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Vuust, P. (2017). Musik på hjernen. People's Press.

Sedghi, N. A. & Brattico, E. (2019). Musik og evolution. In T. K. Nielsen, C. Andersen, A. R. Kratschmer & M. Clasen (Eds.), Mennesket, kultur, evolution: et biokulturelt perspektiv (pp. 201-214). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Vuust, P., Petersen, B., Sørensen, S. D. & Ross, S. (2017). Musik i hjernen: Resultatrapport for Masseeksperiment 2016. Astra.

Tardón, L. J., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, I., Haumann, N. T., Brattico, E. & Barbancho, I. (2021). Music with concurrent saliences of musical features elicits stronger brain responses. Applied Sciences, 11(19), Article 9158. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199158

Parsons, C., Young, K. S., Jegindø, E.-M. E., Vuust, P., Stein, A. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2014). Music training and empathy positively impact adults' sensitivity to infant distress. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01440

Jespersen, K. V. (2021). Music to help you fall asleep: effects and mechanisms. Poster session presented at The Neurosciences and Music VII , Aarhus.

Scarratt, R. J., Heggli, O. A., Vuust, P. & Sadakata, M. (2023). Music that is used while studying and music that is used for sleep share similar musical features, genres and subgroups. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 4735. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31692-8

Matthews, T. E., Lumaca, M., Witek, M. A. G., Penhune, V. B. & Vuust, P. (2024). Music reward sensitivity is associated with greater information transfer capacity within dorsal and motor white matter networks in musicians. Brain Structure and Function, 229(9), 2299-2313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-024-02836-x

Garza-Villarreal, E. A., Jiang, Z., Vuust, P., Alcauter, S., Vase, L., Pasaye, E. H., Cavazos-Rodriguez, R., Brattico, E., Jensen, T. S. & Barrios, F. A. (2015). Music reduces pain and increases resting state fMRI BOLD signal amplitude in the left angular gyrus in fibromyalgia patients. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01051

Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2007). Music perception: sounds lost in space. Current Biology, 17(20), R892-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.012

Brattico, E. & Trusbak Haumann, N. (2020). Musicology. In D. L. Worthington & G. D. Bodie (Eds.), The Handbook of Listening (pp. 199-215). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119554189.ch12

Reybrouck, M. & Brattico, E. (2023). Music, mindfulness and meditation: A neuroscientific account. In Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing (pp. 69-88). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158790-7

Petersen, B., Friis Andersen, A. S., Højlund, A., Dietz, M., Haumann, N. T., Brattico, E., Ovesen, T. & Vuust, P. (2017). Music Listening in Electric Hearing -designing and testing two novel EEG paradigms for measuring music perception in cochlear implant users. Poster session presented at 15th symposium on Cochlear Implants in children, San Francisco, California, United States.

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

Petersen, B. (2010). Music in the (deaf) brain. In CFIN Annual report 2009 (pp. 40-41)

Petersen, B. (2015). Music in the deaf adolescent brain. In H. Blæsild Vuust & L. Østergaard (Eds.), CFIN Annual Report 2014 (pp. 42-44).

Vuust, P., Heggli, O. A., Friston, K. J. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2022). Music in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 23(5), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00578-5

Jespersen, K. V., Gebauer, L. & Vuust, P. (2022). Music Interventions in Health Care: White paper. Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University.

Jespersen, K. V. (2020). Music intervention for insomnia disorder: a randomized controlled trial. Abstract from 25th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society.

Lunde, S. J., Vuust, P., Garza-Villarreal, E. A., Kirsch, I., Møller, A. & Vase, L. (2022). Music-induced analgesia in healthy participants is associated with expected pain levels but not opioid or dopamine-dependent mechanisms. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3, Article 734999. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2022.734999

Garza-Villarreal, E. A., Pando, V., Vuust, P. & Parsons, C. (2017). Music-Induced Analgesia in Chronic Pain Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Pain Physician, 20(7), 597-610.

Lunde, S. J., Vuust, P., Garza-Villarreal, E. A. & Vase, L. (2019). Music-induced analgesia: How does music relieve pain? Pain, 160(5), 989-993. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001452

Vuust, P. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2017). Music Improvisation: A Challenge for Empirical Research. In R. Ashley & R. Timmers (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition (pp. 265-276). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194738

Hansen, N. C., Højlund, A., Møller, C., Pearce, M. & Vuust, P. (2022). Musicians show more integrated neural processing of contextually relevant acoustic features. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 907540. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.907540

Quiroga-Martinez, D. R., Hansen, N. C., Hojlund, A., Pearce, M., Brattico, E., Holmes, E., Friston, K. & Vuust, P. (2021). Musicianship and melodic predictability enhance neural gain in auditory cortex during pitch deviance detection. Human Brain Mapping, 42(17), 5595-5608. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25638

Witek, M. A. G., Matthews, T., Bodak, R., Blausz, M. W., Penhune, V. & Vuust, P. (2023). Musicians and non-musicians show different preference profiles for single chords of varying harmonic complexity. PLoS One, 18(2 February), Article e0281057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281057

Petersen, B., Hardgrove Hansen, R., Beyer, K., Mortensen, M. V. & Vuust, P. (2010). Music for Little Digital Ears - music training with preschool children using cochlear implants.. Poster session presented at 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, Stockholm, Sweden.

Petersen, B., Hardgrove Hansen, R., Beyer, K., Mortensen, M. V. & Vuust, P. (2011). Music for little digital ears - Music training with preschool children using cochlear implants. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology.

Jespersen, K. V., Koenig, J., Jennum, P. & Vuust, P. (2015). Music for insomnia in adults. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 8, CD010459. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010459.pub2

Lumaca, M., Ravignani, A. & Baggio, G. (2018). Music evolution in the laboratory: Cultural transmission meets neurophysiology. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12(APR), 246. Article 246. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00246

Stark, E. A., Vuust, P. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2018). Music, dance, and other art forms: New insights into the links between hedonia (pleasure) and eudaimonia (well-being). Progress in Brain Research, 237, 129-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.019

Fasano, M. C., Cabral, J., Stevner, A., Cantou, P., Vuust, P., Siemens Lorenzen, I., Brattico, E. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2019). Music attracts orbitofrontal reward brain network in early adolescence: An fMRI study. Poster session presented at Neuroscience Day 2019, Aarhus, Denmark.

Reybrouck, M., Vuust, P. & Brattico, E. (2018). Music and the plastic brain: How sounds trigger neurogenerative adaptations. In Neuroplasticity - Insights of Neural Reorganization InTechOpen.

Stewart, L., von Kriegstein, K., Warren, J. D. & Griffiths, T. D. (2006). Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening. Brain, 129(Pt 10), 2533-53. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awl171

Lund, H. N., Kreutz, G. & Jespersen, K. V. (2019). Music and sleep: Improving mental health.

Hoegholt, N. F., Krænge, C. E., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. & Jespersen, K. V. (2025). Music and Sleep Hygiene Interventions for Pregnancy-Related Insomnia: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 70(3), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13699

Pereira, C. S., Teixeira, J., Figueiredo, P., Xavier, J., Castro, S. L. & Brattico, E. (2011). Music and emotions in the brain: Familiarity matters. PLoS One, 6(11), Article 27241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027241

Burunat, I., Brattico, E., Hartmann, M., Vuust, P., Särkämö, T. & Toiviainen, P. (2018). Musical training predicts cerebello-hippocampal coupling during music listening. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, 28(3), 152-163.

Cantou, P., Fasano, M. C., Alexander Kleber, B., Vuust, P. & Brattico, E. (2018). Musical tension processing in preadolescents: a free-listening fMRI study. 1.

Rohrmeier, M. & Pearce, M. (2018). Musical syntax I: Theoretical perspectives. In R. Bader (Ed.), Springer Handbooks (pp. 473-486). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_25

Pearce, M. & Rohrmeier, M. (2018). Musical syntax II: Empirical perspectives. In R. Bader (Ed.), Springer Handbooks (pp. 487-505). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_26

Møller, C., Hansen, N. C., Vuust, P. & Müllensiefen, D. (2021). Musical sophistication and mental speed in the Danish general population. Poster session presented at Neuromusic VII: Connecting with music across lifespan.

Brattico, E., Tervaniemi, M., Naatanen, R. & Peretz, I. (2006). Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortex. Gene Expression Patterns, 1117, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.023

Witek, M. A. G., Kringelbach, M. L. & Vuust, P. (2015). Musical rhythm and affect: Comment on "The quartet theory of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model" by S. Koelsch et al. Physics of Life Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2015.04.029

Quiroga Martinez, D. R., Hansen, N. C., Højlund, A., Pearce, M., Brattico, E. & Vuust, P. (2020). Musical prediction error responses similarly reduced by predictive uncertainty in musicians and non-musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience, 51(11), 2250-2269. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14667

Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Xypolitaki, E., Parncutt, R. & Timmers, R. (2021). Musical novices perform with equal accuracy when learning to drum alone or with a peer. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 12422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91820-0

Bonetti, L. & Costa, M. (2017). Musical mode and visual-spatial cross-modal associations in infants and adults. Musicae Scientiae, 8, Article 1218.

Petersen, B., Mortensen, M. V. & Vuust, P. (2011). Musical Methods for Little Digital Ears –music training and testing in preschool children with cochlear implants. Poster session presented at The Neurosciences and Music - IV, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Petersen, B., Hardgrove Hansen, R., Beyer, K., Mortensen, M. V. & Vuust, P. (2010). Musical Methods for Little Digital Ears — Musical Learning with Preschool Cochlear Implant Users.

Petersen, B., Friis Andersen, A. S., Dietz, M., Højlund, A., Brattico, E., Haumann, N. T., Michel, F., Kamaric Riis, S. & Vuust, P. (2018). Musical Listening in Electric Hearing –Two Novel EEG Paradigms for Studying Music Discrimination in Cochlear Implant Users. Poster session presented at 2nd International Music and CI symposium, Montreal, Canada.

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