Dorit Kliemann
Research Interests
Neural basis of social cognition; Compensation and reorganization; Social information processing; Amygdala; Functional connectivity; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Brain lesions; Human neuroimaging (fMRI); Brain-cognition-behavior relations.
Training Areas
Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Group
Representative Publications
Kliemann, D., Adolphs, R., Tyszka, J. M., Fischl, B., Yeo, B.T.T., Nair, R., Dubois, J., Paul, L. K. (2019). Intrinsic functional connectivity of the brain in adults with a single cerebral hemisphere. Cell reports, 29(8), 2398-2407.
Kliemann, D., & Adolphs, R. (2018). The social neuroscience of mentalizing: challenges and recommendations. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Kliemann, D., Richardson, H., Anzellotti, S., Ayyash, D., Haskins, A. J., Gabrieli, J. D., & Saxe, R. R. (2018). Cortical responses to dynamic emotional facial expressions generalize across stimuli, and are sensitive to task-relevance, in adults with and without Autism. Cortex, 103, 24-43.
Saygin, Z. M.*, Kliemann, D.*, Iglesias, J. E., van der Kouwe, A. J. W., Boyd, E., Reuter, M., Stevens, A., Van Leemput, K., McKee, A., Frosch, M. P., Fischl, B., Augustinack, J. C . (2017). High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas. NeuroImage, 155: 370-382. (* authors contributed equally to this work)
Kliemann, D., Dziobek, I., Hatri, A., Baudewig, J., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). The role of the amygdala in atypical gaze on emotional faces in autism spectrum disorders. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(28), 9469-9476.
- Brain Imaging
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Emotion
- Neural Plasticity
- Social Cognition