Language and Aphasia

Gesa Hartwigsen is a Professor for Cognitive and Biological Psychology at Leipzig University in Germany. She is also heading the research group Cognition and Plasticity at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She is a psychologist by training and has worked at the intersection between psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology for several years. Her main research interest is how the language network in our brain adapts to challenges, including perturbations induced by non-invasive brain stimulation, cognitive aging, and brain lesions.