Publications

2024

Zimmermann & Lingnau (accepted for publication). Motor functions and actions. Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd edition

Kroczek, Lingnau, Schwind, Wolff & Mühlberger (accepted for publication).
Observers predict actions from facial emotional expressions during real-time social interactions. Behavioral Brain Research

Kabulska, Z., Zhuang T., Lingnau, A. (2024), Overlapping representations of observed actions and action-related features. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Full text

2023

Lingnau, A., & Downing, P. (2023). Action understanding. Cambridge Elements

Zhuang, T., Kabulska, Z., & Lingnau, A. (2023). The Representation of Observed Actions at the Subordinate, Basic, and Superordinate Level. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(48), 8219-8230.

2022

Kabulska, Z., & Lingnau, A. (2022). The cognitive structure underlying the organization of observed actions. Behavior Research Methods. Full text

Himi SA, Volberg G, Bühner M, Hilbert S. Individual differences in everyday multitasking behavior and its relation to cognition and personality. Psychol Res. 2023;87(3):655-685. doi:10.1007/s00426-022-01700-z

Sebastian M. Frank, Alexandra Otto, Gregor Volberg, Peter U. Tse, Takeo Watanabe and Mark W. Greenlee (2022). Transfer of Tactile Learning from Trained to Untrained Body Parts Supported by Cortical Coactivation in Primary Somatosensory Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (31) 6131-6144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0301-22.2022

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

2021

Zhuang, T., & Lingnau, A. (2021). The characterization of actions at the superordinate, basic and subordinate level. Psychological Research,1-21. Full text

Kroczek, L.O.H., Lingnau, A., Schwind, V., Wolff, C., & Mühlberger, A. (2021). Facial emotions bias processing of action intentions. Plos One. Full text

Ragni, F., Lingnau, A., & Turella, L. (2021). Decoding category and familiarity information during visual imagery. NeuroImage. Full text

Bergström, F., Wurm, M.F., Valério, D., Lingnau, A., & Almeida, J. (2021). Decoding stimuli (tool-hand) and viewpoint invariant grasp-type information. Cortex. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.004

2020

Pedersini, C.A., Lingnau, A., Sanchez-Lopez, J., Cardobi, N., Savazzi, S., & Marzi, C.A. (2020). Visuo-spatial attention to the blind hemifield of hemianopic patients: Can it survive the lack of visual awareness? Neuropsychologia, doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107673

Delikishkina, K., Lingnau, A., & Miceli, G. (2020). Neural correlates of object and action naming practice. Cortex, 131, 87-102. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.05.005

Ragni, F., Tucciarelli, R., Andersson, P. & Lingnau, A. (2020). Decoding stimulus identity in occipital, parietal and inferotemporal cortices during visual mental imagery. Cortex, 127, 371-387. Full text

Pedersini, C. A., Lingnau, A., Cardobi, N., Sanchez-Lopez, J., Savazzi, S. & Marzi, C. A. (2020). Neural bases of visual processing of moving and stationary stimuli presented to the blind hemifield of hemianopic patients. Neuropsychologia, 141. Full text

Turella, L., Rumiati, R. & Lingnau, A. (2020). Hierarchical Action Encoding Within the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex.

2019

Tucciarelli, R., Wurm, M., Baccolo, E. & Lingnau, A. (2019). The representational space of observed actions. eLife. Full text

Agostini, B., Papeo, L., Galusca, C. & Lingnau, A. (2019). A norming study of high-quality video clips of pantomimes, emblems, and meaningless gestures. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2817–2826(2019). Full text

Andersson, P., Ragni, F. & Lingnau, A. (2019). Visual imagery during real-time fMRI neurofeedback from occipital and superior parietal cortex. Neuroimage, 200, 332-343. Full text

Papeo, L., Agostini, B., & Lingnau, A. (2019). The large-scale organization of gestures and words in the middle temporal gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience, 39, 5966-5974. Full text

Uji, M., Lingnau, A., Cavin, I. & Vishwanath, D. (2019). Identifying cortical substrates underlying the phenomenology of stereopsis and realness: A pilot fMRI study. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Full text

Magri, C., Fabbri, S., Caramazza, A. & Lingnau, A. (2019). Directional tuning for eye and arm movements in overlapping regions in human posterior parietal cortex. NeuroImage, 191, 234-242. 

2018

Hauswald, A., Tucciarelli, R. & Lingnau, A. (2018). MEG adaptation reveals action representations in posterior occipitotemporal regions. Cortex, 103, 266-276.

Ariani, G., Oosterhof, N.N. & Lingnau, A. (2018). Time-resolved decoding of planned delayed and immediate prehension movements. Cortex, 99, 330-345.

 2017

Gertz, H., Lingnau, A. & Fiehler, K. (2017). Decoding Movement Goals from the Fronto-Parietal Reach Network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11. Full text

Fairhall, S.L., Schwarzbach, J. Lingnau, A., Van Koningsbruggen, M.G., & Melcher, D. (2017). Spatiotopic Updating Across Saccades Revealed by Spatially-Specific fMRI Adaptation. NeuroImage, 147, 339-345.

Wurm, M.F., Caramazza, A. & Lingnau, A. (2017). Action categories in lateral occipitotemporal cortex are organized along sociality and transitivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 1717–1716. Full text

 2016

Turella, L., *Tucciarelli, R., Oosterhof, N.N., Weisz, N., Rumiati, R. & Lingnau, A. (2016). Beta band modulations underlie action representations for movement planning. NeuroImage, 136, 197-207.

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

Fang, Y., Chen, Q., Lingnau, A., Han, Z. & Bi, Y. (2016). Areas recruited during action understanding are not modulated by auditory or sign language experience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Full text

 2015

*Tucciarelli, R., Turella, L., Oosterhof, N.N., Weisz, N. & Lingnau, A. (2015). MEG Multivariate Analysis Reveals Early Abstract Action Representations in the Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 16034-16045. Full text

*Ariani, G., Wurm, M.F. & Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding Internally- and Externally-Driven Movement Plans. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 14160-14171. Full text

Papeo, L., Lingnau, A., Agosta, S., Pascual-Leone, A., Battelli, L. & Caramazza, A. (2015). The Origin of Word-related Motor Activity. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 1668-1675. Full text

Wurm, M.F. & Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding actions at different levels of abstraction. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 7727-7735. Full text

Lingnau, A. & Downing, P. (2015). The lateral occipito-temporal cortex in action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Review), 19(5), 268-277.

Ambron, E. Lingnau, A., Lunardelli, A., Pesavento, V., & Rumiati, R. I. (2015). The effects of goals and vision on movements: A case study of optic ataxia and limb apraxia. Brain & Cognition, 95, 77-89.

Papeo, L. & Lingnau, A. (2015). First-person and third-person verbs in visual motion-perception regions. Brain & Language, 141, 135-141.

 2014

Turella, L. & Lingnau, A. (2014). Neural Correlates of Grasping – A Mini-Review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1-8. Full text

Cicerale, A., Ambron, E., Lingnau, A. & Rumiati, R.I. (2014). A kinematic analysis of age-related changes in grasping to use and grasping to move common objects. Acta Psychologica, 151, 134-142.

Caramazza, A., Anzelotti, S., Strnad, L. & Lingnau, A. (2014). Embodied cognition and mirror neurons: a critical assessment. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 1-15. Full text

*Fabbri, S., Strnad, L., Caramazza, A. & Lingnau, A. (2014). Overlapping representations for grip type and reach direction. NeuroImage, 94, 138-146.

Lingnau, A. & Caramazza, A. (2014). The origin and function of mirror neurons: the missing link. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary), 37, 209-210.

Lingnau, A., Strnad, L., He, C., *Fabbri, S., Han, Z., Bi, Y. & Caramazza, A. (2014). Cross-modal plasticity preserves functional specialization in posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 24 (2), 541-549. Full text

Lingnau, A., Albrecht, T., Schwarzbach, J. & Vorberg, D. (2014). Visual search without central vision – no single pseudofovea location is best. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 7(2), 1-14.

Papeo, L., Lingnau, A., Agosto, S., Pascual-Leone, A. Battelli, L. & Caramazza, A. (2014). On the relationship between semantic processing and fronto-central motor activity. Cerebral Cortex.

 2013

Lingnau, A., & *Petris, S. (2013). Action Understanding Within and Outside the Motor System: The Role of Task Difficulty. Cerebral Cortex. Full text

*Kaunitz, L., *Fracasso, A., Lingnau, A. & Melcher, D. (2013). Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. Plos One. Full text

Turella, L., Wurm, M., *Tucciarelli, R. & Lingnau, A. (2013). Expertise in action observation: recent neuroimaging findings and future perspectives. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Full text

 2012

Tamè, L., Braun, C., Farnè, A., Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J., Demarchi, J., Hegner, Y. L., & Pavani, F. (2012). The contribution of primary and secondary somatosensory cortices in the differentiation of body parts and body side: an fMRI adaptation study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, ISSN 0898-929X.

*Fabbri, S., Caramazza, A. & Lingnau, A. (2012). Distributed sensitivity for movement amplitude in directionally tuned neuronal populations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107, 1845-1856. Full text

 2005-2011

*Fabbri, S., Caramazza, A., & Lingnau, A. (2010). Tuning Curves for Movement Direction in the Human Visuomotor System. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 13488-13498.

Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J., & Vorberg, D. (2010). (Un-) Coupling gaze and attention outside central vision. Journal of Vision, 10, 1-13. Full text

Lingnau, A., Ashida, H., Wall, M.B., Smith, A.T. (2009). Speed encoding at high contrast in human V1 and MT. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-14. Full text

Lingnau, A., Gesierich, B., Caramazza, A. & (2009). Asymmetric fMRI Adaptation Reveals No Evidence for Mirror Neurons in Humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106, 9925-9930. Full text

Lingnau, A., Schwarzbach, J. & Vorberg, D. (2008). Adaptive strategies for reading with a forced retinal location. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-18. Full text

Wall, M.B., Lingnau, A., Ashida, H., & Smith, A.T. (2008). Selective visual responses to expansion and rotation in the human MT complex revealed by fMRI adaptation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 2747-2757.

Ashida, H., Lingnau, A., Wall, M. B., & Smith, A. T. (2007). fMRI adaptation reveals separate mechanisms for first- and second-order motion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97, 1319-1325. Full text

*Grocholewski, A., Heinrichs, N. & Lingnau, A. (2007) Selective visual attention in the facial area in individuals planning cosmetic medical treatment. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 36, 57-66.

Lingnau, A. & Vorberg, D. (2005). The time course of response inhibition in masked priming. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 545-557. Full text