Action Planning, Recognition and Interaction

Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invited talks

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

Temporal aspects of neural representations underlying action observation, in Cognitive and Neural Processes Underlying the Perception of Actions, Scenes and Objects (Symposium), TeaP 2023, Regensburg, Germany

Temporal aspects of neural representations underlying action observation.Research Colloquium, 2023, SineLab DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected posters

Zimmermann M, (2026) Action Representations. CAOs 2026, Rovereto, Italy

Conferences, Symposia, Workshops

Conferences & Symposia

Cognitive and Neural Processes Underlying the Perception of Actions, Scenes and Objects (Symposium; Co-host), TeaP 2024, Regensburg, Germany Link

Cutting Gardens Regensburg, 2023 (Conference; Organizer). EEG and MEG methods multi-hub meeting by CuttingEEG. Link
Invited speakers: Ana Fló (Univ. Paris-Saclay), Moritz Köster (Univ. of Regensburg), Steven J Luck (Univ. of California, Davis)

Workshops

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