Dorit Kliemann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Biography
Research Interests:
- Social cognition
- Autism
- Brain Function
- Brain Structure
- Functional connectivity
- Brain lesions
- Neuroimaging (fMRI)
- Emotion
The Kliemann lab studies the neuroscience of human social behavior, from a basic research perspective, as well as in its applications to disorders and neurological populations. We are interested in the biological basis of cognition in the brain, especially how the brain compensates and re-organizes. How does variation in brain structure and function lead to intact or impaired social cognition? How can we use insights from neuroimaging to better understand the psychological mechanisms? We use a multimodal approach (including behavioral, eye-tracking, lesion studies, structural and functional MRI) to study brain-cognition-behavior relations that ultimately produce complex social cognition.
