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Morten L. Kringelbach

Morten L. Kringelbach

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Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
40702
World Ranking
1053
National Ranking
118

Overview

Morten L. Kringelbach is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research lies predominantly within neuroscience, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience and related subfields.

Their work frequently appears in high-impact journals and venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cerebral Cortex, Communications Biology, NeuroImage, and PLoS Computational Biology.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Morten L. Kringelbach are:

  • Music in the brain, 2022, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • Dynamic coupling of whole-brain neuronal and neurotransmitter systems, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Brain States and Transitions: Insights from Computational Neuroscience, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Dynamical consequences of regional heterogeneity in the brain's transcriptional landscape, 2021, Science Advances
  • Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Psychedelics and drug studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Mental health research topics

Subfields within their area of study include cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Morten L. Kringelbach collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Gustavo Deco, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Peter Vuust, Enzo Tagliazucchi, and Leonardo Bonetti. These collaborations represent a significant portion of their scholarly output and contribute to multidisciplinary approaches in neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The human orbitofrontal cortex: linking reward to hedonic experience.

    Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Abstract reward and punishment representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex.

    J. O'Doherty;M. L. Kringelbach;M. L. Kringelbach;E. T. Rolls;J. Hornak

  • The functional neuroanatomy of the human orbitofrontal cortex: evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology

    Morten L Kringelbach;Edmund T Rolls

  • Pleasure Systems in the Brain

    Kent C. Berridge;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals.

    Kent C. Berridge;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Activation of the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex to a Liquid Food Stimulus is Correlated with its Subjective Pleasantness

    M.L. Kringelbach;J. O’Doherty;E.T. Rolls;C. Andrews

  • Translational principles of deep brain stimulation

    Morten L Kringelbach;Morten L Kringelbach;Ned Jenkinson;Ned Jenkinson;Sarah L F Owen;Tipu Z Aziz;Tipu Z Aziz

  • Different representations of pleasant and unpleasant odours in the human brain.

    Edmund T Rolls;Morten L Kringelbach;Morten L Kringelbach;Ivan E T de Araujo;Ivan E T de Araujo

  • Taste-olfactory convergence, and the representation of the pleasantness of flavour, in the human brain

    Ivan E T de Araujo;Edmund T Rolls;Morten L Kringelbach;Morten L Kringelbach;Francis McGlone

  • Representations of Pleasant and Painful Touch in the Human Orbitofrontal and Cingulate Cortices

    E.T. Rolls;J. O’Doherty;M.L. Kringelbach;S. Francis

  • Rethinking segregation and integration: contributions of whole-brain modelling.

    Gustavo Deco;Giulio Tononi;Melanie Boly;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Towards a functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness.

    Morten L. Kringelbach;Kent C. Berridge

  • Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure.

    Kent C Berridge;Morten L Kringelbach;Morten L Kringelbach

  • The dynamics of resting fluctuations in the brain: metastability and its dynamical cortical core

    Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Viktor K. Jirsa;Petra Ritter

  • Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music

    Maria A. G. Witek;Eric F. Clarke;Mikkel Wallentin;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Postnatal depression and its effects on child development: a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries

    Christine E Parsons;Katherine S Young;Tamsen J Rochat;Morten L Kringelbach

  • Great expectations: using whole-brain computational connectomics for understanding neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • MEG: An introduction to methods.

    Peter C. Hansen;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Riitta Salmelin

  • Exploring the network dynamics underlying brain activity during rest.

    Joana R. B. Cabral;Joana R. B. Cabral;Morten L. Kringelbach;Gustavo Deco

  • Cognitive performance in healthy older adults relates to spontaneous switching between states of functional connectivity during rest

    Joana Cabral;Joana Cabral;Diego Vidaurre;Paulo César Gonçalves Marques;Ricardo José Silva Magalhães

  • Human Cortical Responses to Water in the Mouth, and the Effects of Thirst

    Ivan E.T. de Araujo;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Edmund T. Rolls;Francis McGlone

  • Neural correlates of rapid reversal learning in a simple model of human social interaction

    Morten L Kringelbach;Edmund T Rolls

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustavo Deco
Gustavo Deco Pompeu Fabra University
Peter Vuust
Peter Vuust Royal Academy of Music
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Alexander L. Green
Alexander L. Green University of Oxford
Helmut Laufs
Helmut Laufs Kiel University
Enzo Tagliazucchi
Enzo Tagliazucchi University of Buenos Aires
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Mark W. Woolrich
Mark W. Woolrich University of Oxford
Kent C. Berridge
Kent C. Berridge University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John F. Stein
John F. Stein University of Oxford

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