Bruno Averbeck

Ph.D. 2001

Thesis Title:

Neural Activity Related to the Copying of Geometrical Shapes

Current Position:

Principal Investigator, National Institute of Health

Major Advisor:

Apostolos Georgopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.

Selected Publications:

  • Caminiti R, Chafee MV, Battaglia-Mayer A, Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Understanding the parietal lobe syndrome from a neurophysiological and evolutionary perspective. Eur J Neurosci. 2010;31(12):2320-40.
  • Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Differential contribution of superior parietal and dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortices in copying. Cortex. 2009;45(3):432-41.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Dynamics of parietal neural activity during spatial cognitive processing. Neuron. 2005;47(6):885-91.
  • Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Georgopoulos AP. Neural correlates of spatial judgement during object construction in parietal cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2005;15(9):1393-413.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Parietal representation of hand velocity in a copy task. J Neurophysiol. 2005;93(1):508-18.
  • Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Georgopoulos AP. Participation of primary motor cortical neurons in a distributed network during maze solution: representation of spatial parameters and time-course comparison with parietal area 7a. Exp Brain Res. 2004;158(1):28-34.
  • Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Chafee MV, Georgopoulos AP. Neural activity in prefrontal cortex during copying geometrical shapes. II. Decoding shape segments from neural ensembles. Exp Brain Res. 2003;150(2):142-53.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Neural activity in prefrontal cortex during copying geometrical shapes. I. Single cells encode shape, sequence, and metric parameters. Exp Brain Res. 2003;150(2):127-41.
  • Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Parallel processing of serial movements in prefrontal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002;99(20):13172-7.
  • Chafee MV, Averbeck BB, Crowe DA, Georgopoulos AP. Impact of path parameters on maze solution time. Arch Ital Biol. 2002;140(3):247-51.
  • Crowe DA, Averbeck BB, Chafee MV, Anderson JH, Georgopoulos AP.  Mental maze solving. J Cogn Neurosci. 2000 Sep;12(5):813-27.
Bruno Averbeck