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Overview

Marina Pavlova is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and clinical psychology. The scientist's work spans various subfields including information systems and education.

Their scholarly output covers several main topics, notably:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Frequent publication venues for Marina Pavlova include:

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Schizophrenia
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Mir universitetskoj nauki: kulʹtura, obrazovanie/ʟThe ʟworld of academia: culture & education
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist's recent papers illustrate an ongoing engagement with both the perception and emotional aspects of social cognition. Selected recent works are:

  • "Reading Covered Faces," 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Reading language of the eyes," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Brain circuits signaling the absence of emotion in body language," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Face pareidolia in schizophrenia," 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • "Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation," 2020, PLoS ONE

Marina Pavlova collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Andreas J. Fallgatter
  • Alexander N. Sokolov
  • Valentina Romagnano
  • Julian Kubon
  • Arseny A. Sokolov

Best Publications

  • Consensus Paper: The Role of the Cerebellum in Perceptual Processes

    Oliver Baumann;Ronald J. Borra;Ronald J. Borra;James M. Bower;Kathleen E. Cullen

  • Biological Motion Processing as a Hallmark of Social Cognition

    Marina Anatolievna Pavlova

  • Orientation specificity in biological motion perception.

    Marina Pavlova;Marina Pavlova;Alexander Sokolov;Alexander Sokolov

  • Recognition of point-light biological motion displays by young children.

    Marina Pavlova;Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann;Alexander Sokolov;Niels Birbaumer;Niels Birbaumer

  • Chocolate and the brain: neurobiological impact of cocoa flavanols on cognition and behavior.

    Alexander N. Sokolov;Marina A. Pavlova;Sibylle Klosterhalfen;Paul Enck

  • Structural Loop Between the Cerebellum and the Superior Temporal Sulcus: Evidence from Diffusion Tensor Imaging

    Arseny A. Sokolov;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd;Marina A. Pavlova

  • Dissociable Cortical Processing of Recognizable and Non-recognizable Biological Movement: Analysing Gamma MEG Activity

    Marina Pavlova;Werner Lutzenberger;Alexander Sokolov;Niels Birbaumer

  • Biological motion processing: The left cerebellum communicates with the right superior temporal sulcus

    Arseny A. Sokolov;Michael Erb;Alireza Gharabaghi;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Perception and production of biological movement in patients with early periventricular brain lesions

    Marina Pavlova;Martin Staudt;Alexander Sokolov;Niels Birbaumer

  • Limitations on the developing preterm brain: impact of periventricular white matter lesions on brain connectivity and cognition.

    Marina A. Pavlova;Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann

  • Attentional Modulation of Cortical Neuromagnetic Gamma Response to Biological Movement

    Marina Pavlova;Niels Birbaumer;Alexander Sokolov

  • Cerebellar Engagement in an Action Observation Network

    Arseny A. Sokolov;Alireza Gharabaghi;Marcos S. Tatagiba;Marina Pavlova;Marina Pavlova

  • Preference for point-light human biological motion in newborns: contribution of translational displacement.

    Christel Bidet-Ildei;Elenitsa Kitromilides;Jean-Pierre Orliaguet;Marina Pavlova

  • Gender affects body language reading

    Arseny A. Sokolov;Samuel Krüger;Paul Enck;Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann

  • Biological motion processing in adolescents with early periventricular brain damage

    Marina Pavlova;Alexander Sokolov;Niels Birbaumer;Niels Birbaumer;Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann

  • Sex and gender affect the social brain: Beyond simplicity.

    Marina A. Pavlova

  • Gamma-band MEG activity to coherent motion depends on task-driven attention.

    Alexander Sokolov;Werner Lutzenberger;Marina Pavlova;Hubert Preissl

  • Biological motion shown backwards: the apparent-facing effect.

    Marina Pavlova;Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann;Niels Birbaumer;Alexander Sokolov;Alexander Sokolov

  • Reciprocal modulation of neuromagnetic induced gamma activity by attention in the human visual and auditory cortex.

    Alexander N. Sokolov;Marina Pavlova;Werner Lutzenberger;Niels Birbaumer;Niels Birbaumer

  • Reading Covered Faces.

    Marina A Pavlova;Arseny A Sokolov

  • Prior knowledge about display inversion in biological motion perception.

    Marina Pavlova;Alexander Sokolov

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Frank E. Pollick
Frank E. Pollick University of Glasgow
Thomas Dresler
Thomas Dresler University of Tübingen
Francisco Esteves
Francisco Esteves Catholic University of Portugal
Meng-Chuan Lai
Meng-Chuan Lai Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Edouard Gentaz
Edouard Gentaz University of Geneva
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Maria Leggio
Maria Leggio Sapienza University of Rome

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