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Overview

Roel M. Willems is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, literature and literary theory, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including media influence and health, language, metaphor, and cognition, action observation and synchronization, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, creativity in education and neuroscience, misinformation and its impacts, and reading and literacy development.

Recent publications by Roel M. Willems include:

  • Narratives for Neuroscience, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • How context changes the neural basis of perception and language, 2021, iScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Willems are:

  • Marloes Mak
  • Lynn S. Eekhof
  • Myrthe Faber
  • Kobie van Krieken
  • Alessandro Lopopolo

Willems has contributed often to publication venues such as:

  • Discourse Processes
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • iScience
  • Cortex

Best Publications

  • When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture, and action: A review

    Roel M. Willems;Peter Hagoort

  • Complementary systems for understanding action intentions

    Floris P. de Lange;Marjolein Spronk;Roel M. Willems;Ivan Toni

  • On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials

    Aslı Özyürek;Roel M. Willems;Sotaro Kita;Peter Hagoort

  • On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics

    Roel M. Willems;Lise Van der Haegen;Simon E. Fisher;Clyde Francks

  • Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs Neural Evidence From Right- and Left-Handers

    Roel M. Willems;Peter Hagoort;Daniel Casasanto

  • Prediction During Natural Language Comprehension

    Roel M. Willems;Stefan L. Frank;Annabel D. Nijhof;Peter Hagoort

  • Altered Intrinsic Functional Connectivity of Anterior and Posterior Insula Regions in High-Functioning Participants With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Sjoerd J.H. Ebisch;Vittorio Gallese;Roel M. Willems;Dante Mantini;Dante Mantini

  • Differential roles for left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in multimodal integration of action and language

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery

    Roel M. Willems;Roel M. Willems;Ivan Toni;Peter Hagoort;Daniel Casasanto

  • Flexibility in Embodied Language Understanding

    Roel M. Willems;Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto

  • A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence From Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Roel M. Willems;Roel M. Willems;Ludovica Labruna;Ludovica Labruna;Ludovica Labruna;Mark D'Esposito;Richard Ivry;Richard Ivry

  • The function of words: Distinct neural correlates for words denoting differently manipulable objects

    Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer;Daan van Rooij;Oliver Lindemann;Roel M. Willems

  • Cerebral Lateralization of Face-Selective and Body-Selective Visual Areas Depends on Handedness

    Roel M. Willems;Mauritius V. Peelen;Peter Hagoort

  • Music and language syntax interact in Broca’s Area: An fMRI study

    Richard Kunert;Richard Kunert;Roel M. Willems;Roel M. Willems;Daniel Casasanto;Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Grounding the neurobiology of language in first principles: The necessity of non-language-centric explanations for language comprehension.

    Uri Hasson;Uri Hasson;Giovanna Egidi;Marco Marelli;Roel M. Willems

  • Seeing and hearing meaning: Erp and fmri evidence of word versus picture integration into a sentence context

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • Body-Specific Motor Imagery of Hand Actions: Neural Evidence from Right- and Left-Handers

    Roel M Willems;Ivan Toni;Peter Hagoort;Daniel Casasanto

  • Word predictability and semantic similarity show distinct patterns of brain activity during language comprehension

    Stefan L. Frank;Roel M. Willems

  • Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers.

    Tulio Guadalupe;Roel M Willems;Marcel P Zwiers;Alejandro Arias Vasquez

  • Cognitive neuroscience of natural language use

    Roel M. Willems

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Ivan Toni
Ivan Toni Radboud University
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven
Aniruddh D. Patel
Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University
Herbert Schriefers
Herbert Schriefers Radboud University
Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen
Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen Radboud University

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