Dr. Rosario Tomasello
Rosario Tomasello received his PhD on »Brain mechanisms of language and semantic processing« at the Brain Language Laboratory (Freie Universität Berlin), which was founded by the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Before his PhD, he held a research fellowship position in Neurocomputational Modelling of Language Learning for the interdisciplinary BABEL project between Plymouth, Manchester and Berlin universities.
Currently, Rosario coordinates neuroscience experiments as a Research Associate at »Matters of Activity« in the project Symbolic Material. He is also responsible for developing brain models of active neural matter capable of processing different aspects of cognition.
Freie Universität Berlin
Brain Language Laboratory
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
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
Articles
Fekonja, L. S., Schenk, R., Schröder, E., Tomasello, R., Tomšič, S., Picht, T. 2024. »The Digital Twin in Neuroscience: From Theory to Tailored Therapy.« PsyArXiv. 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fnpcz
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
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
Barthel, M., Tomasello, R., Mingya, L 2021. »Online interpretation of conditionals in context: A self-paced reading study on wenn (if) and nur wenn (only if) in German.« Linguistics Vanguard. in press.
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
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
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, 36 (2): 167-186.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1803375
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