Christian Keysers

Christian Keysers (* June 27, 1973 in Belgium ) is a German - French neuroscientist.

Life

Christian Keyser, son of a German - French father and a German mother, grew up in French-speaking Belgium. From 1987 to 1991 he attended the European School in Munich. From 1991, he studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz, at the Ruhr- University Bochum and in Boston. He completed his doctorate in 2000 at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he worked at the Institute of David Perrett. From 2000 to 2004 he studied as a post- doctoral fellow with Giacomo Rizzolatti at the University of Parma, where she discovered the role of mirror neurons in touch and disgust.

Keyser is Full Professor for the Social Brain at the Medical Faculty of the University of Groningen. His research interests include neuroimaging, neuroscience and biological psychology. He also leads the research group " Neurobiology of empathy " at the Social Brain Lab at the Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, which is a basic research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In January 2013 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

Writings (selection )

  • Our empathic brain: why we understand what others feel, Bertelsmann, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-00954-3 ( original English title: The emphatic brain )
  • With Wicker, B., C. Plailly, J., Royet, J., P., Gallese, V. and Rizzolatti, G. ( 2003): Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula: the Common Neural Basis of Seeing and Feeling disgust. Neuron 40:655-664, 2003
  • Kohler, E., M. A. Umiltà Fogassi L., Gallese V. and L. Nanetti: Audio -visual mirror neurones and action recognition in 2003; PDF file; 471 kB; english

Reception

  • " An almost mystical connection ," Spiegel interview with Christian Keysers, Der Spiegel 29/2013 of July 15, 2013
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