Research Interest

• Systems Physiology, Cognitive Neurology
• Action Control, Perception
• Value Judgments and Decision Making
• Stroke Therapy
• Post-lesional Plasticity
• Epilepsy

Specific Projects

• Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS); AAL-Project
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Syndrom; DFG
• Hypnose and Motor Imagery in Rehabilitation

Selected Publications

1. Binkofski F, Amunts K, Stephan KM, Posse S, Schormann T, Freund HJ, Zilles K, Seitz RJ (2000) Broca's region subserves imagery of motion: a combined cytoarchitectonic and fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 11: 273-285 PubMed

2. Duncan J, Seitz RJ, Kolodny J, Bor D, Herzog H, Ahmed A, Newell F, Emslie H (2000) A neural basis for general intelligence. Science 289: 457-460 PubMed

3. Bütefisch CM, Netz J, Wessling M, Seitz RJ, Hömberg V (2003) Remote changes in cortical excitability after stroke. Brain 126: 470-481 PubMed

4. Binkofski F, Seitz RJ (2004) Modulation of the BOLD-response in early recovery from sensorimotor stroke. Neurology 63: 1223-1229  PubMed

5. Kleiser R, Seitz RJ, B Krekelberg (2004) Neural correlates of saccadic suppression in humans. Curr Biol 14: 386-390 PubMed

6. Stoeckel MC, Weder B, Binkofski F, Choi HJ, Amunts K, Pieperhoff P, Shah NJ, Seitz RJ (2004) Left and right superior parietal lobule in tactile object discrimination. Eur J Neurosci 19: 1067-1072 PubMed

7. Seitz RJ, Meisel S, Weller P, Junghans U, Wittsack H-J, Siebler M (2005) Initial ischemic event: PWI and ADC for stroke evolution. Radiology 237: 1020-1028 PubMed

8. 8. Seitz RJ, Scherfeld D, Friederichs S, Popp K, Wittsack H-J, Azari NP, Franz M (2008) Valuating other people's emotional face expression: A combined fMRI and EEG study. Neuroscience 152: 713-722 PubMed

9. Stoeckel MC, Seitz RJ, Buetefisch C (2009) Congenitally altered motor experience alters somatotopic organization of human primary motor cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 2395-2400 PubMed

10. Lindenberg R, Uhlig M, Scherfeld D, Schlaug G, Seitz RJ (2012) Communication with emblematic gestures: Shared and distinct neural correlates of expression and reception. Human Brain Mapp, 33(4):812-23 PubMed