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Dr Emily S. Cross

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Dr Emily S. Cross
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stephanstraße 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
+49 341 9940 - 2671
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Education
09/97 - 05/01
BA in Psychology & Dance - Pomona College, California, USA
01/02 - 12/03
MSc in Cognitive Psychology - University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
09/03 - 02/08
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience - Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA

Awards
2009 Cross, E. S. (2009). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.
2009 Cross, E. S. (2009). European Science Foundation Short Term Scientific Mission. University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Conferences
2009 Bläsing, B., & Cross, E. S. (2009, June). So you think you can dance? The influence of dance training on movement production and perception. Symposium. 12th World Congress of Sport Psychology, International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP), Marrakesh, Morocco.
2009 Cross, E. S., Parkinson, J., Stadler, W., & Prinz, W. (2009, December). 3. L.E.C.A. - Leipzig Encounters in Cognition and Action. Symposium. Perceiving Bodies in Action: From Low to High Level Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Memberships
Description
Society: Society for Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Publications
  • Cross, E. S. (in press). Building a dance in the human brain: Insights from expert and novice dancers. In B. Bläsing, M. Puttke, & T. Schack (Eds.), The Neurocognition of Dance. London: Psychology Press.
  • Cross, E. S., Mackie, E. C., Wolford, G., & Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (in press). Contorted and ordinary body postures in the human brain. Experimental Brain Research.
  • Cohen, N. R., Cross, E. S., Tunik, E., Grafton, S. T., & Culham, J. C. (2009). Ventral and dorsal stream contributions to the online control of immediate and delayed grasping: A TMS approach. Neuropsychologia, 47(6), 1553-1562.
  • Cross, E. S., Kraemer, D. J. M., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Kelley, W. M., & Grafton, S. T. (2009). Sensitivity of the action observation network to physical and observational learning. Cerebral Cortex, 19(2), 315-326.
  • Cohen, N. R., Cross, E. S., Wymbs, N. F., & Grafton, S. T. (2009). Transient disruption of M1 during response planning impairs subsequent offline consolidation. Experimental Brain Research, 196(2), 303-309.
  • Cross, E. S., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Kraemer, D. J. M., Kelley, W. M., & Grafton, S. T. (2009). Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30(7), 1383-1392.
  • Grafton, S. T., & Cross, E. S. (2008). Dance and the brain. In C. Asbury & B. Rich (Eds.), Learning, arts and the brain: The Dana Consortium Report on arts and cognition (pp. 61-68). New York: Dana Press.
  • Cross, E. S., Schmitt, P. S., & Grafton, S. T. (2007). Neural substrates of contextual interference during motor learning support a model of active preparation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(11), 1854-1871.
  • Rice, N. J., Tunik, E., Cross, E. S., & Grafton, S. T. (2007). Grasping is mediated by the contralateral hemisphere, independent of hand. Brain Research, 1175C, 76-84.
  • Cross, E. S., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., & Grafton, S. T. (2006). Building a motor simulation de novo: Observation of dance by dancers. Neuroimage, 31(3), 1257-1267.
  • Cross, E. S., & Burke, D. M. (2004). Do alternative names block young and older adults retrieval of proper names? Brain and Language, 89(1), 174-181.
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