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Marcel Brass

Principal Investigator

Psychology

HU Berlin

 

Email:
marcel.brass@hu-berlin.de

 

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Marcel Brass

Marcel Brass

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Marcel Brass is a cognitive and social neuroscientist who is interested in motor and cognitive control. He investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social cognition, cognitive flexibility and human volition. He is best known for his behavioral and brain imaging research on imitation, task switching and intentional control of action. Within SCIoI, he will primarily investigate social intelligence.


Projects

Marcel Brass is member of Project 42, Project 59.


Tavernier, N., Wisniewski, D., & Brass, M. (2023). Manipulating free will beliefs using online video games. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01815-x
Wisniewski, D., Cracco, E., Gonzalez-Garcia, C., & Brass, M. (2022). Relating free will beliefs and attitudes. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202018
Formica, S., Gonzalez-Garcia, C., Senoussi, M., Marinazzo, D., & Brass, M. (2022). Theta-phase connectivity between medial prefrontal and posterior areas underlies novel instructions implementation. ENeuro, 9. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0225-22.2022
Goris, J., Braem, S., Herck, S. V., Simoens, J., Deschrijver, E., Wiersema, J. R., Paton, B., Brass, M., & Todd, J. (2022). Reduced primacy bias in autism during early sensory processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(42). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3088-20.2022
Cracco, E., Bernardet, U., Sevenhant, R., Copman, N. V. F., Durnez, W., Bombeke, K., & Brass, M. (2022). Evidence for a two-step model of social group influence. IScience, 9(25), 104891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891
Krause, J., Romanczuk, P., Cracco, E., Arlidge, W., Nassauer, A., & Brass, M. (2021). Collective rule-breaking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.003

Research

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