Igor Kagan
Group Leader, Decision and Awareness Group
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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
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Major Research Interests:
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Igor Kagan
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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.
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Address:
Dept. of Cognitive Neurosciences
Decision and Awareness Group
German Primate Center
Kellnerweg 4
37077 Göttingen
Germany
phone:+49-551-3851 332
fax:+49-551-39 12308
e-mail: 
Further information:
Neurosciences
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Selected Recent Publications:
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Wilke M*, Kagan I*, Andersen RA (2012) Functional imaging reveals rapid reorganization of cortical activity after
parietal inactivation in monkeys. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109(21): 8274-8279. *Equal contribution.
Kagan I (2012) Active vision: fixational eye movements help seeing space in time. Current Biology 22(6): R186 - R188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.009
Kagan I, Iyer A, Lindner A, Andersen RA (2010) Space representation for eye movements is more contralateral
in monkeys than in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(17): 7933-7938
Iyer A, Lindner A, Kagan I, Andersen RA (2010) Motor preparatory activity in posterior parietal cortex is modulated by subjective
absolute value. PLoS Biol 8(8): e1000444. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000444
Lindner A, Iyer A, Kagan I, Andersen RA (2010) Human posterior parietal cortex plans where to reach and what to avoid. J. Neurosci. 30(35): 11715-11725
Kagan I, Gur M, Snodderly DM (2008) Saccades and drifts differentially modulate neuronal activity in V1: Effects of retinal image motion, position,
and extraretinal influences. Journal of Vision 8(14):19: 1-25
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