Peer-reviewed 

Boeltzig M., Liedtke N., Siestrup S., Mecklenbrauck F., Wurm M. F., Bramão I., Schubotz R. I. (2025) The benefit of being wrong: How prediction error size guides the reshaping of episodic memories. NeuroImage. ⇲ 

Pomp, J., Wurm, M. F., Selvan, R. N., Wörgötter, F., Schubotz, R.I. (2025). Touching-Untouching Patterns Organize Action Representation in the Inferior Parietal Cortex. NeuroImage. ⇲ 

Wurm, M. F., Erigüç, Y. (2025). Decoding the physics of actions in the human brain. eLife 13:RP98521. ⇲ 

Liu, S., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. (2024). Dissociating Goal from Outcome During Action Observation. Cereb Cortex 34(12). ⇲ 

Pomp, J., Heims, N., Trempler, I., Kulvicius, T., Tamosiunaite, M., Mecklenbrauck, F., Wurm, M. F., Wörgötter, F., Schubotz, R.I. (2024). Action segmentation in the brain: the role of object-action associations. J Cogn Neurosci. 36 (9), 1784-1806. ⇲ 

Karakose-Akbıyık. S., Sussman, O., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. (2024). The role of agentive and physical forces in the neural representation of motion events. J Neurosci. 44(2).  ⇲ 

de Vries, I.E.J., Wurm, M. F. (2023). Predictive neural representations of naturalistic dynamic input. Nature Communications, 14, 3858. ⇲ 

Karakose-Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., Wurm, M. F. (2023). A shared neural code for the physics of actions and object events. Nature Communications, 14, 3316. ⇲ 

Siestrup S., Jainta,B., El-Sourani, A., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Wolf, O. T., Cheng, S., Schubotz, R. I.  (2022). What happened when? Cerebral processing of modified structure and content in episodic cueing. J Cogn Neurosci. 34 (7), 1287-1305  ⇲ 

Jainta,B., Siestrup S., El-Sourani, A., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Werning, M., Cheng, S., Schubotz, R. I. (2022). Seeing What I Did (Not): Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Agency and Perspective on Episodic Memory Re-activation. Front Behav Neurosci, 7;15:793115. ⇲ 

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2022). Two 'what' pathways for action and object recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26, 2. ⇲ 

Pomp, J., Heims, N., Trempler, I., Kulvicius, T., Tamosiunaite, M., Mecklenbrauck, F., Wurm, M. F., Wörgötter, F., Schubotz, R.I. (2021). Touching events predict human action segmentation in brain and behavior. NeuroImage, 243, 118534. ⇲ 

Wurm, M. F., Tagliabue, C. F., Mazza, V. (2021). Decoding location-specific and location-invariant stages of numerosity processing in subitizing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(3), 4971-4984.  ⇲

Bergström, F., Wurm, M. F., Valério, D., Lingnau, A., Almeida, J. (2021). Tool-hand and viewpoint-invariant grasp-type information in parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex. Cortex, 139, 152-165. ⇲

Kluger, D. S., Broers, N., Roehe, M. A., Wurm, M. F., Busch, N. A., Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Exploitation of local and global information in predictive processing. PLoS One 15(4), e0231021. ⇲

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. (2020). Predictive impact of contextual objects during action observation: evidence from fMRI. J Cogn Neurosci, 32(2), 326-337.  ⇲

Tucciarelli, R., Wurm, M. F., E Baccolo, E., Lingnau, A. (2019). The representational space of observed actions. eLife, 8:e47686. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2019). Lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions rather than abstract representations of sociality. NeuroImage, 202, 116153. ⇲

Wurm, M. F.*, Porter, K. B.*, Caramazza, A. (2019). Individuation of parts of a single object and multiple distinct objects relies on a common neural mechanism in inferior intraparietal sulcus. Cortex, 121, 1-15. *equal contribution. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2019). Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal regions in representing actions across vision and language. Nature Communications, 10(1), 289. ⇲

Vannuscorps*, G., Wurm*, M. F., Striem-Amit, E., Caramazza, A. (2018). Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands. Cereb Cortex, 29(8), 3434–3444. *equal contribution. ⇲

El-Sourani, N., Wurm, M. F., Trempler, I. C., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. (2018). Making sense of objects lying around: How contextual objects shape brain activity during action observation. Neuroimage, 167, 429-437. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I., (2018). The role of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) in action observation: Agent detection rather than visuospatial transformation. Neuroimage, 165, 48-55. ⇲

Papeo L., Wurm M. F., Oosterhof N. N., Caramazza A. (2017). The neural representation of humans versus nonhuman bipeds and quadrupeds. Sci Reports, 7(1), 14040. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Artemenko, C., Giuliani, D., Schubotz, R. I. (2017). Action at its place: contextual settings enhance action recognition in 4- to 8-year-old children. Dev Psych, 53(2), 662-670. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. (2017). What’s she doing in the kitchen? Context helps when actions are hard to recognize. Psychon Bull Rev, 24(2), 503-509. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A., Lingnau, A. (2017). Action categories in lateral occipitotemporal cortex are organized along sociality and transitivity. J Neurosci, 37(3), 562-575. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. (2016). Decoding Concrete and Abstract Action Representations During Explicit and Implicit Conceptual Processing. Cereb Cortex,  26(8), 3390-3401 ⇲ 

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding Internally- and Externally-Driven Movement Plans. J Neurosci, 35(42), 14160-14171. ⇲

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. (2015). Objects Mediate Goal Integration in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex during Action Observation. PLoS One, 10:e0134316. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2015). Decoding actions at different levels of abstraction. J Neurosci, 35(20), 7727-7735. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Hrkac, M., Morikawa, Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Predicting goals in action episodes attenuates BOLD response in inferior frontal and occipitotemporal cortex. Behav Brain Res, 274, 108-117. ⇲ 

Schubotz, R. I., Wurm, M. F., Wittmann, M. K., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2014). Objects tell us what action we can expect: dissociating brain areas for retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge during action observation in fMRI. Front Psychol, 5, 636. ⇲

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Action observers implicitly expect actors to act goal-coherently, even if they do not: an fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp, 35(5), 2178-2190. ⇲

Turella, L., Wurm, M. F., Tucciarelli, R., & Lingnau, A. (2013). Expertise in action observation: recent neuroimaging findings and future perspectives. Front Hum Neurosci, 7, 637. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). The context-object-manipulation triad: cross talk during action perception revealed by fMRI. J Cogn Neurosci, 24(7), 1548-1559. ⇲

Schiffer, A. M., Ahlheim, C., Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Surprised at all the entropy: hippocampal, caudate and midbrain contributions to learning from prediction errors. PLoS One, 7(5), e36445. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., & Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Squeezing lemons in the bathroom: contextual information modulates action recognition. Neuroimage, 59(2), 1551-1559. ⇲

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Do we mind other minds when we mind other minds' actions? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Hum Brain Mapp, 32(12), 2141-2150. ⇲

Book Chapters

Leshinskaya, A., Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. (2020). Concepts of Actions and their Objects. In: Gazzaniga, M., Mangun, G. R., Poeppel, D. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition, 757-765. ⇲