1. Skip to navigation
  2. Skip to content
  3. Skip to sidebar
Email: sortigue@syr.edu

----------------------
Psychology
506 Huntington Hall
Phone: 315-443-2705

references

Stephanie Ortigue

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Education


Research and Teaching Interests

Combining high-resolution brain imaging techniques (i.e., fMRI, EEG, and TMS) with psychophysics, my research interests focus on implicit cognition, body language, action, interpersonal relationships, and the role of the mirror neuron system in intention understanding. I develop techniques to unravel how an individual's automatic (sub-conscious) gestures are a direct reflection of that individual's brain neurocircuitry in order to improve their performance. The emphasis is on elucidating the cognitive chronoarchitecture that underlies action representation and an understanding of desires, intentions and actions performed by other people. Connecting self-expansion model and theories of cognitive interdependence, I aim to develop predictive models of automatic cognitive information processing in order to improve one’s performance during interpersonal interactions. I also teach an advanced course of multivariate statistics for graduate students.


Representative Publications

Ortigue, S., Sinigaglia, C., Rizzolatti, G.,  Grafton, S.T. (2010). Understanding actions of others: the electrodynamics of the left and right hemispheres. A high-density EEG neuroimaging study. PLOS ONE, in  press.

Ortigue, S., Bianchi-Demicheli, F. (2010). Intention, false beliefs, and delusional jealousy: Insights into the right hemisphere from neurological patients and neuroimaging studies. Medical Science Monitor, in  press.

Ortigue, S., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., Patel, N., Frum, C., Lewis, J. (2010). Neuroimaging of Love: fMRI Meta-analysis Evidence toward New Perspectives in Sexual Medicine. Journal of Sexual Medicine, in press.

Ortigue, S., Patel, N., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., Grafton, S.T. (2010). Implicit priming of embodied cognition on human motor intention understanding in dyads in love. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, in press.

Brown, K., Ortigue, S., Grafton, S., & Carlson, J. (2010). Improving human brain mapping via joint inversion of brain electrodynamics and the BOLD signal. NeuroImage, 49: 2401–2415.

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

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.