Bujok, R., Maran, M., Meyer, A. S., Bosker, H. R. (accepted). Beat gestures facilitate lexical access in constraining sentence contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8ntjm_v1
Maran, M., Rötjes, R., Schreurs, A. R. E., Bosker, H. R. (accepted). Beat gestures made by human-like avatars affect speech perception. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025.
Pyatigorskaya, E., Friederici, A. D., Zaccarella, E., & Maran, M. (2025). Testing the neural correlates of automatic syntactic processing in German using visual masked syntactic priming and EEG. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 40(6), 792–812. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2488049
Maran, M., Bosker, H. R. (2024). How to test gesture-speech integration in ten minutes. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 737-741. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-149
van der Burght*, C. L., Friederici*, A. D., Maran*, M., Papitto*, G., Pyatigorskaya*, E., Schroën*, J., Trettenbrein*, P. C., Zaccarella*, E. (2023). Cleaning up the brickyard: how theory and methodology affect experimental outcome in cognitive neuroscience of language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(12), 2067–2088. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02058
Pyatigorskaya*, E., Maran*, M., & Zaccarella, E. (2023). Testing the automaticity of syntax using masked visual priming. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38(7), 925–949. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2173790
Maran, M., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2022). Syntax through the looking glass: A review on two-word linguistic processing across behavioral, neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104881
Maran, M., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., & Zaccarella, E. (2022). Online neurostimulation of Broca's area does not interfere with syntactic predictions: A combined TMS-EEG approach to basic linguistic combination. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968836
Pellegrino, G., Arcara, G., Di Pino, G., Turco, C., Maran, M., Weis, L., Piccione, F., & Siebner, H. R. (2019). Transcranial direct current stimulation over the sensory-motor regions inhibits gamma synchrony. Human Brain Mapping, 40(9), 2736–2746. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24556
Pellegrino, G., Maran, M., Turco, C., Weis, L., Di Pino, G., Piccione, F., & Arcara, G. (2018). Bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation reshapes resting-state brain betworks: a magnetoencephalography assessment. Neural Plasticity, 2018, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2782804
Maran, M., Grent-‘t-Jong, T., & Uhlhaas, P. J. (2016). Electrophysiological insights into connectivity anomalies in schizophrenia: a systematic review. Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology, 2(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40810-016-0020-5
Maran, M., Uilenreef, R., Rossen, R., & Bosker, H. R. (under review). The timing of an avatar’s beat gestures biases lexical stress perception in vocoded speech. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nvh36_v1
Trettenbrein*, P., Maran*, M., Pohl, J., Finkbeiner, T. A., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A., Steinbach, M., & Meister, N.-K. (under review). Detection of extraneous visual signals does not reveal the syntactic structure of German Sign Language (DGS). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/esyqm
Maran, M. (2025). Gesture-speech integration in neurotypical and autistic individuals. Cognition and Language Laboratory, University of Padova, online. February 25, 2025.
Maran, M. (2024). Hearing (also) with your eyes, talking (also) with your hands. IMPRS Graduate school IntroDays 2024, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. October 9, 2024.
Bosker, H. R., & Maran, M. (2024). How hands can help you hear. Nederlands Autisme Register (NAR) lab meeting, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. February 5, 2024.
Maran, M. (2021). Towards a causal role for Broca's area in language - A TMS-EEG study on syntactic prediction. Neurolinguistics Thursday seminar, Centre for Language and Brain, HSE University, Moscow, Russia (virtual). July 29, 2021.
Maran, M. (2020). Towards a causal role for Broca's area in language - A TMS-EEG study on syntactic prediction. Neurolinguistics Colloquium, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany (virtual). December 15, 2020.
Maran, M., Hartwigsen, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2020). Towards a causal role for Broca’s area in language processing: A TMS-EEG approach testing syntactic prediction in the left inferior frontal gyrus. General Linguistics Colloquium, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany. January 15, 2020.
Maran, M., Erik van der Burg, Kim Jonkman, Lotus Verbiest, Robert Jertberg, Sander Begeer and Hans Rutger Bosker (2025). Beat gestures and speech integration in autism and neurotypical development. 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Nijmegen. July 9, 2025.
Maran, M., Jonkman, K., Jertberg, R., Verbiest, L., Van Der Burg, E., Begeer, S., & Bosker, H. R (2025). Beat gestures bias lexical stress perception in autistic adults. International Multisensory Research Forum, Durham, July 16, 2025. 10.13140/RG.2.2.16316.76169
Maran, M., Rossen R., Uilenreef R., & Hans Rutger Bosker (2024). The timing of an avatar’s gestures differentially influences lexical stress perception in normal and simulated cochlear implant hearing conditions. Dag van de Fonetiek 2024, Utrecht. November 8, 2024.
Maran, M., Rossen R., Uilenreef R., & Hans Rutger Bosker (2024). The timing of an avatar’s gestures differentially influences lexical stress perception in normal and simulated cochlear implant hearing conditions. 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing meeting, Edinburgh. September 5-7, 2024,
Maran, M., Bosker, H. R. (2024). How to test gesture-speech integration in ten minutes. Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden. July 2-5, 2024.
Maran, M., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Towards a causal role of Broca's area in language: A TMS-EEG study on syntactic prediction. OHBM 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual). June 21-25, 2021.
Maran, M., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Towards a causal role of Broca's area in language: A TMS-EEG study on syntactic prediction. Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG) 2021 (virtual). June 2-4, 2021.
Maran, M. (2024). Syntax through the looking glass: an empirical and theoretical study of the neurocognitive basis of two-word syntactic composition. University of Leipzig, PhD dissertation. [link]
Maran, M. (2015). The role of the posterior parietal cortex in a visual short-term memory task: a combined EEG-tDCS study (University of Padova). University of Padova, MSc thesis.
Maran, M. (2013). Three disorders following frontal brain damage: imitation behaviour, utilization behaviour and environmental dependency syndrome. University of Padova, BSc thesis.
(updated on: 07/07/2025)