Sina Alexandra Schwarze

External LIFE Fellow from 2021 to 2023, MPI for Human Development

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation Defended at Freie Universität Berlin in May 2024

The Development of Flexible Behavior: Age Differences and Training-Related Changes in Activation, Connectivity, and Neural Representations During Task Switching

(Advisors: Yana Fandakova & Ulman Lindenberger)

Selected Publications

Schwarze, S. A., Bonati, S., Cichy, R. M., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2025). Task-switch related reductions in neural distinctiveness in children and adults: Commonalities and differences. Journal of Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2358-23.2025

Schwarze, S. A., Laube, C., Khosravani, N., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2025). Intensive task-switching training and single-task training differentially affect behavioral and neural manifestations of cognitive control in children. Cerebral Cortex, 35(5), Article bhaf103. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf103

Schwarze, S. A., Fandakova, Y., & Lindenberger, U. (2024). Cognitive flexibility across the lifespan: Developmental differences in the neural basis of sustained and transient control processes during task switching. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 58, Article 101395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101395