Stephanie Ortigue is an assistant professor at the Psychology Department at Syracuse University, where she conducts research in neuroscience, and teaches an advanced course of multivariate statistics for graduate students.

Combining fMRI, EEG, and TMS with psychophysics, my research interests focus on implicit cognition, interpersonal relationships, and the role of the mirror neuron system in intention understanding. I develop high-resolution techniques to unravel how an individual's automatic (non-conscious) gestures are a direct reflection of that individual's brain neurocircuitry. The emphasis is on elucidating the cognitive chronoarchitecture that underlies action representation and an understanding of desires and motor intentions performed by other people. Connecting self-expansion model and theories of cognitive interdependence, I aim to develop a predictive model of automatic cognitive information processing in interpersonal relationships.

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, predictive brain modeling, brain electrodynamics, statistics, implicit cognition, brain microstates and chronoarchitecture of action representation, desires and motor intentions, interpersonal relationships, interactive self, clinical neuroscience and self-consciousness in healthy participants and neurological patients.
Ortigue Laboratory seeks to improve understanding of the brain in health and neurological disease.

Brown, K., Ortigue, S., Grafton, S., & Carlson, J. (in press) Improving human brain mapping via joint inversion of brain electrodynamics and the BOLD signal. NeuroImage

Ortigue S, King D, Gazzaniga M, Miller M, Grafton ST. (2009). Right hemisphere dominance for understanding intentions of others: Evidence from a split-brain patient. BMJ case reports. [doi:10.1136/bcr.07.2008.0593]

Ortigue S, Patel N, Bianchi-Demicheli F. (2009). New EEG neuroimaging methods of analyzing brain activity. JSM.6:1830-1845

Ortigue S, Bianchi-Demicheli F. (2009). Temporal evolution of passionate brain states in long-term couple relationships. RMS 5:625-628.

Ortigue S, Bianchi-Demicheli F. (2008) The chronoarchitecture of human desire: a high-density electrical mapping study. NeuroImage 43:337-345.

Ortigue, S, Thompson, JC, Parasuraman, R, Grafton, ST. (2009). Spatio-temporal dynamics of human intention understanding in temporo-parietal cortex: a combined EEG/fMRI repetition suppression paradigm. PLoS One, 4: e6962

Ortigue S, Bianchi-Demicheli F. (2008) Why is your spouse so predictable? Connecting mirror neuron system and self-expansion model of love. Medical Hypotheses 71:941-944.

Brookings T, Ortigue S, Grafton S, Carlson J. (2008) Using ICA and realistic BOLD models to obtain joint EEG/fMRI solutions to the problem of source localization. NeuroImage 44:411-420.

Ortigue S, Bianchi-Demicheli F, Hamilton AF, Grafton ST. (2007) The neural basis of love as a subliminal prime: an event-related fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19: 1218-1230.

Arzy S, Seeck M, Ortigue S, Spinelli L, Blanke O. (2006) Induction of an illusory shadow person. Nature 443: 287.

Blanke O, Ortigue S, Landis T, Seeck M. (2002) Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions. Nature 419:269-270.

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