Resting-state is not enough: alpha and mu rhythms change shape across development, but lack diagnostic sensitivity
A Bender, B Voytek*, N Schaworonkow*. bioRxiv, 2023.
CV
Natalie Schaworonkow
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Deutschordenstraße 46
60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
phone: +49 (0)69 / 96769 121
email natalie.schaworonkow@esi-frankfurt.de for a full CV.
Research experience
- Postdoctoral Scholar (2021 – now)
Ernst-Strüngmann-Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Group of Prof. Dr. David Poeppel. - Postdoctoral Scholar (2019 – 2021)
Department of Cognitive Science, University of California – San Diego, United States. Group of Prof. Dr. Bradley Voytek. - Graduate Researcher (2017 – 2019)
Department of Neurology & Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany. Group of Prof. Dr. Ulf Ziemann. - Graduate Researcher (2015 – 2018)
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies & Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Group of Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science (2019)
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies & Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Thesis: The effects of neuronal oscillations on responses induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch.MSc. Computational Neuroscience
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany. Thesis: A critical assessment of correlations between neuronal activity and behavioral measures. Supervisors: Dr. Vadim Nikulin & Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio.BSc. Cognitive Science
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany. Thesis: Weight clustering for optimizing hierarchical neural networks used for canonical feature detection in natural images. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter König.
Grants
- 2022–2024: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2023: Funding for ”CuttingGardens Frankfurt” (MEG/EEG/iEEG methods conference)
Joachim Herz Stiftung ”Begegnungszonen” (25 000 €), together with Felix Klotzsche & Roxanne Lofredi
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ”International Scientific Events” (up to 20 000 €)
Publications
(* = authors contributed equally)
An #EEGManyLabs study to test the role of the alpha phase on visual perception (a replication and new evidence)
M Ruzzoli, M Torralba, N Molinaro, C Benwell, D Berkowitz, D Brignani, L Falciati, L Greenwood, A Harris, C Huber-Huber, B Jack, C Keitel, M Kopčanová, C Madan, K Mathewson, S Mishra, S Mishra, P Morucci, N Myers, N Myers, F Nannetti, S Nara, J Pérez-Navarro, T Ro, N Schaworonkow, J Snyder, S Soto-Faraco, N Srinivasan, D Trübutschek, U Ajmeria, A Zazio, F Mushtaq, Y Pavlov, D Veniero. OSF, 2023.
Overcoming harmonic hurdles: Genuine beta-band rhythms vs. contributions of alpha-band waveform shape
N Schaworonkow. Imaging Neuroscience, 2023.
Oscillatory waveform shape and temporal spike correlations differ across bat frontal and auditory cortex
F García-Rosales, N Schaworonkow*, J Hechavarria*. Journal of Neuroscience, 2024.
Corticospinal excitability is highest at the early rising phase of sensorimotor µ-rhythm
C Zrenner, G Kozák, N Schaworonkow, J Metsomaa, D Baur, D Vetter, D Blumberger, U Ziemann, P Belardinelli. NeuroImage, 2023.
Oscillations and aperiodic activity: Evidence for dynamic changes in both during memory encoding
M Preston, N Schaworonkow, B Voytek. bioRxiv, 2022.
Is sensor space analysis good enough? Spatial patterns as a tool for assessing spatial mixing of EEG/MEG rhythms
N Schaworonkow, V Nikulin. NeuroImage, 2022.
Enhancing oscillations in intracranial electrophysiological recordings with data-driven spatial filters
N Schaworonkow, B Voytek. PLOS Computational Biology, 2021.
Methodological considerations for studying neural oscillations
T Donoghue, N Schaworonkow, B Voytek. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021.
Longitudinal changes in aperiodic and periodic activity in electrophysiological recordings in the first seven months of life
N Schaworonkow, B Voytek. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021.
Spatial neuronal synchronization and the waveform of oscillations: Implications for EEG and MEG
N Schaworonkow, V Nikulin. PLOS Computational Biology, 2019.
EEG-triggered TMS reveals stronger brain state-dependent modulation of motor evoked potentials at weaker stimulation intensities
N Schaworonkow, J Triesch, U Ziemann, C Zrenner. Brain Stimulation, 2019.
μ-Rhythm Extracted With Personalized EEG Filters Correlates With Corticospinal Excitability in Real-Time Phase-Triggered EEG-TMS
N Schaworonkow, P Caldana, P Belardinelli, U Ziemann, T Bergmann, C Zrenner. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018.
Simulation of electromyographic recordings following transcranial magnetic stimulation
B Moezzi, N Schaworonkow, L Plogmacher, M Goldsworthy, B Hordacre, M McDonnell, N Iannella, M Ridding, J Triesch. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2018.
Ongoing brain rhythms shape I-wave properties in a computational model
N Schaworonkow, J Triesch. Brain Stimulation, 2018.
A multi-scale computational model of the effects of TMS on motor cortex
H Seo, N Schaworonkow, S Jun, J Triesch. F1000Research, 2017.
Power-law dynamics in neuronal and behavioral data introduce spurious correlations: Power-Law Dynamics in Neuronal and Behavioral Data
N Schaworonkow, D Blythe, J Kegeles, G Curio, V Nikulin. Human Brain Mapping, 2015.
Talks & Teaching
Not just frequency: neural oscillations & their characteristic waveform shape
Talk at German Federal Institute for Metrology, Berlin, Germany
Differentiating genuine beta bursts from mu-rhythm harmonics
Talk at Congress für clinical neuroscience, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Waveform Shape of Neural Oscillations across Cortical Regions
Talk at Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, Münster, Germany
Neural Oscillations @ Rademaker lab meeting
Talk at ESI, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Spectral Analysis @ MNE-python workshop
Tutorial at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Lecture series at Goethe University, Psychology Department, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Impact of neural oscillations on cortical excitability: potential and caveats
Talk at Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Spectral Analysis, PracticalMEEG 2022 workshop
Tutorial at Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
Spatial Filters, Advanced EEG methods seminar
Tutorial at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Impact of neural oscillations on cortical excitability: potentials & caveats
Talk at MEG lab, UCL, UK
Data-driven iEEG referencing
Talk at Department of Neurology and Brain Imaging Center Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Older random fun talks
Talks at various places, somewhere
Professional Service
- reviewing
Brain Stimulation, Current Biology, Cerebral Cortex Communications, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, eLife, European Journal of Neuroscience, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Imaging Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Biology - organizing
CuttingGardens Frankfurt – EEG/MEG/iEEG methods conference – Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
neuromatch academy – computational neuroscience summer school (content review, admissions)