Publications Matthijs Noordzij
Publications (peer reviewed)
Journal articles
Newman-Norlund, R. D., Noordzij, M. L., Meulenbroek, R. G. J., & Bekkering, H. (2007). Exploring the brain basis of joint action: Co-ordination of actions, goals and intentions. Social Neuroscience, 2(1), 48 - 65.
Newman-Norlund, S. E., Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, R. D., Volman, I. A. C., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., & Toni, I. (in press). Recipient Design in Tacit Communication. Cognition.
Noordzij, M. L., Neggers, S. F. W., Ramsey, N. F., & Postma, A. (2008). Neural correlates of locative prepositions. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1576-1580.
Noordzij, M. L., & Postma, A. (2005). Categorical and metric distance information in mental representations derived from route and survey descriptions. Psychological Research, 69(3), 221-232.
Noordzij, M. L., Van der Lubbe, R. H., Neggers, S. F. W., & Postma, A. (2004). Spatial tapping interferes with the processing of linguistic spatial relations. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58(4), 259-271.
Noordzij, M. L., Van der Lubbe, R. H., & Postma, A. (2005). Strategic and automatic components in the processing of linguistic spatial relations. Acta Psychologica, 119, 1-20.
Noordzij, M. L., Van Der Lubbe, R. H. J., & Postma, A. (2006). Electrophysiological support for strategic processing of spatial sentences. Psychophysiology, 43(3), 277-286.
Noordzij, M. L., Zuidhoek, S., & Postma, A. (2006). The influence of visual experience on the ability to form spatial mental models based on route and survey descriptions. Cognition, 100(2), 321-342.
Noordzij, M. L., Zuidhoek, S., & Postma, A. (2007). The influence of visual experience on visual and spatial imagery. Perception, 36(1), 101-112.
Postma, A., Zuidhoek, S., Noordzij, M. L., & Kappers, A. M. (2007). Differences between early, late blind and blindfolded sighted people in implicit haptic spatial configuration learning and resulting memory traces. Perception, 36, 1253-1265.
Postma, A., Zuidhoek, S., Noordzij, M. L., & Kappers, A. M. (2008). Haptic orientation perception benefits from visual experience: evidence from early blind, late blind and sighted people. Perception and Psychophysics, 70(7), 1197-1206.
Postma, A., Zuidhoek, S., Noordzij, M. L., & Kappers, A. M. (2008). Keep an eye on your hands: On the role of visual mechanisms in the processing of haptic space. Cognitive Processing, 9, 63-68.
Toni, I., de Lange, F. P., Noordzij, M. L., & Hagoort, P. (2008). Language beyond action. Journal of Physiololgy - Paris, 102(Links and interactions between language and motor systems in the brain), 71-79.
Book chapters
De Ruiter, J. P., Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., Hagoort, P., & Toni, I. (2007). On the origins of intentions. In Y. Rosseti & P. Haggard & M. Kawato (Eds.), Sensorimotor foundations of higher cognition (pp. 601-618). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Noordzij, M. L., Zuidhoek, S., Van Meggelen, C., Petersen, R., Prinsen, G., & Postma, A. (2004). The influence of perspective on the properties of spatial mental models. In S. Ballesteros & M. A. Heller (Eds.), Touch, blindness and neuroscience (pp. 281-292). Madrid, Spain: UNED Press.
Zuidhoek, S., Kappers, A. M. L., Noordzij, M. L., Van der Lubbe, R. H., & Postma, A. (2004). Frames of reference in a haptic parallelity task: Temporal dynamics and the possible role of vision. In S. Ballesteros & M. A. Heller (Eds.), Touch, blindness and neuroscience (pp. 155-164). Madrid, Spain: UNED Press.
Invited talks (international)
Noordzij, M.L. (2008, February). Brain mechanisms underlying human communication: a central role for pSTS? Invited talk given as part of the workshop: Perspectives on social and spatial perspective taking - in the eye of the beholder, Aarhus, Denmark.
Noordzij, M.L. (2008, May). Neurocognitive studies on the relation between language and space. Invited talk at the University of Birmingham, language and cognition group, UK.
Noordzij, M.L. (2008, July). Blind people can construct spatial mental models from complex spatial descriptions. Invited talk, which was part of the workshop: Human Spatial Cognition: New Avenues of Research, International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, Germany
Noordzij, M.L. (2008, November). Spatial communication: behavioural, EEG, and fMRI studies with the blind and sighted. Invited talk at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
Representative selection of first author talks and posters (international conferences)
Noordzij, M. L., Neggers, S. F. W., Van der Lubbe, R. H. J., Ramsey, N. F., & Postma, A. (2005). Neural correlates of processing spatial sentences. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.
Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2006). Neural circuits underlying communicative actions. Oral presentation at the CogSys II meeting, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2006). Neural circuits underlying communicative actions. Poster presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Château de Pizay, France.
Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2008). Brain mechanisms underlying human communication. Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience society, San Fransisco, US.
Noordzij, M. L., Van der Lubbe, R., & Postma, A. (2003). Strategic and automatic components in the processing of linguistic spatial relations. Proceedings of the XIII ESCOP, Granada, 277 (oral presentation).
Noordzij, M. L., Zuidhoek, S., & Postma, A. (2003). The influence of perspective on the properties of spatial mental models of blind and sighted people. Proceedings of the 9th EWIC, Pavia, 96 (poster).
Other Professional activities
Symposia
I have organized the following symposia:
- “Communication: evolution, models and the brain” (9th of June, 2006, ENP, Doorwerth, the Netherlands). Keynote speaker: Dr. Ivan Toni (FCDC Nijmegen)
- “Spatial language, blindness, and brain” (8th of June, 2007, ENP, Doorwerth, the Netherlands). Keynote speaker: Dr. Laura Carlson (Notre Dame University, USA).
Reviewing
I have acted as an ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals: Acta Psychologica, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Behavioural Brain Research, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cortex, Current Anthropology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Learning and Individual Differences, Memory & Cognition, Neuropsychologia, Neuroreport, Psychological Research, and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.