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Willems R.M. and Francks C. (2014) Your left-handed brain. Front. Young Minds. 2:13. doi: 10.3389/frym.2014.00013 [link]

Guadalupe, T., Willems, R. M., Zwiers, M. P., Arias Vasquez, A., Hoogman, M., Hagoort, P., … Francks, C. (2014). Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers. Frontiers in Cognition, 5, 261. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00261 [link]

Willems, R. M., van der Haegen, L., Fisher, S. E., & Francks, C. (2014). On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nrn3679 [pdf]

De Grauwe, S., Willems, R. M., Rüschemeyer, S.-A., Lemhöfer, K., & Schriefers, H. (2014). Embodied language in first- and second-language speakers: Neural correlates of processing motor verbs. Neuropsychologia. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.003. [link]

Willems, R. M. (2013). Can literary studies contribute to cognitive neuroscience? Journal of Literary Semantics [pdf]

De Boer, M., Toni I., & Willems, R. M. (2013). What drives successful communication? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience [link]

Kaltwasser, L., Ries, S., Sommer, W., Knight, R. T., & Willems, R. M. (2013). Independence of valence and reward in emotional word processing: electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 168. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00168 [link]

Willems, R. M. & Francken, J. C. (2012). Embodied Cognition: Taking the next step. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 582. [link]

Peeters, D., Vanlangendonck, F., & Willems, R. M. (2012). Bestaat er een talenknobbel? Over taal in ons brein. In M. Boogaard, & M. Jansen (Eds.), De taalcanon: Alles wat je altijd al wilde weten over taal (pp. 41-43). Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. [link] (very nice site with general information about language, in Dutch)

Willems, R. M. (2011). Re-appreciating the why of cognition: 35 years after Marr and Poggio. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 224 [link]

Willems, R. M., Benn, Y., Hagoort, P., Toni, I. & Varley, R. (2011). Communicating without a functioning language system: Implications for the role of language in mentalizing. Neuropsychologia, 49(11), 3130-3135. [pdf]

Willems, R. M. & Casasanto, D. (2011). Flexibility in embodied language understanding. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 116 [link]

Willems, R. M., Labruna, L., D'Esposito, M., Ivry, R. & Casasanto, D. (2011). A functional role for the motor system in language understanding: Evidence from theta burst TMS Psychological Science, 22(7), 849-854  [pdf]

Willems, R. M. & Varley, R. A. (2010). Neural insights into the relation between language and communication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:203 link

Willems, R. M., Clevis, K.. & Hagoort, P. (2011). Add a picture for suspense: neural correlates of the interaction between language and visual information in the perception of fear. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(4), 404-416 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Peelen, M. & Hagoort, P. (2010). Cerebral lateralization of face-selective and body-selective visual areas depends on handedness. Cerebral Cortex, 20(7), 1719-1725 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2010). Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 10, 2387-2400 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., De Boer, M., De Ruiter, J.P., Noordzij, M. L, Hagoort, P. & Toni, I. (2010).A cerebral dissociation between linguistic and communicative abilities in humans. Psychological Science, 21(1), 8-14 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2010). Body-specific representations of action verbs: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers. Psychological Science, 21(1), 67-74 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (2009). Differential roles for pSTS and LIFG in neural integration of action and language information. NeuroImage 47(4) 1994-2002 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2009). Body-specific motor imagery of hand actions: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,3:39 [link]

Hagoort, P., Baggio, G., & Willems, R. M. (2009). Semantic unification. In Gazzaniga (Ed.) The cognitive neurosciences IV, Cambridge, MA: MIT press [pdf]

Willems, R.M. & Hagoort, P. (2011). Cortical motor contributions to language understanding. To appear in Hermer, L. (Ed.) Contributions of primary sensory and motor cortices to higher cognitive processes: Research Signpost press.

Willems, R. M. & Hagoort, P. (2009). Broca's region: Battles are not won by ignoring half of the facts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(3), 101. [Comment on Grodzinsky & Santi, TICS] [pdf]

Willems, R. M., & Hagoort, P. (2009). Hand preference influences neural correlates of action observation. Brain Research 1269, 90-104 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Oostenveld, R., & Hagoort, P. (2008). Early decreases in alpha and gamma band power distinguish linguistic from visual information during spoken sentence comprehension. Brain Research [pdf]

Rueschemeyer, S.-A., van Rooij, D., Lindemann, O., Willems, R. M., & Bekkering, H. (in press). The function of words: Distinct neural correlates for words denoting differently manipulable objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [pdf]

de Lange F. P., Spronk M., Willems R. M., Toni I., Bekkering H. (2008). Complementary systems for understanding action intentions. Current Biology 18(6), 454-457 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (2008). Seeing and Hearing Meaning: ERP and fMRI Evidence of Word versus Picture Integration into a Sentence Context. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1235-1249 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (2007). When language meets action: The neural integration of gesture and speech. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10) 2322-2333 [pdf]

Özyürek, A., Willems, R. M., Kita, S., & Hagoort, P. (2007). On-line integration of semantic information from speech and gesture: Insights from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19(4), 605-616 [pdf]

Willems, R. M., & Hagoort, P. (2007). Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture and action: A review. Brain and Language, 101(3), 278-298. [pdf]

Willems, R. M. (2007). The neural construction of a Tinkertoy. Journal of Neuroscience 27(7), 1509-1510 [‘Journal club’ review] [pdf]

Here is a pdf of my PhD thesis