Andreas Bartels

Andreas Bartels is a Swiss professor of neuroscience and vision. Bartels has a PhD in the neurobiology of vision from University College London, and is currently the head of the vision and cognition lab at the University of Tübingen. Bartels also performed a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. In 2000, Bartels & Zeki published the first brain scan experiment of romantic love. In 2004, Bartels & Zeki published another study comparing their scans of romantic love with new fMRI scans of maternal love, demonstrating a similarity.