Elisabeth Wenger

LIFE Fellow from 2010 to 2013, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation completed in June 2014

Brain Plasticity: Temporal Dynamics of Training-Induced Gray Matter Alterations

(Advisors: Martin Lövdén & Simone Kühn)

Selected Publications

Wenger, E., Brozzoli, C., Lindenberger, U., & Lövdén, M. (2017). Expansion and renormalization of human brain structure during skill acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 930–939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.008

Wenger, E., Kühn, S., Verrel, J., Mårtensson, J., Bodammer, N. C., Lindenberger, U., & Lövdén, M. (2017). Repeated structural imaging reveals non-linear progression of experience-dependent volume changes in human motor cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 2911–2925. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw141

Wenger, E., Schaefer, S., Noack, H., Kühn, S., Mårtensson, J., Heinze, H.-J., Düzel, E., Bäckman, L., Lindenberger, U., & Lövdén, M. (2012). Cortical thickness changes following spatial navigation training in adulthood and aging. NeuroImage, 59, 3389–3397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.015