Alexander Gail
Sensorimotor Neuroscience Lab, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
German Primate Center
Research Interests
- Sensorimotor integration
- Cognitive movement planning
- Neuroprosthetics
- Neural Communication
Education and Employment
| 2012 - | Professor for Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics, Georg-August University Göttingen |
| 2006 - 2012 | Independent Junior Research Group Leader, German Primate Center, Göttingen |
| 2003 - 2006 | Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA |
| 2002 - 2003 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Philipps University Marburg, Germany |
| 2002 | Dr. rer. nat. (Physics), Philipps University Marburg, Germany |
Selected honours and awards
| 2011 | Co-chair GAFOS Program, Neuroscience section, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and US National Academy of Sciences |
| 2003 | Postdoctoral fellowship, California Institute of Technology |
| 2002 | Dr. rer. nat. graduate “summa cum laude”, Philipps University Marburg |
| 1997 | Diploma graduate “summa cum laude”, Philipps University Marburg |
| 1995 - 1997 | Scholarship Award Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
Selected publications
Berger M, Agha NS, Gail A (2020). Wireless recording from unrestrained monkeys reveals motor goal encoding beyond immediate reach in frontoparietal cortex. eLife 9:e51322
Unakafov A, Schultz T, Gail A, Möller S, Kagan I*, Eule S*, Wolf F* (2020) Emergence and suppression of cooperation by action visibility in transparent games. PLoS Comp Biol 16(1): e1007588. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007588
Suriya-Arunroj L, Gail A (2019) Complementary encoding of priors in monkey fronto¬parietal network supports a dual process of decision-making. eLife 8:e47581
Martinez-Vazquez P, Gail A (2018) Directed interaction between monkey premotor and posterior parietal cortex during motor-goal retrieval from working memory. Cerebral Cortex 28(5):1866-81
Morel P, Ulbrich P, Gail A (2017). What makes a reach movement effortful? – Physical effort discounting supports common minimization principles in decision making and motor control. PLoS Biology 15(6):e2001323
Morel P*, Ferrea E*, Taghizadeh-Sarshouri B, Cardona Audí JM, Ruff R, Hoffmann KP, Lewis S, Russold M, Dietl H, Abu-Saleh L, Schroeder D, Krautschneider W, Meiners T, Gail A (2016) Long-term decoding of movement force and direction with a wireless myoelectric implant. J Neural Eng 13(1): 016002. DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/1/016002.
Kuang S, Morel P, Gail A (2016). Planning movements in visual and physical space in monkey posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 26(2):731-47
Klaes C, Westendorff S, Gail A (2011). Choosing goals not rules: Deciding among alternative rule-based action plans. Neuron 70:536-48