Hauke Heekeren    
Head of research group
Fon: +49-(0)30-82406-620
E-mail: heekeren(at)mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Secretary:  Heidi Nassimi



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Research Interests

  • Neurobiology of perceptual and reward-based decision making
  • Influence of cognition and emotion on decision making in social contexts
  • Multimodal neuroimaging
Projects

Selected Literature

  • Age-related decline in brain resources modulates genetic effects on cognitive functioning. Lindenberger U, Nagel IE, Chicherio C, Li SC, Heekeren HR, Bäckman L. Front Neurosci. 2008 Dec;2(2):234-44. Epub 2008 Dec 15.
  • The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making. Heekeren HR, Marrett S, Ungerleider LG. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jun;9(6):467-79. Epub 2008 May 9. Review.
  • Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Ruff, D. A., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2006). Involvement of human left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in perceptual decision making is independent of response modality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS 2006 103: 10023-10028; published online before print as 10.1073/pnas.0603949103).
  • Mériau, K., Wartenburger, I., Kazzer, P., Prehn, K., Lammers, C. H., van der Meer, E., Villringer, A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2006). A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making. Neuroimage, 33 (3), 1016-1027.
  • Marschner, A., Mell, T., Wartenburger, I., Villringer, A., Reischies, F. M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2005). Reward-based decision-making and aging. Brain Research Bulletin, 67(5), 382-390.
  • Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., Bandettini, P. A., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2004). A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain. Nature, 431, 859-861.
       
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