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Leonhard Schilbach is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a notable focus on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology as key subfields. The academic work also covers social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Schilbach's main topics of research include autism spectrum disorder studies, functional brain connectivity, and mental health topics. Additional research areas involve neural and behavioral psychology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and action observation and synchronization.

The scholar has contributed to various publication venues multiple times. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Autism
  • Scientific Reports

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Leonhard Schilbach include:

  • "10,000 social brains: Sex differentiation in human brain anatomy," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Aberrant computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making in schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder," 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Interpersonal similarity of autistic traits predicts friendship quality," 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Atypical processing of uncertainty in individuals at risk for psychosis," 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Unobtrusive tracking of interpersonal orienting and distance predicts the subjective quality of social interactions," 2020, Royal Society Open Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schilbach are:

  • Daniel Kamp
  • Juha M. Lahnakoski
  • Marie-Luise Brandi
  • Lara Henco
  • Laura Albantakis

Best Publications

  • Toward a second-person neuroscience.

    Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

  • Minds at rest? Social cognition as the default mode of cognizing and its putative relationship to the ''default system" of the brain

    Leo Schilbach;Simon B. Eickhoff;Anna Rotarska-Jagiela;Gereon R. Fink

  • Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction

    Elizabeth Redcay;Leonhard Schilbach

  • Parsing the neural correlates of moral cognition: ALE meta-analysis on morality, theory of mind, and empathy.

    Danilo Bzdok;Leonhard Schilbach;Kai Vogeley;Karla Schneider

  • Being with virtual others: Neural correlates of social interaction.

    Leonhard Schilbach;Afra M. Wohlschlaeger;Nicole C. Kraemer;Albert Newen

  • Minds made for sharing: Initiating joint attention recruits reward-related neurocircuitry

    Leonhard Schilbach;Marcus Wilms;Simon B. Eickhoff;Sandro Romanzetti

  • Characterization of the temporo-parietal junction by combining data-driven parcellation, complementary connectivity analyses, and functional decoding

    Danilo Bzdok;Robert Langner;Leonhard Schilbach;Oliver Jakobs

  • Towards a second-person neuropsychiatry.

    Leonhard Schilbach

  • From gaze cueing to dual eye-tracking: Novel approaches to investigate the neural correlates of gaze in social interaction

    Ulrich J. Pfeiffer;Kai Vogeley;Leonhard Schilbach

  • Introspective Minds: Using ALE Meta-Analyses to Study Commonalities in the Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing, Social & Unconstrained Cognition

    Leonhard Schilbach;Danilo Bzdok;Bert Timmermans;Peter T. Fox

  • Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity.

    Dimitris Bolis;Joshua Balsters;Nicole Wenderoth;Cristina Becchio

  • Definition and characterization of an extended social-affective default network

    Maren Amft;Danilo Bzdok;Angela R. Laird;Angela R. Laird;Peter T. Fox;Peter T. Fox

  • Segregation of the human medial prefrontal cortex in social cognition.

    Danilo Bzdok;Robert Langner;Leonhard Schilbach;Denis A. Engemann

  • It’s in your eyes—using gaze-contingent stimuli to create truly interactive paradigms for social cognitive and affective neuroscience

    Marcus Wilms;Leonhard Schilbach;Ulrich Pfeiffer;Gary Bente

  • Eye to eye, face to face and brain to brain: novel approaches to study the behavioral dynamics and neural mechanisms of social interactions

    Leonhard Schilbach

  • Why we interact: On the functional role of the striatum in the subjective experience of social interaction

    Ulrich J. Pfeiffer;Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Bojana Kuzmanovic

  • What's in a smile? Neural correlates of facial embodiment during social interaction.

    Leonhard Schilbach;Simon B. Eickhoff;Andreas Mojzisch;Kai Vogeley

  • A second-person approach to other minds

    Leonhard Schilbach

  • Interpersonal predictive coding, not action perception, is impaired in autism.

    T. von der Lühe;V. Manera;I. Barisic;C. Becchio;C. Becchio

  • Higher order thoughts in action: consciousness as an unconscious re-description process.

    Bert Timmermans;Leonhard Schilbach;Antoine Pasquali;Axel Cleeremans

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Vogeley
Kai Vogeley University of Cologne
Gary Bente
Gary Bente Michigan State University
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Katrin H. Preller
Katrin H. Preller University of Zurich
Boris B. Quednow
Boris B. Quednow University of Zurich
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Kerstin Konrad
Kerstin Konrad RWTH Aachen University
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Franz X. Vollenweider
Franz X. Vollenweider University of Zurich

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