Publications
2025
O’Leary, D., Fan, Y., Schattenberg, I., Serino, A., & Li, S.-C. (2025). Transfer of peripersonal space to a virtual body in young adults and exploration of adult age differences. Experimental Brain Research, 243, 189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-025-07132-6
Peng, X.-R., Bundil, I., Schulreich, S., & Li, S.-C. (2025): Neural correlates of reduced sensitivity to information about uncertainty during valuation in older adults: An fNIRS study. Imaging Neuroscience 2025; 3 IMAG.a.61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.61
Pogrzeba, L., Muschter, E., Hanisch, S., Wardhani, V. Y. P., Strufe, T., Fitzek, F. H. P., &
Li, S.-C. (2025). A full-body IMU-based motion dataset of daily tasks by older and younger adults. Sci Data 12, 531. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04818-y
2024
Cosper, S. H., Männel, C., & Mueller, J. L. (2024). Auditory associative word learning: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering. Brain and Cognition, 180, 106207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106207
Kang, K. Y. L., Rosenkranz, R., Altinsoy, M. E., & Li, S.-C. (2024). Cortical processes of multisensory plausibility modulation of vibrotactile perception in virtual environments in middled-aged and older adults. Sci Rep, 14, 13366. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64054-z
Kang, K. Y. L., Antonenko, D., Glöckner, F., Flöel, A., & Li, S.-C. (2024). Neural correlates of home-based intervention effects on value-based sequential decision-making in healthy older adults. Aging Brain, 5, 100109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2024.100109
Meyer, P., Baeuchl, C., & Hoppstädter, M. (2024). Insights from simultaneous EEG-fMRI and patient data illuminate the role of the anterior medial temporal lobe in N400 generation. Neuropsychologia, 193, 108762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108762
2023
Baeuchl, C.*, Glöckner, F.*, Koch, C., Petzold, J., Schuck, N. W., Smolka, M. N., & Li, S.-C. (2023). Dopamine differentially modulates medial temporal lobe activity and behavior during spatial navigation in young and older adults. NeuroImage, 273, 120099, *equally contributing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120099
Bechtold, L., Cosper, S. H., Malyshevskaya, A., Montefinese, M., Morucci, P., Niccolai, V., ... & Shtyrov, Y. (2023). Brain signatures of embodied semantics and language: A consensus paper. Journal of Cognition, 6(1): 61, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.237
Chen, H.-Y., Marxen, M., Dahl, M. J., & Glöckner, F. (2023). Effects of adult age and functioning of the locus coeruleus norepinephrinergic system on reward-based learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(35), 6185-6196. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2006-22.2023
Gönner, L., Baeuchl, C., Glöckner, F., Riedel, P., Smolka, M. N., & Li, S.-C. (2023). Levodopa suppresses grid-like activity and impairs spatial learning in novel environments in healthy young adults. Cerebral Cortex, bhad361. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad361.
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Kirchner, R., Rosenkranz, R., Sousa, B. G., Li, S.-C., & Altinsoy, M. E. (2023). Phantom Illusion based Vibrotactile Rendering of Affective Touch Patterns. IEEE transactions on haptics, PP, 10.1109/TOH.2023.3315964. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2023.3315964
Peng, X.-R., Bundil, I., Schulreich, S., & Li, S.-C. (2023). Neural correlates of valence-dependent belief and value updating during uncertainty reduction: An fNIRS study. NeuroImage, 279, 120327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120327
Steffen, J., Markovic, D., Glöckner, F., Neukam, P. T., Kiebel, S. J., Li, S.-C., & Smolka, M. N. (2023). Shorter Planning Depth and Higher Response Noise During Sequential Decision-Making in Old Age. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 7692. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33274-0
Thams, F., Li, S.-C., Flöel, A., & Antonenko, D. (2023). Functional connectivity and microstructural network correlates of interindividual variability in distinct executive functions of healthy older adults. Neuroscience, 526, 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.06.005
2022
Kang, K., Rosenkranz, R., Karan, K., Altinsoy, E., & Li, S. C. (2022). Congruence-based contextual plausibility modulates cortical activity during vibrotactile perception in virtual multisensory environments. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1360. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04318-4
Pollerhoff, L., Stietz, J., Depow, G. J., Inzlicht, M., Kanske, P., Li, S.-C., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2022). Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06620-x
Koch, C., Baeuchl, C., Glöckner, F., Riedel, P., Petzold, J., Smolka, M., Riedel, P., Petzold, J., Smolka, M. N., Li, S.-C. & Schuck, N. W. (2022). L-DOPA enhances neural direction signals in younger and older adults. NeuroImage, 264, 119670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119670
Antonenko, D., Thams, F., Grittner, U., Uhrich, J., Glöckner, F., Li, S.-C., & Flöel, A. (2022). Randomized trial of cognitive training and brain stimulation in non‐demented older adults. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 8(1), e12262. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12262
2021
Muschter, E., Noll, A., Zhao, J., Hassen, R., Strese, M., Guelecyuez, B., Li, S. C. & Steinbach, E. (2021). Perceptual quality assessment of compressed vibrotactile signals through comparative judgment. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(2), 291-296. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2021.3077191
Stietz, J., Pollerhoff, L., Kurtz, M., Li, S.-C., Reiter, A. M. F., & Kanske, P. (2021). The ageing of the social mind: Replicating the preservation of socio-affective and the decline of socio-cognitive processes in old age. R. Soc. Open Sci. 8: 210641. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210641
Glöckner, F., Schuck, N. W., & Li, S.-C. (2021). Differential prioritization of intramaze cue and boundary information during spatial navigation across the human lifespan. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94530-9
Chen, H. Y., Dix, A., Goh, J. O. S., Smolka, M. N., Thurm, F., & Li, S.-C. (2021). Effects and mechanisms of information saliency in enhancing value-based decision-making in younger and older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 99, 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.11.018
Li, S.-C., Muschter, E., Limanowski, J. & Hatzipanayioti, A. (2021). Human perception and neurocognitive development across the lifespan: Tactile internet with Human-in-the-Loop. Elsevier Academic Press, 2021, 199-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821343-8.00021-6
Steinbach, E., Li, S.-C., Güleçyüz, B., Hassen, R., Hulin T., Johannsmeier, L., Muschter, E. ... Xu, X. (2021). Haptic codecs for the tactile internet: Tactile internet with Human-in-the-Loop. Elsevier Academic Press.
Bobbe, T., Oppici, L., Lüneburg, L. M., Münzberg, O., Li, S.-C., Narciss, S. ... Muschter, E. (2021). What early user involvement could look like - developing technology applications for piano teaching and learning. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5(7), 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5070038
2020
Thams, F., Kuzmina, A., Backhaus, M., Li, S. C., Grittner, U., Antonenko, D., & Flöel, A. (2020). Cognitive training and brain stimulation in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease (AD-Stim)—study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled phase IIb (monocenter) trial. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 12(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-00692-5
Baeuchl, C., Kroemer, N., Pooseh, S., Petzold, J., Bitzer, S., Thurm, F., Li, S.-C., Smolka, M. N. (2020). Reward modulates the association between sensory noise and brain activity during perceptual decision-making. Neuropsychologia, 149, 107675. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107675
Thurm, F., Li, S.-C., & Hämmerer, D. (2020). Maturation-and aging-related differences in electrophysiological correlates of error detection and error awareness. Neuropsychologia, 107476. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107476
Chiao, J. Y., Li, S.-C., Turner, T., & Lee-Tauler, S. Y. (2020). Cultural neuroscience and the research domain criteria: Implications for global mental health. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 116, 109-119. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.005
Dix, A. & Li, S.-C. (2020). Incentive motivation improves numerosity discrimination: Insights from pupillometry combined with drift-diffusion modelling. Scientific Reports 10:2068, 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59415-3
Ilg, L., Kirschbaum, C., Li, S.-C., Wimberger, P., Nitsche, K., Rosenlöcher, F., & Alexander, N. (2020). No association of antenatal synthetic glucocorticoid exposure and hair steroid levels in children and adolescents. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 105(1), dgz064. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgz064
Koch, C., Li, S.-C., Polk, T., & Schuck, N. W. (2020). Effects of aging on encoding walking directon in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 141, 10379. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107379
Zink, N., Kang, K. Y. L., Li, S.-C., & Beste, C. (2020). Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (atDCS) enhances the efficiency of functional brain network communication during auditory attentional control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(1), 207-217. doi:10.1152/jn.00074.2020
2019
Adelhöfer, N., Gohil, K., Passow, S., Beste, C. & Li, S.-C. (2019). Lateral prefrontal anodal transcranial direct current stimulation augments resolution of auditory perceptual-attentional conflicts. NeuroImage, 199, 217-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.009
Antonenko, D., Thams, F., Uhrich, J., Dix, A., Thurm, F., Li, S.-C., ... & Flöel, A. (2019). Effects of a multi-session cognitive training combined with brain stimulation (TrainStim) on age-associated cognitive decline – study protocol for a randomized controlled Phase IIb (monocenter) trial. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 11, Article 200, 1-12. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2019.00200
Baeuchl, C., Chen, H.-Y., Su, Y.-S., Hämmerer, D., Klados, M. A., & Li, S.-C. (2019). Interactive effects of dopamine transporter genotype and aging on resting-state functional networks. PLOS ONE 14(5): e0215849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215849
Bolenz, F., Kool, W., Reiter, A. M. F., & Eppinger, B. (2019). Metacontrol of decision-making strategies in human aging. eLife, 8:e49154. doi:10.7554/eLife.49154
Dahl, M., Ilg, L., Li, S.-C., Passow, S., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2019). Diminished pre-stimulus alpha-lateralization suggests compromised self-initiated attentional control of auditory processing in old age. NeuroImage, 197, 412-424. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.080
Hilliard, D., Passow, S., Thurm, F., Schuck, N. W., Garthe, A., Kempermann, G., & Li, S.-C. (2019). Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation modulates spatial memory in young health adults. Scientific Report, 9: 9310. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45757-0
Ilg, L., Kirschbaum, C., Li, S.-C., Rosenlöcher, F., Miller, R., & Alexander, N. (2019). Persistent effects of antenatal synthetic glucocorticoids on endocrine stress reactivity from childhood to adolescence. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 104(3), 827-834. doi:10.1210/jc.2018-01566
Li, S.-C., Dilcher, R., & Muenchau, A. (2019). Developmental trajectories of sensorimotor and cogniive control in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 30, 231-237. doi:10.1024/1016-264X/a000271
Reiter, A., Susuki, S., O’Doherty, J., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2019). Risk contagion by peers affects learning and decision-making in adolescents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xge0000512
2018
Adelhöfer, N., Gohil, K., Passow, S., Roessner, V., Li, S-C., & Beste, C. (2018). The system-neurophysiological basis for how methylphenidate modulates perceptual-attentional conflicts during auditory processing. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 5050-5061.
Beste, C., Adelhöfer, N., Gohil, K., Passow, S., Rößner, V., Li, S.-C. (2018). Dopamine modulates the efficiency of sensory evidence accumulation during perception decision making. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 21(7), 649–655.
Buritica, J. M. R., Heekeren, H. R., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2018). Developmental differences in the neural dynamics of observational learning. Neuropsychologia,119, 12-23.
Ilg, L., Klados, M., Alexander, N., Kirschbaum, C., & Li, S. C. (2018). Long-term impacts of prenatal synthetic glucocorticoids exposure on functional brain correlates of cognitive monitoring in adolescence. Scientific reports, 8(1), 7715.
Schuck, N. W., Petok, J. R., Meeter, M., Schjeide, B. M. M., Schröder, J., Bertram, L., ... & Li, S. C. (2018). Aging and a genetic KIBRA polymorphism interactively affect feedback-and observation-based probabilistic classification learning. Neurobiology of aging, 61, 36-43.
Thurm, F., Zink, N., & Li, S.-C. (2018). Comparing effects of reward anticipation on working memory in younger and older adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 231, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02318
Wittkuhn, L., Eppinger, B., Bartsch, L. M., Thurm, F., Korb, F. M., & Li, S. C. (2018). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates value-based learning during sequential decision-making. NeuroImage, 167, 384-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11. 057
2017
Eppinger, B., Heekeren, H. R., & Li, S. C. (2017). Age Differences in the Neural Mechanisms of Intertemporal Choice Under Subjective Decision Conflict. Cerebral Cortex, 1-11.
Reiter, A., Eppinger, B., Kanske, P. & Li, S.-C. (2017). The aging of the social mind: differential effects on components of social understanding. Scientific Reports, 7, 11046, 1- 8.
Stankevich, Y., Thurm, F. Evens, R., Fauser, M., Riedel, O. Storch, A., Li, S.-C. & Lueken, U. (2017). Dysphoria, dopaminergic medication and spatial memory in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychoiatry, 7(3), 281-289. https://dx.doi.org/10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000212
FitzGerald, T.H.B., Hämmerer, D., Friston, K. J., Li, S.-C. & Dolan, R. J. (2017). Sequential inference as a mode of cognition and its correlations in fronto-parietal and hippocampal brain regions. PLOS Computational Biology.
Eppinger, B., Walter, M. & Li, S.-C. (2017). Electrophysiological correlates reflect the integration 8. model-based and model-free decision information. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. [Epub ahead DOI 10.3758/s13415-016-0487-3]
Passow, S., Thurm, F. & Li, S.-C. (2017). Activating developmental resere capacity via cognitive training or non-invasive brain stimulation: potentials for promoting fronto-parietal and hippocampal-striatal network functions in old age. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9, Article 33. https://doi.org/10.3389/ fnagi.2017.00033
Altgassen, M., Kretschmer, A., & Schnitzspahn, K. M. (2017). Future thinking instructions improve prospective memory performance in adolescents. Child Neuropsychology, 23(5), 536-553. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2016.1158247
2016
Kretschmer-Trendowicz, A. & Altgassen, M. (2016). Event-based prospective memory across the lifespan: Do all age groups benefit from salient prospective memory cues? Cognitive Development, 39, 103-112. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.04.005
van den Bos, W., & Eppinger, B. (2016). Conceptual clarifications and call for commitment to cognitive models. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 138-144. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2015.12.011
Reiter, A. M. F.*, Deserno, L*, Wilbertz, T., Heinze, H-J., Schlagenhauf, F. (2016). Risk factors for addiction and their association with model-based behavioral control. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 10(26). doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00026 *equal contribution
Thurm, F., Schuck, N. W., Fauser, M., Doeller, C. F., Stankevich, Y., Evens, R., Riedel, O., Storch, A., Lueken, U., & Li, S.-C. (2016). Dopamine modulation of spatial memory in Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 38, 93-103. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.10.019
Reiter, A. M., Koch, S. P., Schröger, E., Hinrichs, H., Heinze, H. J., Deserno, L., & Schlagenhauf, F. (2016). The feedback-related negativity codes components of abstract inference during reward-based decision-making. Journal of cognitive neuroscience.
Reiter, A. M., Heinze, H. J., Schlagenhauf, F., & Deserno, L. (2016). Impaired flexible reward-based decision-making in binge eating disorder: evidence from computational modeling and functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Nassar, M. R., Bruckner, R., & Eppinger, B. (2016). What do we GANE with age?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39.
Nassar, M. R., Bruckner, R., Gold, J. I., Heekeren, H. R., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2016). Knowing what you don’t know: Age-related deficits in representing uncertainty. Nature Communications, vol. 7, 11609, 1-13.
2015
Schuck, N. W., Doeller, C. F., Polk, T. A., Lindenberger, U. & Li, S.-C. (2015). Human aging alters the neurocomputation and representation of space. NeuroImage, 117(15), 141-150. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.031
Garrett, D. D., Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Burzynska, A. Z., Marchner, J., Wiegert, S., Jungehülsing, G., Nyberg, L., Villringer, A., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H. R., Bäckman, L. & Lindenberger, U. (2015). Amphetamine modulates brain signal variability and working memory in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 112(24), 7593-7598. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1504090112
Dix, A., & van der Meer, E. (2015). Arithmetic and algebraic problem solving and resource allocation: The distinct impact of fluid and numerical intelligence. Psychophysiology, 52, 544–554. doi:10.1111/psyp.12367
Buritica, J. M. R., Eppinger, B., Schuck, N. W., Heekeren, H. R. & Li, S.-C. (2015). Electrophysiological correlates of observational learning in children. Developmental Science, 1-11. doi: 10.1111/desc.12317
Eppinger, B., Heekeren, H. R. & Li, S.-C. (2015). Aging-related prefrontal impairments implicate deficient prediction of future reward in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 36(8), 2380–2390. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.04.010
Sheppard, D. P., Kretschmer, A., Knispel, E., Vollert, B., & Altgassen, M. (2015). The role of extrinsic rewards and cue-intention association in prospective memory in young children. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0140987. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140987
Kompus, K., Westerhausen, R., Craven, A. R., Kreegipuu, K., Kuldkepp, K., Passow, S., ... & Näätänen, R. (2015). Resting-state glutamatergic neurotransmission is related to the peak latency of auditory mismatch negativity for duration deviants: A 1H-MRS-EEG study. Psychophysiology, 52(9), 1131-1139. doi:10.1111/psyp.12445
Westerhausen, R., Bless, J. J., Passow, S., Kompus, K., & Hugdahl, K. (2015). Cognitive control of speech perception across lifespan: A cross-sectional study. Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1037/dev0000014
Passow, S., Specht, K., Adamsen, T. C., Biermann, M., Brekke, N., Craven, A. R., ... & Hugdahl, K. (2015). Default-mode network functional connectivity is closely related to metabolic activity. Human Brain Mapping, 36(6), 2027-2038. doi:10.1002/hbm.22753
Deserno, L., Wilbertz, T., Reiter, A. M. F., Horstmann, A., Neumann, J., Villringer, A., ... & Schlagenhauf, F. (2015). Lateral prefrontal model-based signatures are reduced in healthy individuals with high trait impulsivity. Translational Psychiatry, 5, e659. doi:10.1038/tp.2015.139
Mussel, P., Reiter, A. M. F., Osinsky, R., & Hewig, J. (2015). State- and trait-greed, its impact on risky decision-making and underlying neural mechanisms. Social Neuroscience, 10(2), 126-134. doi:10.1080/17470919.2014.965340
Radenbach, C.*, Reiter, A. M. F.*, Engert, V., Sjoerds, Z., Villringer, A., Heinze, H. J., ... & Schlagenhauf, F. (2015). The interaction of acute and chronic stress impairs model-based behavioral control. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 53, 268-280. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.12.017 *equal contribution