Publications

Articles and chapters
	Catmur CC, Mars RB, Rushworth MFS, & Heyes C Making mirrors: premotor cortex stimulation enhances mirror and counter-mirror motor facilitation effects Manuscript submitted for publication
	Mars RB*, Shea NJ*, Kolling N, & Rushworth MFS Model-based analyses: Promises, pitfalls, and example applications to the study of cognitive control Manuscript submitted for publication * These authors contributed equally to this work
	De Bruijn ERA, Mars RB, Bekkering H, & Coles MGH Your mistake is my mistake… or is it? Behavioral adjustments following own and observed actions in cooperation and competition Manuscript submitted for publication
	Buch ER, Mars RB, Boorman ED, & Rushworth MFS A network centered on ventral premotor cortex exerts both facilitatory and inhibitory control over primary motor cortex during action reprogramming Journal of Neuroscience (in press)
	Fleming SM, Mars RB, Gladwin TE, & Haggard P When the brain changes its mind: Flexibility of action selection in instructed and free choices Cerebral Cortex 19:2352-2360 (2009) doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn252
	Rushworth MFS, Mars RB, & Summerfield C General mechanisms for making decisions? Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19:75-83 (2009) doi:10.1016/j.conb.2009.02.005
	Mars RB, Klein MC, Neubert FX, Olivier E, Buch ER, Boorman ED, & Rushworth MFS Short-latency influence of medial frontal cortex on primary motor cortex during action selection under conflict Journal of Neuroscience 29:6926-6931 (2009) doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1396-09.2009
	Rushworth MFS, Boorman E, & Mars RB Comparing brain connections in different species using diffusion weighted imaging In: Johansen-Berg H & Behrens TEJ (Eds.) Diffusion MRI: From quantitative measurement to in vivo neuroanatomy, pp. 445-460. Amsterdam: Academic Press (2009)
	Roelofs K, Minelli A, Mars RB, Van Peer J, & Toni I On the neural control of social emotional behavior Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 4:50-58 (2009) doi:10.1093/scan/nsn036
	Mars RB, Debener S, Gladwin TE, Harrison LM, Haggard P, Rothwell JC, & Bestmann S Trial-by-trial fluctuations in the event-related electroencephalogram reflect dynamic changes in the degree of surprise Journal of Neuroscience 28:12539-12545 (2008) doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2925-08.2008
	Bestmann S, Harrison LM, Blankenburg F, Mars RB, Haggard P, Friston KJ, & Rothwell JC Influences of contextual uncertainty and surprise on human corticospinal excitability during preparation for action Current Biology 18:775-780 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.051
	Mars RB, Coles MGH, Hulstijn W, & Toni I Delay-related cerebral activity and motor preparation Cortex 44:507-520 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2007.07.002
	Mars RB, Hulstijn W, & Toni I Editorial - Selection, preparation, and monitoring: Current approaches to studying the neural control of action Cortex 44:479-481 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.002
	Walton ME* & Mars RB* Probing human and monkey anterior cingulate cortex in variable environments Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 7:413-422 (2007) * These authors contributed equally to this work
	Mars RB, Piekema C, Coles MGH, Hulstijn W, & Toni I On the programming and reprogramming of actions Cerebral Cortex 17:2972-2979 (2007) doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm022
	Mars RB, Bestmann S, Rothwell JC, & Haggard P Effects of motor preparation and spatial attention on corticospinal excitability in a delayed-response paradigm Experimental Brain Research 182:125-129 (2007) doi:10.1007/s00221-007-1055-4
	Nieuwenhuis S, Schweizer TS, Mars RB, Botvinick MM, & Hajcak G Error-likelihood prediction in the medial frontal cortex: A critical evaluation Cerebral Cortex 17:1570-1581 (2007) doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl068
	Mars RB & Grol MJ Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, working memory, and prospective coding for action Journal of Neuroscience 27:1801-1802 (2007) doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5344-06.2007
	Van den Hurk P*, Mars RB*, Van Elswijk G, Hegeman J, Pasman JW, Bloem BR, & Toni I Online maintenance of sensory and motor representations: Effects on corticospinal excitability Journal of Neurophysiology 97:1642-1648 (2007) doi:10.1152/jn.01005.2006 * These authors contributed equally to this work
	Piekema C, Kessels RPC, Mars RB, Petersson KM, & Fernandez G The right hippocampus participates in short-term memory maintenance of object-location associations NeuroImage 33:374-382 (2006) doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.035
	Mars RB, Coles MGH, Grol MJ, Holroyd CB, Nieuwenhuis S, Hulstijn W, & Toni I Neural dynamics of error processing in medial frontal cortex NeuroImage 28:1007-1013 (2005) doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.041
	Nieuwenhuis S, Heslenfeld DJ, Alting von Geusau NJ, Mars RB, Holroyd CB, & Yeung N Activity in human reward-sensitive brain areas is strongly context dependent NeuroImage 25:1302-1309 (2005) doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.12.043
	Holroyd CB, Nieuwenhuis S, Mars RB, & Coles MGH Anterior cingulate cortex, selection for action, and error processing In: Posner MI (Ed.) Cognitive neuroscience of attention, pp. 219-231. New York: Guilford Press (2004)
	Van Schie HT*, Mars RB*, Coles MGH, & Bekkering H Modulation of activity in medial frontal and motor cortices during error observation Nature Neuroscience 7:549-554 (2004) doi:10.1038/nn1239 * These authors contributed equally to this work
	Holroyd CB, Nieuwenhuis S, Yeung N, Nystrom L, Mars RB, Coles MGH, & Cohen JD Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signals Nature Neuroscience 7:497-498 (2004) doi:10.1038/nn1238
	Mars RB, De Bruijn ERA, Hulstijn W, Miltner WHR, & Coles MGH What if I told you: "You were wrong"? Brain potentials and behavioral adjustments elicited by feedback in a time-estimation task In: Ullsperger M & Falkenstein M (Eds.) Errors, conflicts, and the brain. Current opinions on performance monitoring, pp. 129-134. Leipzig: MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience (2004)
	De Bruijn ERA, Mars RB, & Hulstijn W It wasn't me... or was it? How false feedback affects performance In: Ullsperger M & Falkenstein M (Eds.) Errors, conflicts, and the brain. Current opinions on performance monitoring, pp. 118-124. Leipzig: MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience (2004)

Ph.D. thesis
	Mars RB Premotor contributions to the control of action: Selection, preparation, and monitoring Ph.D. thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen (2006)

Selected abstracts, conference proceedings, and talks
	Mars RB Probing functional interactions between brain regions during action selection and action reprogramming Talk given at the 16th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESPCOP), Krakow, Poland, September 2009
	Mars RB, Klein MC, Neubert FX, Olivier E, Buch ER, Boorman ED, & Rushworth MFS Pre-SMA exerts top-down control over primary motor cortex during response switching: A paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation and diffusion-weighted imaging study Poster presented at the 14th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), San Francisco, USA, June 2009
	Neubert FX, Mars RB, Olivier E, Klein MC, Buch ER, & Rushworth MFS Functional networks of action reprogramming: A paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation study Poster presented at the MagStim TMS Summer School, London, United Kingdom, May 2009
	Mars RB Reprogramming actions in the frontal lobes Invited talk at the 3rd Conflicts as Signals in Cognitive Systems Workshop, Berlin, Germany, May 2009
	Mars RB Studying decision making in an uncertain world Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany, March 2009
	Mars RB Motor preparation in the human premotor cortex Invited talk at the University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands, March 2009
	Mars RB, Klein MC, Buch ER, & Rushworth MFS Changes in functional connectivity between medial frontal cortex and M1 during response switching: A paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation study Poster presented at the Neuroscience and Cognitive Control Meeting (NeuroCog), Gent, Belgium, 2008
	Mars RB, Debener S, Gladwin TE, Harrison LM, Haggard P, Rothwell JC, & Bestmann S Trial-by-trial fluctuations in the event-related encephalogram reflect dynamic changes in the degree of surprise Poster presented at the Neuroscience and Cognitive Control Meeting (NeuroCog), Gent, Belgium, 2008
	Buch ER, Mars RB, & Rushworth MFS Inter-hemispheric ventral premotor and primary motor cortex interactions during perturbed reaching and grasping Poster presented at the 38th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, November 2008
	Cools R, O'Shea J, Mars RB, & Rushworth MFS Effects of cortical stimulation on striatal cognitive function. A combined rTMS/fMRI study Poster presented at the 38th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, November 2008
	Bestmann S, Munneke H, Harrison LM, Mars RB, & Rothwell JC Changes in corticospinal excitability during probabilistic sequence learning Poster presented at the 38th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, November 2008
	Mars RB Studying the brain in an uncertain world Invited talk at the Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behavior (ACACIA), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2008
	Mars RB Studying the brain in an uncertain world Invited talk at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 2008
	Klein MC, Mars RB, Buch ER, Rushworth MFS Changes in functional connectivity between pre-SMA and M1 during reprogramming of actions: A paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation study Poster presented at the MagStim TMS Summer School, London, United Kingdom, May 2008
	Mars RB Motor preparation under uncertainty in the human premotor cortex: Evidence from fMRI, TMS, and modeling Invited talk at the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 2008
	Mars RB Studying motor preparation in the face of contextual uncertainty Talk given at the Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (NVP), Egmond, The Netherlands, December 2007
	Mars RB, Debener S, Rothwell JC, Haggard, & Bestmann S Predicting event-related brain responses to contextual uncertainty Poster presented at the 37th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, USA, November 2007
	Bestmann S, Harrison LM, Blankenburg F, Mars RB, Haggard P, & Rothwell JC Surprise and uncertainty predict corticospinal excitability changes prior to movement Poster presented at the 37th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, USA, November 2007
	Bestmann S, Harrison L, Blankenburg F, Koch G, Mars RB, Haggard P, & Rothwell JC Uncertainty and surprise predict changes in corticospinal excitability during preparatory delay period Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Sevilla, Spain, March 2007
	Mars RB, Bestmann S, Rothwell JC, & Haggard P Modulation of corticospinal excitability during delayed-response tasks: Specific relation to motor preparation? Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Sevilla, Spain, March 2007
	Mars RB Studying movement preparation in the human brain Invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Leiden University, February 2007
	Minelli A, Roelofs K, Mars RB, & Toni I Neural correlates of approach-avoidance behavior Poster presented at the 12th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Florance, Italy, June 2006
	Mars RB, Piekema C, Coles MGH, Hulstijn W, & Toni I fMRI responses related to the programming, reprogramming, and inhibition of movements Poster presented at the 12th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Florance, Italy, June 2006
	Van den Hurk P, Mars RB, Van Elswijk G, Hegeman J, Bloem BR, & Toni I Movement preparation and working memory: an electrophysiological dissociation Poster presented at the 12th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Florance, Italy, June 2006
	Mars RB Isolating the various contributions of the medial frontal cortex in space and time Talk given at the Medial frontal cortex workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2006
	Mars RB, Coles MGH, Hulstijn W, & Toni I Sensory and motor delay-related responses in the human brain Poster presented at the 35th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington D.C., USA, November 2005
	Piekema C, Mars RB, Petersson KM, Kessels RPC, & Fernandez G The hippocampus as a spatial binding device: The role of the hippocampus in working memory maintenance Poster presented at the 35th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington D.C., USA, November 2005
	Piekema C, Mars RB, Petersson KM, Kessels RPC, & Fernandez G Binding of spatial and non-spatial features in working memory: An fMRI study Poster presented at the 11th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Toronto, Canada, June 2005
	Mars RB, Coles MGH, Grol MJ, Holroyd CB, Nieuwenhuis S, Hulstijn W, & Toni I Neural dynamics of error processing in medial frontal cortex Poster presented at the 11th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Toronto, Canada, June 2005
	Mars RB Neural dynamics of error processing in medial frontal cortex Talk given at the EPOS/NWO Workshop Control in Attention and Action: Neurocognitive Systems and Mechanisms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2005
	Mars RB, Van Schie HT, Coles MGH, & Bekkering H Involvement of anterior cingulate and motor cortices in error observation: An ERP study Poster presented at the 10th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Budapest, Hungary, June 2004
	Mars RB Temporal dynamics of error processing during learning Talk given at the 3rd Endo-Neuro-Psycho (ENP) meeting, Doorwerth, The Netherlands, June 2004
	Mars RB, Van Schie HT, Bekkering H, & Coles MGH You were wrong! Medial frontal and motor cortex activation elicited by error observation Talk given at the Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (NVP), Egmond, The Netherlands, December 2003
	Nieuwenhuis S, Holroyd CB, Yeung N, Nystrom LE, Cohen JD, Mars RB, & Coles MGH Neural correlates of reinforcement learning and error processing: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study Poster presented at the 33rd Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), New Orleans, USA, November 2003 Abstract available: Program No. 197.11 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.
[abstract]	Mars RB, De Bruijn ERA, Hulstijn W, Miltner WHR, & Coles MGH Event-related brain potentials elicited by performance feedback in a time-estimation task Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Chicago, Il, USA, November 2003 Published abstract appears in Psychophysiology 40:S57.
	Mars RB Event-related brain potentials elicited by performance feedback in a time-estimation task Talk given at the Errors, Conflicts, and the Brain conference, Dortmund, Germany, July 2003
	Mars RB Event-related brain potentials elicited by performance feedback in a time-estimation task Talk given at the 2nd Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho (ENP) meeting, Doorwerth, The Netherlands, June 2003