Niklas Leitner

I am a PhD student in the field of Cognitive Science and Psychology, interested in the neural correlates of emotion recognition in humans, how emotions emerge, how they affect cognition, and what role they play in the models we form about the world. Furthermore, I am highly interested in methodological aspects of fMRI and how single-subject study designs can be used to investigate interindividual differences. In the past, I have worked with unsupervised clustering algorithms and how they can be applied to derive parcellations of the human amygdala. Another project I worked on explored how genetic data, in combination with fMRI data, can be used to investigate at which evolutionary steps different functional networks in humans may have developed.