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Merrill, J., Frieler, K., & Ackermann, T. (2023). The structure of musical dislikes (Advance online publication). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000565

Lange, E. B., Omigie, D., Trenado, C., Müller, V., Wald-Fuhrmann, M. & Merrill, J. (2022) In touch: Cardiac and respiratory patterns synchronize during ensemble singing with physical contact. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:928563. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.928563

Ackermann, T.‑I., & Merrill, J. (2022). Rationales and functions of disliked music: An in-depth interview study. PloS ONE, 17(2), e0263384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263384

Merrill, J. (2022): Auditory perceptual assessment of voices: Examining perceptual ratings as a function of voice experience. Current Psychology. 10.1007/s12144-022-02734-7

Czepiel, A., Fink, L. K., Fink, L. T., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Tröndle, M., Merrill, J. (2021): Synchrony in the Periphery: Inter-Subject Correlation of Physiological Responses During Live Music Concerts. Scientific Reports 11, 22457. 10.1038/s41598-021-00492-3

Thissen, B. A. K., Schlotz, W., Abel, C., Scharinger, M., Merrill, J., Haider, T., Menninghaus, W. (2021): At the Heart of Optimal Reading Experiences: Cardiovascular Activity During Flow in Fiction Reading. Reading Research Quarterly. 10.1002/rrq.448

Roese, N. A., Merrill, J. (2021): Consequences of the COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany: Effects of Changes in Daily Life on Musical Engagement and Functions of Music. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10463. 10.3390/ijerph181910463.

Merrill, J. (2021): Sprecherische Variation in Schillers Bürgschaft – Text und Realisierung im Vergleich. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 65. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Merrill, J., Czepiel, A., Fink, L. T., Toelle, J., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2021). The Aesthetic Experience of Live Concerts: Self-Reports and Psychophysiology. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi.org/10.1037/aca0000390

Merrill, J., & Ackermann, T. (2020). “Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000376.

Merrill, J. (2020): Das Phänomen ‚Brummer‘ aus neurowissenschaftlicher Sicht. In: Fuchs, M. (Hg.) Stimmen hören – Potenziale entwickeln – Störungen behandeln.
Logos Verlag, Berlin. S. 83–94.

Merrill, J., Omigie, D., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2020). Locus of emotion influences psychophysiological reactions to music. PLoS ONE, 15 (8), e0237641. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237641

Merrill, J. (2019): Perzeption und Rezeption des vokalen Ausdrucks im Grenzbereich von Singen und Sprechen. Sprechen. Zeitschrift für Sprechwissenschaft, Sprechpädagogik, Sprechtherapie, Sprechkunst 68, S. 42–58.

Merrill, J. (2019): Stimmen – schön schrecklich oder schrecklich schön? Beschreibung, Bewertung und Wirkung des vokalen Ausdrucks in der Musik. Kassel University Press, Kassel. https://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/katalog/abstract.php?978-3-7376-5087-8 

Merrill, J. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2017). Vocal Features of Song and Speech. Insights from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. In Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-11. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01108/full

Merrill, J. (2017). Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire Revisited. Acceptance of Vocal Expression. Acta Musicologica, 89(1), 95–117.

Merrill, J. (Ed.) (2017): Popular Music Studies Today – Proceedings of the 19th conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Kassel, Germany, June 26–30, 2017. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 10.1007/978-3-658-17740-9

Merrill, J., Bangert, M., Sammler, D., Friederici, A. D. (2016):Classifying Song and Speech – Effects of Focal Temporal Lobe Lesions and Musical Disorder. Neurocase. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2016.1237660

Merrill, J. (2016). Die Sprechstimme in der Musik – Komposition, Notation, Transkription. Systematische Musikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-12494-6

Hemming, J., Merrill, J. (2015). On the distinction of musical hallucinations, musical hallucinosis and involuntary musical imagery. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000112

Merrill, J. (2015). Musik und Sprache im Gehirn und in der Therapie. Sprechen. Zeitschrift für Sprechwissenschaft, Sprechpädagogik, Sprechtherapie, Sprechkunst 60, 39-51.

Bose, I., Hirschfeld, U., Neuber, B., Stock, E. (2013, 2016; unter Mitarbeit). Einführung in die Sprechwissenschaft. Phonetik, Rhetorik, Sprechkunst. Tübingen: Narr-Verlag.

Merrill, J. (2013). Song and speech perception: Evidence from fMRI, lesion studies and musical disorder. PhD Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 148).http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/faces/viewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=escidoc:1739211:4

Merrill, J., Sammler, D., Bangert, M., Goldhahn, D., Lohmann, G., Turner, R., Friederici, A.D. (2012). Perception of words and pitch patterns in song and speech. Frontiers in Psychology 3(76), 1-13. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00076/full

Merrill, J. (2012). Song and Speech Perception – Evidence from fMRI, Lesion Studies and Musical Disorder. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain 22(2), 190.