Research topic: Animal cognition and motor behavior
Research methods: Analytic and descriptive custom-designed tools for behavioral analyses in humans and other animals, primarily based on automatic and semi-automatic extraction of data from video.
Main projects in the lab include:
- Motor rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): the manifestation of incompleteness and reduced functionality
- Motor rituals and repetitive behavior in normal behavior (sports, African culture, everyday motor tasks)
- Video-telemetry as a tool in studying mental disorders
- Spatial cognitive behavior: insight from rat spatial behavior into human cognition in urban environments
- Threat detection: Behavioral practices in animals and humans
- Collective behavior in animals – the impact of social rank and gender
- From animal models to collective behavior in humans