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Marcel Brass

Marcel Brass

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Neuroscience
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
78
Citations
28204
World Ranking
1738
National Ranking
14

Psychology

D-Index
78
Citations
28213
World Ranking
1562
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Marcel Brass is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and psychology. Their publication record includes a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology, with additional work in experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their most cited papers cover a range of topics related to neural dynamics, behavior, and psychological processes. Selected recent publications include:

  • Autistic traits are related to worse performance in a volatile reward learning task despite adaptive learning rates, 2020, Autism
  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology
  • Theta-Phase Connectivity between Medial Prefrontal and Posterior Areas Underlies Novel Instructions Implementation, 2022, eNeuro
  • Manipulating Belief in Free Will and Its Downstream Consequences: A Meta-Analysis, 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Frontoparietal action-oriented codes support novel instruction implementation, 2020, NeuroImage

Research topics covered in their work commonly include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Marcel Brass regularly collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Emiel Cracco
  • Carlos González-García
  • Silvia Formica
  • David Wisniewski
  • Jan R. Wiersema

The researcher has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognition
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation

    Marco Iacoboni;Roger P. Woods;Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering

  • Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

    Chun Siong Soon;Marcel Brass;Hans-Jochen Heinze;John-Dylan Haynes

  • Compatibility between observed and executed finger movements: comparing symbolic, spatial, and imitative cues.

    Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering;Andreas Wohlschläger;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task

    Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?

    Marcel Brass;Cecilia M. Heyes

  • Involvement of the inferior frontal junction in cognitive control: meta-analyses of switching and Stroop studies.

    Jan Derrfuss;Marcel Brass;Jane Neumann;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Reafferent copies of imitated actions in the right superior temporal cortex

    Marco Iacoboni;Lisa M. Koski;Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering

  • Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation.

    Marcel Brass;Ruth M. Schmitt;Stephanie Spengler;György Gergely

  • The role of the inferior frontal junction area in cognitive control.

    Marcel Brass;Jan Derrfuss;Birte U. Forstmann;D. Yves von Cramon

  • To do or not to do: the neural signature of self-control.

    Marcel Brass;Patrick Haggard

  • The Role of the Frontal Cortex in Task Preparation

    Marcel Brass;D. Yves von Cramon

  • The What, When, Whether Model of Intentional Action

    Marcel Brass;Patrick Haggard

  • Inhibition of imitative behaviour and social cognition.

    Marcel Brass;Perrine Ruby;Stephanie Spengler

  • Decomposing Components of Task Preparation with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Marcel Brass;D. Yves Von Cramon

  • Cognitive control in the posterior frontolateral cortex: evidence from common activations in task coordination, interference control, and working memory.

    Jan Derrfuss;Marcel Brass;D. Yves von Cramon

  • The inhibition of imitative and overlearned responses: a functional double dissociation.

    Marcel Brass;Jan Derrfuss;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Who Comes First? The Role of the Prefrontal and Parietal Cortex in Cognitive Control

    Marcel Brass;Markus Ullsperger;Thomas R. Knoesche;D. Yves Von Cramon

  • The inhibition of imitative response tendencies.

    Marcel Brass;Stefan Zysset;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Hyperimitation of Actions Is Related to Reduced Understanding of Others' Minds in Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Stephanie Spengler;Geoffrey Bird;Marcel Brass

  • Automatic imitation: A meta-analysis.

    Emiel Cracco;Lara Bardi;Charlotte Desmet;Oliver Genschow

  • Report Investigating Action Understanding: Inferential Processes versus Action Simulation

    Marcel Brass;Ruth M. Schmitt;Stephanie Spengler

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
D. Yves von Cramon
D. Yves von Cramon Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Roman Liepelt
Roman Liepelt University of Hagen
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Iring Koch
Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University
Florian Waszak
Florian Waszak Université Paris Cité
Agnes Moors
Agnes Moors KU Leuven
Birte U. Forstmann
Birte U. Forstmann University of Amsterdam
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University

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