Roel M. Willems

6.7k total citations
86 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Roel M. Willems is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roel M. Willems has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 45 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 43 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roel M. Willems's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (31 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (26 papers). Roel M. Willems is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (31 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (26 papers). Roel M. Willems collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Roel M. Willems's co-authors include Peter Hagoort, Daniel Casasanto, Aslı Özyürek, Ivan Toni, Harold Bekkering, Stefan L. Frank, Antal van den Bosch, Clyde Francks, Annabel D. Nijhof and Simon E. Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Roel M. Willems

84 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roel M. Willems Netherlands 35 2.8k 2.0k 1.7k 1.6k 258 86 4.3k
Disa Sauter Netherlands 35 2.2k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 419 0.3× 165 0.6× 101 4.1k
Penny M. Pexman Canada 44 2.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 3.1k 1.9× 2.4k 1.5× 558 2.2× 170 5.5k
Marc D. Pell Canada 42 3.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 2.5k 1.5× 773 0.5× 299 1.2× 124 4.9k
Ian A. Apperly United Kingdom 47 3.8k 1.3× 3.2k 1.6× 1.7k 1.0× 4.1k 2.6× 332 1.3× 122 7.6k
Markus Conrad Germany 32 1.9k 0.7× 800 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 336 1.3× 55 3.1k
Michael P. Kaschak United States 28 1.8k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 2.1k 1.3× 1.9k 1.2× 262 1.0× 59 4.1k
Hiram Brownell United States 32 2.6k 0.9× 976 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 126 0.5× 69 3.8k
Seana Coulson United States 34 2.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 2.8k 1.7× 1.7k 1.1× 311 1.2× 88 4.8k
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Spain 43 3.7k 1.3× 448 0.2× 1.3k 0.8× 3.2k 2.1× 446 1.7× 183 5.1k
Chris Westbury Canada 26 2.2k 0.8× 556 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 499 1.9× 70 3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roel M. Willems

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krieken, Kobie van, et al.. (2023). Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint. Discourse Processes. 60(6). 411–439. 1 indexed citations
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Bosch, Antal van den, et al.. (2020). Distinguishing Syntactic Operations in the Brain: Dependency and Phrase-Structure Parsing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 152–175. 17 indexed citations
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Faber, Myrthe, et al.. (2020). Word skipping as an indicator of individual reading style during literary reading. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(3). 11 indexed citations
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Frank, Stefan L. & Roel M. Willems. (2017). Word predictability and semantic similarity show distinct patterns of brain activity during language comprehension. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 32(9). 1192–1203. 62 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., et al.. (2016). An early influence of common ground during speech planning. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 31(6). 741–750. 13 indexed citations
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Samur, Dalya, Vicky T Lai, Peter Hagoort, & Roel M. Willems. (2015). Emotional context modulates embodied metaphor comprehension. Neuropsychologia. 78. 108–114. 29 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Lise Van der Haegen, Simon E. Fisher, & Clyde Francks. (2014). On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 15(3). 193–201. 218 indexed citations
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Dolscheid, Sarah, Roel M. Willems, Peter Hagoort, & Daniel Casasanto. (2014). The relation of space and musical pitch in the brain. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 421–426. 5 indexed citations
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Guadalupe, Tulio, Roel M. Willems, Marcel P. Zwiers, et al.. (2014). Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 261–261. 80 indexed citations
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Toni, Ivan, et al.. (2013). What drives successful verbal communication?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 622–622. 3 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Ludovica Labruna, Mark D’Esposito, Richard B. Ivry, & Daniel Casasanto. (2011). A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence from Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 9 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Yael Benn, Peter Hagoort, Ivan Toni, & Rosemary Varley. (2011). Communicating without a functioning language system: Implications for the role of language in mentalizing. Neuropsychologia. 49(11). 3130–3135. 36 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., et al.. (2010). 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. 23 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Peter Hagoort, & Daniel Casasanto. (2010). Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs: Neural Evidence from Right- and Left-Handers. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 3 indexed citations
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Casasanto, Daniel, Roel M. Willems, & Peter Hagoort. (2009). Body-specific representations of action verbs: Evidence from fMRI in right-and left-handers. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 875–880. 4 indexed citations
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Rueschemeyer, Shirley‐Ann, Daan van Rooij, Oliver Lindemann, Roel M. Willems, & Harold Bekkering. (2009). The Function of Words: Distinct Neural Correlates for Words Denoting Differently Manipulable Objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(8). 1844–1851. 91 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Robert Oostenveld, & Peter Hagoort. (2008). Early decreases in alpha and gamma band power distinguish linguistic from visual information during spoken sentence comprehension. Brain Research. 1219. 78–90. 34 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (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. 73 indexed citations
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Lange, Floris P. de, Marjolein Spronk, Roel M. Willems, Ivan Toni, & Harold Bekkering. (2008). Complementary Systems for Understanding Action Intentions. Current Biology. 18(6). 454–457. 263 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (2005). The comprehension of gesture and speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17. 231. 2 indexed citations

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