Willems, R. M., Clevis, K.. & Hagoort, P. (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 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Peelen, M. & Hagoort, P. (in press). Cerebral lateralization of face-selective and body-selective visual areas depends on handedness. Cerebral Cortex [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2010). Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 10, 2387-2400 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., De Boer, M., De Ruiter, J.P., Noordzij, M. L, Hagoort, P. & Toni, I. (2010). A cerebral dissociation between linguistic and communicative abilities in humans. Psychological Science, 21(1), 8-14 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2010). Body-specific representations of action verbs: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers. Psychological Science, 21(1), 67-74 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (2009). Differential roles for pSTS and LIFG in neural integration of action and language information. NeuroImage 47(4) 1994-2002 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P. & Casasanto, D. (2009). Body-specific motor imagery of hand actions: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,3:39 [link]
Hagoort, P., Baggio, G., & Willems, R. M. (2009). Semantic unification. In Gazzaniga (Ed.) The cognitive neurosciences IV, Cambridge, MA: MIT press [pdf]
Willems, R.M. & Hagoort, P. (in press). Cortical motor contributions to language understanding. To appear in Hermer, L. (Ed.) Contributions of primary sensory and motor cortices to higher cognitive processes: Research Signpost press.
Willems, R. M. & Hagoort, P. (2009). Broca's region: Battles are not won by ignoring half of the facts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(3), 101. [Comment on Grodzinsky & Santi, TICS] [pdf]
Willems, R. M., & Hagoort, P. (2009). Hand preference influences neural correlates of action observation. Brain Research 1269, 90-104 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Oostenveld, R., & Hagoort, P. (2008). Early decreases in alpha and gamma band power distinguish linguistic from visual information during spoken sentence comprehension. Brain Research [pdf]
Rueschemeyer, S.-A., van Rooij, D., Lindemann, O., Willems, R. M., & Bekkering, H. (in press). The function of words: Distinct neural correlates for words denoting differently manipulable objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [pdf]
de Lange F. P., Spronk M., Willems R. M., Toni I., Bekkering H. (2008). Complementary systems for understanding action intentions. Current Biology 18(6), 454-457 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (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 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., Özyürek, A., & Hagoort, P. (2007). When language meets action: The neural integration of gesture and speech. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10) 2322-2333 [pdf]
Özyürek, A., Willems, R. M., Kita, S., & Hagoort, P. (2007). On-line integration of semantic information from speech and gesture: Insights from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19(4), 605-616 [pdf]
Willems, R. M., & Hagoort, P. (2007). Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture and action: A review. Brain and Language, 101(3), 278-298. [pdf]
Willems, R. M. (2007). The neural construction of a Tinkertoy. Journal of Neuroscience 27(7), 1509-1510 [‘Journal club’ review] [pdf]
Here is a pdf of my PhD thesis