Publications

 

Registered Reports (ongoing)

 

Najberg H, Tapparel M, Holmann J, Spierer L. : Sign-tracking bias is associated with the inhibition of motor response to appetitive food cues. Imaging Neuroscience, In press

 

Tapparel M, Pool E, Najberg H, Spierer L. Plastic brain mechanisms supporting reduction in cravings induced by response training. Stage 1 In Principle Acceptance at PCI-RR, Stage 2 submitted

 

Najberg H, Tapparel M, Spierer L. The capacity of response training to help resist the consumption of sugary drinks. Two Stage 1 In Principle Acceptance at PCI-RR, Stage 2 recommended 

 

Tapparel M, Najberg H, Spierer L. : Understanding the role of affective learning biases in daily food behaviour. Stage 1 In Principle Acceptance at Communication Psychology

 
Najberg H, Spierer L. Improving adherence to food restraint in individuals prone to failure with food Go/No-Go training. Stage 1 submitted at Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

 

 

2024

  • Nono, A. S. T., Anziano, M., Mouthon, M., Chabwine, J. N., & Spierer, L. (2024). The Role of Anatomic Connectivity in Inhibitory Control Revealed by Combining Connectome-based Lesion-symptom Mapping with Event-related Potentials. Brain Topography, 37(6), 1033-1042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-024-01057-z 1

     

     

2023

  • Anziano, M., Mouthon, M., Thoeny, H., Sperber, C., & Spierer, L. (2023). Mental flexibility depends on a largely distributed white matter network: Causal evidence from connectome-based lesion-symptom mapping. Cortex, 165, 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.007 2

     

     

  • Najberg, H., Mouthon, M., Coppin, G., & Spierer, L. (2023). Reduction in sugar drink valuation and consumption with gamified executive control training. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10659. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36859-x 3

     

     

2022

  • Wicht, C. A., Chavan, C. F., Annoni, J.-M., Balmer, P., Aellen, J., Humm, A. M., Crettaz von Roten, F., Spierer, L., & Medlin, F. (2022). Predictors for Returning to Paid Work after Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Ischemic Stroke. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(7), 1109. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12071109 4

     

     

  • Wicht, C. A., De Pretto, M., Mouthon, M., & Spierer, L. (2022). Neural correlates of expectations-induced effects of caffeine intake on executive functions. Cortex, 150, 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.02.004 5

     

     

  • Wicht, C. A., Mouthon, M., Nsimire Chabwine, J., Gaab, J., & Spierer, L. (2022). Experience with opioids does not modify the brain network involved in expectations of placebo analgesia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(7), 1840-1858. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15645 6

     

     

2021

  • De Pretto, M., Mouthon, M., Debove, I., Pollo, C., Schüpbach, M., Spierer, L., & Accolla, E. A. (2021). Proactive inhibition is not modified by deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease: An electrical neuroimaging study. Human Brain Mapping, 42(12), 3934-3949. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25530 7

     

     

  • Echiverri-Cohen, A., Spierer, L., Perez, M., Kulon, M., Ellis, M. D., & Craske, M. (2021). Randomized-controlled trial of response inhibition training for individuals with PTSD and impaired response inhibition. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 143, 103885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103885 8

     

     

  • Najberg, H., Rigamonti, M., Mouthon, M., & Spierer, L. (2021). Modifying food items valuation and weight with gamified executive control training. Royal Society Open Science, 8(5), 191288. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191288 9

     

     

  • Najberg, H., Wachtl, L., Anziano, M., Mouthon, M., & Spierer, L. (2021). Aging Modulates Prefrontal Plasticity Induced by Executive Control Training. Cerebral Cortex, 31(2), 809-825. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa259 10

     

     

2020

  • Ribordy Lambert, F., Wicht, C. A., Mouthon, M., & Spierer, L. (2020). Acute alcohol intoxication and expectations reshape the spatiotemporal functional architecture of executive control. NeuroImage, 215, 116811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116811 11

     

     

  • Walter, Y., Dieguez, S., Mouthon, M., & Spierer, L. (2020). Brain structural evidence for a frontal pole specialization in glossolalia. IBRO Reports, 9, 32-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2020.06.002 12

     

     

2019

  • De Pretto, M., Hartmann, L., Garcia-Burgos, D., Sallard, E., & Spierer, L. (2019). Stimulus Reward Value Interacts with Training-induced Plasticity in Inhibitory Control. Neuroscience, 421, 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.10.010 13

     

     

  • Hartmann, L., Wachtl, L., de Lucia, M., & Spierer, L. (2019). Practice-induced functional plasticity in inhibitory control interacts with aging. Brain and Cognition, 132, 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.02.004 14

     

     

  • Simonet, M., Crettaz von Roten, F., Spierer, L., & Barral, J. (2019). Executive control training does not generalize, even when associated with plastic changes in domain-general prefrontal areas. NeuroImage, 197, 457-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.010 15

     

     

2018

  • Pestalozzi, M. I., Di Pietro, M., Martins Gaytanidis, C., Spierer, L., Schnider, A., Chouiter, L., Colombo, F., Annoni, J.-M., & Jost, L. B. (2018). Effects of Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Lexical Access in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 32(10), 913-923. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968318801551 16

     

     

  • Radman, N., Britz, J., Buetler, K., Weekes, B. S., Spierer, L., & Annoni, J.-M. (2018). Dorsolateral Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Language Processing but Does Not Facilitate Overt Second Language Word Production. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00490 17

     

     

  • Sallard, E., Hartmann, L., Ptak, R., & Spierer, L. (2018). Spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying attentional bias modifications. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 130, 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.06.001 18

     

     

  • Sallard, E., Mouthon, M., De Pretto, M., & Spierer, L. (2018). Modulation of inhibitory control by prefrontal anodal tDCS: A crossover double-blind sham-controlled fMRI study. PLoS ONE, 13(3), e0194936. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194936 19

     

     

2017

  • Chavan, C., Mouthon, M., Simonet, M., Hoogewoud, H.-M., Draganski, B., van der Zwaag, W., & Spierer, L. (2017). Sustained enhancements in inhibitory control depend primarily on the reinforcement of fronto-basal anatomical connectivity. Brain Structure and Function, 222(1), 635-643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-015-1156-y 20

     

     

  • De Pretto, M., Rochat, L., & Spierer, L. (2017). Spatiotemporal brain dynamics supporting the immediate automatization of inhibitory control by implementation intentions. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 10821. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10832-x 21

     

     

2016

  • Chouiter, L., Holmberg, J., Manuel, A. L., Colombo, F., Clarke, S., Annoni, J.-M., & Spierer, L. (2016). Partly segregated cortico-subcortical pathways support phonologic and semantic verbal fluency: A lesion study. Neuroscience, 329, 275-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.029 22

     

     

  • De Pretto, M., Sallard, E., & Spierer, L. (2016). State dependency of inhibitory control performance: an electrical neuroimaging study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 44(2), 1826-1832. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13265 23

     

     

  • Hartmann, L., Sallard, E., & Spierer, L. (2016). Enhancing frontal top-down inhibitory control with Go/NoGo training. Brain Structure and Function, 221(7), 3835-3842. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-015-1131-7 24

     

     

  • Radman, N., Spierer, L., Laganaro, M., Annoni, J.-M., & Colombo, F. (2016). Language specificity of lexical-phonological therapy in bilingual aphasia: A clinical and electrophysiological study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 26(4), 532-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2015.1047383 25

     

     

2015

  • Buetler, K. A., de León Rodríguez, D., Laganaro, M., Müri, R., Nyffeler, T., Spierer, L., & Annoni, J.-M. (2015). Balanced bilinguals favor lexical processing in their opaque language and conversion system in their shallow language. Brain and Language, 150, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.10.001 26

     

     

  • Chavan, C. F., Mouthon, M., Draganski, B., van der Zwaag, W., & Spierer, L. (2015). Differential patterns of functional and structural plasticity within and between inferior frontal gyri support training-induced improvements in inhibitory control proficiency. Human Brain Mapping, 36(7), 2527-2543. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22789 27

     

     

  • Chouiter, L., Tzovara, A., Dieguez, S., Annoni, J.-M., Magezi, D., De Lucia, M., & Spierer, L. (2015). Experience-based Auditory Predictions Modulate Brain Activity to Silence as do Real Sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(10), 1968-1980. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00835 28

     

     

  • Sperdin, H. F., Spierer, L., Becker, R., Michel, C. M., & Landis, T. (2015). Submillisecond unmasked subliminal visual stimuli evoke electrical brain responses. Human Brain Mapping, 36(4), 1470-1483. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22716 29

     

     

2014

  • Buetler, K. A., de León Rodríguez, D., Laganaro, M., Müri, R., Spierer, L., & Annoni, J.-M. (2014). Language context modulates reading route: an electrical neuroimaging study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 83. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00083 30

     

     

  • Chouiter, L., Dieguez, S., Annoni, J.-M., & Spierer, L. (2014). High and low stimulus-driven conflict engage segregated brain networks, not quantitatively different resources. Brain Topography, 27(2), 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-013-0303-0 31

     

     

  • Sallard, E., Barral, J., Chavan, C. F., & Spierer, L. (2014). Early attentional processes distinguish selective from global motor inhibitory control: an electrical neuroimaging study. NeuroImage, 87, 183-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.002 32

     

     

  • Sallard, E., Spierer, L., Ludwig, C., Deiber, M.-P., & Barral, J. (2014). Age-related changes in the bimanual advantage and in brain oscillatory activity during tapping movements suggest a decline in processing sensory reafference. Experimental Brain Research, 232(2), 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-013-3754-3 33

     

     

2013 

  • Magezi, D. A., Buetler, K. A., Chouiter, L., Annoni, J.-M., & Spierer, L. (2013). Electrical neuroimaging during auditory motion aftereffects reveals that auditory motion processing is motion sensitive but not direction selective. Journal of Neurophysiology, 109(2), 321-331. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00625.2012 35

     

     

  • Manuel, A. L., Bernasconi, F., & Spierer, L. (2013). Plastic modifications within inhibitory control networks induced by practicing a stop-signal task: an electrical neuroimaging study. Cortex, 49(4), 1141-1147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.12.009 36

     

     

  • Manuel, A. L., Radman, N., Mesot, D., Chouiter, L., Clarke, S., Annoni, J.-M., & Spierer, L. (2013). Inter- and intrahemispheric dissociations in ideomotor apraxia: a large-scale lesion-symptom mapping study in subacute brain-damaged patients. Cerebral Cortex, 23(12), 2781-2789. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs280 37

     

     

  • Radman, N., Cacioppo, S., Spierer, L., Schmidlin, E., Mayer, E., & Annoni, J.-M. (2013). Posterior SMA Syndrome following subcortical stroke: contralateral akinesia reversed by visual feedback. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2605-2610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.004 38

     

     

  • Rochat, L., Van der Linden, M., Renaud, O., Epiney, J.-B., Michel, P., Sztajzel, R., Spierer, L., & Annoni, J.-M. (2013). Poor reward sensitivity and apathy after stroke: implication of basal ganglia. Neurology, 81(19), 1674-1680. https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000435290.49598.1d 39

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Chavan, C. F., & Manuel, A. L. (2013). Training-induced behavioral and brain plasticity in inhibitory control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 427. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00427 40

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Manuel, A. L., Bueti, D., & Murray, M. M. (2013). Contributions of pitch and bandwidth to sound-induced enhancement of visual cortex excitability in humans. Cortex, 49(10), 2728-2734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.001 41

     

     

  • Tzovara, A., Rossetti, A. O., Spierer, L., Grivel, J., Murray, M. M., Oddo, M., & De Lucia, M. (2013). Progression of auditory discrimination based on neural decoding predicts awakening from coma. Brain, 136(Pt 1), 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aws264 42

     

     

2012

  • Bourquin, N. M.-P., Spierer, L., Murray, M. M., & Clarke, S. (2012). Neural plasticity associated with recently versus often heard objects. NeuroImage, 62(3), 1800-1806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.055 43

     

     

  • De Lucia, M., Tzovara, A., Bernasconi, F., Spierer, L., & Murray, M. M. (2012). Auditory perceptual decision-making based on semantic categorization of environmental sounds. NeuroImage, 60(3), 1704-1715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.131 44

     

     

  • Magezi, D. A., Khateb, A., Mouthon, M., Spierer, L., & Annoni, J.-M. (2012). Cognitive control of language production in bilinguals involves a partly independent process within the domain-general cognitive control network: evidence from task-switching and electrical brain activity. Brain and Language, 122(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.008 45

     

     

  • Manuel, A. L., Bernasconi, F., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2012). Spatio-temporal brain dynamics mediating post-error behavioral adjustments. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(6), 1331-1343. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00150 46

     

     

2011

  • At, A., Spierer, L., & Clarke, S. (2011). The role of the right parietal cortex in sound localization: a chronometric single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2794-2797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.024 47

     

     

  • Bernasconi, F., De Lucia, M., Tzovara, A., Manuel, A. L., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2011). Noise in brain activity engenders perception and influences discrimination sensitivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49), 17971-17981. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3715-11.2011 48

     

     

  • Bernasconi, F., Manuel, A. L., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2011). Pre-stimulus beta oscillations within left posterior sylvian regions impact auditory temporal order judgment accuracy. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 79(2), 244-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.10.017 49

     

     

  • Grivel, J., Bernasconi, F., Manuel, A. L., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2011). Dynamic calibration of our sense of time. Neuropsychologia, 49(1), 147-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.004 50

     

     

  • Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2011). Multisensory integration: what you see is where you hear. Current Biology, 21(6), R229-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.064 51

     

     

  • Spierer, L., De Lucia, M., Bernasconi, F., Grivel, J., Bourquin, N. M.-P., Clarke, S., & Murray, M. M. (2011). Learning-induced plasticity in human audition: objects, time, and space. Hearing Research, 271(1-2), 88-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2010.03.086 52

     

     

  • van der Zwaag, W., Gentile, G., Gruetter, R., Spierer, L., & Clarke, S. (2011). Where sound position influences sound object representations: a 7-T fMRI study. NeuroImage, 54(3), 1803-1811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.032 53

     

     

2010

  • Bernasconi, F., Grivel, J., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2010). Interhemispheric coupling between the posterior sylvian regions impacts successful auditory temporal order judgment. Neuropsychologia, 48(9), 2579-2585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.004 54

     

     

  • Bernasconi, F., Grivel, J., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2010). Plastic brain mechanisms for attaining auditory temporal order judgment proficiency. NeuroImage, 50(3), 1271-1279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.016 55

     

     

  • Manuel, A. L., Grivel, J., Bernasconi, F., Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2010). Brain dynamics underlying training-induced improvement in suppressing inappropriate action. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(41), 13670-13678. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2064-10.2010 56

     

     

2009

  • Murray, M. M., & Spierer, L. (2009). Auditory spatio-temporal brain dynamics and their consequences for multisensory interactions in humans. Hearing Research, 258(1-2), 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2009.04.022 57

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Bellmann-Thiran, A., Maeder, P., Murray, M. M., & Clarke, S. (2009). Hemispheric competence for auditory spatial representation. Brain, 132(Pt 7), 1953-1966. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awp127 58

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Bernasconi, F., & Grivel, J. (2009). The temporoparietal junction as a part of the "when" pathway. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(27), 8630-8632. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2111-09.2009 59

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Bourquin, N. M.-P., Tardif, E., Murray, M. M., & Clarke, S. (2009). Right hemispheric dominance for echo suppression. Neuropsychologia, 47(2), 465-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.09.022 60

     

     

  • Viceic, D., Campos, R., Fornari, E., Spierer, L., Meuli, R., Clarke, S., & Thiran, J.-P. (2009). Local landmark-based registration for fMRI group studies of nonprimary auditory cortex. NeuroImage, 44(1), 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.07.051 61

     

     

2008

  • Murray, M. M., Camen, C., Spierer, L., & Clarke, S. (2008). Plasticity in representations of environmental sounds revealed by electrical neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 39(2), 847-856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.09.002 62

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Murray, M. M., Tardif, E., & Clarke, S. (2008). The path to success in auditory spatial discrimination: electrical neuroimaging responses within the supratemporal plane predict performance outcome. NeuroImage, 41(2), 493-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.038 63

     

     

  • Tardif, E., Spierer, L., Clarke, S., & Murray, M. M. (2008). Interactions between auditory 'what' and 'where' pathways revealed by enhanced near-threshold discrimination of frequency and position. Neuropsychologia, 46(4), 958-966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.016 64

     

     

2007

  • De Santis, L., Spierer, L., Clarke, S., & Murray, M. M. (2007). Getting in touch: segregated somatosensory what and where pathways in humans revealed by electrical neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 37(3), 890-903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.05.052 65

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Meuli, R., & Clarke, S. (2007). Extinction of auditory stimuli in hemineglect: Space versus ear. Neuropsychologia, 45(3), 540-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.012 66

     

     

  • Spierer, L., Tardif, E., Sperdin, H., Murray, M. M., & Clarke, S. (2007). Learning-induced plasticity in auditory spatial representations revealed by electrical neuroimaging. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(20), 5474-5483. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-07.2007 67

     

     

2006

  • Tardif, E., Murray, M. M., Meylan, R., Spierer, L., & Clarke, S. (2006). The spatio-temporal brain dynamics of processing and integrating sound localization cues in humans. Brain Research, 1092(1), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.03.095 68