Publications

 

Registered Reports (ongoing)

 

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

 

 

2025

  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1118

 

 

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