Moritz Franz Nikolaus Wurm

11/2011

Ph.D. in Psychology (Doctor rerum naturalium), Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne; Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany (magna cum laude). Thesis title: "Contextual modulation of action perception" (Advisor: Ricarda I. Schubotz)

10/2007

M.Sc. (Diplom) in Biology (grade 1.0), Department of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Cologne, Germany. Thesis title: "The role of the polycistronic gene milles-pattes in Drosophila melanogaster" (Advisor: Diethard Tautz)

10/2022 – present

Principal Investigator (RTD-B) of the Action Concepts and Recognition Group, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy

04/2019 – 06/2022

Principal Investigator (RTD-A), Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy

04/2017 – 03/2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy (Faculty Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza)

10/2015 – 03/2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (awarded by the German Research Foundation), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (02/2016-07/2016) and Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy (Faculty Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza)

12/2011 – 09/2015

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy (Faculty Advisor: Angelika Lingnau)

04/2008 – 11/2011

Ph.D. Student, Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany (Faculty Advisor: Ricarda I. Schubotz)

01/2007 – 10/2007

M.Sc. Student (Diplom), Department of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Germany (Faculty Advisor: Diethard Tautz)

05/2006 – 04/2008

Research Assistant, Department of Developmental Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany (Faculty Advisor: Maria Leptin)

01/2004 – 12/2004

Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Biology, University of Cologne, Germany

07/2003 – 12/2003

Student Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Cologne, Germany (Faculty Advisor: Michael Melkonian)

Action recognition

Representational dynamics 

Conceptual knowledge

fMRI

MEG

MVPA

RSA

Main Research Projects

2021 - present

Crossmodal decoding of action components (biological motion, causal relations)

2021 - present

Decoding the processing hierarchy from action and object recognition to integrational and higher-level mentalizing stages

2020 - present

Development and proof-of-concept for an MEG-based dynamic extension of RSA ("dynamic RSA")

 2016 - present

fMRI studies on action concepts and categories; investigate the neural organization of different action categories (e.g. object manipulation, communication, etc) and their conceptual components (e.g. Wurm et al., JNS, 2017; Wurm & Caramazza, Nat Comm, 2019).

2011 - 2016

fMRI studies on action recognition and representation; identify which regions in the brain encode perceptual and more general representations of observed actions (e.g. Wurm & Lingnau, JNS, 2015; Wurm et al., CerCor, 2016).

2008 - 2011

fMRI, behavioral, and developmental studies on contextual modulation of action recognition; investigate how the perception and understanding of actions is influenced by contextual information (e.g. in which scenes an action takes place, who is carrying out an action, etc; (e.g. Wurm & Schubotz, NeuroImage, 2012; Wurm et al. HBM, 2011; Wurm et al., BBR, 2014; Wurm & Schubotz, Psych Bull Rev, 2017).

Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Vision Science Society (VSS)

Fondo Italiano della Ricerca (FIS) Starting grant, 2024-2029

Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) PhD Grant, 2023-2027

University of Trento Starting Grant Giovani Ricercatori, 2021

DFG Research Fellowship (WU 767/1-1), 10/2014 – 03/2017

Abstract award: Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects – Functional and neural perspectives (8th Edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2014

Talks

Wurm, M. F. & Erigüç, Y. Decoding the physics of actions in the dorsal visual pathway. Vision Science Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 2023.

Wurm, M. F. Decoding the physics of actions in parietal cortex. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium, March 2023.

Wurm, M. F. Disentangling physical action components in the brain. Action Representation Symposium, Regensburg, Germany, September 2022.

Wurm, M. F. New insights into the neural basis of action recognition – and beyond. Seminar, IMT Lucca, Italy, February 2022.

Wurm, M. F. New insights into the neural basis of action recognition – and beyond. Virtual Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, USA, January 2022.

Wurm, M. F. A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge. Virtual Seminar, Boston College, USA, August 2020.

Wurm, M. F. A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge. Virtual Seminar, Bangor University, UK, May 2020.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. Decoding the meaning of actions across vision and language. Virtual Symposium Talk, 61th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Jena, Germany, April 2020.

Wurm, M. F. A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge. UC Louvain, Belgium, February 2020.

Wurm, M. F. A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge. CEU, Budapest, Hungary, January 2020.

Wurm, M. F. A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge. University of Regensburg, Germany, December 2019.

Wurm, M. F. New insights into the neural representation of action knowledge. Technical University Munich, Germany, October 2018.

Wurm, M. F. New insights into the neural representation of action knowledge. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), UCL, London, UK, January 2018.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A., Lingnau, A. The representational organization of action event knowledge along features of sociality and transitivity. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), Budapest, Hungary, January 2018.

Wurm, M. F. The neural representation of action knowledge. CNRS, Lyon, France, November 2017.

Wurm, M. F. Transforming object features into action affordances. German Research Foundation (DFG) priority program meeting “Tool choosing and tool using”, Cologne, Germany, July 2017.

Wurm, M. F. Decoding concrete and abstract action representations – an fMRI-based MVPA approach. Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Brussels, Belgium, May 2015.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study (Abstract Award Talk). Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (8th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA study. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Gießen, Germany, April 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Woitscheck, C., Giuliani D., Schubotz, R. I. Influence of spatial context on action recognition from toddlerhood to middle childhood. 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Mannheim, Germany, April 2012.

Wurm, M. F. Nonmotor inputs to action recognition. CIMeC, University of Trento, Mattarello, Italy, May 2011.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. Contextual information provided by domestic settings modulates action recognition. 53th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Halle, Germany, March 2011.

Abstracts in Conference Proceedings

Wurm, M. F. & Erigüç, Y. (2023) Decoding the physics of actions in the dorsal visual pathway. Journal of Vision 23 (9), p. 4893

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. (2022). Predictive neural representations of sensory input revealed by a novel dynamic RSA approach. Journal of Vision 22 (14), p. 3888. 

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. (2021). Predictive neural representations of sensory input revealed by a novel dynamic RSA approach. Journal of Neuroscience (Supplement).

Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., & Wurm, M. F. (2021) Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Supplement). 

Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., & Wurm, M. F. (2021) Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events. Journal of Vision 21 (9), p. 2490.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza A. (2020). Decoding the meaning of actions across vision and language. In:  Dobel, C., et al. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 61th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 293.

Wurm, M. F.*, Vannuscorps G.*, Striem-Amit, E., Caramazza A. (2017). The neural correlates of hand and foot action recognition in individuals born without upper limbs. Journal of Vision 17 (10), p. 988. *equal contribution.

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I. C., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. (2017). Making sense of objects lying about: How contextual objects shape brain activity during action observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Supplement).

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding free-choice movement selection during motor planning. Journal of Neuroscience (Supplement), p. 227.

Wurm, M. F., Hrkać, M., Schubotz., R. I. (2014). Embedding actions into episodes: benefits and costs detected with fMRI. In:  Güntürkün, O. (Ed.). Abstracts of the 49th Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 451.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz., R. I. (2014). Rooms imply actions – behavioral and fMRI evidence for contextual modulation of action observation. In:  Güntürkün, O. (Ed.). Abstracts of the 49th Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 451.

Woitscheck, C., Wurm, M. F., Giuliani, D., Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Cooking in the kitchen: room-action coupling informas action recognition in 4-8 year old children. In:  Güntürkün, O. (Ed.). Abstracts of the 49th Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 451.

Schubotz, R. I., Wurm, M. F., Wittmann, M. K., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2014). Objects tell us what action we can expect: Using fMRI to dissociate retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge in action observation. In:  Güntürkün, O. (Ed.). Abstracts of the 49th Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 450.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study. NeuroImage (Supplement), p. 261.

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding free-choice movement selection during motor planning. NeuroImage (Supplement), p. 227.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Supplement), p. 62.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction. In:  Schütz, A., Drewing, K., Gegenfurtner, K. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 289.

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. (2014). Decoding free-choice movement selection during motor planning. In:  Schütz, A., Drewing, K., Gegenfurtner, K. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 15.

El-Sourani, N., Wurm, M. F., Kluger, D., Schubotz, R. I. (2014). The role of contextual objects in action recognition. In:  Schütz, A., Drewing, K., Gegenfurtner, K. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 62.

Wurm, M. F., Petris, S., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. (2013). Decoding actions across objects. Journal of Neuroscience (Supplement).

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. (2013). Making sense of subsequent action: neural signatures of spontaneous interpretation. In:  Ansorge, U., Kirchler, E., Lamm, C., Leder, H. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 365.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Making sense of subsequent action: frontal signatures of spontaneous interpretation.Neuroimage (Supplement), p. 171.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz., R. I. (2012). The role of the temporoparietal cortex (TPJ) in action perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (Supplement), p. 198.

Wurm, M. F., Woitscheck, C., Giuliani D., Schubotz, R. I. (2012). Influence of spatial context on action recognition from toddlerhood to middle childhood. In: Broeder, A., Erdfelder, E.,Hilbig, B.E., Meiser, T., Pohl, R., Stahlberg, D. (Eds.). Abstracts of the 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 145.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Contextual settings modulate action recognition: behavioral and functional imaging evidence. Basal Ganglia, vol: 1, issue: 2, pp. 111-112.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2011) Context frames provided by domestic settings modulate action recognition: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23 (Supplement), p. 53.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Morikawa, Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Merging acts to episodes: what is more important, consistency of the actor ort he presence of overarching goals? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23 (Supplement), p. 44

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Brushing teeth in the kitchen: How context frames provided by domestic settings modulate the recognition of actions – an fMRI study. In: Bittrich, K., Blankenberger, S., Lukas, J. (Eds.). Beiträge zur 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 198.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Morikawa, Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2011). Was ist wichtiger für das Verstehen einer Episode, Kohärenz der Person oder Handlungsziel? Neuronale Korrelate der Kohärenzbildung bei Handlungsbeobachtung. In: Bittrich, K., Blankenberger, S., Lukas, J. (Eds.). Beiträge zur 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 236.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2010) Observing actions from allocentric perspectives triggers reflections about mental states. An fMRI study. In: Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., Zimmer, H. (Eds.). Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher, p. 306.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2010) Dealing with Actions or Dealing with Actors? From Motor Simulation to Theory of Mind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (Supplement), p. 188.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. (2010) Minding Minds during Minding Minds' Actions. An fMRI Study. Human Brain Mapping 22 (Supplement), p. 1495.

Conference Presentations

de Vries, I. E. J., de Lange, F., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of unfolding actions. Talk at Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition (NVP) Winter Conference, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, December 2023.

de Vries, I. E. J., de Lange, F., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of unfolding actions. Talk at Cutting Gardens (Distributed M/EEG conference), Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2023.

de Vries, I. E. J., de Lange, F., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of unfolding actions revealed by dynamic RSA. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), July 2023.

Murziakova, N., Wurm, M. F. Characterizing neural representations of observed human movements. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives, Rovereto, Italy, May 2023.

de Vries, I. E. J., de Lange, F., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of unfolding actions revealed by dynamic RSA. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives, Rovereto, Italy, May 2023.

Flieger, P., Wurm, M. F. Lateralized cause and effect representations in action observation. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives, Rovereto, Italy, May 2023.

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of sensory input revealed by a novel dynamic RSA approach. Talk at TEX2022: Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, July 2022.

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of sensory input revealed by a novel dynamic RSA approach. Talk and Travel Award at the Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 2022.

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. Predictive neural representations of sensory input revealed by a novel dynamic RSA approach. Virtual presentation at Neuroscience (SfN), November 2021.

de Vries, I. E. J., Wurm, M. F. Dynamic representational similarity analysis – a novel method for investigating neural representations of dynamic sensory input. Virtual presentation at the Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), November 2021.

Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., & Wurm, M. F. Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Virtual Meeting (awarded with a DataBlitz presentation), March 2021. 

Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., & Wurm, M. F. Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events. Vision Science Society Virtual Meeting, May 2021.

Akbıyık. S., Caramazza A., & Wurm, M. F. Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events. Special Online Event. Talk and Best Abstract Award, European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Bressanone, January 2021. 

Wurm, M. F.*, Vannuscorps G.*, Striem-Amit, E., Caramazza A. The neural correlates of hand and foot action recognition in individuals born without upper limbs. Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 2017. *equal contribution.

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I. C., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. I spy with my little eye: How contextual objects shape brain activity during action observation. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (11th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2017.

El-Sourani, N., Trempler, I. C., Wurm, M. F., Fink, G. R., Schubotz, R. I. Making sense of objects lying about: How contextual objects shape brain activity during action observation. 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA, April 2017

Tucciarelli, R., Wurm, M. F., Roth, Z., Zohary, E., Lingnau, A. Dissociating action states and functions - an fMRI-MVPA study. CUBIC Workshop, London, UK, June 2016.

Wurm, M. F., Caramazza, A. Decomposing the neural components of social actions.  Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (10th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2016.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts from distinct categories – an MVPA study. Social Cognition 2015, Bangor, UK, August 2015.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts from distinct categories – an MVPA study. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (9th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2015.

Tucciarelli, R., Wurm, M. F., Roth, Z., Zohary, E., Lingnau, A. Dissociating action states and functions – an MVPA study. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (9th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2015.

Wurm, M. F., Hrkać, M., Schubotz, R. I. Embedding actions into episodes: benefits and costs detected with fMRI. 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany, September 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. Rooms imply actions – behavioral and fMRI evidence for contextual modulation of action observation. 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany, September 2014.

Woitscheck, C., Wurm, M. F., Giuliani, D., Schubotz, R. I. (2014). Cooking in the kitchen: room-action coupling informas action recognition in 4-8 year old children. 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany, September 2014.

Schubotz, R. I., Wurm, M. F., Wittmann, M. K., von Cramon, D. Y. (2014). Objects tell us what action we can expect: Using fMRI to dissociate retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge in action observation. 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bochum, Germany, September 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany, June 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study (Best Abstract Award). Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (8th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2014.

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding free-choice movement selection during motor planning. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany, June 2014.

Ariani, G., Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding free-choice movement selection during motor planning (Best Abstract Award). Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (8th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Lingnau, A. Decoding action concepts at different levels of abstraction – an MVPA fMRI study. 21th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA, April 2014.

Wurm, M. F., Petris, S., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. Decoding actions across objects. Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, USA, November 2013.

Wurm, M. F., Petris, S., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. Decoding actions across objects. 3rd IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, Leipzig, Germany, July 2013.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. Adding up subsequent actions: neural correlates of spontaneous interpretation. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (7th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2013.

Wurm, M. F., Petris, S., Ariani, G., Greenlee, M. W., Lingnau, A. Decoding actions across objects. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (7th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May 2013.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. Making sense of subsequent action: neural signatures of spontaneous interpretation. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Vienna, Austria, March 2013.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. Making sense of subsequent action: neural signatures of spontaneous interpretation. NeuroVisionen 8, Aachen, Germany, October 2012. 

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Kühn, A. B., Schubotz, R. I. Making sense of subsequent action: frontal signatures of spontaneous interpretation. 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China, June 2012.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. Taking the actor’s perspective: The role of the temporoparietal cortex (TPJ) in action perception. Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs) – Functional and neural perspectives (6th edition), Rovereto, Italy, May, 2012.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. The role of the temporoparietal cortex (TPJ) in action perception. 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, USA, April 2012.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Morikawa, Y. Schubotz, R. I. Merging acts to episodes: What are the neural correlates of episodic embedding of oserved actions? Donders Discussions, Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2011.

Wurm, M. F., Schubotz, R. I. Contextual settings modulate action recognition: behavioral and functional imaging evidence. International Symposium of the Clinical Research Group 219, Cologne, Germany. May 2011.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Context frames provided by domestic settings modulate action recognition: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA, April 2011.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Morikawa, Y., Schubotz, R. I. Merging acts to episodes: what is more important, consistency of the actor or the presence of overarching goals? 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA, April 2011.

Hrkać, M., Wurm, M. F., Morikawa, Y., Schubotz, R. I. Was ist wichtiger für das Verstehen einer Episode, Kohärenz der Person oder Handlungsziel? Neuronale Korrelate der Kohärenzbildung bei Handlungsbeobachtung. 53th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Halle, Germany, March 2011.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Actions Implied by Domestic Settings: The Influence of Spatial Context on Action Recognition. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS) – Spatial Representations and Dynamic Interactions, ZiF Bielefeld, Germany, February 2011.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Considering Mental States during Action Observation: The Intriguing Role of the Third Person Perspective uncovered by fMRI. Neurovisionen 6, Bochum, Germany, September 2011.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Minding Minds during Minding Minds' Actions. An fMRI Study. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Dealing with Actions or Dealing with Actors? From Motor Simulation to Theory of Mind. 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada, April 2010.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Observing actions from allocentric perspectives triggers reflections about mental states. An fMRI study. 52th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2010.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Observing Actions vs. Observing Actors: Where Motor Simulation meets Theory of Mind. Third Vogt-Brodmann Symposium, Jülich, Germany, December 2009.

Wurm, M. F., von Cramon, D. Y., Schubotz, R. I. Dealing with Actions or Dealing with Actors? From Motor Simulation to Theory of Mind. Donders Discussions, Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 2009.

Ad hoc Reviewer for Science; Science Advances; Nature Communications; Nature Human Behaviour; eLife, Journal of Neuroscience; Cerebral Cortex; Communications Biology; Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; NeuroImage; Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Scientific Reports; Neuropsychologia; Proceedings of the Royal Society B; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Neuroscience Letters; Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience; NeuroImage: Clinical; European Journal of Neuroscience; Experimental Brain Research; Cognitive Science, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics; Brain Topography; Journal of Neurolinguistics, PLoS One; Frontiers in Perception Science; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Ad hoc Grant Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK); Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)

Workshop Organizer: “Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects – Functional and neural perspectives”, permanent commission member, Rovereto, Italy, 2019 – present

Symposium Organizer: “Action perception and action understanding: Developmental perspectives”, 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Mannheim, Germany, April 2012

Organizer of the CIMeC Colloquia Series, CIMeC, University of Trento, 2022 – present

Delegate for Internship activities, CIMeC, University of Trento, 2022 – present

Library Delegate, CIMeC, University of Trento, 2021 – 2022

Ph.D. Committee Memberships: 

2023                   Enrico Zingarelli (University of Torino, Italy)

2021 –                Falko Mecklenbrauck (University of Münster, Germany)

2020 –                Antoine Vandenberghe (UCLouvain, Belgium)

2020 –                Benjamin Jainta (University of Münster, Germany)

2015 – 2019        Daniel Kluger (University of Münster, Germany)

2013 – 2019        Nadiya El-Sourani (University of Münster, Germany)