Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) Lab
@copla.bsky.social
Research group @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig 🧠 investigating plasticity in cognitive networks 🪢 using neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI) and non-invasive brain stimulation (e.g. TMS).
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💥 New publication! 💥
Using fMRI in younger and older adults, we show that brain representations of taxonomic relationships (e.g., dog–bear) and thematic relationships (e.g., dog–leash) depend on task and aging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using fMRI in younger and older adults, we show that brain representations of taxonomic relationships (e.g., dog–bear) and thematic relationships (e.g., dog–leash) depend on task and aging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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September 25, 2026 at 1:24 PM
💥 New publication! 💥
Using fMRI in younger and older adults, we show that brain representations of taxonomic relationships (e.g., dog–bear) and thematic relationships (e.g., dog–leash) depend on task and aging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using fMRI in younger and older adults, we show that brain representations of taxonomic relationships (e.g., dog–bear) and thematic relationships (e.g., dog–leash) depend on task and aging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 I'm thrilled to share our new preprint on the representation of taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain as a function of task demands and healthy aging: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Beyond dual hubs: Task and aging shape taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain
PDF | Semantic knowledge about concepts and their relationships is central to human cognition. Taxonomic relationships link concepts belonging to the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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February 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM
🚨 I'm thrilled to share our new preprint on the representation of taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain as a function of task demands and healthy aging: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval
PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
May 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The ‘reading’ brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults
Literacy provides the key to social contacts, education, and employment, and significantly influences well-being and mental health. Summarizing 163 st…
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April 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New cool preprint by @drsandramartin.bsky.social and her colleagues using dual-site TMS over IFG and pre-SMA during semantic and executive control:
🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find:
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
Causal Contributions of Left Inferior and Medial Frontal Cortex to Semantic and Executive Control
Semantic control guides the targeted and context-based retrieval from semantic memory. The overlap with and dissociation from domain-general executive control in the frontal lobe remains contentious. ...
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New cool preprint by @drsandramartin.bsky.social and her colleagues using dual-site TMS over IFG and pre-SMA during semantic and executive control:
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🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find:
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
Causal Contributions of Left Inferior and Medial Frontal Cortex to Semantic and Executive Control
Semantic control guides the targeted and context-based retrieval from semantic memory. The overlap with and dissociation from domain-general executive control in the frontal lobe remains contentious. ...
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find:
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
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Our eye-tracking experiment on cognitive effort modulation by valence and counterfactuality got accepted to #CogSci2025!
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our eye-tracking experiment on cognitive effort modulation by valence and counterfactuality got accepted to #CogSci2025!
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Preprint can be found here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01597
Co-authors:
@redhenlab.bsky.social @copla.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @viridiano.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our latest research with PhD student @zijianfeng.bsky.social and Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social! We investigated TMS-induced heart–brain coupling (HBC) as a potential biomarker for personalized stimulation targets in the left DLPFC: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Thrilled to share our latest research with PhD student @zijianfeng.bsky.social and Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social! We investigated TMS-induced heart–brain coupling (HBC) as a potential biomarker for personalized stimulation targets in the left DLPFC: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social presented her research on aging effects on predictive processing in language at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference this week. Results show that as we age, we increasingly rely on our internal predictions, possibly as compensation for executive decline. 1/2
February 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social presented her research on aging effects on predictive processing in language at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference this week. Results show that as we age, we increasingly rely on our internal predictions, possibly as compensation for executive decline. 1/2
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New press release by @unileipzig.bsky.social about our BRAIN paper on connectivity changes during post-stroke aphasia recovery: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
New insights into the mechanisms of language recovery after stroke
A new study shows how the brain reorganises itself in the first few months after a stroke to improve the ability to speak again. The findings will help researchers understand how functional networks w...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New press release by @unileipzig.bsky.social about our BRAIN paper on connectivity changes during post-stroke aphasia recovery: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
OSF
osf.io
February 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
OSF
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
More from our postdocs! This week @drsandramartin.bsky.social gave a presentation at @mpicbs.bsky.social, charting a new way forward to understand language processing in the aging brain 🍁
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
More from our postdocs! This week @drsandramartin.bsky.social gave a presentation at @mpicbs.bsky.social, charting a new way forward to understand language processing in the aging brain 🍁
New publication from our lab! @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, @philkuhnke.bsky.social, @vincentcheung.bsky.social, Konstantin Weise and @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social show that neurostimulation can improve reading skills in dyslexia, mediated via functional coupling changes within the reading network.
Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
NYAS Publications
The left temporo-parietal cortex is critical for phonological decoding during reading and appears hypoactive in dyslexia. Here, we combined facilitatory neurostimulation to this brain region with fun...
doi.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New publication from our lab! @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, @philkuhnke.bsky.social, @vincentcheung.bsky.social, Konstantin Weise and @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social show that neurostimulation can improve reading skills in dyslexia, mediated via functional coupling changes within the reading network.
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Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
NYAS Publications
The left temporo-parietal cortex is critical for phonological decoding during reading and appears hypoactive in dyslexia. Here, we combined facilitatory neurostimulation to this brain region with fun...
doi.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
Lab meeting time! Last week, @robingerrits.bsky.social, who joined the lab at the end of last year, told us about his future projects, connecting his main research interest, brain laterality, to brain stimulation - fascinating combination! 🧩
January 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Lab meeting time! Last week, @robingerrits.bsky.social, who joined the lab at the end of last year, told us about his future projects, connecting his main research interest, brain laterality, to brain stimulation - fascinating combination! 🧩
New preprint from our lab!! 🥳🍾 With a novel dual-site TMS design, @philkuhnke.bsky.social and his colleagues show that the multimodal left inferior parietal cortex and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval:
🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Left Inferior Parietal Lobe and Auditory Cortex Jointly Contribute to Sound Knowledge Retrieval
BackgroundConceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint contribution of modali
ssrn.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New preprint from our lab!! 🥳🍾 With a novel dual-site TMS design, @philkuhnke.bsky.social and his colleagues show that the multimodal left inferior parietal cortex and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval:
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🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Left Inferior Parietal Lobe and Auditory Cortex Jointly Contribute to Sound Knowledge Retrieval
BackgroundConceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint contribution of modali
ssrn.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.
January 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.
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Neuroscience of Language by Gesa Hartwigsen: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9793d1ae
December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Neuroscience of Language by Gesa Hartwigsen: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9793d1ae