PUBLICATIONS

Eye movements reflect memory-related theta activity in the human brain

Zubair HN*, Stangl M*, Topalovic U, Inman C, Seeber M, Hiller S, Rao VR, Halpern CH, Eliashiv D, Fried I, Suthana N.

PLOS Biology, 24(3), e3003695 (2026).

* Shared first authors.

Failure to detect entorhinal grid-like signals in a passive navigation human fMRI study

Kransberg J, Sjøli Bråthen AC, Falch ES, Øverbye KEØ, Garrido PF, Fjell AM, Stangl M, Wolbers T, Sneve MH, Walhovd KB.

Imaging Neuroscience, 4, IMAG.a.1196 (2026).

Altered coding of environmental boundaries in human aging: an fMRI study

Segen V, Stangl M, Shine J, Wolbers T.

Hippocampus, 35(6), e70044 (2025).

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation

Seeber M, Stangl M, Vallejo Martelo M, Topalovic U, Hiller S, Halpern CH, Langevin JP, Rao VR, Fried I, Eliashiv D, Suthana N.

Nature Human Behaviour, 9(4), 781–793 (2025).

Invasive electrophysiological recordings from humans during navigation

Stangl M, Maoz SL, Suthana N.

In Grafman JH (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 202–214). Elsevier (2025).

Entorhinal-based path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer's disease

Newton C, Pope M, Rua C, Henson R, Ji Z, Burgess N, Rodgers CT, Stangl M, Dounavi ME, Castegnaro A, Koychev I, Malhotra P, Wolbers T, Ritchie K, Ritchie CW, O’Brien J, Su L, Chan D.

Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 20(4), 2779–2793 (2024).

Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’

Stangl M, Maoz SL, Suthana N.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(6), 347–362 (2023).

Dynamic neural representations of memory and space during human ambulatory navigation

Maoz SLL, Stangl M, Topalovic U, Batista D, Hiller S, Aghajan ZM, Knowlton B, Stern J, Langevin JP, Fried I, Eliashiv D, Suthana N.

Nature Communications, 14, 6643 (2023).

A wearable platform for closed-loop stimulation and recording of single-neuron and local field potential activity in freely moving humans

Topalovic U, Barclay S, Ling C, Alzuhair A, Yu W, Hokhikyan V, Chandrakumar H, Rozgic D, Jiang W, Basir-Kazeruni S, Maoz SL, Inman CS, Stangl M, Gill J, Bari A, Fallah A, Eliashiv D, Pouratian N, Fried I, Suthana N**, Markovic D**.

Nature Neuroscience, 26, 517–527 (2023).

** Shared senior authors.

Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space

Wagner IC, Graichen LP, Todorova B, Lüttig A, Omer DB, Stangl M, Lamm C.

Nature Communications, 14, 231 (2023).

A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder

Gill JL*, Schneiders JA*, Stangl M, Aghajan ZM, Hiller S, Topalovic U, Vallejo M, Inman CS, Villaroman D, Bari A, Adhikari A, Rao VR, Fanselow MS, Craske MG, Krahl SE, Chen JWY, Vick M, Hasulak NR, Kao JC, Koek RJ, Suthana N**, Langevin JP**.

Nature Communications, 14, 2997 (2023).

* Shared first authors; ** shared senior authors.

The future of iEEG: What are the promises and challenges of mobile iEEG recordings?

Maoz SL, Stangl M, Topalovic U, Suthana N.

In Axmacher N (Ed.), Intracranial EEG: A Guide for Cognitive Neuroscientists (pp. 891–906). Springer (2023).

Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others

Stangl M, Topalovic U, Inman CS, Hiller S, Villaroman D, Aghajan ZM, Christov-Moore L, Hasulak NR, Rao VR, Halpern CH, Eliashiv D, Fried I, Suthana N.

Nature, 589, 420–425 (2021).

Sources of path integration error in young and aging humans

Stangl M*, Kanitscheider I*, Riemer M, Fiete I**, Wolbers T**.

Nature Communications, 11, 2626 (2020).

* Shared first authors; ** shared senior authors.

Wireless programmable recording and stimulation of deep brain activity in freely moving humans

Topalovic U, Aghajan ZM, Villaroman D, Hiller S, Christov-Moore L, Wishard TJ, Stangl M, Hasulak NR, Inman CS, Fields TA, Rao VR, Eliashiv D, Fried I, Suthana N.

Neuron, 108(2), 322–334.e9 (2020).

Population-level analysis of human grid cell activation

Stangl M, Wolbers T, Shine JP.

In Pollmann S (Ed.), Spatial Learning and Attention Guidance (Neuromethods, Vol. 151, pp. 257–279). Humana (2019).

Compromised grid-cell-like representations in old age as a key mechanism to explain age-related navigational deficits

Stangl M, Achtzehn J, Huber K, Dietrich C, Tempelmann C, Wolbers T.

Current Biology, 28(7), 1108–1115.e6 (2018).

The GridCAT: A toolbox for automated analysis of human grid cell codes in fMRI

Stangl M*, Shine J*, Wolbers T.

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 11, 47 (2017).

* Shared first authors.

Changes in pattern completion – a key mechanism to explain age-related recognition memory deficits?

Vieweg P, Stangl M, Howard LR, Wolbers T.

Cortex, 64, 343–351 (2015).

Shutting down sensorimotor interference unblocks the networks for stimulus processing: An SMR neurofeedback training study

Kober SE, Witte M, Stangl M, Väljamäe A, Neuper C, Wood G.

Clinical Neurophysiology, 126(1), 82–95 (2015).

Sequential effects in continued visual search: Using fixation-related potentials to compare distractor processing before and after target detection

Körner C, Braunstein V, Stangl M, Schlögl A, Neuper C, Ischebeck A.

Psychophysiology, 51(4), 385–395 (2014).

Near-infrared spectroscopy based neurofeedback training increases specific motor imagery related cortical activation compared to sham feedback

Kober SE, Wood G, Kurzmann J, Friedrich EVC, Stangl M, Wippel T, Väljamäe A, Neuper C.

Biological Psychology, 95, 21–30 (2014).

Neural substrates of cognitive control under the belief of getting neurofeedback training

Ninaus M, Kober SE, Witte M, Koschutnig K, Stangl M, Neuper C, Wood G.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 914 (2013).

A haemodynamic brain–computer interface based on real-time classification of near infrared spectroscopy signals during motor imagery and mental arithmetic

Stangl M, Bauernfeind G, Kurzmann J, Scherer R, Neuper C.

Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 21(3), 157–171 (2013).