonne Rothemund
Department of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
Exp Brain Res 164:357-64. 2005..Despite an extensive body of research on the topography of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) little is known about the representation of the trunk... - Reproducibility and stability of neuromagnetic source imaging in primary somatosensory cortexMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Brain Topogr 17:47-53. 2004..These results support the use of MEG recordings combined with MRI as an adequate method to define the organization of the human primary somatosensory cortex and provide a useful approach to the rapid detection of neuroplasticity... - Fooling your feelings: artificially induced referred sensations are linked to a modulation of the primary somatosensory cortexMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 29:67-73. 2006..Since the amount of the referred sensation was significantly correlated with the modulation in SI, we argue that SI is involved in this kind of artificially induced referred sensation... - Short-term plasticity of the primary somatosensory cortex during tool useMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroreport 15:1293-7. 2004..Our data suggest that somatosensory cortical maps are part of the neural network representing the modified schema of the hand in which the tool was incorporated... - Seeing the hand being touched modulates the primary somatosensory cortexMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroreport 16:1101-5. 2005..We discuss these cross-modal interactions with recent studies on visuotactile enhancement... - Thinking on luxury or pragmatic brand products: Brain responses to different categories of culturally based brandsMichael Schaefer
Department of Neurology II, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Brain Res 1165:98-104. 2007..We discuss the results as differential engagement of the prefrontal cortex depending on the attributed characteristic of a brand... - Viewing touch improves tactile sensory thresholdMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroreport 16:367-70. 2005..This enhancement was specific for the index finger shown in the video. The results link the visuotactile enhancement of this study to the observation of touch rather than to the simple depiction of the body part... - Dynamic shifts in the organization of primary somatosensory cortex induced by bimanual spatial coupling of motor activityMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 5S 208, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 25:395-400. 2005..Our data suggest that somatosensory cortical maps undergo fast and dynamic modulation as a result of a task-related influence of motor or premotor areas... - Reproducibility and stability of neuroelectric source imaging in primary somatosensory cortexMichael Schaefer
Department of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Brain Topogr 14:179-89. 2002..BEM was not found to be superior to a 4-shell model. These data support the use of multi-electrode EEG recordings combined with MRI as an adequate method for the investigation of the functional organization of the somatosensory cortex... - Neural correlates of culturally familiar brands of car manufacturersMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 31:861-5. 2006..We discuss the results as self-relevant processing induced by the imagined use of cars of familiar brands and suggest that the prefrontal cortex plays a crucial role for processing culturally based brands... - Lateralized irrelevant speech alters visuospatial selective attention mechanismsMichael Schaefer
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 5N 234, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Biol Psychol 72:51-8. 2006..The results suggest crossmodal links of speech and visuospatial attention mechanisms at a very early stage of human perception...