About

Jonas Todd Kaplan

Assistant Professor (research) of Psychology

Contact Information
E-mail: jtkaplan@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-8552
Office: DNI 251

LINKS
Personal Website
 

Education
B.S. Psychology, University of Michigan, 6/1996
Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles, 6/2002
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
My research in cognitive neuroscience focuses on issues of social relationships, empathy, self, action perception and creativity. I use functional neuroimaging to examine the neural mechanisms that underlie our experience of resonating with other people and being aware of our selves.
 

Research Keywords
cognitive neuroscience, social cognitive neuroscience, consciousness, awareness, self, self-recognition, self-awareness, empathy
 

Research Specialties
cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Brain and Creativity Institute,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/bci/
Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center,http://brainimaging.usc.edu/
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Iacoboni, M., Kaplan, J. T., Wilson, S. (2007). A neural architecture for imitation. in Models and Mechanisms of Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimension. Cambridge University Press.
Kaplan, J. T., Zaidel, E. (2007). Alexithymia across cultures. In Fragments of Mind. Academic Press.
 

Journal Article
Harris, S., Kaplan, J. T., Curiel, A., Bookheimer, S., Iacoboni, M., Cohen, M. (2009). The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief. PLoS One. Vol. 4 (10), pp. e0007272.
Mazziotta, J. C., Woods, R., Iacoboni, M., Yaden, K., Tran, M., Bean, C., Kaplan, J. T., Toga, A. (2009). The myth of the normal, average human brain – the ICBM experience: Subject screening and eligibility. NeuroImage.
Greene, D. J., Mooshagian, E., Kaplan, J. T., Zaidel, E., Iacoboni, M. (2009). The neural correlates of social attention: Automatic orienting to social and nonsocial cues. Psychological Research. Vol. 73 (4), pp. 499-511.
Aziz-Zadeh, L., Kaplan, J. T., Iacoboni, M. (2009). Aha! The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions. Human Brain Mapping. Vol. 30, pp. 908-916.
Bystritsky, A., Kaplan, J. T., Feusner, J., Wadekar, M., Kerwin, L., Burock, M., Wu, A., Iacoboni, M. (2008). Preliminary study of fMRI guided rTMS in the treatment of GAD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Vol. 69 (7), pp. 1092-8.
Mooshagian, E., Kaplan, J. T., Zaidel, E., Iacoboni, M. (2008). Fast visuomotor processing of redundant targets: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction. PLOS One. Vol. 3 (6), pp. e2348.
Kaplan, J. T., Aziz-Zadeh, L., Uddin, L., Iacoboni, M. (2008). The self across the senses: The neural response to one’s own face and voice. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. Vol. 3 (3), pp. 218-223.
Kaplan, J. T., Iacoboni, M. (2007). Multimodal action representation in human left ventral premotor cortex. Cognitive Processing. Vol. 8, pp. 103-113.
Kaplan, J. T., Freedman, J., Iacoboni, M. (2007). Us vs. Them: Political attitudes and party affiliation influence neural response to faces of presidential candidates. Neuropsychologia. Vol. 45, pp. 55-64.
Molnar-Szakacs, I., Kaplan, J. T., Greenfield, P. M., Iacoboni, M. (2006). Observing action sequences: The role of the fronto-parietal mirror neuron system. NeuroImage. Vol. 33 (3), pp. 923-35.
Kaplan, J. T. (2006). Getting a grip on other minds: mirror neurons, intention understanding, and cognitive empathy. Social Neuroscience. Vol. 1 (3-4), pp. 175-83.
Uddin, L., Kaplan, J. T., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Zaidel, E., Iacoboni, M. (2005). Self-face recognition activates a fronto-parietal "mirror network" in the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage. Vol. 25 (3), pp. 926-35.
Kaplan, J. T., Zaidel, E. (2001). Error monitoring in the hemispheres: The effect of lateralized feedback on lexical decision. Cognition. Vol. 82 (2), pp. 157-78.
 
 
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