Gail, Alexander, Prof. Dr.

Professor for Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics

• 1997: Physics Diploma, Philipps University, Marburg
• 2002: Dr. rer. nat. (Physics) Philipps University, Marburg
• 2002-2003: Postdoc (Neurophysics Laboratory of R. Eckhorn, Marburg)
• 2003-2006: Postdoc (Laboratory of R. Andersen, Pasadena, CA, USA)
• 2006-present: Head of Sensorimotor Research Group, German Primate Center and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
• 2012-present: Professor for Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics, University of Göttingen

Major Research Interests

Decision making, action planning, sensorimotor integration, brain-computer interfaces, neuroprosthetics;
Methods: awake monkey electrophysiology, extracellular multi-channel microelectrode recordings, psychophysics in human and non-human primates, free behavior


Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.dpz.eu/smg
http://www.bccn-goettingen.de/Groups/gail
www.sfb1528.uni-goettingen.de



Selected Recent Publications

• Lindner E, Desantis, A, Pei-Hsin Cheng, F, Gail A (2024) Violation of identity-specific action-effect prediction increases pupil size and attenuates auditory event-related potentials at P2 latencies when action-effects are behaviorally relevant. NeuroImage 120717 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120717


• Braun JM†, Fauth M†, Berger M, Huang NS, Simeoni E, Gaeta E, Rodrigues do Carmo R, Garcìa-Betances R, Arredondo Waldmeyer MT, Gail A, Larsen JC, Manoonpong P, Tetzlaff T‡, Wörgötter F‡ (2024) A Brain Machine Interface Framework for Exploring Proactive Control of Smart Environments. Nature Scientific Reports 14:11054 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60280-7


• Taghizadeh B, Fortmann O, Gail A (2024) Position- and scale-invariant object-centered spatial localization in monkey frontoparietal cortex dynamically adapts to cognitive demand. Nature Communications 15:3357 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47554-4


• Hansmeyer L, Yurt P, Agha N, Trunk A, Berger M, Calapai A, Treue S*, Gail A* (2023) Home-enclosure based behavioral and wireless neural recording setup for unrestrained rhesus macaques. eNeuro, 10(1) DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0285-22.2022


• Möller S, Unakafov AM, Fischer J, Gail A*, Treue S*, Kagan I* (2023) Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game. eLife, 12:e81641 DOI 10.7554/eLife.81641


• Gail A (2022) Turning decisions into actions. PLOS Biology, 20(12), e3001927 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001927