Marcel Braß

21.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
253 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Marcel Braß is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel Braß has authored 253 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 115 papers in Social Psychology and 49 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marcel Braß's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (118 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (100 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (47 papers). Marcel Braß is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (118 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (100 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (47 papers). Marcel Braß collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands. Marcel Braß's co-authors include Harold Bekkering, D. Yves von Cramon, Wolfgang Prinz, Patrick Haggard, John C. Mazziotta, Roger P. Woods, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Marco Iacoboni, Simone Kühn and Stephanie Spengler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Marcel Braß

246 papers receiving 14.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation

1999 1.9k citations Marcel Braß et al. profile →
Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

2008 893 citations Marcel Braß et al. profile →
Compatibility between Observed and Executed Finger Movements: Comparing Symbolic, Spatial, and Imitative Cues

2000 568 citations Marcel Braß et al. profile →
Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task

2001 542 citations Marcel Braß et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making 2025 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·(unknown), (unknown), Frederick Verbruggen, Marcel Braß	0
2	Instructing somebody else to act: motor co-representations in the instructor 2024 ·Royal Society Open Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Frederick Verbruggen, Marcel Braß, Anna K. Kuhlen	2
3	Does belief in free will influence biological motion perception? 2022 ·Psychological Research ·(unknown), Emiel Cracco, Nikolaus F. Troje, Marcel Braß	0
4	Reward does not modulate corticospinal excitability in anticipation of a Stroop trial 2020 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Carsten Bundt, C. Nico Boehler, Frederick Verbruggen, Marcel Braß, Wim Notebaert	5
5	Motor simulation is disturbed when experiencing pain 2019 ·Pain ·Emiel Cracco, (unknown), (unknown), Stefaan Van Damme, Marcel Braß	6
6	Outcome contingency selectively affects the neural coding of outcomes but not of tasks 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·David Wisniewski, Birte U. Forstmann, Marcel Braß	4
7	The role of stimulus-driven versus goal-directed processes in fight and flight tendencies measured with motor evoked potentials induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Agnes Moors, Chiara Fini, (unknown), Lara Bardi, (unknown), Peter Kuppens, Marcel Braß	20
8	Measuring spontaneous mentalizing with a ball detection task: putting the attention-check hypothesis by Phillips and colleagues (2015) to the test 2019 ·Psychological Research ·(unknown), Lara Bardi, (unknown), Marcel Braß, Jan R. Wiersema	20
9	Representing Multiple Observed Actions in the Motor System 2018 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Emiel Cracco, Christian Keysers, (unknown), Marcel Braß	27
10	Automatic imitation: A meta-analysis. 2018 ·Psychological Bulletin ·Emiel Cracco, Lara Bardi, Charlotte Desmet, Oliver Genschow, Davide Rigoni, Lize De Coster, (unknown), Eliane Deschrijver, Marcel Braß	136
11	Brain activity for spontaneous and explicit mentalizing in adults with autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study 2018 ·NeuroImage Clinical ·Annabel D. Nijhof, Lara Bardi, Marcel Braß, Jan R. Wiersema	45
12	The influence of threat on perceived spatial distance to out-group members 2018 ·Psychological Research ·Chiara Fini, (unknown), (unknown), Agnes Moors, Marcel Braß, Oliver Genschow	19
13	Brain activation for spontaneous and explicit false belief tasks overlaps: new fMRI evidence on belief processing and violation of expectation 2016 ·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·Lara Bardi, Charlotte Desmet, Annabel D. Nijhof, Jan R. Wiersema, Marcel Braß	48
14	Anticipatory processes in brain state switching — Evidence from a novel cued-switching task implicating default mode and salience networks 2014 ·NeuroImage ·Justina Sidlauskaite, Jan R. Wiersema, Herbert Roeyers, Ruth M. Krebs, Eliana Vassena, Wim Fias, Marcel Braß, Eric Achten, Edmund Sonuga‐Barke	34
15	Voluntary inhibition of pain avoidance behavior 2013 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·(unknown), Jelle Demanet, Ruth M. Krebs, Pieter Van Dessel, Marcel Braß	1
16	Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice 2013 ·Consciousness and Cognition ·Elisa Filevich, (unknown), Marcel Braß, Wim Fias, Patrick Haggard, Simone Kühn	25
17	Perspectives on the experience of will 2011 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Davide Rigoni, (unknown), Marcel Braß	0
18	Challenging a decade of brain research on task switching: Brain activation in the task‐switching paradigm reflects adaptation rather than reconfiguration of task sets 2011 ·Human Brain Mapping ·Wouter De Baene, Simone Kühn, Marcel Braß	38
19	Resisting motor mimicry: Control of imitation involves processes central to social cognition in patients with frontal and temporo-parietal lesions 2010 ·Social Neuroscience ·Stephanie Spengler, D. Yves von Cramon, Marcel Braß	76
20	Minimizing motor mimicry by myself: Self-focus enhances online action-control mechanisms during motor contagion 2010 ·Consciousness and Cognition ·Stephanie Spengler, Marcel Braß, Simone Kühn, Simone Schütz‐Bosbach	52

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