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Overview

Katrin Amunts is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions across subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biophysics, and neurology.

Their scientific output includes studies on various topics, such as functional brain connectivity, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, advanced MRI techniques, and cell image analysis techniques.

Notable recent publications by Katrin Amunts include:

  • Julich-Brain: A 3D probabilistic atlas of the human brain's cytoarchitecture, 2020, Science

Amunts frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of the most frequent co-authors are:

  • Markus Axer
  • Timo Dickscheid
  • Svenja Caspers
  • Nicola Palomero-Gallagher
  • Sebastian Bludau

The scientist's publications appear often in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • NeuroImage
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Amunts has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

  • Brain-Inspired Computing, 2021

Best Publications

  • A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Klaas E. Stephan;Hartmut Mohlberg;Christian Grefkes

  • A probabilistic atlas and reference system for the human brain: International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM)

    J. Mazziotta;A. Toga;A. Evans;P. Fox

  • Broca's region revisited: cytoarchitecture and intersubject variability.

    Katrin Amunts;Axel Schleicher;Uli Bürgel;Hartmut Mohlberg

  • Cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human amygdala, hippocampal region and entorhinal cortex: intersubject variability and probability maps

    K. Amunts;O. Kedo;M. Kindler;P. Pieperhoff

  • Assignment of functional activations to probabilistic cytoarchitectonic areas revisited

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Tomas Paus;Tomas Paus;Svenja Caspers;Marie-Helene Grosbras;Marie-Helene Grosbras

  • BigBrain: An Ultrahigh-Resolution 3D Human Brain Model

    Katrin Amunts;Claude Lepage;Louis Borgeat;Hartmut Mohlberg

  • Human primary auditory cortex: cytoarchitectonic subdivisions and mapping into a spatial reference system.

    P. Morosan;J. Rademacher;A. Schleicher;K. Amunts

  • Cortical Folding Patterns and Predicting Cytoarchitecture

    Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl;Niranjini Rajendran;Evelina Busa;Jean Augustinack

  • Brodmann's Areas 17 and 18 Brought into Stereotaxic Space—Where and How Variable?

    Katrin Amunts;Aleksandar Malikovic;Hartmut Mohlberg;Thorsten Schormann

  • Testing anatomically specified hypotheses in functional imaging using cytoarchitectonic maps.

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Stefan Heim;Karl Zilles;Katrin Amunts;Katrin Amunts

  • Centenary of Brodmann's map--conception and fate.

    Karl Zilles;Katrin Amunts

  • The human inferior parietal cortex: Cytoarchitectonic parcellation and interindividual variability

    Svenja Caspers;Stefan Geyer;Axel Schleicher;Hartmut Mohlberg

  • Behavior, sensitivity, and power of activation likelihood estimation characterized by massive empirical simulation.

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Thomas E. Nichols;Angela R. Laird;Felix Hoffstaedter

  • Asymmetry in the human motor cortex and handedness.

    Katrin Amunts;Gottfried Schlaug;Axel Schleicher;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Human brain white matter atlas: Identification and assignment of common anatomical structures in superficial white matter

    Kenichi Oishi;Karl Zilles;Katrin Amunts;Andreia Faria

  • Development of cortical folding during evolution and ontogeny

    Karl Zilles;Nicola Palomero-Gallagher;Katrin Amunts;Katrin Amunts

  • Motor cortex and hand motor skills: structural compliance in the human brain.

    Katrin Amunts;Gottfried Schlaug;Lutz Jäncke;Helmuth Steinmetz

  • Architectonic Mapping of the Human Brain beyond Brodmann.

    Katrin Amunts;Katrin Amunts;Karl Zilles;Karl Zilles

  • Broca's region subserves imagery of motion: a combined cytoarchitectonic and fMRI study.

    Ferdinand Binkofski;Katrin Amunts;Klaus Martin Stephan;Stefan Posse

  • Julich-Brain: A 3D probabilistic atlas of the human brain’s cytoarchitecture

    Katrin Amunts;Katrin Amunts;Hartmut Mohlberg;Sebastian Bludau;Karl Zilles

  • Cortical Folding Patterns and Predicting Cytoarchitecture

    B. Fischl;N. Rajendran;E. Busa;J. Augustinack

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Svenja Caspers
Svenja Caspers Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Hartmut Mohlberg
Hartmut Mohlberg Forschungszentrum Jülich
Axel Schleicher
Axel Schleicher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Peter T. Fox
Peter T. Fox The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Susanne Moebus
Susanne Moebus University of Duisburg-Essen

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