Dr Stefan Bode
Qualification
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat., Psychology), Dipl.-Psych.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Decision Neuroscience Laboratory
Contact details:
| email: sbode AT unimelb.edu.au |
Research Interests:
I work as a postdoctoral research fellow at Psychological Sciences and I am interested in the neural basis of human decision-making. One way to look at humans is to say that they are decision-making agents, permanently reacting on stimulation from the environment or from their own somatic and cognitive systems. Investigating different decision processes along the reaction chain from stimuli to responses is one of the most fascinating tasks with which one could possibly be faced. I use a variety of methods from Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, e.g. transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to investigate perceptual decision-making, guessing, reward-based decisions, free decisions, attention and cognitive control. Recently, I applied multivariate pattern classification analyses (MVPA) to fMRI and EEG data in order to directly predict decision outcomes from brain signals.
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- Member of Association for Psychological Science
- Associate of Melbourne Neuroscience Institutes
- Member of Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
- Member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Reviewing Activity:
- Human Brain Mapping
- NeuroImage
- PLoS ONE
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The Journal of Neuroscience.
Selected Publications: |
Murawski, C., Harris, P.G., Bode, S., Dominguez D, J.F. & Egan, G.F. (2012). Led into temptation? Rewarding brand logos bias the neural encoding of incidental economic decisions. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e34155.
Heinzle, J., Anders, S., Bode, S., Bogler, C., Chen, Y., Cichy, R.M., Hackmack, K., Kahnt, T., Kalberlah, C., Reverberi, C., Soon, S.C., Tusche, A., Weygandt, M. & Haynes, J.D. (2012). Multivariate decoding of fMRI data – Towards a content-based cognitive neuroscience. e-Neuroforum, 3(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s13295-012-0026-9.
Bode, S., Bogler, C., Soon, C.S. & Haynes, J.D. (2012). The neural encoding of guesses in the human brain. Neuroimage, 59(2), 1924-1931.
Bogler, C., Bode, S. & Haynes, J.D. (2011). Decoding successive computational stages of saliency processing. Current Biology. 21(19), 1667-1671.
Bode, S., He, A.H., Soon, C.S., Trampel, R., Turner, R. & Haynes, J.D. (2011). Tracking the unconscious generation of free decisions using ultra-high field fMRI. PLos ONE, 6(6): e21612.
Müller, A.D., Bode, S., Myer, L., Stahl, J. & von Steinbüchel, N. (2011). Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral treatment and therapeutic success among children in South Africa.AIDS Care, 23(2), 129-138.
Bode, S. (2010). From stimuli to motor responses: Decoding rules and decision mechanisms in the human brain. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 123 (MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).
Tusche, A., Bode, S. & Haynes, J.D. (2010). Neural responses to unattended products predict later consumer choices. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(23), 8024-8031.
Bode, S. & Haynes, J.D. (2009). Decoding sequential stages of task preparation in the human brain. Neuroimage, 45(2), 606-613.
Müller, A.D., Bode, S., Myer, L., Roux, P. & von Steinbüchel, N. (2008). Electronic measurement of adherence to paediatric antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. The Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 27(3), 257-262.
Bode, S., Koeneke, S. & Jäncke, L. (2007). Different strategies do not moderate primary motor cortex involvement in mental rotation: a TMS study. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3:38.