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Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity
By: Cheung, Vincent K. M.; Harrison, Peter M. C.; ... Koelsch, Stefan
CURRENT BIOLOGY Volume: 29 Issue: 23 Pages: 4084- Published: DEC 2 2019
Heroic music stimulates empowering thoughts during mind-wandering
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Bashevkin, Tobias; Kristensen, Joakim; et al.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 9 Article Number: 10317 Published: JUL 16 2019
The
Effect of Emotional Valence on Ventricular Repolarization Dynamics Is
Mediated by Heart Rate Variability: A Study of QT Variability and
Music-Induced Emotions
By: Orini, Michele; Al-Amodi, Faez; Koelsch, Stefan; et al.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY Volume: 10 Article Number: 1465 Published: NOV 29 2019
When the statistical MMN meets the physical MMN
By: Tsogli, Vera; Jentschke, Sebastian; Daikoku, Tatsuya; et al.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 9 Article Number: 5563 Published: APR 3 2019
What Are Aesthetic Emotions?
By: Menninghaus, Winfried; Wagner, Valentin; Wassiliwizky, Eugen; ... Koelsch, Stefan
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW Volume: 126 Issue: 2 Pages: 171-195 Published: MAR 2019
HOT PAPER: Predictive Processes and the Peculiar Case of Music
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Vuust, Peter; Friston, Karl
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES Volume: 23 Issue:
1 Pages: 63-77 Published: JAN 2019
Neural Encoding of Auditory Features during Music Perception and Imagery
By: Martin, Stephanie; Mikutta, Christian; Leonard, Matthew K.; et al.
CEREBRAL CORTEX Volume: 28 Issue: 12 Pages: 4222-4233 Published: DEC 2018
Identifying Emotional Specificity in Complex Large-Scale Brain Networks
By: Koelsch, Stefan
EMOTION REVIEW Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Pages: 217-218 Published: JUL 2018
Investigating the Neural Encoding of Emotion with Music
By: Koelsch, Stefan
NEURON Volume: 98 Issue: 6 Pages: 1075-1079 Published: JUN 27 2018
Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation During Social Cognition
By: Pehrs, Corinna; Zaki, Jamil; Taruffi, Liila; ... Koelsch, Stefan
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 8 Article Number: 9409 Published: JUN 20 2018
The right inferior frontal gyrus processes nested non-local dependencies in music
By: Cheung, Vincent K. M.; ... Koelsch, Stefan
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 8 Article Number: 3822 Published: FEB 28 2018
The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Skouras, Stavros; Lohmann, Gabriele
PLOS ONE Volume: 13 Issue:
1 Article Number: e0190057
Published: JAN 31 2018
Effects of music therapy and music-based interventions in the treatment of substance use disorders: A systematic review
By: Hohmann, Louisa; Bradt, Joke; Stegemann, Thomas; Koelsch, Stefan
PLOS ONE Volume: 12 Issue:
11 Article Number: e0187363
Published: NOV 15 2017
Language and music phrase boundary processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An ERP study
By: DePriest, John; Glushko, Anastasia; Steinhauer, Karsten; Koelsch, Stefan
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 7 Article Number: 14465 Published: OCT 31 2017
Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network
By: Taruffi, Liila; Pehrs, Corinna; Skouras, Stavros; ... Koelsch, Stefan
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 7 Article Number: 14396 Published: OCT 31 2017
The emotional power of poetry: neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles
By: Wassiliwizky, Eugen; Koelsch, Stefan; Wagner, Valentin; et al.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE Volume:
12 Issue: 8 Pages: 1229-1240
Published: AUG 2017
HOT PAPER: The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception
By: Menninghaus, Winfried; Wagner, Valentin; ... Koelsch, Stefan
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES Volume: 40 Article Number: e347 Published: 2017
HOT PAPER: The Temporal Pole Top-Down Modulates the Ventral Visual Stream During Social Cognition
By: Pehrs, Corinna; Zaki, Jamil; ... Koelsch, Stefan
CEREBRAL CORTEX Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 777-792 Published: JAN 2017
Neurophysiological Correlates of Musical and Prosodic Phrasing: Shared Processing Mechanisms and Effects of Musical Expertise
By: Glushko, Anastasia; Steinhauer, Karsten; DePriest, John; ... Koelsch, Stefan
PLOS ONE Volume: 11 Issue:
5 Article Number: e0155300
Published: MAY 18 2016
The impact of acute stress on hormones and cytokines, and how their recovery is affected by music-evoked positive mood
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Boehlig, Albrecht; Hohenadel, Maximilian; et al.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 6 Article Number: 23008 Published: MAR 29 2016
Under
the hood of statistical learning: A statistical MMN reflects the
magnitude of transitional probabilities in auditory sequences
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Busch, Tobias; Jentschke, Sebastian; et al.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 6 Article Number: 19741 Published: FEB 2 2016
Effects of veridical expectations on syntax processing in music: Event-related potential evidence
By: Guo, Shuang; Koelsch, Stefan
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 6 Article Number: 19064 Published: JAN 19 2016.
Music and the Heart
By: Koelsch, Stefan; Jaencke, Lutz
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL Volume: 36 Issue: 44 Special Issue: SI Pages: 3043.
Effects of Aesthetic Chills on a Cardiac Signature of Emotionality
By: Sumpf, Maria; Jentschke, Sebastian; Koelsch, Stefan
PLOS ONE Volume: 10 Issue:
6 Article Number: UNSP e0130117
Published: JUN 17 2015
Autonomic Effects of Music in Health and Crohn's Disease: The Impact of Isochronicity, Emotional Valence, and Tempo
By: Krabs, Roland Uwe; Enk, Ronny; ... Koelsch, Stefan
PLOS ONE Volume: 10 Issue: 5 Article Number: UNSP e0126224 Published: MAY 8 2015
HOT PAPER: The quartet theory of human emotions: an integrative and neurofunctional model (Physics of life reviews, 2015). Download pdf HERE. Download pdf with comments as zip-file HERE.
Towards a general psychological model of tension and suspense (Frontiers in Psychology, 2015).
The effects of supervised learning on event-related potential correlates of music-syntactic processing (Brain Research, 2015).
Distinct brain signatures of content and structure violation during action observation (Neuropsychologia, 2015).
Music‐evoked emotions: principles, brain correlates, and implications for therapy (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2015). pdf HERE.
HOT PAPER: Brain-correlates of music-evoked emotions (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014). Download pdf HERE.
Functional
centrality of amygdala, striatum and hypothalamus in a “small-world”
network underlying joy: An fMRI study with music (Human Brain Mapping, 2014). pdf HERE.
Tension-related activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala: an fMRI study with music (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014). pdf HERE.
Neural correlates of music-syntactic processing in two-year old children (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2014). pdf HERE.
The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey (PLoS ONE, 2014).
How music alters a kiss: superior temporal gyrus controls fusiform-amygdalar effective connectivity (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014). pdf HERE.
Processing of hierarchical syntactic structure in music (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013). pdf HERE.
Music-evoked incidental happiness modulates probability weighting during risky lottery choices (Frontiers Psych, 2013)
Neural correlates of emotional personality: A structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study (PLoS-ONE, 2013)
From social contact to social cohesion—the 7 Cs (Music and Medicine, 2013, click to download).
Syntax in a pianist's hand: ERP signatures of “embodied” syntax processing in music (Cortex, 2013)
From understanding to appreciating music cross-culturally (PLoS-ONE, 2013)
fMRI scanner noise interaction with affective neural processes (PLoS-ONE, 2013)
The roles of superficial amygdala and auditory cortex in music-evoked fear and joy (NeuroImage, 2013, click to download)
How emotional abilities modulate the influence of early life stress on hippocampal functioning (Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2014)
Music in depression: Neural correlates of emotional experience in remitted depression (World Journal of Psychiatry, 2013)
The influence of different structural features on felt musical tension in two piano pieces by Mozart and Mendelssohn (Music Perception, 2013)
Brain & Music (Wiley, 2012)
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Cardiac Signatures of Personality (PLoS-ONE, 2012)
Electrophysiological correlates of verbal and tonal working memory (Brain Research, 2012)
Auditory Stroop and absolute pitch: An fMRI study (Human Brain Mapping, 2012)
Predictive information processing in music cognition. A critical review (Int J Psychophys, 2012)
Neuroarchitecture of Verbal and Tonal Working Memory in Non-Musicians and Musicians (Human Brain Mapping, 2011)
Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics (Physics of Life Reviews, 2011)
Towards a neural basis of music perception – a review and updated model (Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011)
Affective
Priming Effects of Musical Sounds on the Processing of Word Meaning (J Cog Neurosci, 2011)
Can out-of-context musical sounds convey meaning? An ERP study on the processing of meaning in music (Psychophysiology, 2011)
Shadows of music–language interaction on low frequency brain oscillatory patterns (Brain & Language, 2011)
Effects
of
music listening on cortisol levels and propofol consumption during
spinal anesthesia (Frontiers in Auditory
Cognitive
Neuroscience, 2011, click to download)
Effects of Selective Attention on Syntax Processing in Music and Language (J Cog Neurosci, 2011)
Neural correlates of strategy
use during
auditory working memory in musicians and non-musicians (European
Journal of Neuroscience,
2011)
Are left fronto-temporal brain areas a prerequisite for normal music-syntactic processing? (Cortex, 2011)
Towards
a
neural basis of music-evoked emotions (Trends Cog Sci, 2010)
Processing
Expectancy Violations during Music Performance and Perception: An ERP
Study (J
Cog Neurosci, 2010)
Differences in Electric Brain Responses to Melodies and Chords (J Cog Neurosci, 2010)
Functional specializations for
music
processing in the human newborn brain (Proc.
Nat. Acad. Sci., 2010)
A method for continuously
assessing the
autonomic response to music-induced emotions through HRV analysis
(Med Biol Eng Comput, 2010)
Music in the treatment of affective disorders: An exploratory investigation of a new method for music-therapeutic research (Music Perception, 2010)
Spatial selective attention in a complex auditory environment such as polyphonic music (JASA, 2010) Click HERE for sound example
Impulsive aggressiveness of pregnant women affects the development of the fetal heart (Int J Psychophys, 2009)Universal
Recognition
of Three Basic Emotions in Music (Current Biology, 2009) Download
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Musical
training modulates the development of syntax processing in children
(NeuroImage, 2009)
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P3a and
Mismatch
negativity in individuals with moderate Intermittent Explosive Disorder
(Neurosciene Letters,
2009)
Nobody Is Perfect: ERP Effects Prior to Performance Errors in Musicians Indicate Fast Monitoring Processes (PLoS-ONE, 2009)
Understanding
the
Intentions Behind Man-Made Products Elicits Neural Activity in Areas
Dedicated to Mental State Attribution (Cerebral Cortex, 2009)
Functional
Architecture of Verbal and Tonal Working Memory (Human Brain Mapping,
2009)
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Amygdala
activity can
be modulated by unexpected chord functions during music listening (NeuroReport, 2008)
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Music-syntactic
Processing and Auditory Memory – Similarities and Differences
between
ERAN and MMN (Psychophysiology,
2009)
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Overlap of
Musical
and Linguistic Syntax Processing: Intracranial ERP Evidence (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 2009)
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Decrease in
early right alpha band phase synchronization and late gamma band
oscillations during music-syntactic processing (Human Brain Mapping, 2009)
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A
Neuroscientific
Perspective on Music Therapy
(Ann.
N.Y. Acad. Sci., 2009)
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Effects of unexpected chords and of performer's expression on brain
responses and electrodermal activity (PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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Children
with
Specific Language Impairment also show impairment of music-syntactic
processing (Journal
of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008)
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Comparing
the
processing of music and language meaning using EEG and fMRI (PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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EEG
correlates of moderate Intermittent Explosive Disorder
(mIED) (Clinical Neurophysiology, 2008)
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A Cardiac
Signature
of Emotionality
(European
Journal of Neuroscience, 2007)
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Short-term
effects of
processing musical syntax
(Brain
Research, 2008)
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Shared
Neural Resources between Music and Language Indicate Semantic
Processing of Musical Tension-Resolution Patterns (Cerebral Cortex , 2008)
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Cognitive
components of regularity processing in the auditory domain (PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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Electrophysiological correlates
of
pleasantness and
unpleasantness (Psychophysiology, 2007)
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Untangling
syntactic and sensory
processing: An ERP study of music
perception (Psychophysiology, 2007)
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Investigating
Emotion with
Music: An fMRI study (Human Brain
Mapping, 2006)
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Ann.
N.Y. Acad.
of
Sci. 1060, 2006: Musical
training enhances verbal skills in
children
Clinical
Neurophysiology (2006): Auditory processing during propofol sedation
and recovery
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NeuroImage
31, 2006: Cognitive
priming in sung and instrumental music: Activation of inferior frontal
cortex
Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience
(2006): Processing
of
Musical Syntax: An ERP Study
Journal
of Cognitive
Neuroscience
(2006): The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical
emotions
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here for
sound
examples
short version here: Ann.
N.Y.
Acad. Sci.(2006):
Emotional Processing of Harmonic Expectancy Violations
Cortex
42(4)
2006, p.518-520:
Broca's Area and Ventral Premotor Cortex for
Music-syntactic Processing
Ann.
N.Y.
Acad. Sci.
1060, 2006:
Investigating Emotion with Music - Neuroscientific Approaches
Current
Opinion in Anaesthesiology
18, 2005: The effects of anesthetics
on
brain activity and cognitive function
Trends
in Cognitive Sciences 9 (12),
2005: Towards a neural basis of
music
perception
Journal
of Cognitive
Neuroscience 17, 2005:
Interaction between syntax processing in
language
and in music
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Current
Opinion in Neurobiology 15,
2005: Neural substrates of
processing
syntax
and semantics in music
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examples
see also:
Cortex
(in press): Significance of
Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for
music-syntactic processing
NeuroImage
25, 2005: Adults and children processing music: An fMRI-study
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here
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examples
Anesthesiology
100, 2004: Sequential Effects of Increasing Propofol Sedation ...
Clinical
Neurophysiology 115, 2004:
Music perception in cochlear implant
users
Nature
Neuroscience
7(3), 2004: Music, Language and Meaning: Brain Signatures of Semantic
Processing
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here
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examples
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version here (html)
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of
short german version here
Journal
of Cognitive
Neuroscience
15(8), 2003: Processing of Tonal Modulations
Journal
of Cognitive
Neuroscience
15(5), 2003: Children Processing Music ...
NeuroReport
14(5), 2003:
Gender
Differences in Music Processing
Psychophysiology
39, 2002,
657-663:
Effects of musical expertise on the ERAN...
Clinical
Neurophysiology
113,
2002:
Electric brain responses to inappropriate harmonies
during
listening to expressive music
NeuroImage,
17, 2002, Bach
speaks:
A cortical language network serves the processing of
music
Psychophysiology
39, 2002, 38-48: Music
matters: Pre-attentive musicality ...
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examples.
Nature
Neuroscience 4(5), 2001:
Musical
syntax is processed in Broca's area
NeuroReport
12(7), 2001:
Differentiating
ERAN and MMN: An ERP-study
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examples
of auditory oddball paradimgs suited to elicit an abstract feature MMN,
and a frequency MMN. It also includes sound examples of chord
sequences with music-syntactic irregularities.
Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience
12(3),
2000: Brain indices of music processing - nonmusicians are musical
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examples.
NeuroReport
10(6), 1999: Superior
pre-attentive
auditory processing in musicians
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examples.
