Prof. Stephanie Ortigue
Assistant Professor

Email: sortigue@syr.edu
Phone: (315) 443.2705
Address: Syracuse University, Department of Psychology,
506 Huntington Hall,
Syracuse 13244, New York

Research Interest:

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 in dyads, 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.

Representative Publications

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 Aug 20

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.