Dr. Aleksandra Eberhard-Moscicka

Department of Psychology, Division of Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Research Methods, University of Bern, CH, since March 2023 Research Associate

Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, June-August 2022 Research Stay

Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, IT, September 2021 Research Visit

Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, October 2019 Research Visit

Department of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN, January-May 2018 Research Stay

Department of Psychology, Division of Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood, University of Zurich, CH, 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow

Departments of Neurology and BioMedical Research, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, CH, since 2019 Senior Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2018

Department of Psychology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Zurich, CH, Postdoctoral Fellow 2015

PhD in Neuroscience (2015) University of Zurich; ZNZ International PhD Program in Neuroscience, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, CH

Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, USA, March 2014 Functional MRI Visiting Fellowship

Master of Arts in Psychology (2010), University of Wroclaw, PL and University of South Wales, UK

Bachelor of Science in Psychology (2009), University of South Wales, UK

Project grants, Prizes & Fellowships

Research Funds of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Bern (20’740 CHF, raised between April 2023 and March 2024)

Scientific Exchanges Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation (PI, SNF-210268, 16’500 CHF). “The role of sleep in consolidation of the beneficial effect of contralesional continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) in visual hemineglect”. (2022)

Spark Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation (PI, SNF-190521, 115’000 CHF). “Better to focus or to spread? Signal propagation and its relationship to cognitive performance in the aging human brain”. (2019)

DBMR Poster Prize for the best clinical project (2’000 CHF). “The influence of inhibitory theta burst stimulation over the intact hemisphere on visual neglect & sleep parameters“. (2018)

Biäsch Foundation for Applied Psychology (PI, 2015-27, 50’000 CHF). “Neurocognitive mechanisms of learning to read and write in the native and foreign language: development and prediction”. (2015)

Travel grants of the Neuroscience Center Zurich / Graduate Campus Zurich (total 7’000 CHF, 2012-18)

Camenzind M., Single M., Gerber S. M., Nef T., Bassetti C. L., Müri R. M., & Eberhard-Moscicka A. K. (2024). Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000667

Camenzind M., Göbel N., Eberhard-Moscicka A. K., Knobel S. E. J., Hegi H., Single M., Kaufmann B.C., Schumacher R., Nyffeler T., Nef T., & Müri R. M. (2024). The phenomenology of pareidolia in healthy subjects and patients with left-or right-hemispheric stroke. Heliyon 10 (5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27414

Subramaniam A., Eberhard-Moscicka A. K., Ertl M., & Mast F. W. (2023). Rocking Devices and the Role of Vestibular Stimulation on Sleep—A Systematic Review. Clinical and Translational Neuroscience, 7(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/ctn7040040

Müri R. M., Camenzind M., Chiffi K., Stuber I., & Eberhard-Moscicka A. K. (2023). To Nap or to Rest? The Influence of a Sixty-Minute Intervention on Verbal and Figural Convergent and Divergent Thinking. Clinical and Translational Neuroscience, 7(3), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ctn7030020

Göbel N., Cazzoli D., Gutbrod C., Müri R. M., & Eberhard-Moscicka A. K. (2023). An item sorting heuristic to derive equivalent parallel test versions from multivariate items. Plos one, 18(4), e0284768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284768

Camenzind M., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Cazzoli D., & Müri R.M. (2022). Hyperzographia in Neglact Exposing a Spatial Dissociation between Painting and Writing - A Case Study. Reports, 5, 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/reports5030032

Diana L., Scotti G., Aiello E.N., Pilastro P., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Müri, R.M., & Bolognini N. (2022). Conventional and HD-tDCS May (or May Not) Modulate Overt Attentional Orienting: An Integrated Spatio-Temporal Approach and Methodological Reflections. Brain Sciences, 12, 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010071

Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Jost L.B., Daum M.M., & Maurer U. (2021). Predicting reading from behavioral and neural measures – a longitudinal ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:733494. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733494

Jaramillo V., Jendoubi J., Maric A., Mensen A., Heyse N.C., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Wiest R., Bassetti C.L., & Huber R. (2021). Reduced synaptic renormalization during sleep after thalamic stroke. Annals of Neurology, 90(5), 821-833. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26217

Chiffi K., Diana L., Hartmann M., Cazzoli D., Bassetti C.L, Müri R.M., & Eberhard-Moscicka A.K. (2021). Spatial asymmetries (“Pseudoneglect”) in free visual exploration – modulation of age and relationship to line bisection. Experimental Brain Research, 239(9), 2693-2700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06165-x

Maurer U., Jost L.B., Pfenninger S.E., & Eberhard-Moscicka A.K. (2021). Effects of reading skills and bilingualism on early foreign language learning in primary school children. Reading and Writing, 34, 2673–2689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10166-1

Diana L., Pilastro P., Aiello E.N., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Müri R.M., & Bolognini N. (2021). Saccades, attentional orienting and disengagement: the effects of anodal tDCS over right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and frontal eye field (FEF). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.25.428095

Diana L., Frei M., Chesham A., de Jong D., Chiffi K., Nyffeler T., Bassetti C.L., Göbel N., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., & Müri R.M. (2020). A divergent approach to pareidolias – Exploring creativity in a novel way. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5(2), 313–323.  https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000293

Hartmann M., Sommer N.R., Diana L., Müri R.M., & Eberhard-Moscicka A.K. (2019). Further to the right: Viewing distance modulates attentional asymmetries (‘pseudoneglect’) during visual exploration. Brain and Cognition, 129, 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2018.11.008

Mensen A., Pigorini A., Facchin L., Schöne C., D’Ambrosio S., Jendoubi J., Jaramillo V., Chiffi K., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Sarasso S., Adamantidis A., Müri R.M., Huber R., Massimini M., & Bassetti C. (2019). Sleep as a model to understand neuroplasticity and recovery after stroke: observational, perturbational and interventional approaches. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 313, 37-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.12.011

Heyse N. C., Jaramillo V., Mensen A., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Bassetti C., & Huber R. (2017). Evolution of macrosleep in the acute and subacute phase after stroke. Sleep Medicine, 40(1), e130-e130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.380

Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Jost L.B., Fehlbaum L.V., Pfenninger S.E., & Maurer U. (2016). Temporal dynamics of early visual word processing - early versus late N1 sensitivity in children and adults. Neuropsychologia, 91, 509-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.09.014

Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Jost L.B., Raith M., & Maurer U. (2015). Neurocognitive mechanisms of learning to read: print tuning in beginning readers related to word-reading fluency and semantics but not phonology. Developmental Science, 18(1), 106-118.  https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12189

Jost L.B., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Pleisch G., Heusser V., Brandeis D., Zevin J.D., & Maurer U. (2015). Native and non-native speech sound processing and the neural mismatch responses: A longitudinal study on classroom-based foreign language learning. Neuropsychologia, 72, 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.04.029

Jost L.B., Eberhard-Moscicka A.K., Frisch C., Dellwo V., & Maurer U. (2013). Integration of Spoken and Written Words in Beginning Readers: A Topographic ERP Study. Brain Topography, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-013-0336-4