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Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions (Trends Cog Sci, 2010)
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Functional specializations for music processing in the human newborn brain (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2010)
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Neuroarchitecture of Verbal and Tonal Working Memory in Non-Musicians and Musicians (Human Brain Mapping, in press)
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Processing Expectancy Violations during Music Performance and Perception: An ERP Study (J Cog Neurosci, in press)
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Affective Priming Effects of Musical Sounds on the Processing of Word Meaning (J Cog Neurosci, in press)
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Differences in Electric Brain Responses to Melodies and Chords
(J Cog Neurosci, in press)
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Music in the treatment of affective disorders: An exploratory investigation of a new method for music-therapeutic research (Music Perception, in press)
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Spatial selective attention in a complex auditory environment such as polyphonic music (JASA, 2010)
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Impulsive aggressiveness of pregnant women affects the development of the fetal heart (Int J Psychophys, 2009)
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Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music (Current Biology, 2009)
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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)
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Nobody Is Perfect: ERP Effects Prior to Performance Errors in Musicians Indicate Fast Monitoring Processes
(PLoS-ONE, 2009)
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Understanding the Intentions Behind Man-Made Products Elicits Neural Activity in Areas Dedicated to Mental State Attribution (Cerebral Cortex, 2009)
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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
Auditory processing during deep propofol sedation and recovery
(Clinical
Neurophysiology, 2006)
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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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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
Current
Opinion in Neurobiology 15,
2005: Neural substrates of
processing
syntax
and semantics in music
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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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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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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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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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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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NeuroReport
10(6), 1999: Superior
pre-attentive
auditory processing in musicians
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