Marius Zimmermann
Cognitive Neuroscience - Action Planning, Recognition and Coordination
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Preprints

Kroczek LOH, Roidl M, Lingnau A, Zimmermann M (2025) How are woodworking and baking represented as we walk from the workshop to the kitchen? Virtual Reality environment modulates the representation of corresponding actions PsyArXiv DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7hyqk_v1 [Abstract] [psyArXiv]


Publications

Zimmermann M, Lingnau A (2025) The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of action-related features underlying action recognition Imaging Neuroscience DOI: 10.1162/IMAG.a.1019 [Abstract] [publisher]

Zimmermann M, Lingnau A (2025) Motor functions and actions. In: Grafman JH (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the human brain, 2nd edition Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00205-9 [Abstract] [ScienceDirect]

Li Q, Zimmermann M, Konvalinka I (2024) Two-brain microstates: A novel hyperscanning-EEG method for quantifying task-driven inter-brain asymmetry Journal of Neuroscience Methods DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110355 [publisher]

Zimmermann M, Schultz-Nielsen K, Dumas G, Konvalinka I (2024) Arbitrary methodological decisions skew inter-brain synchronization estimates in hyperscanning-EEG studies Imaging Neuroscience 2 DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00350 [Abstract] [pdf] [publisher]

Van’t Westeinde A, Zimmermann M, Messina V, Karlsson L, Padilla N, Lajic S (2023) Brain activity during visuospatial working memory in congenital adrenal hyperplasia Cortex 159 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.10.012 [publisher]

Zimmermann M, Schiano Lomoriello A, Konvalinka I (2022) Intra-individual behavioural and neural signatures of audience effects and interactions in a mirror-game paradigm Royal Society Open Science 9:211352 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211352 [Abstract] [pdf] [publisher]

Van’t Westeinde A, Zimmermann M, Messina V, Karlsson L, Padilla N, Lajic S (2020) First trimester DEX-treatment is not associated with altered brain activity during working memory performance in adults Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa611 [publisher]

Zimmermann M, Kubik V, Persson J, Mäntylä T (2019) Monitoring multiple deadlines relies on spatial processing in posterior parietal cortex Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31(10); DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01435 [Abstract] [pdf] [publisher]

Zimmermann M, Mars RB, de Lange FP, Toni I, Verhagen L (2017) Is the extrastriate body area part of the dorsal visuomotor stream? Brain Structure and Function; DOI: 10.1007/s00429-017-1469-0 [Abstract] [pdf] Supplementary material: Figure S3 Figure S4

Zimmermann M (2016) A cortical mechanism for translating action goals into action plans PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen [Abstract] [pdf]

Zimmermann M, Verhagen L, de Lange FP, Toni I (2016) The extrastriate body area computes desired goal states during action planning eNeuro 3(2); DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0020-16.2016 [Abstract] [pdf]

Zimmermann M, Toni I, de Lange FP (2013) Body posture modulates action perception Journal of Neuroscience 33(14), 5930-38; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5570-12.2013 [Abstract] [pdf]

Zimmermann M, Meulenbroek RGJ, de Lange FP (2012) Motor planning is facilitated by adopting an action’s goal posture: an fMRI study Cerebral Cortex 22, 122-31; DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr098 [Abstract] [pdf]



Invited talks

2025     Time course of neural midlevel representations underlying action recognition, in Visual representations of bodies: Neural and computational mechanisms of action and social perception, Symposium at ECVP 2025, Mainz, Germany

2024     Temporal aspects of neural representations underlying action observation, in Cognitive and Neural Processes Underlying the Perception of Actions, Scenes and Objects, Symposium at TeaP [co-chair], Regensburg, Germany

2023     SineLab Research Colloquium, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021     Inter-brain synchronization during interaction and observation in a mirror game paradigm, in The neural mechanisms underpinning joint action, Symposium at ESCAN2021, Budapest, Hungary

2020     Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying social interaction and observed actions in a mirror game paradigm NIMEG Group, Aalto University, Finland

2020     Inter-brain synchronization during social interaction CVBE e-lab meeting, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

2020     Neural mechanisms of action interaction. Joint Action, Observation, Imitation Cognitive Neuroscience Research Colloquium, University of Regensburg, Germany

2019     Action planning, action observation, joint action. Cognitive Semiotics Research Meeting, Aarhus University, Denmark

2019     Guest lecture in "Models of Perception and Action". Course in Cognitive Science program, Aarhus University, Denmark

2018     Neural mechanisms underlying multitasking. Research seminar in cognitive psychology. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany


Short news

December 2025 New preprint using Virtual Reality

November 2025 New paper in Imaging Neuroscience

October 2025 Research Sabbatical

August 2025 Visiting ECVP 2025 in Mainz, Germany

August 2025 Preprint alert!

May 2025 Back in Rovereto/Trento for CAOs 2025


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