Publications

Ongoing / with IPA

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 In Principle Acceptance at Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

Published

Treviño Montemayor M, Hamam-Mechkour A, Eisler JJ, Murray MM, Spierer L, Schenk S, Halter RJ, Toepel U, Horsch A, Retsa C, Arhab A, Quansah DY, Puder JJ. (2026) Brain and behavioural responses to food viewing in women during pregnancy and their relationship with metabolic health: study protocol for the FOODY Play Study - a prospective observational study. BMJ Open, 6(9):e119379. https://doi-org/10.1136/bmjopen-2026-119379

Dreifuss Bisson, M., Corino, T., Aboulafia Brakha, T., Seragnoli, F., Toso, L., Cattacin, S., Zullino, D., Spierer, L., & Rochat, L. (2026). Who Uses Legal Cannabis and Why? Cluster Profiles of Participants in a Swiss Regulated Sales Pilot Trial. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 100445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2026.100445

Tapparel M, Pool ER, Najberg H, & Spierer L. (2026). Plastic brain mechanisms supporting reduction in cravings induced by response training. Imaging Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1180

Najberg H, Tapparel M, Holmann J, & Spierer L. (2025). Sign-tracking bias is associated with the inhibition of motor response to appetitive food cues. Imaging Neuroscience, Feb 3; 4:IMAG.a.1118. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1118

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

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
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

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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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

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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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