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Preprint

Wurm, M. F.,  Erigüç, Y. (2023). Decoding the physics of actions in the human brain. bioRxiv.  

Liu, S., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. (2023). Dissociating Goal from Outcome During Action Observation. bioRxiv.  

Karakose-Akbıyık. S., Sussman, O., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. (2023). The role of agentive and physical forces in the neural representation of motion events. accepted at J Neurosci.  



Peer-reviewed 

de Vries, I.E.J., Wurm, M. F. (2023). Predictive neural representations of naturalistic dynamic input. Nature Communications, 14, 3858.  

Karakose-Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., Wurm, M. F. (2023). A shared neural code for the physics of actions and object events. Nature Communications, 14, 3316.  

Siestrup S., Jainta,B., El-Sourani, A., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Wolf, O. T., Cheng, S., Schubotz, R. I.  (2022). What happened when? Cerebral processing of modified structure and content in episodic cueing. J Cogn Neurosci. 34 (7), 1287-1305   

Jainta,B., Siestrup S., El-Sourani, A., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Werning, M., Cheng, S., Schubotz, R. I. (2022). Seeing What I Did (Not): Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Agency and Perspective on Episodic Memory Re-activation. Front Behav Neurosci, 7;15:793115.  

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2022). Two 'what' pathways for action and object recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26, 2.  

Pomp, J., Heims, N., Trempler, I., Kulvicius, T., Tamosiunaite, M., Mecklenbrauck, F., Wurm, M. F., Wörgötter, F., Schubotz, R.I. (2021). Touching events predict human action segmentation in brain and behavior. NeuroImage, 243, 118534.  

Wurm, M. F., Tagliabue, C. F., Mazza, V. (2021). Decoding location-specific and location-invariant stages of numerosity processing in subitizing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(3), 4971-4984. 

Bergström, F., Wurm, M. F., Valério, D., Lingnau, A., Almeida, J. (2021). Tool-hand and viewpoint-invariant grasp-type information in parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex. Cortex, 139, 152-165.

Kluger, D. S., Broers, N., Roehe, M. A., Wurm, M. F., Busch, N. A., Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Exploitation of local and global information in predictive processing. PLoS One 15(4), e0231021.

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Predictive impact of contextual objects during action observation: evidence from fMRI. J Cogn Neurosci, 32(2), 326-337

Tucciarelli, R., Wurm, M. F., E Baccolo, E., Lingnau, A. (2019). The representational space of observed actions. eLife, 8:e47686.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2019). Lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions rather than abstract representations of sociality. NeuroImage, 202, 116153.

Wurm, M. F.*, Porter, K. B.*, Caramazza, A. (2019). Individuation of parts of a single object and multiple distinct objects relies on a common neural mechanism in inferior intraparietal sulcus. Cortex, 121, 1-15. *equal contribution.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2019). Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal regions in representing actions across vision and language. Nature Communications, 10(1), 289.

Vannuscorps*, G., Wurm*, M. F., Striem-Amit, E., Caramazza, A. (2018). Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands. Cereb Cortex, 29(8), 3434–3444. *equal contribution.

El-Sourani, N., Wurm, M. F., Trempler, I. C., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. (2018). Making sense of objects lying around: How contextual objects shape brain activity during action observation. Neuroimage, 167, 429-437.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I., (2018). The role of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) in action observation: Agent detection rather than visuospatial transformation. Neuroimage, 165, 48-55.

Papeo L., Wurm M. F., Oosterhof N. N., Caramazza A. (2017). The neural representation of humans versus nonhuman bipeds and quadrupeds. Sci Reports, 7(1), 14040.

Wurm, M. F., Artemenko, C., Giuliani, D., Schubotz, R. I. (2017). Action at its place: contextual settings enhance action recognition in 4- to 8-year-old children. Dev Psych, 53(2), 662-670.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. (2017). What’s she doing in the kitchen? Context helps when actions are hard to recognize. Psychon Bull Rev, 24(2), 503-509.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A., Lingnau, A. (2017). Action categories in lateral occipitotemporal cortex are organized along sociality and transitivity. J Neurosci, 37(3), 562-575. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. (2016). Decoding Concrete and Abstract Action Representations During Explicit and Implicit Conceptual Processing. Cereb Cortex,  26(8), 3390-3401  

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding Internally- and Externally-Driven Movement Plans. J Neurosci, 35(42), 14160-14171.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. (2015). Objects Mediate Goal Integration in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex during Action Observation. PLoS One, 10:e0134316.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding actions at different levels of abstraction. J Neurosci, 35(20), 7727-7735.

Wurm, M. F., Hrkac, M., Morikawa, Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Predicting goals in action episodes attenuates BOLD response in inferior frontal and occipitotemporal cortex. Behav Brain Res, 274, 108-117.  

Schubotz, R. I., Wurm, M. F., Wittmann, M. K., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2014). Objects tell us what action we can expect: dissociating brain areas for retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge during action observation in fMRI. Front Psychol, 5, 636.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Action observers implicitly expect actors to act goal-coherently, even if they do not: an fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp, 35(5), 2178-2190.

Turella, L., Wurm, M. F., Tucciarelli, R., & Lingnau, A. (2013). Expertise in action observation: recent neuroimaging findings and future perspectives. Front Hum Neurosci, 7, 637.

Wurm, M. F., Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). The context-object-manipulation triad: cross talk during action perception revealed by fMRI. J Cogn Neurosci, 24(7), 1548-1559.

Schiffer, A. M., Ahlheim, C., Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Surprised at all the entropy: hippocampal, caudate and midbrain contributions to learning from prediction errors. PLoS One, 7(5), e36445.

Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Squeezing lemons in the bathroom: contextual information modulates action recognition. Neuroimage, 59(2), 1551-1559.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Do we mind other minds when we mind other minds' actions? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Hum Brain Mapp, 32(12), 2141-2150.


Book Chapters

Leshinskaya, A., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2020). Concepts of Actions and their Objects. In: Gazzaniga, M., Mangun, G. R., Poeppel, D. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition, 757-765.