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phone:	01524 594625
fax:	01524 593744
email:	s.vogt@lancaster.ac.uk

Research Interests

Imitation and recognition of human actions; observational learning
Infants' understanding of object-oriented actions
Visuospatial attention and motor control in selective reaching
Visuo-motor and motor-visual priming
Neural substrates of these processes

Publications

	Vogt, S. & Thomaschke, R. (2007). From visuo-motor interactions to imitation learning: Behavioural and brain imaging studies. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25, 497-517.
	Vogt, S., Buccino, G., Wohlschlaeger, A.M., Canessa, N., Shah, N.J., Zilles, K., Eickhoff, S.B., Freund, H.-J., Rizzolatti, G., & Fink, G.R. (2007). Prefrontal involvement in imitation learning of hand actions: Effects of practice and expertise. NeuroImage, 37, 1371-1383.
	Buccino, G., Vogt, S., Ritzl, A., Fink, G. R., Zilles, K., Freund, H.-J., & Rizzolatti, G. (2004). Neural circuits underlying imitation learning of hand actions: an event-related fMRI study. Neuron, 42, 323-334.
	Hopkins, B., Churchill, A., Vogt, S., & Roennqvist, L. (2004). Braking reaching movements: A test of the constant tau-dot strategy under different viewing conditions. Journal of Motor Behavior, 36, 3-12.
	Vogt, S., Taylor, P., & Hopkins, B. (2003). Visuomotor priming by pictures of hands: perspective matters Neuropsychologia, 41, 941-951.
	Vogt, S. (2002). Visuomotor couplings in object-oriented and imitative actions. Chapter in A. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.): The imitative mind: Development, evolution, and brain bases (pp. 206-220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
	Vogt, S. (2002). Dimensions of imitative perception-action mediation. Chapter in K. Dautenhahn & C. Nehaniv (Eds.): Imitation in animals and artifacts (pp. 525-554). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
	Hecht, H., Vogt, S., & Prinz, W. (2001). Motor learning enhances perceptual judgment: A case for action-perception transfer. Psychological Research, 65, 3-14.
	Meulenbroek, R. J., Rosenbaum, D. A., Jansen, C., Vaughan, J., & Vogt, S. (2001). Multijoint grasping movements: Simulated and observed effects of object location, object size, and initial aperture. Experimental Brain Research, 138, 219-234.
	Vogt, S., & Hecht, H. (2001). Multi-level sensori-motor interactions (Commentary on a target article by Hommel et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 906-907.
	Churchill, A., Hopkins, B., Rönnqvist, L. & Vogt, S. (2000). Vision of the hand and environmental context in human prehension. Experimental Brain Research, 134, 81-89.
	Churchill, A., Vogt, S., & Hopkins, B. (1999). The coordination of two-effector actions: Spoon-feeding and intermanual prehension. British Journal of Psychology, 90, 271-290.
	Vogt, S. (1999). Beiträge und Perspektiven derökologischen Psychologie zum Neulernen motorischer Fertigkeiten. Chapter in M. Fikus, & L. Müller (Eds.): Sich-Bewegen - wie Neues entsteht. Hamburg: Czwalina.
	Vogt, S. & Carey, D. (1998). Toward a microanalysis of imitative actions (Commentary on a target article by Byrne & Russon). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 705-706.
	Stadler, M., Vogt, S., & Kruse, P. (1996). Selbstorganisationsansätze in der Bewegungsforschung. Chapter in J.-P. Janssen, K. Carl, W. Schlicht, & A. Wilhelm (Eds.): Synergetik und Systeme im Sport. Schorndorf: Hofmann.
	Vogt, S. (1996). Imagery and perception-action mediation in imitative actions. Cognitive Brain Research, 3, 79-86.
	Vogt, S. (1996). The concept of event generation in movement imitation - neural and behavioural aspects. Corpus, Psyche et Societas, 3, 119-132.
	Vogt, S. (1995). On relations between perceiving, imagining and performing in the learning of cyclical movement sequences. British Journal of Psychology, 86, 191-216.

Grants

2006 (for 3 years), Research Grant from the Leverhulme Trust.
Brain mechanisms of imitation learning: restructuring and associative accounts.
with Prof. Neil Roberts, Liverpool;\r Dr Donna Lloyd, Manchester;\r Prof. Giacomo Rizzolatti, Parma.
2005 (for one year), Small Grant Scheme from Lancaster University.
Brain imaging of imitative actions: Interactions between prefrontal and premotor cortical areas.
with Prof. Neil Roberts, Liverpool;\r Dr Donna Lloyd, Manchester.
2003 (for one year), Small Research Grant from the British Academy.
Imitation of rhythms and hand postures in musical instruments.
2002 (for one year), Small Research Grant from the British Academy.
Imitation-based learning in musical instruments.
2000 (for one year), Small Grant Scheme from Lancaster University.
Automatic object-based motor preparation in aiming and grasping movements.
1996 (for one year), Research Initiatives Fund from Lancaster University.
Information for coordination in human prehension.
with Prof. Brian Hopkins, Lancaster.

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