Research - Sonja Kotz (S.A.) - Maastricht University

Sonja Kotz (S.A.)

Research profile

Cognitive, Affective, and Translational Neuroscience

• Verbal and non-verbal (social) communication

• Predictive coding of time, rhythm, unimodal, and multimodal perception

• Learning and neuroplasticity

• Cognitive and affective control

Methods

• s/fMRT (3 and 7T); parcellation, connectivity, lesion-symptom mapping, behavior

• M/EEG & TFA

Awards

2015 - University of Manchester, UK: Honorary Professorship in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2015 - Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA: Research Fellow and Affiliate
2010 - University of Leipzig, Germany: Honorary Professorship in Experimental Psychology
2009 – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany: Research Fellow
2007 – Max Planck Society, Germany: „Excellence support for female scientists“ Minerva Award (5yrs to run an independent research group)

Publications

Most recent publications:

Finisguerra, A., Ticini, L. F., Kirsch, L. P., Cross, E. S., Kotz, S. A., & Urgesi, C. (2021). Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks. Cognition, 212, 1-15. [104663]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104663

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Giordano, B. L., Whiting, C., Kriegeskorte, N., Kotz, S. A., Gross, J., & Belin, P. (2021). The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions. Nature human behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01073-0

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Amorim, M., Anikin, A., Mendes, A. J., Lima, C. F., Kotz, S. A., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2021). Changes in vocal emotion recognition across the life span. Emotion, 21(2), 315-325. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000692

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Johnson, J. F., Belyk, M., Schwartze, M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Kotz, S. A. (2021). Expectancy changes the self-monitoring of voice identity. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15162

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Ferraro, S., Nigri, A., D'Incerti, L., Rosazza, C., Sattin, D., Rossi Sebastiano, D., Visani, E., Duran, D., Marotta, G., Demichelis, G., Catricala', E., Kotz, S., Verga, L., Leonardi, M., Cappa, S., & Bruzzone, M. G. (2021). Corrigendum: Preservation of Language Processing and Auditory Performance in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Assessment. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 1. [656747]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.656747

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Pell, M. D., & Kotz, S. A. (2021). Comment: The Next Frontier: Prosody Research Gets Interpersonal. Emotion Review, 13(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073920954288

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Schultz, B. G., Brown, R. M., & Kotz, S. A. (2021). Dynamic acoustic salience evokes motor responses. Cortex, 134, 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.019

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Fritz, T. H., Liebau, G., Löhle, M., Hartjen, B., Czech, P., Schneider, L., Sehm, B., Kotz, S. A., Ziemssen, T., Storch, A., & Villringer, A. (2021). Dissonance in music impairs spatial gait parameters in patients with Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Parkinsons Disease, 11(1), 363-372. https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-202413

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Ferraro, S., Nigri, A., D'Incerti, L., Rosazza, C., Sattin, D., Rossi Sebastiano, D., Visani, E., Duran, D., Marotta, G., Demichelis, G., Catricala', E., Kotz, S., Verga, L., Leonardi, M., Cappa, S., & Bruzzone, M. G. (2020). Preservation of Language Processing and Auditory Performance in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Assessment. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, [526465]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.526465

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Kandylaki, K. D., & Kotz, S. A. (2020). Distinct cortical rhythms in speech and language processing and some more: a commentary on Meyer, Sun, & Martin (2019). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience , 35(9), 1124-1128. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1757729

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Selected publications ( > 2010)

Kotz, S.A. & Schwartze, M. (2010). Cortical speech processing unplugged: A timely subcortico-cortical framework. Trends in Cognitive Science, 14(9), 392-399.
Stahl, B., Kotz, S.A., Henseler, I., Turner, R., & Geyer, S. (2011). Rhythm in disguise: Why singing may not hold the key to recovery from aphasia. Brain, 134, 3083-3093.
Kanske, P., & Kotz, S.A. (2012). Effortful control, depression, and anxiety correlate with the influence of emotion on executive attentional control. Biological Psychology, 91(1), 88-95.
Kotz, S.A., Kalberlah, C., Bahlmann, J., Friederici, A.D., & Haynes, J.D. (2013). Predicting emotional vocal expressions from the human brain. Human Brain Mapping, 34(8),1971-81.
Jessen, S., & Kotz, S.A. (2013). On the role of crossmodal prediction inaudiovisual emotion perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:369. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00369.
Kotz, S.A., Stockert, A., & Schwartze, M. (2014).Cerebellum, temporal predictability, and the updating of a mental model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369(1658): 20130403.
Benoit, C-E., Dalla Bella, S., Farrugia, N., Obrig, H., Mainka, S., & Kotz, S.A. (2014). Musically cued gait training improves both perceptual and motor timing in Parkinson’s Disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8: 494 doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00494.
Kotz, S.A., Dengler, R., & Wittfoth, M. (2015). Valence specific conflict moderation in the dorso-medial PFC and the caudate head in emotional speech. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,10(2), 165-171.
Kotz, S.A. & Gunter, T.C. (2015).Rhythmic cueing remediates language-related disorders in Parkinson’s disease. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1337, 62-68.
Kotz, S.A. & Schmidt-Kassow, M. (2015). Basal ganglia contribution to rule expectancy and temporal predictability in speech. Cortex, 68, 48-60.