The Flexible Brain: (Re-)shaping Adaptation in Semantic Cognition

Project Information

FLEXBRAIN

Grant agreement ID: 101043747

DOI

10.3030/101043747

EC signature date 31 May 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 750,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 750,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Inhibition of the inferior parietal lobe triggers state-dependent network adaptations

Author(s): Kathleen A. Williams, Ole Numssen, Juan David Guerra, Jakub Kopal, Danilo Bzdok, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Heliyon, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2405-8440
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39735

Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation on the Left Posterior Inferior Frontal Gyrus Perturbs Complex Syntactic Processing Stability in Mandarin Chinese

Author(s): Junjie Wu, Yao Cheng, Xingfang Qu, Tianmin Kang, Yimin Cai, Peng Wang, Emiliano Zaccarella, Angela D. Friederici, Gesa Hartwigsen, Luyao Chen
Published in: Neurobiology of Language, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2641-4368
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00140

A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition

Author(s): Maximilian A. Friehs, Philipp Schmalbrock, Simon Merz, Martin Dechant, Gesa Hartwigsen, Christian Frings
Published in: Experimental Brain Research, Issue 242, 2024, ISSN 0014-4819
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06767-7

Disrupted network interactions serve as a neural marker of dyslexia

Author(s): Sabrina Turker, Philipp Kuhnke, Zhizhao Jiang, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05499-2

The dynamics of neuroplasticity in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia: Commentary on Billot and Kiran

Author(s): Sandra Martin, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Brain and Language, Issue 258, 2024, ISSN 0093-934X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105479

Electric-field-based dosing for TMS

Author(s): Ole Numssen, Philipp Kuhnke, Konstantin Weise, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00106

TMS over the pre-SMA enhances semantic cognition via remote network effects on task-based activity and connectivity

Author(s): Sandra Martin, Regine Frieling, Dorothee Saur, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Brain Stimulation, Issue 16, 2023, ISSN 1935-861X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.09.009

Investigating the neural mechanisms of transcranial direct current stimulation effects on human cognition: current issues and potential solutions

Author(s): Marcus Meinzer, Alireza Shahbabaie, Daria Antonenko, Felix Blankenburg, Rico Fischer, Gesa Hartwigsen, Michael A. Nitsche, Shu-Chen Li, Axel Thielscher, Dagmar Timmann, Dagmar Waltemath, Mohamed Abdelmotaleb, Harun Kocataş, Leonardo M. Caisachana Guevara, Giorgi Batsikadze, Miro Grundei, Teresa Cunha, Dayana Hayek, Sabrina Turker, Frederik Schlitt, Yiquan Shi, Asad Khan, Michael Burke, Steffen Riemann, Filip Niemann, Agnes Flöel
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FNINS.2024.1389651

Semantic Integration Demands Modulate Large‐Scale Network Interactions in the Brain

Author(s): Laura Nieberlein, Sandra Martin, Kathleen A. Williams, Alexander Gussew, Sophia D. Cyriaks, Maximilian Scheer, Stefan Rampp, Julian Prell, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, Issue 45, 2025, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/HBM.70113

Continuous theta-burst stimulation demonstrates language-network-specific causal effects on syntactic processing

Author(s): Chenyang Gao, Junjie Wu, Yao Cheng, Yuming Ke, Xingfang Qu, Mingchuan Yang, Gesa Hartwigsen, Luyao Chen
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 306, 2025, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121014

Dynamic reorganization of task-related network interactions in post-stroke aphasia recovery

Author(s): Zhizhao Jiang, Philipp Kuhnke, Anika Stockert, Max Wawrzyniak, Ajay Halai, Dorothee Saur, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Brain, 2025, ISSN 0006-8950
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaf036

Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network

Author(s): Joëlle A. M. Schroën; Thomas C. Gunter; Ole Numssen; Leon O. H. Kroczek; Gesa Hartwigsen; Angela D. Friederici
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2306279120

Electrophysiological correlates of basic semantic composition in people with aphasia

Author(s): Astrid Graessner, Caroline Duchow, Emiliano Zaccarella, Angela D. Friederici, Hellmuth Obrig, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: NeuroImage: Clinical, Issue 40, 2024, ISSN 2213-1582
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103516

Cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar contributions to language processing: A meta-analytic review of 403 neuroimaging experiments.

Author(s): Sabrina Turker, Philipp Kuhnke, Simon B. Eickhoff, Svenja Caspers, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Psychological Bulletin, Issue 149, 2024, ISSN 1939-1455
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
DOI: 10.1037/bul0000403

Bayesian modeling disentangles language versus executive control disruption in stroke

Author(s): Gesa Hartwigsen; Jae-Sung Lim; Hee-Joon Bae; Kyung-Ho Yu; Hugo J Kuijf; Nick A Weaver; J Matthijs Biesbroek; Jakub Kopal; Danilo Bzdok
Published in: Brain Communications, 2023, ISSN 2632-1297
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae129

Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on reactive response inhibition

Author(s): Qu He, Christoph F. Geißler, Matteo Ferrante, Gesa Hartwigsen, Maximilian A. Friehs
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 157, 2024, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUBIOREV.2023.105532

Quantification of subject motion during TMS via pulsewise coil displacement

Author(s): Ole Numssen, Sandra Martin, Kathleen Williams, Thomas R. Knösche, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Brain Stimulation, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1935-861X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.BRS.2024.08.009

What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary

Author(s): Jamie Reilly, Cory Shain, Valentina Borghesani, Philipp Kuhnke, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jonathan E. Peelle, Bradford Z. Mahon, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Asifa Majid, Marc Brysbaert, Anna M. Borghi, Simon De Deyne, Guy Dove, Liuba Papeo, Penny M. Pexman, David Poeppel, Gary Lupyan, Paulo Boggio, Gregory Hickok, Laura Gwilliams, Leonardo Fernandino, Daniel Mirman, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Chaleece W. Sandberg, Sebastian J. Crutch, Liina Pylkkänen, Eiling Yee, Rebecca L. Jackson, Jennifer M. Rodd, Marina Bedny, Louise Connell, Markus Kiefer, David Kemmerer, Greig de Zubicaray, Elizabeth Jefferies, Dermot Lynott, Cynthia S.Q. Siew, Rutvik H. Desai, Ken McRae, Michele T. Diaz, Marianna Bolognesi, Evelina Fedorenko, Swathi Kiran, Maria Montefinese, Jeffrey R. Binder, Melvin J. Yap, Gesa Hartwigsen, Jessica Cantlon, Yanchao Bi, Paul Hoffman, Frank E. Garcea, David Vinson
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-024-02556-7

Modeling the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on spatial attention

Author(s): Ying Jing, Ole Numssen, Konstantin Weise, Benjamin Kalloch, Lena Buchberger, Jens Haueisen, Gesa Hartwigsen, Thomas R Knösche
Published in: Physics in Medicine & Biology, Issue 68, 2023, ISSN 0031-9155
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ACFF34

Adaptive short-term plasticity in the typical reading network

Author(s): S. Turker, P. Kuhnke, F.R. Schmid, V.K.M. Cheung, K. Weise, M. Knoke, B. Zeidler, K. Seidel, L. Eckert, G. Hartwigsen
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 281, 2024, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120373

The potential of interleaved TMS-fMRI for linking stimulation-induced changes in task-related activity with behavioral modulations

Author(s): Anna-Lisa Schuler, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Brain Stimulation, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1935-861X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1190

Neurostimulation improves reading and alters communication within reading networks in dyslexia

Author(s): Sabrina Turker, Philipp Kuhnke, Vicent K. M. Cheung, Konstantin Weise, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Issue 1544, 2025, ISSN 0077-8923
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15291

Aberrant neural oscillations in poststroke aphasia

Author(s): Yeyun Lu, Lin Mao, Peng Wang, Cuicui Wang, Gesa Hartwigsen, Ye Zhang
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 61, 2024, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14655