Johannes Haushofer, PhD Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology 220 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 USA haushofer [at] post.harvard.edu

Education

 ongoing: PhD in Economics, University of Zürich
                        Advisor: Ernst Fehr, PhD
    2008   PhD in Neuroscience, Harvard University
                        Advisors: Margaret Livingstone, PhD, Nancy Kanwisher, PhD
    2003   BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy, University of Oxford
                        (First Class Honours)
    1999   Abitur, Jean-Paul-Gymnasium Hof, Germany (1.0/1.0)
    1997   Taft School, Watertown, CT

Awards

    2006   Bial grant (US$ 60,000)
    2006   Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes PhD Scholarship
    2005   Boehringer Ingelheim PhD Scholarship
    2003   Harvard University Presidential Scholarship
    2003   Gibbs Prize in Psychological Science (best thesis), University of Oxford
    2002   Markby Scholarship, Balliol College, Oxford
    2001   Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford
    1999   Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation) Scholarship 

Publications

Haushofer J, Baker CI, Livingstone MS, Kanwisher N (submitted). Freuqency-based categorization of complex visual objects.

Haushofer J, Baker CI, Livingstone MS, Kanwisher N (2008). Privileged Coding of Convex Shapes in Human Object-Selective Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology (in press).

Haushofer J, Livingstone MS, Kanwisher N (2008). Multivariate Patterns in Object-Selective Cortex Dissociate Perceptual and Physical Stimulus Shape Similarity. PLoS Biology (in press).

Saxe R, Haushofer J (2008). For Love or Money: A Common Neural Currency for Monetary and Social Reward. Neuron 58, 164-165.

Op de Beeck H, Haushofer J, Kanwisher N (2007). Interpreting fMRI data: maps, modules and dimensions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 123-135.

Haushofer J, Kanwisher N (2007). In the Eye of the Beholder: Visual Experience and Categories in the Human Brain. Neuron 53, 773-775.

Schiller PH, Haushofer J (2005). Express saccades: What is coded for their production? Experimental Brain Research 22, 1-9.

Schiller PH, Haushofer J, Kendall G (2004). How do target predictability and precueing affect the production of express saccades in monkeys? European Journal of Neuroscience 19, 1963-1968.

Schiller PH, Haushofer J, Kendall G (2004). An examination of the variables that affect express saccade generation. Visual Neuroscience 21, 119-127.