Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Representative publications

Cusinato R, Seiler A, Schindler K, Tzovara A, (2024) Sleep modulates neural timescales and spatiotemporal integration in the human cortex, biorxiv.

Aellen F, van der Meer J, Dietmann A, Schmidt M, Bassetti CLA *, Tzovara A *, (2024) Disentangling the complex landscape of sleep-wake disorders with data-driven phenotyping: A study of the Bernese center, European Journal of Neurology, * Co-senior authors.

Tzovara A, Fedele T, Sarnthein J, Ledergerber D, Lin JJ, Knight RT (2024) Predictable and unpredictable deviance detection in the human hippocampus and amygdala, Cerebral Cortex.

Kam JWY, Badhwar A, Borghesani V, Lee K, Noble S, Raamana PR, Ratnanather T, Tan DGH, Lee HW, Marzetti L, Nakua H, Rippon G, Olsen R, Uddin LQ, Yanes JA, Tzovara A (2024). Creating diverse and inclusive scientific practices for research datasets and dissemination. Imaging Neuroscience.

Cusinato R *, Alnes SL *, van Maren E, Boccalaro I, Ledergerber D, Adamantidis A, Imbach LL, Schindler K, Baud MO, Tzovara A (2023) Intrinsic neural timescales in the temporal lobe support an auditory processing hierarchy, Journal of Neuroscience. * Equal contribution.

Aellen FM, Alnes SL, Loosli F, Rossetti AO, Zubler F, De Lucia M, Tzovara A (2023) Auditory stimulation and deep learning predict awakening from coma after cardiac arrest, Brain.

Alnes S, Bächlin L, Schindler K, Tzovara A (2023) Neural complexity and the spectral slope characterize auditory processing in wakefulness and sleep, European Journal of Neuroscience.

Zubler F, Tzovara A (2023) Deep learning for EEG-based prognostication after cardiac arrest: from current research to future clinical applications, Frontiers Neurology.

Alnes S, De Lucia M, Rossetti AO, Tzovara A (2021). Complementary roles of neural synchrony and complexity for indexing consciousness and chances of surviving in acute coma, Neuroimage.

Aellen FM, Kavis-Göktepe P, Apostolopoulos S, Tzovara A (2021). Convolutional neural networks for decoding electroencephalography responses and visualizing trial by trial changes in discriminant features, Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Tivadar R, Knight RT, Tzovara A (2021). Automatic sensory predictions: a review of predictive mechanisms in the brain and their link to conscious processing, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Norori N, Hu Q, Aellen F, Faraci F, Tzovara A (2021). Addressing bias in big data and AI for health care: A call for open science, Patterns.

Llorens A *, Tzovara A *, Bellier L, Bhaya-Grossman I, Bidet-Caulet A, Chang WK, Cross ZR, Dominguez-Faus R, Flinker A, Fonken Y, Gorenstein MA, Holdgraf C, Hoy CW, Ivanova MV, Jimenez RT, Jun S, Kam JWY, Kidd C, Marcelle E, Marciano D, Martin S, Myers NE, Ojala K, Perry A, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Riès SK, Saez I, Skelin I, Slama K, Staveland B, Bassett DS, Buffalo EA, Fairhall AL, Kopell NJ, Kray LJ, Lin JJ, Nobre AC, Riley D, Solbakk AK, Wallis JD, Wang XJ, Yuval-Greenberg S, Kastner S, Knight RT, Dronkers NF. (2021). Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, Neuron. * Equal contribution

Other publications

Lee K+, Borghesani V+, Pacheco de Moraes FH, Pozzobon A, Olsen RK *, Kam J *, Tzovara A *, Badhwar A * (2024). Brain Mappers of Tomorrow: an international multilingual initiative for neuroscience dissemination. Aperture Neuro, + Co-first authors, * Co-senior authors

van Maren E, Alnes SL, da Cruz JR, Sobolewski A, Friedrichs-Mader C, Wohler K, Barlatey S, Feruglio S, Fuchs M, Vlachos I, Zimmermann J, Berolote T, ZâĂŹGraggen WJ, Tzovara A, Donoghue JP, Kouvas G, Schindler K, Pollo C, Baud MO. Full-head sub-scalp EEG via minimally-invasive electrode implantation, a first-in-human trial. Neurology.

Göktepe-Kavis P, Aellen FM, Alnes SL, Tzovara A (2024). Sleep research in the era of AI, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience.

Bechny M., Monachino G, Fiorillo L, van der Meer J, Schmidt M, Bassetti CLA, Tzovara A., Faraci FD. Bridging AI and clinical practice: integrating automated sleep scor- ing algorithm with uncertainty-guided physician review. Nature and science of sleep,

Fiorillo L, Monachino G, van der Meer J, Pesce M, Warncke JD, Schmidt MH, Bassetti CLA, Tzovara A, Favaro P, Faraci FD (2023) U-Sleep’s resilience to AASM guidelines, npj Digital Medicine

Deng Y, Van der Meer J, Tzovara A, Schmidt M, Bassetti CLA, Denecke K (2023) Analysis of Semantic Drifting in Diagnostic Texts for Sleep Disorders, IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS).

Giuliana Monachino, Beatrice Zanchi, Luigi Fiorillo, Giulio Conte, Angelo Auricchio, Athina Tzovara, Francesca Dalia Faraci, (2023) Deep Generative Models: The winning key for large and easily accessible ECG datasets?, Computers in Biology and Medicine

Ojala KE *, Tzovara A *, Poser BA, Lutti A, Bach DR (2022) Asymmetric representation of aversive prediction errors in Pavlovian threat conditioning, Neuroimage. * Equal contribution.

Schindler K.A., Nef T., Baud M.O., Tzovara A., Yilmaz G., Tinkhauser G., Gerber S.M., Gnarra O., Warncke J.D., Schütz N., Knobel S.E.J., Schmidt M.H., Krack P., Fröhlich F., Sznitman R., Rothen S., Bassetti C.L.A. (2021). NeuroTec Sitem-Insel Bern: Closing the Last Mile in Neurology, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience.

Dietmann A, Wenz E, van der Meer J, Ringli M, Warncke JD, Edwards E, Schmidt MH, Bernasconi CA, Nirkko A, Strub M, Miano S, Manconi M, Acker J, von Manitius S, Baumann CR, Valko PO, Yilmaz B, Brunner AD, Tzovara A, Zhang Z, Largiadèr CR, Tafti M, Latorre D, Sallusto F, Khatami R, Bassetti CLA. (2021). The Swiss Primary Hypersomnolence and Narcolepsy Cohort study (SPHYNCS): Study protocol for a prospective, multicentre cohort observational study, Journal of Sleep Research.

Tzovara A., Amarreh, I., Borghesani, V., Chakravarty, M. M., DuPre, E., Grefkes, C., Haugg A., Jollans L., Lee H.L., Newman S.D., Olsen R.K., Ratnanathern J. T., Rippon G., Uddin L., Q., Bringas Vega M.L., Veldsman M., White T., Badhwar, A. (2021). Embracing diversity and inclusivity in an academic setting: Insights from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Neuroimage.

Johnson E.L., Kam J.W.Y., Tzovara A., Knight R.T. (2020). Insights into human cognition from intracranial EEG: A review of audition, memory, internal cognition, and causality, Journal of Neural Engineering.

Castegnetti G., Tzovara A., Khemka S., Melinščak F., Barnes G.R., Dolan R.J., Bach D.R. (2020). Representation of probabilistic outcomes during risky decision-making, Nature Communications.

Fedele T. *, Tzovara A. *, Steiger B, Hilfiker P, Grunwald T, Stieglitz L, Jokeit H, Sarnthein J (2020). The relation between neuronal firing, local field potentials and hemodynamic activity in the human amygdala in response to aversive dynamic visual stimuli, Neuroimage. * Equal contribution

Ojala K.E. *, Tzovara A. *, Poser B.A., Lutti A., Bach D.R. (2020). Asymmetric representation of aversive prediction errors in Pavlovian threat conditioning bioRxiv. * Equal contribution

Tzovara A., Meyer S.S., Bonaiuto J., Abivardi A., Dolan R., Barnes G.R., Bac D. R. (2019). High‐precision magnetoencephalography for reconstructing amygdalar and hippocampal oscillations during prediction of safety and threat, Human Brain Mapping.

Greshake Tzovaras B., Angrist M., Arvai K., Dulaney M., Estrada-Galiñanes V., Gunderson B., Head T., Lewis D., Nov O., Shaer O., Tzovara A, Bobe J., Price Ball M. (2019). Open Humans: A platform for participant-centered research and personal data exploration, GigaScience.

Greshake Tzovaras B., Tzovara A. (2019). The personal data is political. Book chapter in: The Ethics of Medical Data Donation. Springer.

Tzovara A., Korn C.W. Bach D.R. (2018). Human Pavlovian fear conditioning conforms to probabilistic learning, PLOS Computational Biology.

Bach D. R., Tzovara A., Vunder J. (2017). Blocking human fear memory with thematrix metalloproteinase inhibitor doxycycline, Molecular Psychiatry.

Tzovara A., Rossetti A.O., Juan E., Suys T., Viceic D., Rusca M., Oddo M., DeLucia M. (2016). Prediction of awakening from hypothermic post anoxic comabased on auditory discrimination, Annals of Neurology.

Tzovara A., Simonin A., Oddo M., Rossetti A.O., De Lucia M. (2015). Neural detection of complex sound sequences in the absence of consciousness, Brain.

Chouiter L.*,Tzovara A. *, Dieguez S., Annoni J.M., Magezi D., De Lucia M.,Spierer L. (2015). Experience-based auditory predictions modulate brain activity to silence as do real sounds, J Cogn Neuroscience. * Equal contribution

De Lucia M.,Tzovara A. (2015). Decoding auditory EEG responses in healthy andclinical populations: A comparative study, J Neurosci Methods.

Tzovara A., Rossetti A.O., Murray M.M., Spierer L., Grivel J., Oddo M., De Lucia M. (2013). Progression of auditory discrimination based on neural decoding predictsawakening from coma, Brain.

Tzovara A., Murray M.M., Bourdaud N., Chavarriaga R., Del R. Millan J., DeLucia M. (2012). The timing of exploratory decision-making revealed by single-trialtopographic EEG analyses, Neuroimage.

Tzovara A., Murray M.M., Plomp G., Herzog M.H., Michel C.M., De Lucia M. (2012) Decoding stimulus-related information from single-trial EEG responses based on voltage topographies. Pattern Recognition.

Bernasconi F., De Lucia M.,Tzovara A. *, Manuel A. L., Murray M.M., SpiererL. (2011). Noise in brain activity engenders perception and influences discrimination sensitivity, J. of Neuroscience. * Equal contribution