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Pia Rotshtein is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions focused on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Their work also touches on related fields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, signal processing, as well as sociology and political science.

Their expertise covers a variety of main topics within neuroscience and psychology including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Among recent published papers connected with Pia Rotshtein's research involvement are:

  • Positive and negative parenting in conduct disorder with high versus low levels of callous-unemotional traits, 2020, published in Development and Psychopathology
  • The effect of intranasal insulin on appetite and mood in women with and without obesity: an experimental medicine study, 2022, published in International Journal of Obesity
  • Altered hippocampal functional connectivity patterns in patients with cognitive impairments following ischaemic stroke: A resting-state fMRI study, 2021, published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • Neural responses to intention and benefit appraisal are critical in distinguishing gratitude and joy, 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • The effects of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate on eating behaviour and homeostatic, reward and cognitive processes in women with binge-eating symptoms: an experimental medicine study, 2022, published in Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Maartje S. Spetter
  • Suzanne Higgs
  • Colin T. Dourish
  • Elizabeth M. Schneider
  • Elizabeth Martin

Pia Rotshtein has frequently published in the following venues, contributing multiple articles each:

  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive Computation
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness.

    Hugo D Critchley;Stefan Wiens;Pia Rotshtein;Arne Ohman

  • Morphing Marilyn into Maggie dissociates physical and identity face representations in the brain

    Pia Rotshtein;Richard N A Henson;Alessandro Treves;Jon Driver

  • Automatic guidance of attention from working memory.

    David Soto;John Hodsoll;Pia Rotshtein;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Neural Correlates of Processing Valence and Arousal in Affective Words

    P. A. Lewis;H. D. Critchley;P. Rotshtein;Raymond J. Dolan

  • A critique of functional localisers.

    Karl J. Friston;Pia Rotshtein;Joy J. Geng;Philipp Sterzer

  • Activity in the human brain predicting differential heart rate responses to emotional facial expressions.

    Hugo D. Critchley;Pia Rotshtein;Yoko Nagai;John P. O'Doherty

  • Pupillary contagion: central mechanisms engaged in sadness processing

    Neil A. Harrison;Tania Singer;Pia Rotshtein;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Sensing the invisible: differential sensitivity of visual cortex and amygdala to traumatic context

    Talma Hendler;Pia Rotshtein;Yaara Yeshurun;Tal Weizmann;Tal Weizmann

  • Coupling social attention to the self forms a network for personal significance

    Jie Sui;Pia Rotshtein;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Psychopathic traits are associated with reduced attention to the eyes of emotional faces among adult male non-offenders.

    Steven M. Gillespie;Pia Rotshtein;Laura J. Wells;Anthony R. Beech

  • Registered Reports: Realigning incentives in scientific publishing

    Christopher D. Chambers;Zoltan Dienes;Robert D. McIntosh;Pia Rotshtein

  • Dissociating the neural mechanisms of memory-based guidance of visual selection.

    David Soto;Glyn W. Humphreys;Pia Rotshtein

  • Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

    David Soto;María J. Funes;Azucena Guzmán-García;Tracy Warbrick

  • Feeling or Features: Different Sensitivity to Emotion in High-Order Visual Cortex and Amygdala

    Pia Rotshtein;Rafael Malach;Uri Hadar;Moshe Graif;Moshe Graif

  • Separating neural correlates of allocentric and egocentric neglect: Distinct cortical sites and common white matter disconnections

    Magdalena Chechlacz;Pia Rotshtein;Wai-Ling Bickerton;Peter C. Hansen

  • Identification of Emotional Facial Expressions: Effects of Expression, Intensity, and Sex on Eye Gaze

    Laura Jean Wells;Steven Mark Gillespie;Pia Rotshtein

  • Amygdala damage affects event‐related potentials for fearful faces at specific time windows

    Pia Rotshtein;Pia Rotshtein;Mark P. Richardson;Joel S. Winston;Stefan J. Kiebel;Stefan J. Kiebel

  • The role of the amygdala in signaling prospective outcome of choice.

    Itamar Kahn;Itamar Kahn;Yehezkel Yeshurun;Pia Rotshtein;Itzhak Fried;Itzhak Fried

  • Neuroanatomical Dissections of Unilateral Visual Neglect Symptoms: ALE Meta-Analysis of Lesion-Symptom Mapping.

    Magdalena Chechlacz;Pia Rotshtein;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Role of Features and Second-order Spatial Relations in Face Discrimination, Face Recognition, and Individual Face Skills: Behavioral and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

    Pia Rotshtein;Joy J. Geng;Jon Driver;Raymond J. Dolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Suzanne Higgs
Suzanne Higgs University of Birmingham
Jie Sui
Jie Sui University of Bath
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
David Soto
David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Joy J. Geng
Joy J. Geng University of California, Davis
Peter C. Hansen
Peter C. Hansen University of Birmingham
Anthony R. Beech
Anthony R. Beech University of Birmingham
Kaiping Peng
Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University
Christine M. Freitag
Christine M. Freitag Goethe University Frankfurt

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