Oliver Contier
Doctoral Candidate
Academic education
since 2019 Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Doctoral research performed at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Supervisors: Martin Hebart & Christian Doeller
Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Simon B. Eickhoff
2014–2018 Master of Science in Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (focus track: Cognitive Neuroscience)
2010–2014 Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Universität Trier
Academic award
Contier, O. (2022). 2022 Open Science Prize by the Interest Group for Open and Reproducible Research (IGOR), Division of Biological and Neuropsychology, German Psychological Society (DGPs).
Publications
Hebart, M. N., Contier, O., Teichmann, L., Rockter, A. H., Zheng, C. Y., Kidder, A., Corriveau, A., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., & Baker, C. I. (2022). THINGS-data: A multimodal collection of large-scale data-sets for investigating object representations in brain and behavior. Published preprint on bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.22.501123
Contier, O., Hebart, M. N., Dickter, A. H., Teichmann, L., Kidder, A., Corriveau, A., Zheng, C., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., & Baker, C. I. (2021). THINGS-fMRI/MEG: A large-scale multimodal neuroimaging dataset of responses to natural object images. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2633. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2633
Fritz, T. H., Schütte, F., Steixner, A., Contier, O., Obrig, H., & Villringer, A. (2019). Musical meaning modulates word acquisition. Brain and Language, 190(3), 10–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2018.12.001
Fritz, T. H., Bowling, D. L., Contier, O., Grant, J., Schneider, L., Lederer, A., Hoer, F., Busch, E., & Villringer, A. (2018). Musical agency during exercise decreases pain. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:2312. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02312
Sharifian, F., Contier, O., Preuschhof, C., & Pollmann, S. (2017). Reward modulation of contextual cueing: Repeated context overshadows repeated target location. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(7), 1871–1877. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1397-3
Poster presentations and talks
Contier, O., & Hebart, M. N. (2022, May). Distributed representation of behaviorally-relevant object dimensions in the human brain. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2022), St. Pete Beach, USA.
Contier, O., Teichmann, L., Baker, C. I., & Hebart, M. N. (2022, June). The THINGS initiative: A global large-scale effort for the repre-
sentative study of objects in brains, behavior, and computational models. 47th Annual Meeting “Psychologie und Gehirn”, Freiburg, Germany.
Contier, O., Hebart, M. N., Dickter, A. H., Teichmann, L., Kidder, A., Corriveau, A., Zheng, C., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., & Baker, C. I. (2021, November). THINGS-fMRI/MEG: A densely sampled multimodal neuroimaging dataset of brain responses to a broad range of natural object images. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, USA.
Kalyani, A., Contier, O., Reichert, C., Azañon, E., & Kuehn, E. (2021, June). Shared response modelling of S1 digit representations in younger and older adults using 7T fMRI [Talk]. 27th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, South Korea.
Contier, O., Kuehn, E., & Hanke, M. (2020, June). Shared response modelling of somatosensory digit representations using 7-t fMRI. 2020 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Montreal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3894834
Contier, O., Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Gobbini, M. I., & Halchenko, Y. O. (2018, June). Temporal dynamics and effective connectivity in the distributed system of familiar face processing. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Singapore. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17076.96640
Photo: Nikolaus Brade