Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller

Monographs & Books

Pulvermüller, F. 2002. The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Articles

Carriere, M., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2025. »Can human brain connectivity explain verbal working memory?« Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 36 (4): 2106-2147.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0954898X.2024.2421196

Carriere, M., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2025. »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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2596802

Ciaccio, L. A., Grisoni, L., Nieswand, S., Pulvermüller, F. 2025. »A database of words and pictures for investigating phonological-semantic processing and interaction in language processing: Validation and application.« PLOS One, 20 (11): e0336981.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336981

Kumar, S., Klar, P., Çatal, Y., Chang, H., Pulvermüller, F., Northoff, G. 2025. »From Speech Semantics to Brain Activity—Timescales Are Key in Their Information Transfer.« Human Brain Mapping, 46 (16)
https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70379

Miller, T. M., Blankenburg, F., Pulvermüller, F. 2025. »Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception.« Language and Cognition, 17: e53.
https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.10006

Tomasello, R., Boux, I., Pulvermüller, F. 2025. »Theory of Mind and the brain substrates of direct and indirect communicative action understanding.« Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 380 (1932): 20230497.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0497

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, 40 (8): 1065-1084.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2506641

Antoine, S., Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2024. »The prediction potential indexes the meaning and communicative function of upcoming utterances.« Cortex, 177: 346-362.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.05.011

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, 196: 108816.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108816

Constant, M., Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R. 2023. »Brain-constrained neural modeling explains fast mapping of words to meaning.« Cerebral Cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad007

Boux, I. P., Margiotoudi, K., Dreyer, F. R., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Cognitive features of indirect speech acts.« Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2077396

Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Garagnani, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Influence of language on perception and concept formation in a brain-constrained deep neural network model.« Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1870)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0373

Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Modelling concrete and abstract concepts using brain-constrained deep neural networks.« Psychological Research, 86 (8): 2533-2559.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01591-6

Margiotoudi, K., Bohn, M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A., Schweller, K., Allritz, M. 2022. »Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo.« Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1968)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1717

Shebani, Z., Carota, F., Hauk, O., Rowe, J. B., Barsalou, L. W., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2022. »Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI.« Scientific Reports, 12 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19416-w

Tomasello R., Grisoni L., Boux I., Sammler D., Pulvermüller F. 2022. »Instantaneous neural processing of communicative functions conveyed by speech prosody.« Cerebral Cortex, 32 (21): 4885–4901.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab522

Boux*, I., Tomasello*, R., Grisoni, L., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Brain signatures predict communicative function of speech production in interaction.« *Equal contribution. Cortex, 135: 127-145.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.008

Dreyer, F. R., Doppelbauer, L., Büscher, V., Arndt, V., Stahl, B., Lucchese, G., Hauk, O., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Increased Recruitment of Domain-General Neural Networks in Language Processing Following Intensive Language-Action Therapy: fMRI Evidence From People With Chronic Aphasia.« American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30 (1S): 455-465.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00150

Fekonja, L. S., Wang, Z., Doppelbauer, L., Vajkoczy, P., Picht, T., Pulvermüller, F., Dreyer, F. R. 2021. »Lesion-symptom mapping of language impairments in patients suffering from left perisylvian gliomas.« Cortex, 144: 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.002

Garagnani, M., Kirilina, E., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Semantic Grounding of Novel Spoken Words in the Primary Visual Cortex.« Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.581847

Grisoni, L., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Correlated Brain Indexes of Semantic Prediction and Prediction Error: Brain Localization and Category Specificity.« Cerebral Cortex, 31 (3): 1553–1568.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa308

Picht, T., Calvé, M. L., Tomasello, R., Fekonja, L., Gholami, M. F., Bruhn, M., Zwick, C., Rabe, J. P., Müller-Birn, C., Vajkoczy, P., Sauer, I. M., Zachow, S., Nyakatura, J. A., Ribault, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Letter: A Note on Neurosurgical Resection and Why We Need to Rethink Cutting.« Neurosurgery. E289–E291.
https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyab326

Pulvermüller, F., Tomasello, R., Henningsen-Schomers, M. R., Wennekers, T. 2021. »Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function.« Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00473-5

Wang, Z., Dreyer, F., Pulvermüller, F., Ntemou, E., Vajkoczy, P., Fekonja, L., Picht, T. 2021. »Support vector machine based aphasia classification of transcranial magnetic stimulation language mapping in brain tumor patients.« NeuroImage: Clinical, 29: 102536.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102536

Dreyer, F. R., Picht, T., Frey, D., Vajkoczy, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2020. »The functional relevance of dorsal motor systems for processing tool nouns– evidence from patients with focal lesions.« Neuropsychologia, 141: 107384.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107384

Margiotoudi, K., Pulvermüller, F. 2020. »Action sound–shape congruencies explain sound symbolism.« Scientific Reports, 10 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69528-4

Grechuta, K., Rubio Ballester, B., Espín Munne, R., Usabiaga Bernal, T., Molina Hervás, B., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., San Segundo, R., Verschure, P. 2019. »Augmented Dyadic Therapy Boosts Recovery of Language Function in Patients With Nonfluent Aphasia.« A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke, 50 (5): 1270-1274.
https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023729

Grisoni, L., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Prediction mechanisms in motor and auditory areas and their role in sound perception and language understanding.« NeuroImage, 199: 206-216.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.071

Grisoni, L., Moseley, R. L., Motlagh, S., Kandia, D., Sener, N., Pulvermüller, F., Roepke, S., Mohr, B. 2019. »Prediction and mismatch negativity responses reflect impairments in action semantic processing in adults with autism spectrum disorders.« Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13 (395)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00395

Margiotoudi, K., Allritz, M., Bohn, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 12705.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49101-4

Schmidt, T. T., Miller, T. M., Blankenburg, F., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Neuronal correlates of label facilitated tactile perception.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 1606.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37877-w

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.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52158-w

Tomasello, R., Wennekers, T., Garagnani, M., Pulvermüller, F. 2019. »Visual cortex recruitment during language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning.« Scientific Reports, 9 (1): 3579.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39864-1

Shebani, Z., Carota, F., Hauk, O., Rowe, J. B., Barsalou, L. B., Tomasello, R., Pulvermüller, F. 2018. »Brain correlates of action word memory.« bioRxiv. 412676.
https://doi.org/10.1101/412676

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.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2018.00088

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
https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2016.00145

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: 111-129.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.004

Dreyer, F., Frey, D., Arana, S., Saldern, S., Picht, T., Vajkoczy, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2015. »Is the motor system necessary for processing action and abstract emotion words? Evidence from focal brain lesions.« Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (Nov)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01661

Talks & Presentations

Pulvermüller, F. Meaning – Object – Action. Talk at the 9th Cluster Day, Meaning – Object – Action. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 26 May 2020.