Prof. Dr. Rosario Tomasello
2026
Boux, I. P., Osterloh, M. R., Tomasello, R., Grisoni, L., & Pulvermüller, F. 2026.Instantaneous emotion sharing: early brain signatures of understanding expressive communicative actions. Neuropsychologia, 109395.
Tomasello, R., Shaman, K., Dobler, F., Pulvermüller, F. 2026. How language modulates colour perception in a brain-constrained neural model. Iscience, (29)3.
Carriere, M., Dobler, FR, Ekkehard Plesser, H, Feledyn, A., Tomasello, R., Wennekers T., Pulvermüller, F., 2026. A Brain-Constrained Neural Model of Cognition and Language with NEST: Transitioning from the Felix Framework. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 20(1), 48
Carriere M., Tomasello R., Pulvermüller F., 2026. What is the role of the sensori-motor system in semantics? Evidence from a brain-constrained neural network model of action verbs. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-29
2025
Wilkens, L. S., Ciaccio, L. A., Picht, T., Bosia, M., Arcara, G., Bambini, V., & Tomasello, R. 2025. A rapid assessment of pragmatic abilities and cognitive substrates: The German APACS Brief. PsyArXiv (pre-print).
Neymeyer, M. L., Rybka, L., Hoekzema, N., Schneider, H., Engelhardt, M., Tomasello, R., … Rosenstock, T. 2025. rTMS-based neuromodulation for treatment of postoperative aphasia after brain tumor resection: a case report. Neurocase, 31(5), 193–201.
Tomasello, R. 2025. From neural matter to rapid symbolic learning in brains and artificial neural networks: A brief review and perspective, Linguistics Vanguard, (0).
*Tomasello, R., *Boux, I.P., Pulvermüller, F., 2025. Theory of Mind and the brain substrates of direct and indirect communicative action understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B *Both authors contributed equally to this work
Villani C., Boux, I.P., Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R., 2025. The time course of speech act recognition conveyed by speech prosody: A gating study.Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1 -20.
2024
Tomasello, R., Carriere, M., & Pulvermüller, F. 2024. The impact of early and late blindness on language and verbal working memory: A brain-constrained neural model. Neuropsychologia, 108816.
Carriere, M., Tomasello, R., & Pulvermüller, F. 2024. Can human brain connectivity explain verbal working memory?. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 1-42.
Fekonja, L. S., Schenk, R., Schröder, E., Tomasello, R., Tomšič, S., & Picht, T. 2024. The digital twin in neuroscience: from theory to tailored therapy. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, 1454856.
Antoine, S., Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R., & Pulvermüller, F. 2024. The Prediction Potential indexes the meaning and communicative function of upcoming utterances. Cortex.
*Barthel, M., *Tomasello, R., Liu, M., 2024. Conditionals in Context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing, Cognition. *Both authors contributed equally to this work
2023
Tomasello, R. 2023. Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts. Brain & Language 236:105203.
Constant, M., Pulvermüller, F. Tomasello, R. 2023. Brain-constrained neural modeling explains fast mapping of words to meaning. Cerebral Cortex, bhad00.
2022
Boux, I., Margiotoudi, K., Dreyer, F., Tomasello, R., & Pulvermüller, F. 2022. Cognitive features of indirect speech acts, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-25.
Tomasello, R., Grisoni, L., Boux, I., et al. 2022. Instantaneous Neural Processing of Communicative Functions Conveyed by Speech Prosody. Cerebral Cortex.
Barthel M., Tomasello R., Mingya L. 2022. Online interpretation of conditionals in context: A self-paced reading study on wenn (if) and nur wenn (only if) in German. Linguistics Vanguard.
Shebani, Z., Carota, F., Hauk, O., Rowe, J.B., Lawrence, W.B., Tomasello, R., & Pulvermüller, F. 2022. Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI. Sci Rep 12:16053.
2021
Picht, T., Le Calve, M., Tomasello, R., Fekonja, L., Gholami, F., Bruhn, M., Zwick, C., Rabe, J., Müller-Birn, C., Vajkoczy, P., Sauer, I., Zachow, D., Nyakatura, J., Ribault, P., & Pulvermüller, F. 2021. Letter: A note on neurosurgical resection and why we need to rethink cutting. Neurosurgery.
Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R., Henningsen-Schomers, MR., Wennekers, T. 2021. Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function. Nature Review Neuroscience.
Boux, I.*, Tomasello, R.*, Grisoni, L., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. Brain signatures predict communicative function of speech production in interaction. Cortex 135, 127-145. *Both authors contributed equally to this work.
2020
Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R. Pulvermüller, F., 2020. Correlated Brain Indexes of Semantic Prediction and Prediction Error: Brain Localization and Category Specificity. Cerebral Cortex.
Schilling, A., Tomasello, R., Henningsen-Schomers, M.R., Zankl, A., Surendra, K., Haller, M., Karl, V., Uhrig, P., Maier, A., Krauss, P., 2020. Analysis of continuous neuronal activity evoked by natural speech with computational corpus linguistics methods. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 1–20.
2019
Tomasello, R., Kim, C., Dreyer, F. R., Grisoni, L., & Pulvermüller, F. 2019. Neurophysiological evidence for rapid processing of verbal and gestural information in understanding communicative actions. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 16285.
Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. Recruitment of visual cortex for language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning. Scientific Reports 9(1):3579.
2018
Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T. & Pulvermüller, F. 2018. A neurobiologically constrained cortex model of semantic grounding with spiking neurons and brain-like connectivity. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 12, 88.
2017
Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., & Pulvermüller, F. 2017. Brain connections of words, perceptions and actions: A neurobiological model of spatio-temporal semantic activation in the human cortex. Neuropsychologia, 98:111–29
Garagnani M, Lucchese G, Tomasello R, Wennekers T, Pulvermüller F. 2017. A Spiking Neurocomputational Model of High-Frequency Oscillatory Brain Responses to Words and Pseudowords. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 10:1–19.