Kagan, Igor, Dr.

Group Leader, Decision and Awareness Group, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center

• 2011 - present: Group Leader, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
• 2009-2010: Senior Research Fellow, Andersen Lab, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
• 2003-2008: Postdoctoral Scholar, Andersen Lab, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
• 2003: Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and Schepens Eye Research
  Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
• 1996: B.Sc. Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• 1989-1991: Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State Technical University, Russia

Major Research Interests
Neurophysiology and functional imaging of decision-making, cognitive and visuomotor functions in primates, interhemispheric interactions and bihemispheric network processing for action planning in the context of goal-directed behaviors. Human-monkey cross-species comparison using functional imaging, pharmacological inactivation, and behavioral approaches. Neuronal basis of fMRI signals. Neurophysiology of active vision in primary visual cortex.

Homepage Department/Research Group
https://www.dpz.eu/en/decision-and-awareness

ORCID: 0000-0002-1814-4200