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:

Schwartze, M., Brown, R. M., Biau, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Timing the "magical number seven": presentation rate and regularity affect verbal working memory performance. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12588

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Verga, L., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Spatial attention underpins social word learning in the right fronto-parietal network. Neuroimage, 195, 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.071

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Ravignani, A., Kello, C. T., de Reus, K., Kotz, S. A., Dalla Bella, S., Mendez-Arostegui, M., ... de Boer, B. (2019). Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study. Current Zoology, 65(1), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy055

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Harding, E. E., Sammler, D., Henry, M. J., Large, E. W., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Cortical tracking of rhythm in music and speech. Neuroimage, 185, 96-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.037

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Verga, L., & Kotz, S. A. (2019). Putting language back into ecological communication contexts. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience , 34(4), 536-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1506886

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Pinheiro, A., Gutierrez, F., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. (2018). When prediction errors: cortical responsiveness to delayed self-initiated tones. Psychophysiology, 55(S1), S83-S83.

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Begel, V., Verga, L., Benoit, C-E., Kotz, S. A., & Dalla Bella, S. (2018). Test-retest reliability of the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA). Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 61(6), 395-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2018.04.001

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Biau, E., & Kotz, S. A. (2018). Lower beta: a central coordinator of temporal prediction in multimodal speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, [434]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00434

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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2018). Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers. Scientific Reports, 8, [14717]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32614-9

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Kube, J., Mathar, D., Horstmann, A., Kotz, S. A., Villringer, A., & Neumann, J. (2018). Altered monetary loss processing and reinforcement-based learning in individuals with obesity. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12(5), 1431–1449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-017-9786-8

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Other publications:

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.