SANAE OKAMOTO-BARTH, Ph.D.

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Publications

Presentations and invited talks

Current position:	Assistant professor (Dept. of Economics) Post-doctoral research fellow (Dept. of Psychology)
Institution:	Department of Economics (AE1) School of Business and Economics & Department of Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Maastricht University P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands phone: +31-43-3884327 fax: +31-43-3884125 e-mail: s.barth at psychology.unimaas.nl
Education:	Ph.D. (Psychology: 2005, Maastricht University, the Netherlands). M.A. (Psychology: 2002, Nagoya University, Japan).
Research Interests:	Experimental psychology (social, developmental, evolutionary psychology) Neuroeconomics (behavioural economics and cognitive neuroscience) Cognitive neuroscience (social, reward, visual psychology)
Research with adult humans:	Behavioural and Neuroeconomics and social decision-making with behavioural and methods (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); trust, reciprocity, altruism, reputation,social preference, choking effect, framing Reward learning and regulation (social reward and emotional dynamics) Social cognition with behavioural (incl. eye-tracking methods) and brain-imaging communication, eye contact, joint attention, and other social-cognitive skills attribution, understanding of other's emotion, imitation, attachment)
Research with nonhuman primates, human children, individuals with autism:	Social cognition with behavioural and observational methods (incl. eye-tracking communication, eye contact, joint attention, and other social-cognitive skills attribution, understanding of other's emotion, imitation, attachment) Physical and spatial cognition (object displacement, mental rotation, and left-right concept)

September, 2011