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matthias.schurz@psy.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 271444


https://sites.google.com/site/matthiasschurz/

Matthias Schurz

Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellow

I am currently working as an Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology (sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund), using functional and structural MRI to study human social cognition and Theory of Mind. Currently, my main interest lies in understanding how fMRI activity for different mentalizing tasks is related to structural brain connectivity.

Before that, I did a PhD and my first Post-Doc at the University of Salzburg, Austria. During my Post-Doc work under the supervision of Josef Perner, I specialized on the neurocognitive basis of human Theory of Mind by using brain imaging methods, with a focus on functional MRI.

For my current project I am working in the lab of Jerome Sallet, and I am collaborating with Rogier Mars. For more details, CV and full publication list please visit my personal homepage.

Key publications

Measuring visual perspective taking in the brain with avatars and arrows: Which question are we asking?

Journal article

Schurz M. et al, (2018), NeuroImage, 181, 814 - 817

Abnormal Brain Activation During Theory of Mind Tasks in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis

Journal article

Kronbichler L. et al, (2017), Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 1240 - 1250

Specifying the brain anatomy underlying temporo-parietal junction activations for theory of mind: A review using probabilistic atlases from different imaging modalities

Journal article

Schurz M. et al, (2017), Human Brain Mapping, 38, 4788 - 4805

The rTPJ’s overarching cognitive function in networks for attention and theory of mind

Journal article

Schuwerk T. et al, (2017), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 157 - 168

An evaluation of neurocognitive models of theory of mind

Journal article

Schurz M. and Perner J., (2015), Frontiers in Psychology, 6

Clarifying the role of theory of mind areas during visual perspective taking: Issues of spontaneity and domain-specificity

Journal article

Schurz M. et al, (2015), NeuroImage, 117, 386 - 396

Fractionating theory of mind: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies

Journal article

Schurz M. et al, (2014), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 42, 9 - 34

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