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2025

Working Paper

Haumann, N. T., Petersen, B., Seeberg, A. B., Vuust, P. & Brattico, E. (2025). It takes experience to tango: Experienced cochlear implant users show cortical evoked potentials to naturalistic music. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.04.657805

2025

Contribution to book anthology

Choubey, A., Morgan, S., Genovese, S., van Buijtene, T., Saberi, A., Partmann, A., Sabhapondit, B., George, M., O'Leary, T. & Hu, Z. (2025). Sleeping Soundly: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Communicating Individual Sleep Experiences Through a Shared Sonic Domain. In Proceedings of Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED 2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15032422

Campo, F. F., Carlomagno, F. & Brattico, E. (2025). The Relationship Between Fluid Intelligence and Memory and How to Measure it with Technological Tools. In R. Di Fuccio & G. A. Toto (Eds.), Psychology, Learning, Technology - Second International Conference, PLT 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 30-46). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81706-9_3

2025

Contribution to journal

Hoffmann, C. S., Hoegholt, N. F., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. & Jespersen, K. V. (2025). The effect of music on pregnancy-related insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Midwifery, 142, Article 104294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2025.104294

Hancock, F., Rosas, F. E., Luppi, A. I., Zhang, M., Mediano, P. A. M., Cabral, J., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L., Breakspear, M., Kelso, J. A. S. & Turkheimer, F. E. (2025). Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(2), 82-100. Article e1000072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-024-00883-1

Deco, G., Perl, Y. S., Jerotic, K., Escrichs, A. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2025). Turbulence as a framework for brain dynamics in health and disease. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, Article 105988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105988

Carraturo, G., Pando-Naude, V., Costa, M., Vuust, P., Bonetti, L. & Brattico, E. (2025). The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 80-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.017

Vohryzek, J., Sanz-Perl, Y., Kringelbach, M. L. & Deco, G. (2025). Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2415102122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415102122

Van Maldegem, M., Vohryzek, J., Atasoy, S., Alnagger, N., Cardone, P., Bonhomme, V., Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Demertzi, A., Jaquet, O., Bahri, M. A., Nunez, P., Kringelbach, M. L., Stamatakis, E. A. & Luppi, A. I. (2025). Connectome harmonic decomposition tracks the presence of disconnected consciousness during ketamine-induced unresponsiveness. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 134(4), 1088-1104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2024.12.036

Todd, N. P. M., Govender, S., Hochstrasser, D., Keller, P. E. & Colebatch, J. G. (2025). Distinct movement related changes in EEG and ECeG power during finger and foot movement. Neuroscience Letters, 853, Article 138207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2025.138207

Todd, N. P. M., Keller, P. E., Govender, S. & Colebatch, J. G. (2025). Electrophysiological Activity Associated with a Cross-Modal Anapaest Rhythm: Evidence for the Vestibular Syncopation Hypothesis. Timing & Time Perception, 13(2), 173-226. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10108

Stupacher, J., Matarrelli, B., Cozzoli, D., Ventura, M., Montinaro, F., de Gennaro, L., Vuust, P. & Brattico, E. (2025). Individuals with substance use disorders experience an increased urge to move to complex music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(20), Article e2502656122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502656122

Stikvoort, W., Pérez-Ordoyo, E., Mindlin, I., Escrichs, A., Sitt, J. D., Kringelbach, M. L., Deco, G. & Perl, Y. S. (2025). Nonequilibrium brain dynamics elicited as the origin of perturbative complexity. PLOS Computational Biology, 21, Article e1013150. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013150

Shinozuka, K., Tewarie, P. K. B., Luppi, A., Lynn, C., Roseman, L., Muthukumaraswamy, S., Nutt, D. J., Carhart-Harris, R., Deco, G. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2025). LSD flattens the hierarchy of directed information flow in fast whole-brain dynamics. Imaging Neuroscience, 3. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00420

Seeberg, A. B., Matthews, T. E., Højlund, A., Vuust, P. & Petersen, B. (2025). Beyond syncopation: The number of rhythmic layers shapes the pleasurable urge to move to music. Cognition, 262, Article 106178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106178

Sadaphal, D. P., Blum, C. R., Keller, P. E. & Fitch, W. T. (2025). Beyond perfect synchrony: shared interpersonal rhythmic timing enhances self-other merging judgements. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), Article 241501. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241501

Rosso, M., Fernández-Rubio, G., Keller, P. E., Brattico, E., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. L. & Bonetti, L. (2025). FREQ-NESS Reveals the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Frequency-Resolved Brain Networks During Auditory Stimulation. Advanced Science, 12(20), e2413195. Article 2413195. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413195

Romkey, I. D., Matthews, T., Foster, N., Bella, S. D. & Penhune, V. B. (2025). The pleasurable urge to move to music is unchanged in people with musical anhedonia. PLOS ONE, 20(1), Article e0312030. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312030

Potash, R. M., Yang, W. F. Z., Winston, B., Atasoy, S., Kringelbach, M. L., Sparby, T. & Sacchet, M. D. (2025). Investigating the complex cortical dynamics of an advanced concentrative absorption meditation called jhanas (ACAM-J): a geometric eigenmode analysis. Cerebral Cortex, 35(2), Article bhaf039. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf039

Piccinini, J. I., Sanz Perl, Y., Pallavicini, C., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M., Nutt, D., Carhart-Harris, R., Timmermann, C. & Tagliazucchi, E. (2025). Transient destabilization of whole brain dynamics induced by N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Communications Biology, 8(1), Article 409. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07576-0

Palmquist, E. T., Underbjerg, M., Ridder, H. M. & Jespersen, K. V. (2025). Music listening for improvement of sleep in post-acute rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury: A feasibility study. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 34(3), 245-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2024.2396111

Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R., Bonetti, L., Fernández-Rubio, G., Vuust, P., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L., Lambiotte, R. & Goriely, A. (2025). Multilevel irreversibility reveals higher-order organization of nonequilibrium interactions in human brain dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(10), Article e2408791122. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408791122

Moumdjian, L., Feys, P., Moens, B., Manto, M., Cabaraux, P., Van Weijmeersch, B., Kotz, S. A., Leman, M. & Rosso, M. (2025). The effect of stimulus type and tempo on sensorimotor synchronization during finger-tapping in cerebellar ataxia: Behavioral and neural evidence. Cortex, 187, 111-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.04.005

Monti, J. M., Perl, Y. S., Tagliazucchi, E., Kringelbach, M. L. & Deco, G. (2025). Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and the discovery of distinctive off-equilibrium signatures of brain states. Physical Review Research , 7(1), Article 013301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013301

Lippolis, M., Derdau Sørensen, S., Petersen, B., Vuust, P. & Brattico, E. (2025). How Culture and Musical Engagement Shape Musical Reward Sensitivity in Danish Teens: A Validation Study of the Danish Barcelona Musical Reward Questionnaire With 4641 Adolescents. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 66(2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13074

Lenc, T., Lenoir, C., Keller, P. E., Polak, R., Mulders, D. & Nozaradan, S. (2025). Measuring self-similarity in empirical signals to understand musical beat perception. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(2), Article e16637. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16637

Laffi, L., Bigand, F., Peham, C., Novembre, G., Gamba, M. & Ravignani, A. (2025). Rhythmic categories in horse gait kinematics. Journal of Anatomy, 246(3), 456-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14200

Laffi, L., Raimondi, T., Ferrante, C., Pagliara, E., Bertuglia, A., Briefer, E. F., Gamba, M. & Ravignani, A. (2025). The rhythm of horse gaits. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1543(1), 86-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15271

Kohler, N., Czepiel, A. M., de Manzano, Ö., Novembre, G., Keller, P. E., Villringer, A. & Sammler, D. (2025). Distinct and content-specific neural representations of self- and other-produced actions in joint piano performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 19, Article 1543131. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1543131

Kleber, B., Sitges, C., Brattico, E., Vuust, P. & Zamorano, A. M. (2025). Association Between Interoceptive Accuracy and Pain Perception: Insights From Trained Musicians and Athletes. European journal of pain (London, England), 29(5), e70012. Article e70012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70012

Jadoul, Y., Hersh, T. A., Domingos, E. F., Gamba, M., Favaro, L. & Ravignani, A. (2025). An evolutionary model of rhythmic accelerando in animal vocal signalling. PLOS Computational Biology, 21(4), Article e1013011. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013011

Jadoul, Y., D’Orazio, F., Eleuteri, V., van der Werff, J., Tufarelli, T., Gamba, M., Raimondi, T. & Ravignani, A. (2025). Rhythmic Analysis in Animal Communication, Speech, and Music: The Normalized Pairwise Variability Index Is a Summary Statistic of Rhythm Ratios. Vibration, 8(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/vibration8020012

Hersh, T. A., Jadoul, Y., Gamba, M., Ravignani, A. & Favaro, L. (2025). Accelerando and crescendo in African penguin ecstatic display songs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15383

Geli, S. M., Lynn, C. W., Kringelbach, M. L., Deco, G. & Sanz Perl, Y. (2025). Non-equilibrium whole-brain dynamics arise from pairwise interactions. Cell Reports Physical Science, 6(3), Article 102464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102464

Escrichs, A., Sanz Perl, Y., Fisher, P. M., Martínez-Molina, N., G-Guzman, E., Frokjaer, V. G., Kringelbach, M. L., Knudsen, G. M. & Deco, G. (2025). Whole-brain turbulent dynamics predict responsiveness to pharmacological treatment in major depressive disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 30(3), 1069-1079. Article 110074. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02690-7

Eleuteri, V., van der Werff, J., Wilhelm, W., Soldati, A., Crockford, C., Desai, N., Fedurek, P., Fitzgerald, M., Graham, K. E., Koops, K., Pruetz, J., Samuni, L., Slocombe, K., Stoeger, A., Wilson, M. L., Wittig, R. M., Zuberbühler, K., Camara, H. D., Mamy, G. ... Hobaiter, C. (2025). Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology, 35(10), 2448-2456.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

Deco, G., Sanz Perl, Y. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2025). Complex harmonics reveal low-dimensional manifolds of critical brain dynamics. Physical Review E, 111(1), Article 014410. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014410

Dai, R., Toiviainen, P., Vuust, P., Jacobsen, T. & Brattico, E. (2025). Beauty Is in the Brain Networks of the Beholder: An Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000681

Criscuolo, A., Schwartze, M., Bonetti, L. & Kotz, SA. (2025). Aging Impacts Basic Auditory and Timing Processes. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(5), Article e70031. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70031

Costa, M., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. L. & Bonetti, L. (2025). EEG Correlates of Auditory Short-Term Memory and Dissimilarity Perception in Young and Older Adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(12), Article e70166. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70166

Carraturo, G., Ferreri, L., Cardona, G., Lorenzo-Seva, U., Rodriguez-Fornells, A. & Brattico, E. (2025). The Italian version of the extended Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (eBMRQ): a validation study and association with age, gender, and musicianship. PeerJ, 13(2), Article e18403. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18403

Carlomagno, F., Bevilacqua, V., Brunetti, A., Sibilano, E., Delussi, M., Lippolis, M., Diomede, R. & Brattico, E. (2025). Proof-of-Concept Study on the Use of Virtual Reality with Evocative and Aesthetic Content for Elderly Individuals with Cognitive Decline. Applied Sciences, 15(9), Article 4627. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15094627

Buus, R. M., Genovese, S. & Jespersen, K. V. (2025). The art of sleep: examining sleep strategies in the general population with a focus on the use of music for sleep. Journal of Sleep Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.70006

Brattico, E., Brusa, A., Dietz, M., Jacobsen, T., Fernandes, H. M., Gaggero, G., Toiviainen, P., Vuust, P. & Proverbio, A. M. (2025). Beauty and the brain – Investigating the neural and musical attributes of beauty during naturalistic music listening. Neuroscience, 567, 308-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.12.008

Bonetti, L., Vestberg, T., Jafari, R., Seghezzi, D., Ingvar, M., Kringelbach, M. L., Filgueiras, A. & Petrovic, P. (2025). Decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(3), e2415126122. Article e2415126122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415126122

Bonetti, L., Risgaard Olsen, E., Carlomagno, F., Serra, E., Szabó, S. A., Klarlund, M., Andersen, M. H., Frausing, L., Vuust, P., Brattico, E., Kringelbach, M. L. & Fernández-Rubio, G. (2025). Working Memory Predicts Long-Term Recognition of Auditory Sequences: Dissociation Between Confirmed Predictions and Prediction Errors. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, n/a(n/a). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13124

2024

Working Paper

Engler, B., Zamm, A. & Møller, C. (2024). Spontaneous rates exhibit high intra-individual stability across movements involving different biomechanical systems and cognitive demands. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wtnax

2024

Contribution to conference

De Deckere, P., Matthews, T., Pando Naude, V. M. & Vuust, P. (2024). The role of dopamine in the pleasurable urge to move to music, rhythm perception and production. Abstract from Phd Day 2024, Aarhus, Denmark.

Møller, C., Zamm, A. & Engler, B. (2024). Slower spontaneous rates are linked to better performance in pitch discrimination tasks. Poster session presented at The Neurosciences and Music VIII, Helsinki, Finland.

Kakihara, M., Martin, M., van der Werff, J., Ravignani, A., Fasano, M. C., Overgaard, M. S., Keller, P. & Lumaca, M. (2024). Learning and transmission of rhythmic information is associated with working memory and sensorimotor synchronization skill. Poster session presented at The Neurosciences and Music VIII, Helsinki, Finland.

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