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2025

De Felice, S., Chand, T., Croy, I., Engert, V., Goldstein, P., Holroyd, C. B., ... & Vrticka, P. (2025). Relational neuroscience: Insights from hyperscanning research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 105979. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105979

Kranewitter, B., & Schurz, M. (2025). A Quantitative Review of Brain Activation Maps for Mentalizing, Empathy, and Social Interactions: Specifying Commonalities and Differences. Behavioral Sciences, 15(7), 934. DOI: 10.3390/bs15070934

Schurz, M., Tholen, M. G., Kronbichler, M., Perner, J., & Surtees, A. D. R. (2025). Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: Evidence from fMRI. Social Neuroscience, 20(6), 287–305. DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2025.2490574

Tholen, M. G., Schurz, M., Aichhorn, M., Martin, A., Kaiser, A. K., & Perner, J. (2025). Memory's forgotten process: What happened to the man on the bus? Neuropsychologia, 208, 109080. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109080

2024

Quesque, F., Apperly, I., Baillargeon, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Becchio, C., Bekkering, H., ... & Brass, M. (2024). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 29. DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6

Schurz, M., Berenz, J.-P., Maerz, J., Perla, R., Buchheim, A., & Labek, K. (2024). Brain activation for social cognition and emotion processing tasks in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Brain Sciences, 14(4), 395. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14040395

2023

Förster, K., Maliske, L. Z., Schurz, M., Henneberg, P. M., Dannlowski, U., & Kanske, P. (2023). How do bipolar disease states affect positive and negative emotion processing? Insights from a meta-analysis on the neural fingerprints of emotional processing. Bipolar Disorders, 25(7), 540–553. DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13341

Labek, K., Sittenberger, E., Kienhöfer, V., Rabl, L., Messina, I., Schurz, M., ... & Viviani, R. (2023). The gradient model of brain organization in decisions involving “empathy for pain”. Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 5839–5850. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac464

Maliske, L. Z., Schurz, M., & Kanske, P. (2023). Interactions within the social brain: Co-activation and connectivity among networks enabling empathy and Theory of Mind. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 147, 105080. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105080

2022

Labek, K., Dommes, L., Bosch, J. E., Schurz, M., Viviani, R., & Buchheim, A. (2022). A short functional neuroimaging assay using attachment scenes to recruit neural correlates of social cognition—a replication study. Brain Sciences, 12(7), 855. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12070855

2021

Schurz, M., Radua, J., Tholen, M. G., Maliske, L., Margulies, D. S., Mars, R. B., Sallet, J., & Kanske, P. (2021). Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind. Psychological Bulletin.

Schurz, M., Uddin, L. Q., Kanske, P., Lamm, C., Sallet, J., Bernhardt, B. C., ... & Bzdok, D. (2021). Variability in brain structure and function reflects lack of peer support. Cerebral Cortex.

Roumazeilles, L., Schurz, M., Lojkiewiez, M., Verhagen, L., Schüffelgen, U., Marche, K., ... & Sallet, J. (2021). Social prediction modulates activity of macaque superior temporal cortex. Science Advances. 

Bryant, K.L., Rogers, C.N., Schurz, M. (2021). The Role of the Temporal Lobe in Human Social Cognition. In Wilczynski & Brosnan (eds.), Social Cooperation and Conflict: Biological Mechanisms at the Interface. Cambridge University Press.

Perner, J., Aichhorn, M., Tholen, M., & Schurz, M. (2021). Mental Files and Teleology. In Ochsner & Gilead (eds.), The Neural Bases of Mentalizing. Springer Press.

Braunsdorf, M., Freches, G. B., Roumazeilles, L., Eichert, N., Schurz, M., Uithol, S., ... & Mars, R. B. (2021). Does the temporal cortex make us human? A review of structural and functional diversity of the primate temporal lobe. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

2020

Schurz, M., Maliske, L., & Kanske, P. (2020). Cross-network interactions in social cognition: A review of findings on task related brain activation and connectivity. Cortex, 130, 142-157. 

Freches, G. B., Haak, K. V., Bryant, K. L., Schurz, M., Beckmann, C. F., & Mars, R. B. (2020). Principles of temporal association cortex organisation as revealed by connectivity gradients. Brain Structure and Function, 1-16.

Brem, S., Maurer, U., Kronbichler, M., Schurz, M., Richlan, F., Blau, V., ... & Moll, K. (2020). Visual word form processing deficits driven by severity of reading impairments in children with developmental dyslexia. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-14.

2019

Tholen, M.G., Schurz, M., & Perner, J. (2019). The role of the IPL in person identification. Neuropsychologia 129, 164-170.

2018

Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., Weissengruber, S,. Surtees, A., & Perner, J. (2018). Measuring visual perspective taking in the brain with avatars and arrows: Which question are we asking? NeuroImage, 181, 814-817. 

2017

Schurz, M., Tholen, M.G., Perner, J., Mars, R.B., Sallet, J. (2017).  Specifying the brain anatomy underlying temporo-parietal junction activations for theory of mind: A review using probabilistic atlases from different imaging modalities. Hum Brain Mapp. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23675.

Schuwerk, T., Schurz, M., TMüller, F., Rupprecht, R., Sommer, M. (2017). The rTPJ’s Overarching Cognitive Function in Networks for Attention and Theory of Mind. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 12(1):157-168. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw163.

Arora, A., Schurz, M., & Perner, J. (2017). Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT. BioMed Res. Int. 

Kronbichler, L., Tschernegg, M., Martin, A.I., Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M. (2017). Abnormal Brain Activation During Theory of Mind Tasks in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis. Schizophr Bull. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx073.

2016

Schurz, M., Tholen, M.G. (2016). What brain imaging did (not) tell us about the Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Theory of Mind - A commentary on Samson et al., (2015). Cortex, 74:329-33. 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.011.

Fernández-Cabello, S., Valls-Pedret, C., Schurz, M., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sala-Llonch, R., Bargallo, N., Ros, E., Bartrés-Faz, D. (2016). White matter hyperintensities and cognitive reserve during a working memory task: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in cognitively normal older adults. Neurobiol Aging, 48:23-33. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.08.008

Ludersdorfer, P., Wimmer, H., Richlan, F., Schurz, M., Hutzler, F., & Kronbichler, M. (2016). Left ventral occipitotemporal activation during orthographic and semantic processing of auditory words. NeuroImage, 124, 834-842. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.039.

2015

Schurz, M., Perner, J. (2015). An evaluation of neurocognitive models of Theory of Mind. Front. Psychol. 6:1610.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01610. pdf

Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., Weissengruber, S., Surtees, A., Samson, D., & Perner, J. (2015). Clarifying the role of theory of mind areas during visual perspective taking: Issues of spontaneity and domain-specificity. NeuroImage. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.031. 

Schurz, M., Kogler, C., Scherndl, T., Kronbichler, M., & Kühberger, A. (2015). Differentiating self-projection from simulation during mentalizing: Evidence from fMRI. PLoS One. 10(3): e0121405.

Schurz, M., Wimmer, H., Richlan, F., Ludersdorfer, P., Klackl, J., & Kronbichler, M. (2014). Resting-state and task-based functional brain connectivity in developmental dyslexia. Cereb Cortex. 2015 Oct;25(10):3502-14. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu184.

Martin, A., Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., & Richlan, F. (2015). Reading in the brain of children and adults: A meta-analysis of 40 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Hum Brain Mapp. 2015 May;36(5):1963-81. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22749.

Crone, J., Schurz, M., Höller, Y., Bergmann, J., Monti, M., Schmid, E., Trinka, E., & Kronbichler, M. (2015). Impaired consciousness is linked to changes in effective connectivity of the posterior cingulate cortex within the default mode network. Neuroimage. 2015 Apr 15;110:101-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.037.

2014

Schurz, M., Radua, J., Aichhorn, M., Richlan, F., & Perner, J. (2014). Fractionating theory of mind: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 42, 9-34. doi: .1016/j.neubiorev.2014.01.009. 

Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., Crone, J., Richlan, F., Klackl, J., & Wimmer, H. (2014). Top-down and bottom-up influences on the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex during visual word recognition: An analysis of effective connectivity. Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Apr;35(4):1668-80. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22281. 

Richlan, F., Gagl, B., Hawelka, S., Braun, M., Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., & Hutzler, F. (2013). Fixation-Related fMRI Analysis in the Domain of Reading Research: Using Self-Paced Eye Movements as Markers for Hemodynamic Brain Responses During Visual Letter String Processing. Cereb Cortex. 2014 Oct;24(10):2647-56. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht117.

2012-2013:

Schurz, M., Aichhorn, M., Martin, A., Perner, J. (2013). Common brain areas engaged in false belief reasoning and visual perspective taking: a meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:712. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00712.

Ludersdorfer, P., Schurz, M., Richlan, F., Kronbichler, M., & Wimmer, H. (2013). Opposite effects of visual and auditory word-likeness on activity in the visual word form area. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:491. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00491.

Gebauer, D., Enzinger, C., Kronbichler, M., Schurz, M., Reishofer, G., Koschutnig, K., Kargl, R., Purgstaller, C., Fazekas, F., & Fink, A. (2012). Distinct patterns of brain function in children with isolated spelling impairment: new insights. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1353-1361.

Kulakova, E., Aichhorn, M., Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., & Perner, J. (2013). Processing counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals: an fMRI investigation. Neuroimage, 72, 265-271.

Crone, J.S., Soddu, A., Höller, Y., Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Schurz, M., Bergmann, J., Schmid, E., Trinka, E., Laureys, S., & Kronbichler, M. (2013). Altered network properties of the fronto-parietal network and the thalamus in impaired consciousness. Neuroimage Clin. 4, 240-248.

2009-2011:

Schurz, M., Sturm, D., Richlan, F., Kronbichler, M., Ladurner, G., & Wimmer, H. (2010). A dual-route perspective on brain activation in response to visual words: evidence for a length by lexicality interaction in the visual word form area (VWFA). Neuroimage, 49, 2649-2661.

Wimmer, H., & Schurz, M. (2010). Dyslexia in regular orthographies: manifestation and causation. Dyslexia, 16, 283-299.

Wimmer, H., Schurz, M., Sturm, D., Richlan, F., Klackl, J., Kronbichler, M.,& Ladurner, G. (2010). A dual-route perspective on poor reading in a regular orthography: an fMRI study. Cortex, 46, 1284-1298. 

Richlan, F., Sturm, D., Schurz, M., Kronbichler, M., Ladurner, G., & Wimmer, H. (2010). A common left occipito-temporal dysfunction in developmental dyslexia and acquired letter-by-letter reading? PLoS One, 5, e12073.

Kronbichler, M., Klackl, J., Richlan, F., Schurz, M., Staffen, W., Ladurner, G., & Wimmer, H. (2009). On the functional neuroanatomy of visual word processing: effects of case and letter deviance. J Cogn Neurosci, 21, 222-229.