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Wermter, S., Page, M., Knowles, M., Gallese, V., Pulvermüller, F., Taylor, J. Multimodal communication in animals, humans and robots: An introduction to perspectives in brain-inspired informatics. Neural Networks 22 (2009), doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2009.01.004. Journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/neunet

Baumgaertner A., Buccino G., Lange R., McNamara A., Binkofski F. Polymodal conceptual processing of human biological actions in the left inferior frontal lobe. Eur J Neurosci., 25 (3):881-889, 2007.

Buccino G., Baumgaertner A., Colle L., Buechel C., Rizzolatti G., Binkofski F. The neural basis for understanding non- intended actions. Neuroimage, in press.

Ebisch, S.J.H., Perrucci, M.G., Ferretti, A., Del Gratta, C., Romani, G.L., and Gallese, V. The sense of touch: embodied simulation in a visuo-tactile mirroring mechanism for the sight of any touch. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20: 1611-1623, 2008.

Ertelt D., Small S., Solodkin A., McNamara A., Binkofski F., Buccino G. Action observation has a positive impact on rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke. Neuroimage, in press.

Erwin, H., Elshaw, M., Rees, A., Perez-Gonzalez, D., Wermter, S.  Modeling Regular Firing Neurons of the Inferior Colliculus. International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, Shanghai, 2007.

Freedberg D. and Gallese V. Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2007, 11: 197-203.

Gallese V. Before and below 'theory of mind': embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362: 659-669, 2007.

Gallese V. Embodied simulation: from mirror neuron systems to interpersonal relations. Novartis Found Symp. 278: 3-12; discussion 12-9, 2007.

Gallese, V. The ventro-dorsal stream: Parieto-premotor neural circuits and their role in primate cognition. In F. Mast and L. Jäncke (Eds.) Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception, pp. 329-352. Springer Science, 2007.

Gallese, V. Empathy, embodied simulation and mirroring mechanisms. Commentary on “Towards a neuroscience of empathy” by Doug Watt. Neuropsychoanalysis, 9, Vol 2: 146-151, 2007.

Gallese, V. The Shared Manifold Hypothesis: Embodied Simulation and its Role in Empathy and Social Cognition. In Empathy in Mental Illness and Health. Farrow T.F.D., Woodruff P.W.R. (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 448-472, 2007.

Gallese V. The "conscious" dorsal stream: Embodied simulation and its role in space and action conscious awareness. PSYCHE:

Gallese V., Eagle M.E., and Migone P. Intentional attunement: Mirror neurons and the neural underpinnings of interpersonal relations. J. of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2007, 55: 131-176.

Gallese V., Freedberg, D. Mirror and canonical neurons are crucial elements in esthetic response. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2007, 11: 411.

Gallese, V. Mirror neurons and the social nature of language: The neural exploitation hypothesis. Social Neuroscience, 3: 317-333, 2008.

Gallese, V. Empathy, embodied simulation and the brain. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56: 769-781, 2008.

Gallese, V. Mirror neurons and the neural exploitation hypothesis: From embodied simulation to social cognition. In: J.A. Pineda (ed.), Mirror Neuron Systems, New York, NY: Humana Press, pp. 163-190, 2009.

Gallese, V., Rochat, M., Cossu, G., and Sinigaglia, C. Motor Cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of intentional understanding. Developmental Psychology, 45: 103-113, 2009.

Garagnani. M, Wennekers. T and Pulvermuller. F. A neuroanatomically grounded Hebbian-learning model of attention–language interactions in the human brain. European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 27, pp. 492–513, 2008.

Garagnani, M., and Pulvermuller, F. Early and late brain reflections of what makes sense: attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex. Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, p.87.

Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T. & Pulvermuller, F. A neuronal model of the language cortex, Neurocomputing, 70(10-12), 1914-1919. 2007.

Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T. and Pulvermuller, F. Explaining the effects of attention on lexical processes using a single Hebbian neuronal model of the language cortex. 39th Annual General Meeting of the European Brain & Behaviour Society p.13. - Trieste, Italy, Sept. 2007.

Glenberg A., Sato M., Cattaneo L., Riggio L., Palumbo D., Buccino G. Processing Abstract Language Modulates Motor System Activity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press.

Hauk, O., Davis, M.H., Kherif, F. & Pulvermuller, F. Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging, European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(7), 1856–1866. 2008

Hauk, O., Patterson, K., Woolams, A., Cooper-pye, E., Pulvermuller, F. & Rogers, T.T. How the Camel Lost its Hump: The impact of object typicality on ERP signals in object decision, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1338-1353. 2007.

Hauk, O., Shtyrov, Y. & Pulvermuller, F. The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology, Journal of Physiology-Paris, 102, 50-58, 2008.

Kiefer, M., Sim, E.J., Liebich, S., Hauk, O. & Tanaka, J. Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(3), 525-542. 2007.

Knowles, M.J. and Wermter, S. The Hybrid Integration of Perceptual Symbol Systems and Interactive Reinforcement Learning. 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12th, 2008.

Liu, J., Erwin, H., Wermter, S. Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation Using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS 2008), pp. 2191-2196. Nice, France, September, 22-26th, 2008.

Liu, J., Erwin, H., Wermter, S. and Elsaid, M. A Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network for Sound Localisation by the Inferior Colliculus. Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008, vol. 5164/2008, pp.396-405, August 2008.

Mohr, B., Endrass, T., Hauk, O. & Pulvermuller, F. ERP correlates of the bilateral redundancy gain for words, Neuropsychologia, 45(9), 2114-2124, 2007.

Multimodal Interactive Robot Agent (MIRA Robot Head)

Murray, J., Rowan, C., Yau, A., Elshaw, M., Wermter, S. Sound localisation and emotional language communication in the Mira robot head. Proceedings of the AI Video Competition at 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

Murray, J.C, Wermter, S. and Knowles, M.J. MIRA: A Learning Multimodal Interactive Robot Agent. 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12th, 2008.
Panchev. C. An Oscillatory Model for Multimodal Processing of Short Language Instructions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Vol 4669, pp. 425-434, 2007 - Publisher Springer.

Pulvermuller, F. From babbling to articulatory echo neurons and unsolved questions of syntax. Behavioral & Brain Sciences (In Press).

Penolazzi, B., Hauk, O. & Pulvermuller, F.Early Semantic Context Integration and Lexical Access as Revealed by Event-Related Potentials, Biological Psychology, 74(3) 374-388, 2007.

Pulvermuller, F. From babbling to articulatory echo neurons and unsolved questions of syntax. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. In Press.
Pulvermuller, F. & Assadollahi, R. Grammar or serial order?: Discrete combinatorial brain mechanisms reflected by the syntactic Mismatch Negativity, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 19(6), 971-980, 2007.

Pulvermuller, F.& Hodges, J.R. Clinical, imaging and pathological correlates of a hereditary deficit in verb and action processing, Brain, 129(2), 321-332, 2006.

Pulvermuller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Hastings, A., Carlyon, R.P. Syntax as a reflex? Brain potentials reveal autonomy of early grammatical processing. Brain and Language. In Press.

Rochat, M., Serra, E., Fadiga, L., and Gallese V. The evolution of social cognition: Goal familiarity shapes monkeys’ action understanding. Current Biology, 2008, 18: 227-232.

Sato M., Cattaneo L., Rizzolatti G., and Gallese V. Numbers Within Our Hands: Modulation of Corticospinal Excitability of Hand Muscles During Numerical Judgment. J. Cognitive Neurosci., 2007, 19: 684-693.

Shtyrov, Y. & Pulvermuller, F. Early MEG activation dynamics in the left temporal and inferior frontal cortex reflect semantic context integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(10), 1633-1642. 2007.

Shtyrov, Y., Garagnani, M., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. Pulvermuller, F. Brain interactions of language and attention: MEG, EEG, fMRI and neurocomputational studies, 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 864.4, 2007.

Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Wermter, S., Triesch J. and Willmot, C. Reinforcement Learning Embedded in Brains and Robots, In: Weber, C., Elshaw M., and Mayer N. M. (Eds.) Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications. pp. 119-142, 2008, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria.

Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Triesch, J. and Wermter, S. Neural Control of Actions Involving Different Coordinate Systems. In Hackel, M., Humanoid Robots: Human-like Machines, pp. 577-600, Itech, Vienna, Austria, June 2007.

Willmot, C,. Wermter, S. and Panchev, C. Developing Concepts from Robot Behaviour by Growing Self Organizing Networks. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Piscataway, NJ, 2007.

Yau, C.Y., Burn, K. and Wermter, S. A Neural Wake-Sleep Learning Architecture for Associating Robotic Facial Emotions. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN/WCCI), pp. 2716- 2722. Hongkong, June 2008.