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:

Whiting, C. M., Kotz, S. A., Gross, J., Giordano, B. L., & Belin, P. (2020). The perception of caricatured emotion in voice. Cognition, 200, [104249]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104249

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Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2020). Decreased sensitivity to changing durational parameters of syllable sequences in people who stutter. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience , 35(2), 179-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1642499

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Duggirala, S. X., Schwartze, M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Kotz, S. A. (2020). Interaction of emotion and cognitive control along the psychosis continuum: A critical review. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 156-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.11.004

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Zinchenko, A., Kotz, S. A., Schröger, E., & Kanske, P. (2020). Moving towards dynamics: Emotional modulation of cognitive and emotional control. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.10.018

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Virhia, J., Kotz, S., & Adank, P. (2019). Emotional state dependence facilitates automatic imitation of visual speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(12), 2833-2847. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819867856

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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., Gutierrez, F., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). When temporal prediction errs: ERP responses to delayed action-feedback onset. Neuropsychologia, 134, [107200]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107200

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Knolle, F., Schwartze, M., Schroeger, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Auditory Predictions and Prediction Errors in Response to Self-Initiated Vowels. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, [1146]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01146

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Amorim, M., Anikin, A., Mendes, A. J., Lima, C. F., Kotz, S. A., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2019). Changes in vocal emotion recognition across the life span. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000692

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Pauligk, S., Kotz, S. A., & Kanske, P. (2019). Differential Impact of Emotion on Semantic Processing of Abstract and Concrete Words: ERP and fMRI Evidence. Scientific Reports, 9(1), [14439]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50755-3

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Ravignani, A., Dalla Bella, S., Falk, S., Kello, C. T., Noriega, F., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1453(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14166

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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.