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Dr. Claus Lamm is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. He received his Ph.D. (Psychology) from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2001.
Curriculum Vitae 
e-mail: clamm@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702 4661
Academic appointments
Post-doctoral researcher in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Chicago (since 01/2006).
Post-doctoral researcher at the INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) Unit 280 - Mental Processes and Brain Activation, Lyon, France (12/2004-12/2005).
University Lecturer, Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna (03/1997-04/2001; 10/2004-11/2004), interrupted by one year of mandatory civilian service and one year of voluntary social service.
Statistician and research assistant (half-time), Department of Radiology I, General University Hospital of Vienna (02/1997-09/1998).
Research assistant, Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna (01/1996-02/1997).
Research assistant and computer programmer for the project ‘Computerized High School Admission’, Department of Statistics, Methodology and Differential Psychology, University of Vienna (01-12/1996).
Biostatistician and methods consultant for research projects in Anaesthesiology, Dentistry, Psychiatry, and Radiology (since 1995).
Teaching assistant for the seminars ‘Theory and Construction of Psychological Tests’ and ‘Methods in Psychology’, Department of Statistics, Methodology and Differential Psychology, University of Vienna (1994-1997).
Peer Reviewed Papers
Currently submitted or in preparation
Lamm, C., & Decety, J. (in preparation) A quantitative metanalysis of 12 functional MRI studies of empathy for pain to examine gender differences, dispotional measures and the extent of self-other overlap.
Decety, J., Lamm, C., Cheng, Y., Delpuech, C., Meltzoff, A.N., Jackson, P., Brunet, E. (in preparation). A magnetoencephalographic (MEG) investigation of perspective taking and empathy.
Lamm, C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (submitted). How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? Insights from event-related fMRI and effective connectivity measurements.
Published or in press
Lamm, C., Porges, E.C., Cacioppo, J.T., & Decety, J. (in press). Perspective taking is associated with specific facial responses during empathy for pain. Brain Research, in press.
Lamm, C., & Decety, J. (2008). Is the extrastriate body area (EBA) sensitive to the perception of pain in others? Cerebral Cortex, E-pub ahead of time.
Windischberger, C., Cunnington, R., Lamm, C., Lanzenberger, R., Langenberger, H., Deecke, L., Bauer, H., & Moser, E. (2008). Time-resolved analysis of fMRI signal changes using brain activation movies. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, E-pub ahead of time.
Lamm, C., Nusbaum, H., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2007). What are you feeling? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the modulation of sensory and affective responses during empathy for pain. PLoS ONE, 12, e1292.
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. The Neuroscientist, 13, 580-593.
Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.
Lamm, C., Fischer, M., & Decety, J. (2007). Predicting the actions of others taps into one's own somatosensory representations - An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2480-2491.
Lamm, C., Windischberger, C., Moser, E., and Bauer, H. The functional role of cortical motor areas during mental rotation. An event-related fMRI study separating cognitive processing steps using a novel task paradigm. NeuroImage, 36(4), 1374-1386.
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2006). Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience. The Scientific World Journal, 6, 1146–1163. 
Lamm, C., Fischmeister, P.H.S., Bauer, H. (2005). Individual differences in brain activity during visuo-spatial processing assessed by slow cortical potentials and LORETA. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 900-912. 
Windischberger, C., Lamm, C., Bauer, H., and Moser, E. (2003). Human Motor Cortex Activity during Mental Rotation. NeuroImage, 20, 225-232.
Bauer, H., Pripfl, J., Lamm, C., Prainsack, C., and Taylor, N. (2003). Functional Neuroanatomy of Learned Helplessness. NeuroImage, 20, 927-939.
Windischberger, C., Barth, M., Lamm, C., Bauer, H., Schroeder, L., Gur, R.C., Moser, E. (2003). Fuzzy cluster analysis of high-field functional MRI data. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 29, 203-223.
Windischberger, C., Lamm, C., Bauer, H., Moser, E. (2002). Consistency of inter-trial activation using single-trial fMRI: assessment of regional differences. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 129-138.
Lamm, C., Windischberger, C., Leodolter, U., Moser, E., Bauer, H. (2001). Evidence for premotor cortex activity during dynamic visuo-spatial imagery from single-trial functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related slow cortical potentials. NeuroImage, 14, 268-283.
Lamm, C., Windischberger, C., Leodolter, U., Moser, E., Bauer, H. (2001). Co-registration of EEG and MRI data using matching of spline interpolated and MRI-segmented reconstructions of the scalp surface. Brain Topography, 14, 93-100.
Lamm, C., Bauer, H., Vitouch, O., Durec, S., Gronister, R., & Gstättner, R. (2001). Restriction of task processing time affects cortical activity during processing of a cognitive task: an event-related slow cortical potential study. Cognitive Brain Research, 10, 275-282.
Fitzgerald, R., Lamm, C., Oczenski, W., Stimpfl, T., Vycudilik, W., Bauer. H. (2001). Direct current auditory evoked potentials during wakefulness, anesthesia, and emergence of anesthesia. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 92, 154-160.
Flexer, A., Bauer, H., Lamm, C., Dorffner, G. (2001). Single trial estimation of evoked potentials using Gaussian Mixture Models with integrated noise component. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2130, 609-616.
Sauter, C., Asenbaum, S., Popovic, R., Bauer, H., Lamm, C., Klösch, G., & Zeilhofer, J. (2000). Excessive daytime sleepiness in patients suffering from different levels of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. Journal of Sleep Research, 9, 293-301.
Lamm, C., Bauer, H., Vitouch, O. & Gstättner, R. (1999). Differences in the ability to process a visuo-spatial task are reflected in event related slow cortical potentials of human subjects. Neuroscience Letters, 269, 137-140.
Lamm, C. (1999). Radical explanations, but trivial descriptions (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(5), 843-844.
Lamm, C. (1998). Does brain activity-oriented modelling solve the problem? Commentary on Green on Connectionist-Explanation. PSYCOLOQUY, 9(19)
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(B)ook Chapters, (T)echnical Reports, (M)onographs, (I)nvited non-peer reviewed Journal Articles
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (in press). Empathy vs. personal distress. In J. Decety & W. Ickes (Eds.), The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Cambridge: MIT press. (B)
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (in press). The biological basis of empathy. In J. T. Cacioppo & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: John Wiley and Sons. (B)
Lamm, C., Windischberger, C., Moser, E., Bauer, H. (2006). Functional relevance of motor areas during mental rotation. In F.J. Chen (Ed.), Trends in brain mapping research, New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Tscheligi, M., Giller, V., Lamm, C., Beranek, G. (2004). Multichannel Usability – Grundlagen und Richtlinien für die optimale Berücksichtigung des Faktors Mensch bei der Gestaltung von Multichannel Systemen. In O. Merx, C. Bachem, (eds). Multichannel – Marketing Handbuch. x.media.press, Berlin: Springer (I)
Lamm, C. (2004). Die Neurobiologie der Sucht - Verlangen statt Lust? ORF-Science, 25.10.04, http://science.orf.at/science/news/128821 (I)
Tscheligi, M., Giller, V., Lamm, C. (2002). Der mobile Benutzer und seine Sorgen mit mangelnder Benutzbarkeit, in Handbuch Internet. Der Business-Guide für optimale Präsenz und langfristigen Erfolg im Netz. Wien: Falter Verlag.
Bauer, H., Lamm, C. (2002). Kognitive Neurowissenschaften und Neuroimaging. Psychologie in Österreich, 429-433. (I)
Lamm, C., Windischberger, C., Leodolter, U., Moser, E., Bauer, H. (2001). Combination of functional magnetic resonance and slow cortical potential imaging in the assessment of cognitive processing. In K.W. Kallus, N. Posthumus, & P. Jiménez (Eds.), Current psychological research in Austria. Proceedings of the 4th scientific conference of the Austrian Psychological Society (ÖGP). Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. (B)
Lamm, C. (2001). Functional neuroanatomy of dynamic visuo-spatial imagery. Ph.D. thesis, University of Vienna. (M)
Flexer, A., Bauer, H., Lamm, C., Dorffner G. (2001). Model-based noise reduction for single trial evoked potentials. In D.J. Miller et al. (eds.), Neural networks for signal processing XI. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Lamm, C. (1999). Bewußtsein: neurale Grundlagen, subjektives Erleben und Grenzen menschlicher Erkenntnis. In T. Slunecko, O. Vitouch, C. Korunka, H. Bauer & B. Flatschacher (Hrsg.), Psychologie des Bewußtseins - Bewußtsein der Psychologie. Wien: Wiener Universitäts Verlag. (B)
Bauer, H., Lamm, C. & Vitouch, O. (1998). Topographie der Bestandspotentialänderungen bei Bearbeitung räumlicher Aufgaben. In J. Glück, O. Vitouch, M. Jirasko & B. Rollett (Hg.), Perspektiven psychologischer Forschung in Österreich. Wien: WUV-Universitätsverlag. (B)
Bauer, H., Lamm, C. & Vitouch, O. (1998). Slow potential topography and cognitive anatomy. In F. Rattay (Ed.), Proceedings TU-BioMed Symposium 1998 'Brain Modelling' (ARGESIM Report No. 10). Vienna: ARGESIM. (B)
Lamm, C., Klauda, E., Bauer, H., Vitouch, O. & Leodolter, M. (1998). Kortikale Korrelate unterschiedlicher Bearbeitungspräferenzen bei visuell und akustisch evozierten Vorstellungsprozessen. In J. Glück, O. Vitouch, M. Jirasko & B. Rollett (Hg.), Perspektiven psychologischer Forschung in Österreich. Wien: WUV-Universitätsverlag. (B)
Vitouch, O., Bauer, H., Lamm, C., Vanecek, E., & Leodolter, M. (1998). DC-Potentialtopographien musikbezogener Kognitionen: Imaginative und motorische Komponenten beim Klavierspiel. In J. Glück, O. Vitouch, M. Jirasko & B. Rollett (Hg.), Perspektiven psychologischer Forschung in Österreich. Wien: WUV-Universitätsverlag. (B)
Lamm, C. & Postai, B. (1996). Latent Class Analyse. In A. Formann & P. Pirkner (Hrsg.), Skriptum zur Vorlesung Methodenlehre (3., erg. Aufl.). Wien: Inst. f. Psychologie, Eigendruck. (B)
Lamm, C. (1996). Raumvorstellungstraining & langsame ereigniskorrelierte Potentiale. Eine Untersuchung von Trainingseffekten auf DC-EEG derivierte corticale Aktivitätsmaße unter Verwendung Rasch-homogenen Stimulusmaterials. Master's thesis, University of Vienna. (M)
