Claus Lamm
| Claus Lamm | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1973 Lustenau, Austria |
| Residence | Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Fields | Social neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Vienna (professor, group leader), Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member) |
| Notable awards | Elisabeth Lutz Preis of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.,[1] Top Student Award 1997 (Foerderpreis des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung) |
Claus Lamm (born in 1973 in Lustenau, Austria) is Professor of Biological Psychology and the head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the psychological and biological mechanisms underlying social cognition, affect, and behavior.[2] His main research focus are the neural underpinnings of empathy, to whose understanding he has made pioneering contributions.[3]
Academic career and achievements
Claus Lamm did his Diploma and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Vienna. He then joined the lab of Jean Decety, first at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Bron, France (2005), and then at the University of Chicago (2006-2008). He then joined Tania Singer’s group at the Laboratory of Social and Neural Systems Research (founded by Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich). In 2010, he moved back to the University of Vienna as a Professor of Biological Psychology. He is the director and founder of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit,[2] and currently also the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Psychology. He is also one of the two directors of a Multimodal Neuroimaging research cluster,[4] and board member of the Cognitive Science Research Platform.[5] In 2014, he was elected to become a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and he received the Elisabeth Lutz Price by the same institution in recognition for his work on the biological and neural bases of social behavior.[1] His research examines human social behavior using an interdisciplinary multi-level approach. He combines behavioral and experimental psychology with methods from neuroimaging, electroencephalography, transcranial brain stimulation, psychopharmacology and psychoneuroendocrinology. He also actively collaborates with clinical investigators [4] and with cognitive biologists.[6] In several papers published in journals such as Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, and NeuroImage, he and his collaborators showed that empathy is a complex construct for which two main components are important: shared affective representations, and self-other distinction.[7][8] More recently, he could show using the phenomenon of placebo analgesia that empathy for pain is grounded in self-experienced pain [9]
Selected works
- Rütgen, M., Seidel, E.M., Riecansky, I., Lamm, C. (2015). Reduction of empathy for pain by placebo analgesia suggests functional equivalence of empathy and first-hand emotion experience. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(23): 8938-8947. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3936-14.2015
- Lamm C. & Majdandžić Y. (2015). The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy – A critical comment. Neuroscience Research, 90, 15-24. doi:10.1016/j.neures.2014.10.008
- Tomova, L., von Dawans, B., Heinrichs, M., Silani, G., Lamm, C. (2014). Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 43, 95—104. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.02.006
- Lamm, C., Decety, J., & Singer, T. (2011). Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain. NeuroImage, 54(3), 2492-2502. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.014
- Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. The Neuroscientist, 13(6), 580-593. doi:10.1177/1073858407304654
- Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: Effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(1), 42-58. doi:10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.42
- Singer, T.*, & Lamm, C.* (2009). The social neuroscience of empathy. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1156, 81-96.(review) doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04418.x
References
- 1 2 http://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/de/claus-lamm-2014
- 1 2 https://biol-psy.univie.ac.at/
- ↑ Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: Effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(1), 42-58. doi:10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.42
- 1 2 http://forschungscluster.meduniwien.ac.at/mmi-cns/
- ↑ http://cognitivescience.univie.ac.at
- ↑ http://www.wwtf.at/projects/research_projects/details/index.php?PKEY=2106_DE_O
- ↑ Lamm C. & Majdandžić Y. (2015). The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy – A critical comment. Neuroscience Research, 90, 15-24. doi:10.1016/j.neures.2014.10.008
- ↑ Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. The Neuroscientist, 13(6), 580-593. doi:10.1177/1073858407304654
- ↑ Rütgen, M., Seidel, E.M., Riecansky, I., Lamm, C. (2015). Reduction of empathy for pain by placebo analgesia suggests functional equivalence of empathy and first-hand emotion experience. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(23): 8938-8947. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3936-14.2015
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