Profile of Faculty
As research group leader you are invited to join the Medical Neurosciences faculty. In order for us to
publish information on our faculty on the web, please give us some information on you and your group:
Name and title:
Dr. Philipp Sterzer
Contact details:
(institute, address,
phone/fax number,
e-mail):
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité Campus Mitte
Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin
phone 030-450 517257, fax 030-450 517944
philipp.sterzer@charite.de
Website:
http://www.charite.de/psychiatrie/vislab/
CV
1995-1998
(main milestones in
your career)
1998-2004
Doctoral thesis at Max-Planck-Inst. of Psychiatry,
Munich
Resident Neurologist and Postdoc at Dept. of Neurology,
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
2004-2006
Postdoc at Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging,
UCL, London
2006-2008
Resident Psychiatrist at Dept. of Psychiatry, Charité
Campus Mitte
since 2008
Junior research group leader at Dept. of Psychiatry,
Charité Campus Mitte (DFG Emmy Noether program)
A few words about
yourself:
My research interests include the neural mechansims of conscious visual
perception, the interactions of emotion and motivation with visual perception, and
alterations of these processes in mental diseases. I am particularly intrigued by
bistable perception, which refers to the phenomenon of alternating perception
during constant sensory input. Bistable perception is easy to provoke with visual
stimuli, but is also possible in other sensory modalities and is even known in
music, which is how I got interested in this phenomenon a couple of years ago.
Research focus of
your group:
visual perception – consciousness – bistable perception – binocular rivalry –
emotion – motivation – psychiatry – mood disorders – aggression – brain imaging
– fMRI
Method(s)/
Technique(s)
established in your
lab:
functional MRI – structural MRI – visual psychophysics - eyetracking – statistical
parametric mapping – retinotopic mapping – voxel-based morphometry – support
vector machine classification
Publications:
Sterzer, P, Frith, C, Petrovic, P. Believing is seeing: expectations alter visual
awareness, Curr Biol, 2008, in press
Sterzer, P, Rees, G. A neural basis for perceptual memory during binocular
rivalry in humans, J Cogn Neurosci, 2008 Mar; 20(3): 389-99.
Sterzer, P, Kleinschmidt, A. A neural basis for inference in perceptual
ambiguity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007 Jan;104(1):323-8.
Sterzer, P, Haynes, J-D, Rees, G. Primary visual cortex activation on the
path of apparent motion is mediated by feedback from hMT+/V5.
Neuroimage. 2006 Sep;32(3):1308-16.
Sterzer, P, Stadler, C, Krebs, A, Kleinschmidt, A, Poustka, F. Abnormal
neural responses to emotional visual stimuli in adolescents with conduct
disorder, Biol Psychiatry, 57, 7-15, 2005.
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