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Silke Dodel

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychology
  • 561-297-3235
  • sdodel@fau.edu
  • Boca Raton - BS-12, 205

Education

Doctorate in Theoretical Physics

Staatsexamen (equivalent to Masters degree) in Mathematics and Physics, University of Tubingen (Germany)

Research Interests

  • Graph-theoretical analysis of whole-brain functional connectivity
  • Multivariate statistical data analysis of non-invasive brain imaging data (fMRI, EEG)
  • Signatures of team coordination in brain and behavior
  • Degeneracy in networks, i.e. the ability of different networks to perform the same function
  • Multifunctionality in networks, i.e.the ability of the same network to perform multiple different functions
  • Social networks
  • Gene networks

Research Description

What is the relationship between structure, function and dynamics in biological networks of all scales (from neural networks to social networks)?

Recent Publications

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Dodel, S., Tognoli, E., Kelso, J. A. S., (2013) The geometry of behavioral and brain dynamics in team coordination. In Dylan D. Schmorrow and Cali M. Fidopiastis, editors, Foundations of Augmented Cognition, volume 8027 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 133–142. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

 

Dodel, S., Tognoli, E., and Kelso, J. A. S. (2012). Tackling the complexity of social interactions: The geometry of neurobehavioral coordination dynamics. 42nd Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

 

Dodel, S. & Large, E. W., (2011). Emotional responses in music listening are associated with brain-scale functional connectivity modulations. 41st Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Dodel, S., Cohn, J., Mersmann, J., Luu, P., Forsythe, C., Jirsa, V., (2011) Brain signatures of team performance. In Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems, pages 288–297. Springer.

 

Woodman, M., Perdikis, D., Pillai, A. S., Dodel, S., Huys, R., Bressler, S., & Jirsa, V. K., (2011). Building neurocognitive networks with a distributed functional architecture. Adv Exp Med Biol, 718:101–109.

 

Dodel, S., Cohn, J., Mersmann, J., Luu, P., Forsythe, C., & Jirsa, V., (2011) Brain signatures of team performance. Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems, 288–297.

 

Dodel, S., Pillai, A. S., Fink, P. W., Muth, E. R., Stripling, R., Schmorrow, D. D., Cohn, J. V., & Jirsa, V. K., (2010). Observer-independent dynamical measures of team coordination and performance. Motor Control: Theories, Experiments, and Applications, 72–101.

 

Voultsidou, M., Dodel, S., & Herrmann, J. M., (2007). Feature evaluation in fMRI data using random matrix theory. Computing and Visualization in Science, 10(2):99-105.

 

Thirion, B., Dodel, S., & Poline, J. B., (2006). Detection of signal synchronizations in resting-state fMRI datasets. NeuroImage, 29(1):321-7.

 

Voultsidou, M., Dodel, S., & Herrmann, J. M., (2005). Neural networks approach to clustering of activity in fMRI data. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 24(8):987-96.

 

Dodel, S., Golestani, N., Pallier, C., ElKouby, V., Le Bihan, D., & J.-B. Poline. (2005). Condition-dependent functional connectivity: syntax networks in bilinguals. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 360:921-935.

 

Dodel, S., Poline, J.-B., Anton, J. L., Brett, M., (2004). How functional connectivity is influenced by physiology. Human Brain Mapping.

 

Voultsidou, M., Dodel, S., & Herrmann, J. M., (2004). Emergence of functional connectivity clusters via Hopfield Neural Networks. Human Brain Mapping.

 

Dodel, S., Poline, J.-B., Anton, J. L., Brett, M., (2004). The influence of heart beat and respiration on functional connectivity networks. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 384-387.

 

Voultsidou, M., Dodel, S., & Herrmann, J. M., (2004). Analysis of Correlated Activity in fMRI Data by Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 872-875.

 

Lahaye, P.-J., Poline, J.-B., Flandin, G., Dodel, S., & Garnero, L., (2003). Functional connectivity: studying non-linear, delayed interactions between BOLD signal. Neuroimage, 20:962-974.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., Geisel, T., & Poline, J.-B., (2003). Network Structures of Functional Connectivity from FMRI. Human Brain Mapping.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., Poline, J.-B., & Geisel, T., (2003). Network dynamics and functional connectivity from fMRI. In 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen. Thieme Verlag, p.1039.

 

Dodel, S., (2002). Data driven analysis of brain activity and functional connectivity in fMRI. PhD thesis, Göttingen.

http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2003/dodel/dodel.pdf

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2002). Functional Connectivity Clusters from Correlation Graphs. Human Brain Mapping.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2002). Functional Connectivity by Cross-Correlation Clustering. Neurocomputing, 44-46: 1065-1070.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2001). Is Brain Activity Spatially or Temporally Correlated? Human Brain Mapping.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2001). Stimulus-Independent Data Analysis for fMRI. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience - Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2036, Springer, London, p. 39-53.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2001). Temporal versus Spatial PCA and ICA in Data Analysis for fMRI. In 28th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen. Thieme Verlag, p. 897.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2000). Localization of Brain Activity - Blind Separation for fMRI Data. Neurocomputing, 32-33: 701-708.

 

Dodel, S., Herrmann, J. M., & Geisel, T., (2000). Comparison of Temporal and Spatial ICA in fMRI Data Analysis. ICA 2000 Proceedings, p. 543-547.

 

Scholarly Activities:

 

Summer school / Study abroad program

2011 - 2013 Initiator and program leader of a yearly recurring six-weeks study abroad program “Methods in Brain Computer Interfaces” in Tübingen, Germany, in collaboration with Dr. Niels Birbaumer.

 

2010 Co-PI on FAU research theme proposal “Biological Intelligence” which was one of the 11 finalists.

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