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Vohryzek, J., Deco, G., Cessac, B., Kringelbach, M. L. & Cabral, J. (2020). Ghost Attractors in Spontaneous Brain Activity: Recurrent Excursions Into Functionally-Relevant BOLD Phase-Locking States. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 14, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2020.00020

Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J. M., Benetos, E., Proutskova, P., Chiba, G., Liu, F., Jacoby, N., Purdy, S. C., Opondo, P., Tecumseh Fitch, W., Hegde, S., Rocamora, M., Thorne, R., Nweke, F., Sadaphal, D. P., Sadaphal, P. M., Hadavi, S. ... Savage, P. E. (2024). Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report. Science Advances, 10(20), Article eadm9797. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm9797

Brattico, P., Brattico, E. & Vuust, P. (2017). Global Sensory Qualities and Aesthetic Experience in Music. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11(APR), 1-13. Article 159. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00159

Banissy, M. J., Stewart, L., Muggleton, N. G., Griffiths, T. D., Walsh, V. Y., Ward, J. & Kanai, R. (2012). Grapheme-color and tone-color synesthesia is associated with structural brain changes in visual regions implicated in color, form, and motion. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(1), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2011.594499

Aqil, M., Atasoy, S., Kringelbach, M. L. & Hindriks, R. (2021). Graph neural fields: A framework for spatiotemporal dynamical models on the human connectome. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(1), Article e1008310. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PCBI.1008310

Dohn, A., Garza-Villarreal, E. A., Chakravarty, M., Hansen, M., Lerch, J. & Vuust, P. (2015). Gray- and White-Matter Anatomy of Absolute Pitch Possessors. Cerebral Cortex, 25(5), 1379-1388. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht334

Pando-Naude, V., Toxto, S., Fernandez-Lozano, S., Parsons, C. E., Alcauter, S. & Garza-Villarreal, E. A. (2021). Gray and white matter morphology in substance use disorders: a neuroimaging systematic review and meta-analysis. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01128-2

Weinstein, D., Launay, J., Pearce, E., Dunbar, R. I. M. & Stewart, L. (2016). Group music performance causes elevated pain thresholds and social bonding in small and large groups of singers. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(2), 152-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.10.002

Magalhães, R., Picó-Pérez, M., Esteves, M., Vieira, R., Castanho, T. C., Amorim, L., Sousa, M., Coelho, A., Fernandes, H. M., Cabral, J., Moreira, P. S. & Sousa, N. (2021). Habitual coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity. Molecular Psychiatry, 26(11), 6589-6598. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01075-4

Kocsis, K., Duengen, D., Jadoul, Y. & Ravignani, A. (2024). Harbour seals use rhythmic percussive signalling in interaction and display. Animal Behaviour, 207, 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.09.014

Atasoy, S., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L. & Pearson, J. (2018). Harmonic Brain Modes: A Unifying Framework for Linking Space and Time in Brain Dynamics. Neuroscientist, 24(3), 277–293. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858417728032

Kaasgaard, M., Andersen, I. C., Rasmussen, D. B., Hilberg, O., Løkke, A., Vuust, P. & Bodtger, U. (2020). Heterogeneity in Danish lung choirs and their singing leaders: delivery, approach, and experiences: a survey-based study. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e041700. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041700

Jadoul, Y., Tufarelli, T., Coissac, C., Gamba, M. & Ravignani, A. (2025). Hidden assumptions of integer ratio analyses in bioacoustics and music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1553(1), 363-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70037

Bogert, B., Numminen-Kontti, T., Gold, B., Sams, M., Numminen, J., Burunat, I., Lampinen, J. & Brattico, E. (2016). Hidden sources of joy, fear, and sadness: Explicit versus implicit neural processing of musical emotions. Neuropsychologia, 89, 393-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.005

Signorelli, C. M., Uhrig, L., Kringelbach, M., Jarraya, B. & Deco, G. (2021). Hierarchical disruption in the cortex of anesthetized monkeys as a new signature of consciousness loss. NeuroImage, 227, Article 117618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117618

Herff, S. A., Bonetti, L., Cecchetti, G., Vuust, P., Kringelbach, M. L. & Rohrmeier, M. A. (2024). Hierarchical syntax model of music predicts theta power during music listening. Neuropsychologia, 199, Article 108905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108905

Deco, G. & Kringelbach, M. L. (2017). Hierarchy of Information Processing in the Brain: A Novel 'Intrinsic Ignition' Framework. Neuron, 94(5), 961-968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.028

Crisp, R. & Kringelbach, M. (2018). Higher and Lower Pleasures Revisited: Evidence from Neuroscience. Neuroethics, 11(2), 211-215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-017-9339-2

Stupacher, J., Mikkelsen, J. & Vuust, P. (2022). Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music. Psychology of Music, 50(5), 1511–1526. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211050681

Lumaca, M., Bonetti, L., Brattico, E., Baggio, G., Ravignani, A. & Vuust, P. (2023). High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right-left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 33(11), 6902–6916. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad009

Duengen, D., Fitch, W. T. & Ravignani, A. (2023). Hoover the talking seal. Current Biology, 33(2), R50-R52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.023

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

Williamson, V. J., Jilka, S. R., Fry, J., Finkel, S., Muellensiefen, D. & Stewart, L. (2012). How do "earworms" start? Classifying the everyday circumstances of Involuntary Musical Imagery. Psychology of Music, 40(3), 259-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735611418553

Bettinardi, R. G., Deco, G., Karlaftis, V. M., Van Hartevelt, T. J., Fernandes, H. M., Kourtzi, Z., Kringelbach, M. L. & Zamora-López, G. (2017). How structure sculpts function: Unveiling the contribution of anatomical connectivity to the brain's spontaneous correlation structure. Chaos, 27(4), 047409. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4980099

Carlomagno, F., Bruzzone, S. E. P., Bonetti, L. & Brattico, E. (2025). How To Keep a Brain Plastic with Music: A Mini-Review of Neurophysiological Findings on Music and Ageing. Ageing International, 50(4), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-025-09633-9

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 der Werff, J., Tufarelli, T., Verga, L. & Ravignani, A. (2025). Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds. Royal Society Open Science, 12(8), Article 250453. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250453

Sabharwal, S. R., Varlet, M., Breaden, M., Volpe, G., Camurri, A. & Keller, P. E. (2022). huSync - A model and system for the measure of synchronization in small groups: A case study on musical joint action. IEEE Access, 10, 92357-92372. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3202959

Hansen, N. C., Vuust, P. & Pearce, M. (2016). "If You Have to Ask, You'll Never Know": Effects of Specialised Stylistic Expertise on Predictive Processing of Music. PLoS One, 11(10), 1-20. Article e0163584. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163584

Tiihonen, M., Jacobsen, T., Trusbak Haumann, N., Saarikallio, S. & Brattico, E. (2022). I know what i like when i see it: Likability is distinct from pleasantness since early stages of multimodal emotion evaluation. PLoS One, 17(9), Article e0274556. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274556

Istok, E., Brattico, E., Jacobsen, T., Ritter, A. & Tervaniemi, M. (2013). 'I love Rock 'n' Roll' - Music genre preference modulates brain responses to music. Biological Psychology, 92(2), 142-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.005

Steenstrup, K., Haumann, N. T., Kleber, B., Camarasa, C., Vuust, P. & Petersen, B. (2021). Imagine, Sing, Play- Combined Mental, Vocal and Physical Practice Improves Musical Performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 757052. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.757052

Zamorano, A. M., De Martino, E., Insausti-Delgado, A., Vuust, P., Flor, H. & Graven-Nielsen, T. (2024). Impact of Chronic Pain on Use-Dependent Plasticity: Corticomotor Excitability and Motor Representation in Musicians With and Without Pain. Brain Topography, 37(5), 874-880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01031-1

Quarto, T., Blasi, G., Pallesen, K. J., Bertolino, A. & Brattico, E. (2014). Implicit Processing of Visual Emotions Is Affected by Sound-Induced Affective States and Individual Affective Traits. PLoS One, 9(7), Article 103278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103278

Kleber, B., Dale, C., Zamorano, A. M., Lotze, M., Luders, E. & Kurth, F. (2025). Increased Callosal Thickness in Early Trained Opera Singers. Brain Topography, 38(5), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-025-01134-x

Farinha, M., Amado, C., Morgado, P. & Cabral, J. (2022). Increased Excursions to Functional Networks in Schizophrenia in the Absence of Task. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 821179. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.821179

Hove, M. J., Vuust, P. & Stupacher, J. (2019). Increased levels of bass in popular music recordings 1955-2016 and their relation to loudness. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(4), 2247-2253. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5097587

Jobst, B. M., Atasoy, S., Ponce-Alvarez, A., Sanjuán, A., Roseman, L., Kaelen, M., Carhart-Harris, R., Kringelbach, M. L. & Deco, G. (2021). Increased sensitivity to strong perturbations in a whole-brain model of LSD. NeuroImage, 230, Article 117809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117809

Jobst, B. M., Hindriks, R., Laufs, H., Tagliazucchi, E., Hahn, G., Ponce-Alvarez, A., Stevner, A. B. A., Kringelbach, M. L. & Deco, G. (2017). Increased Stability and Breakdown of Brain Effective Connectivity During Slow-Wave Sleep: Mechanistic Insights from Whole-Brain Computational Modelling. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 4634. Article 4634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04522-x

Scarratt, R. J., Dietz, M., Vuust, P., Kleber, B. & Jespersen, K. V. (2026). Individual differences in the effects of musical familiarity and musical features on brain activity during relaxation. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 26(1), 155–173. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01342-9

Müllensiefen, D., Fry, J., Jones, R., Jilka, S., Stewart, L. & Williamson, V. J. (2014). Individual differences predict patterns in spontaneous involuntary musical imagery. Music Perception, 31(4), 323-338. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2014.31.4.323

Liu, F., Jiang, C., Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., Xu, Y., Yang, Y. & Stewart, L. (2013). Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 75(8), 1783-98. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0506-1

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

Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2005). Infant learning: music and the baby brain. Current Biology, 15(21), R882-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.019

Lenc, T., Peter, V., Hooper, C., Keller, P. E., Burnham, D. & Nozaradan, S. (2023). Infants show enhanced neural responses to musical meter frequencies beyond low-level features. Developmental Science, 26(5), Article e13353. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13353

Haumann, N. T., Vuust, P., Bertelsen, F. C. B. & Garza-Villarreal, E. A. (2018). Influence of Musical Enculturation on Brain Responses to Metric Deviants. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12(APR), Article 218. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00218

Agres, K., Abdallah, S. & Pearce, M. (2018). Information-theoretic properties of auditory sequences dynamically influence expectation and memory. Cognitive Science, 42(1), 43-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12477

Basiński, K., Celma-Miralles, A., Quiroga-Martinez, D. R. & Vuust, P. (2025). Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation. Communications Biology, 8(1), Article 1584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08999-5

Löser, A. S., Dalla Bella, S., Keller, P. E., Villringer, A., Obrig, H. & Engel, A. (2024). Inhibitory control and working memory predict rhythm production abilities in patients with neurocognitive deficits. Neuropsychologia, 204, Article 109009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109009

Mazhari-Jensen, D. S., Jacobsen, S. L. & Jespersen, K. V. (2023). Inpatient stroke survivors with low gait functioning benefit from music interventions during cardiorespiratory exercise: A randomized cross-over trial. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 32(5), 462-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2023.2190403

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