Search Results - "Willems, Roel M."

Prediction During Natural Language Comprehension by Willems, Roel M, Frank, Stefan L, Nijhof, Annabel D, Hagoort, Peter, van den Bosch, Antal

“…The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word…”
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On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics by Willems, Roel M., der Haegen, Lise Van, Fisher, Simon E., Francks, Clyde

“…Left-handers are often excluded from neuroscience and neurogenetics studies in order to reduce variance in the data. In this Perspective, Willems et al …”
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Music and Language Syntax Interact in Broca's Area: An fMRI Study by Kunert, Richard, Willems, Roel M, Casasanto, Daniel, Patel, Aniruddh D, Hagoort, Peter

“…Instrumental music and language are both syntactic systems, employing complex, hierarchically-structured sequences built using implicit structural norms. This…”
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Neural Dissociations between Action Verb Understanding and Motor Imagery by Willems, Roel M, Toni, Ivan, Hagoort, Peter, Casasanto, Daniel

“…According to embodied theories of language, people understand a verb like "throw", at least in part, by mentally simulating "throwing". This implicit…”
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Taking Perspective: Personal Pronouns Affect Experiential Aspects of Literary Reading by Hartung, Franziska, Burke, Michael, Hagoort, Peter, Willems, Roel M

“…Personal pronouns have been shown to influence cognitive perspective taking during comprehension. Studies using single sentences found that 3rd person pronouns…”
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Probabilistic language models in cognitive neuroscience: Promises and pitfalls by Armeni, Kristijan, Willems, Roel M., Frank, Stefan L.

“…•Aspects of incremental language comprehension can be modeled with probabilistic language models.•Formal linguistic information content is used to build…”
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Using stochastic language models (SLM) to map lexical, syntactic, and phonological information processing in the brain by Lopopolo, Alessandro, Frank, Stefan L, van den Bosch, Antal, Willems, Roel M

“…Language comprehension involves the simultaneous processing of information at the phonological, syntactic, and lexical level. We track these three distinct…”
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Taking common ground into account: Specifying the role of the mentalizing network in communicative language production by Vanlangendonck, Flora, Willems, Roel M, Hagoort, Peter

“…Several studies have shown that communicative language production as compared to non-communicative language production recruits parts of the mentalizing or…”
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Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture, and action: A review by Willems, Roel M., Hagoort, Peter

“…Co-speech gestures embody a form of manual action that is tightly coupled to the language system. As such, the co-occurrence of speech and co-speech gestures…”
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Simulating fiction: individual differences in literature comprehension revealed with FMRI by Nijhof, Annabel D, Willems, Roel M

“…When we read literary fiction, we are transported to fictional places, and we feel and think along with the characters. Despite the importance of narrative in…”
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Flexibility in embodied language understanding by Willems, Roel M, Casasanto, Daniel

“…Do people use sensori-motor cortices to understand language? Here we review neurocognitive studies of language comprehension in healthy adults and evaluate…”
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When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech by Willems, Roel M., Özyürek, Aslı, Hagoort, Peter

“…Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life. Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language…”
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Differential roles for left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in multimodal integration of action and language by Willems, Roel M., Özyürek, Aslı, Hagoort, Peter

“…Several studies indicate that both posterior superior temporal sulcus/middle temporal gyrus (pSTS/MTG) and left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) are involved in…”
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An Independent Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMS Measure of Music Perception Skills by Kunert, Richard, Willems, Roel M, Hagoort, Peter

“…The Profile of Music Perception Skills (PROMS) is a recently developed measure of perceptual music skills which has been shown to have promising psychometric…”
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How context changes the neural basis of perception and language by Willems, Roel M., Peelen, Marius V.

“…Cognitive processes—from basic sensory analysis to language understanding—are typically contextualized. While the importance of considering context for…”
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Is less readable liked better? The case of font readability in poetry appreciation by Gao, Xin, Dera, Jeroen, Nijhof, Annabel D, Willems, Roel M

“…Previous research shows conflicting findings for the effect of font readability on comprehension and memory for language. It has been found that-perhaps…”
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Reading Minds, Reading Stories: Social-Cognitive Abilities Affect the Linguistic Processing of Narrative Viewpoint by Eekhof, Lynn S., van Krieken, Kobie, Sanders, José, Willems, Roel M.

“…Although various studies have shown that narrative reading draws on social-cognitive abilities, not much is known about the precise aspects of narrative…”
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Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers by Guadalupe, Tulio, Willems, Roel M, Zwiers, Marcel P, Arias Vasquez, Alejandro, Hoogman, Martine, Hagoort, Peter, Fernandez, Guillen, Buitelaar, Jan, Franke, Barbara, Fisher, Simon E, Francks, Clyde

“…The left and right sides of the human brain are specialized for different kinds of information processing, and much of our cognition is lateralized to an…”
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When Fiction Is Just as Real as Fact: No Differences in Reading Behavior between Stories Believed to be Based on True or Fictional Events by Hartung, Franziska, Withers, Peter, Hagoort, Peter, Willems, Roel M

“…Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional…”
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Different routes to liking: how readers arrive at narrative evaluations by Mak, Marloes, Faber, Myrthe, Willems, Roel M.

“…When two people read the same story, they might both end up liking it very much. However, this does not necessarily mean that their reasons for liking it were…”
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