Currently at the
Max Planck
Institute, Germany.
1992 – 1997
University
of Zürich, Prof.
R. Wehner (Zürich / Switzerland)
Diploma in Zoology / Neurobiology / Molecular
Genetics
1996 – 1997
The
Salk Institute, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Prof. T. Sejnowski
(San Diego / California / USA)
Diploma
thesis (NEURON simulations, spike timing and dendritic
backpropagation)
1997 – 2003
University College London, Vision Lab, Prof. S. Zeki (London / UK)
PhD
(Marie-Curie-Fellow) and post-doc (fMRI on visual and affective systems)
2003
UCSD, ERP Lab, Prof.
S. Hillyard
(University of California San Diego / USA)
UCL-Bogue Fellow (ERP and
psychophysics on visual-auditory
timing)
2004 – now
Max-Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, Prof.
N.K. Logothetis (Tübingen
/ Germany)
fMRI of the human brain in natural
conditions, motion and
ego-motion perception, binocular rivalry, connectivity analyses of
cortical
areas.
A. Bartels, S. Zeki and
N. K. Logothetis (2007).
Cerebral Cortex (2008),
Vol. 18(3), p. 705-717.
- The chronoarchitecture of the cerebral cortex.
A. Bartels and
S. Zeki (2005).
Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society London B (2005),
Vol. 360(1456), p. 733-750.
- Brain dynamics
during
natural viewing conditions - a new guide for mapping connectivity in
vivo.
A. Bartels and
S. Zeki (2005).
NeuroImage (2005),
Vol. 24(2), p. 339-349.
A. Bartels and
S. Zeki (2004).
NeuroImage (2004),
Vol. 22(1), p. 419-433.
(Independent component
analysis
(ICA) to segregate functionally distinct brain regions.)
- Functional brain mapping during free viewing
of natural scenes
by A Bartels
and S Zeki
Human Brain Mapping 21(2):75-83 (2004, online: 2003)
(SPM analysis to
correlate brain activity with the intensity
of perceived features (color, faces, human body, language).)
New:
The
neural correlates of maternal and romantic love
by A. Bartels and S. Zeki
NeuroImage Vol. 21(3), p. 1155-1166
(2004).
Previous study:
The
neural correlates of romantic love
by A. Bartels and S. Zeki
NeuroReport Vol. 17(11), p. 3829-3834
(2000).
Press:
Selected
news articles:
Funny news article (from: The Age, Australia) -
Daily Telegraph, London -
The pathology of
love -
Forbes.com