Publikationen der Abteilung Kognitive Neuropsychologie
2026
Atanasova, T., Gross, J., Rimmele, J. M., & Keitel, A. (2026). The involvement of endogenous brain rhythms in speech processing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,183: 106568. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106568.
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Christensen, J. F., Wesseldijk, L. W., Mosing, M. A., & Ullén, F. (2026). Mental health in recreational and professional dancers: A genetically informed study in Sweden. SSM - Population Health,33: 101894. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101894.
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De Lucia, M., Pelentritou, A., & Tavano, A. (2026). Bodily rhythms and the Brain: Critical links to cognition in health and disease. Comment on ‘A body-brain (dis)equilibrium regulating transitions from health to pathology’ by Antonio Criscuolo, Anna Czepiel, Michael Schwartze and Sonja A. Kotz. Physics of Life Reviews,56, 109-112. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2025.12.005.
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Khorsandi, S., & Christensen, J. F. (2026). Iranian dancers perform despite restrictions: Navigating a sociopolitical obstacle course. In A. Shay (
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Yeom, D., Stead, K. S., Tan, Y. T., McPherson, G. E., Mosing, M. A., & Wilson, S. J. (2026). Genetic and environmental influences on singing self-evaluation and its relationship with singing ability: An Australian twin study. Behavior Genetics. doi:10.1007/s10519-026-10254-4.
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Perizonius, S., Wesseldijk, L. W., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2026). How positive beliefs about the world relate to well-being and social connections - A genetically informative approach. European Journal of Personality. doi:10.1177/08902070261423583.
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Grabenhorst, M., Poeppel, D., & Michalareas, G. (2026). The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,123(2): e2518982123. doi:0.1073/pnas.2518982123.
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Barchet, A. V., Bruera, A., Rimmele, J. M., Obleser, J., & Hartwigsen, G. (2026). Linguistic information compensates for age-related decline in attentional filtering. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.01.08.698329.
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Kwon, S., Lubinus, C., Kell, C. A., Keitel, A., & Rimmele, J. M. (2026). Effects of speech periodicity and speech rate on auditory-motor coupling during speech comprehension. Communications Biology,9: 205. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-09481-y.
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van Welzen, K., Clemente, A., Ullén, F., & de Manzano, Ö. (2026). Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity. Creativity Research Journal. doi:10.1080/10400419.2025.2599793.
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2025
Finkel, D., Finch, B. K., Gatz, M., Christensen, K., Franz, C. E., Karlsson, I. K., Kremen, W. S., Krueger, R. F., Lupton, M., Martin, N., McGue, M., Mosing, M. A., Neiderhiser, J., Nygaard, M., Prom-Worley, E., Reynolds, C., Sachdev, P., Sillanpää, E., Vuoksimaa, E., Whitfield, K. E., Hayden, O., Walters, E., Pedersen, N. L., & for the IGEMS consortium (2025). The interplay of genes and environment across multiple studies (IGEMS) consortium after fifteen years (first view). Twin Research and Human Genetics. doi:10.1017/thg.2025.10036.
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Borhani, K., Christensen, J. F., Frieler, K., Aghakarimi, Z., & Schindler, I. (2025). Do children’s attachment security and empathy facilitate story appreciation? Affective Science. doi:10.1007/s42761-025-00339-4.
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Napadow, M., Fischer, H., Sandgre, M., Magyar, M., Lénárd, Z., Harmat, L., & de Manzano, Ö. (2025). Singing for memory: neural and cognitive effects of a choral intervention in older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,17: 1679873. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2025.1679873.
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Nygaard, M., Mosing, M. A., Finkel, D. G., Franz, C. E., Kremen, W. S., Martin, N. G., Plassman, B. L., Reynolds, C. A., Sachdev, P. S., Thalamuthu, A., Walters, E. E., Christensen, K., Pedersen, N. L., Gatz, M., McGue, M., & IGEMS consortium (2025). Leisure activity engagement and depressive symptoms: Meta-analysis of 11 studies of middle-aged and older twins aged 32-99. The journals of gerontology, glaf253. doi:10.1093/gerona/glaf253.
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Christensen, J. F., Frieler, K., Vartanian, M., Khorsandi, S., Farahi, F., Yazdi, S. H. N., Serra, S. B., & Walsh, V. (2025). An enculturation-induced joy bias for emotion recognition in full-body-movement. Scientific Reports,15: 37163. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-24332-w.
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Finch, B. K., Finkel, D., Gatz, M., Pedersen, N. L., Reynolds, C. A., Sachdev, P., Selwood, A., Martin, N., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). Self-rated health and mortality: family background and genetic precursors. Discover Social Science and Health,5: 139. doi:10.1007/s44155-025-00290-6.
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Christensen, J. F., Schmidt, E.-M., Frieler, K., Smith-Chase, R. A., Sancho-Escanero, L., Michalareas, G., Ullén, F., & Cross, E. S. (2025). Aesthetic appeal of dance actions depends on expressivity, liveness and audience characteristics. Cognition,263: 106152. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106152.
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Vartanian, M., Jahanitabesh, A., Christensen, J. F., Staub, H., Jensen, D. E., Villringer, A., & Witte, A. V. (2025). Neural responses to visual food cues according to weight and hunger state: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,177: 106301. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106301.
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Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Eising, E., Mekki, Y., Nitin, R., Bush, C. T., Gustavson, D. E., Anglada-Tort, M., Lancaster, H. S., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., Magne, C. L., Fisher, S. E., Jacoby, N., & Gordon, R. L. (2025). Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: Epidemiological and polygenic associations. Nature Communications,16: 8355. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60867-2.
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Abdellaoui, A., Wesseldijk, L. W., Gordon, S. D., Pasman, J. A., Smit, D. J. A., Androvičová, R., Martine, N. G., Ullén, F., Mosing, M. A., Zietsch, B. P., & Verweij, K. J. H. (2025). Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,122(38): e2418257122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2418257122.
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Hartung, N., Barchet, A. V., Abel, C., Pittman-Polletta, B. R., Ullén, F., & Rimmele, J. M. (2025). Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.08.20.671291.
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Iaia, C., & Tavano, A. (2025). Aligning syntactic structure to the dynamics of verbal communication: A pipeline for annotating syntactic phrases onto speech acoustics. Behavior Research Methods,57: 249. doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02747-7.
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Keitel, A., Keitel, C., Alavash, M., Bakardjian, K., Benwell, C. S., Bouton, S., Busch, N. A., Criscuolo, A., Doelling, K. B., Dugue, L., Grabot, L., Gross, J., Hanslmayr, S., Klatt, L.-I., Kluger, D. S., Learmonth, G., London, R. E., Lubinus, C., Martin, A. E., Obleser, J., Rimmele, J. M., Romei, V., Ruzzoli, M., Siebenhuhner, F., Slaats, S., Spaak, E., Tarasi, L., Thut, G., Trajkovic, J., Wang, D., Wostmann, M., Zoefel, B., Palva, S., Sauseng, P., & Kotz, S. A. (2025). Brain rhythms in cognition - controversies and future directions. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.15639.
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Sun, Y., Michalareas, G., Ghitza, O., & Poeppel, D. (2025). Complex impact of stimulus envelope on motor synchronization to sound. The Journal of Neuroscience,45(25): e1488242025. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1488-24.2025.
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Chang, Y.-H.-F., Ullén, F., & de Manzano, Ö. (2025). Common brain representations of action and perception investigated with cross-modal classification of newly learned melodies. Scientific Reports,15: 16492. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-00208-x.
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Clemente, A., & Penacchio, O. (2025). Hedonic Foraging: From Reward to Action (preprint). bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology. doi:10.1101/2025.05.04.652128.
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Perizonius, S., Wesseldijk, L. W., Clifton, J. D., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). The world as I see it: Genetic and environmental influences on primal world beliefs in a large Swedish twin sample. The Journal of Positive Psychology,20(3), 510-520. doi:10.1080/17439760.2024.2387340.
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Bratchenko, A., Xia, P., Boomsma, D. I., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2025). Music style preferences and well-being: A genetic perspective. Personality and Individual Differences,241: 113162. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113162.
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Keitel, A., Pelofi, C., Guan, X., Watson, E., Wight, L., Allen, S., Mencke, I., Keitel, C., & Rimmele, J. M. (2025). Cortical and behavioral tracking of rhythm in music: Effects of pitch predictability, enjoyment, and expertise. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,1546(1), 120-135. doi:10.1111/nyas.15315.
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Bignardi, G., Wesseldijk, L. W., Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., Ullén, F., Fisher, S. E., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Nature Communications,16: 2904. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58123-8.
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Lubinus, C., Keitel, A., Obleser, J., Poeppel, D., & Rimmele, J. M. (2025). Endogenous auditory and motor brain rhythms predict individual speech tracking. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.03.24.644939.
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Grabenhorst, M., Poeppel, D., & Michalareas, G. (2025). Neural signatures of temporal anticipation in human cortex represent event probability density. Nature Communications,16: 2602. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57813-7.
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Kohler, N., Czepiel, A., de Manzano, Ö., Novembre, G., Keller, P. E., Villringer, A., & Sammler, D. (2025). Distinct and content-specific neural representations of self- and other-produced actions in joint piano performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,19: 1543131. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2025.1543131.
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Clemente, A. (2025). Commentary on Friedman et al. (2024): A General Preference for Complexity? Empirical Musicology Review,19(2), 95-101. doi:10.18061/emr.v19i2.9841.
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Christensen, J. F., Muralikrishnan, R., Münzberg, M., Manias, B. C., Khorsandi, S., & Vessel, E. A. (2025). Can 5 minutes of finger actions boost creative incubation? Journal of Cognitive Enhancement,9, 10-20. doi:10.1007/s41465-024-00306-0.
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Neamaalkassis, H., Boubenec, Y., Fiebach, C., Muralikrishnan, R., & Tavano, A. (2025). The fundamental frequencies of our own voice. Royal Society Open Science,12(2). doi:10.1098/rsos.241081.
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Michalareas, G., Lehr, C., Grabenhorst, M., & Hecht, H. (2025). Social processing distorts physical distance perception. Scientific Reports,15: 5669. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-89935-9.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Mosing, M. A., Osborne, M. S., & Wilson, S. J. (2025). Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping. Behavior Research Methods,57: 61. doi:10.3758/s13428-024-02577-z.
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Vartanian, M., Endres, K. J., Lee, Y. T., Friedrich, S., Meemken, M.-T., Schamarek, I., Rohde-Zimmermann, K., Schürfeld, R., Eisenberg, L., Hilbert, A., Beyer, F., Stumvoll, M., Sacher, J., Villringer, A., Christensen, J. F., & Witte, A. V. (2025). Investigating the impact of microbiome-changing interventions on food decision-making: MIFOOD study protocol. BMC Nutrition,11: 8. doi:10.1186/s40795-024-00971-6.
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Gustavson, D. E., Bell, T. R., Buchholz, E. J., Zellers, S., Luczak, S. E., Reynolds, C. A., Finch, B. K., Nygaard, M., Catts, V. S., Christensen, K., Finkel, D., Kremen, W. S., Latvala, A., Martin, N. G., McGue, M., Mewton, L., Mosing, M. A., Panizzon, M. S., Plassman, B. L., Kaprio, J., Gatz, M., Franz, C. E., & The IGEMS Consortium (2025). Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol consumption in middle to late life. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi:10.1037/adb0001052.
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Rimmele, J. M., & Keitel, A. (2025). Region-specific endogenous brain rhythms and their role for speech and language (in press). In L. Meyer, & A. Strauss (
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Barchet, A. V., Bruera, A., Wend, J., Rimmele, J. M., Obleser, J., & Hartwigsen, G. (2025). Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments. The Journal of Neuroscience, e0657252025. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0657-25.2025.
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2024
2023
Kazanina, N., & Tavano, A. (2023). Reply to ‘Low-frequency neural parsing of hierarchical linguistic structures’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,24: 793. doi:10.1038/s41583-023-00750-5.
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Kazanina, N., & Tavano, A. (2023). Reply to ‘What oscillations can do for syntax depends on your theory of structure building’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,24: 724. doi:10.1038/s41583-023-00735-4.
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Wassiliwizky, E. (2023). Book review: The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal. Perception,52(11-12), 861 -862. doi:10.1177/03010066231196840.
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Kazanina, N., & Tavano, A. (2023). Reply to ‘When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,24, 726-727. doi:10.1038/s41583-023-00739-0.
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Wassiliwizky, E., Wontorra, P., & Ullén, F. (2023). How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others. Scientific Reports,13: 18747. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45952-0.
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Michalareas, G., Rudwan, I. M., Lehr, C., Gessini, P., Tavano, A., & Grabenhorst, M. (2023). A scalable and robust system for audience EEG recordings. Heliyon,9(10): e20725. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20725.
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Garzón, B., Helms, G., Olsson, H., Brozzoli, C., Ullén, F., Diedrichsen, J., & Lövdén, M. (2023). Cortical changes during the learning of sequences of simultaneous finger presses. Imaging Neuroscience,1. doi:10.1162/imag_a_00016.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2023). Music and genetics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,152: 105302. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105302.
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Tavano, A., Rimmele, J. M., Michalareas, G., & Poeppel, D. (2023). Neural oscillations in EEG and MEG. In M. Grimaldi, E. Brattico, & Y. Shtyrov (
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Patterson, J. D., Merseal, H. M., Johnson, D. R., Agnoli, S., Baas, M., Baker, B. S., Barbot, B., Benedek, M., Borhani, K., Chen, Q., Christensen, J. F., Corazza, G. E., Forthmann, B., Karwowski, M., Kazemian, N., Kreisberg-Nitzav, A., Kenett, Y. N., Link, A., Lubart, T., Mercier, M., Miroshnik, K., Ovando-Tellez, M., Primi, R., Puente-Díaz, R., Said-Metwaly, S., Stevenson, C., Meghedi, V., Volle, E., van Hell, J. G., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts,17(4), 495-507. doi:10.1037/aca0000618.
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Kupfer, T. R., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2023). Heritability of jealousy. In T. K. Shackelford (
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Christensen, J. F., Bruhn, L., Schmidt, E.-M., Bahmanian, N., Yazdi, S. H. N., Farahi, F., Sancho-Escanero, L., & Menninghaus, W. (2023). A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements. Scientific Reports,13(1): 8757. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33656-4.
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Merseal, H. M., Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Lloyd-Cox, J., de Manzano, Ö., & Norgaard, M. (2023). Representing melodic relationships using network science. Cognition,233: 105362. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105362.
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Gustavson, D. E., Coleman, P. L., Wang, Y., Nitin, R., Petty, L. E., Bush, C. T., Mosing, M. A., Wesseldijk, L. W., Ullén, F., 23 and Me Research Team, Below, J. E., Cox, N. J., & Gordon, R. L. (2023). Exploring the genetics of rhythmic perception and musical engagement in the Vanderbilt Online Musicality Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,1521(1), 140-154. doi:10.1111/nyas.14964.
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Michalareas, G., Kusnir, F., Thut, G., & Gross, J. (2023). The timing of cortical activation in associator grapheme-colour synaesthetes using MEG. Neuropsychologia,181: 108491. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108491.
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Lubinus, C., Keitel, A., Obleser, J., Poeppel, D., & Rimmele, J. M. (2023). Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,290(1994): 20222410. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2410.
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Rimmele, J. M., Sun, Y., Michalareas, G., Ghitza, O., & Poeppel, D. (2023). Dynamics of functional networks for syllable and word-level processing. Neurobiology of Language,4(1), 120-144. doi:10.1162/nol_a_00089.
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Kazanina, N., & Tavano, A. (2023). What neural oscillations can and cannot do for syntactic structure building. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,24, 113-128. doi:10.1038/s41583-022-00659-5.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Lu, Y., Karlsson, R., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2023). A comprehensive investigation into the genetic relationship between music engagement and mental health. Translational Psychiatry,13: 15. doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02308-6.
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2022
Vartanian, M., Khorsandi, S., Sancho Escanero, L., Acedo-Carmona, C., & Christensen, J. F. (2022). Human flourishing through dance practice. In T. Chemi, E. Brattico, L. O. Fjorback, & L. Harmat (
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Ullén, F. (2022). Expertise and the brain of the performing artist. In M. Skov, & M. Nadal (
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Wesseldijk, L., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). A comprehensive investigation into the genetic relationship between music engagement and mental health. European Neuropsychopharmacology,63, e286-e287. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2022.07.508.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Osborne, M. S., Martin, C., Mosing, M. A., & Wilson, S. J. (2022). Use of explicit priming to phenotype absolute pitch ability. PLoS One,17(9): e0273828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273828.
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Niarchou, M., Gustavson, D. E., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., Anglada-Tort, M., Eising, E., Bell, E., McArthur, E., Straub, P., The 23andMe Research Team, McAuley, J. D., Capra, J. A., Ullén, F., Creanza, N., Mosing, M. A., Hinds, D., Davis, L. K., Jacoby, N., & Gordon, R. L. (2022). Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity. Nature Human Behaviour,6, 1292-1309. doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01359-x.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Abdellaoui, A., Gordon, R. L., 23andMe Research Team, Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). Using a polygenic score in a family design to understand genetic influences on musicality. Scientific Reports,12: 14658. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18703-w.
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Manting, C. L., Gulyas, B., Ullén, F., & Lundqvist, D. (2022). Steady-state responses to concurrent melodies: source distribution, top-down, and bottom-up attention. Cerebral Cortex, bhac260. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac260.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Ullén, F., Osborne, M. S., Wilson, S. J., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). Investigating the relationship between childhood music practice and pitch-naming ability in professional musicians and a population-based twin sample. Twin Research and Human Genetics,25(3), 140-148. doi:10.1017/thg.2022.29.
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Harder, A., Nguyen, T.-D., Pasman, J. A., Mosing, M. A., Hägg, S., & Lu, Y. (2022). Genetics of age-at-onset in major depression. Translational Psychiatry,12: 124. doi:10.1038/s41398-022-01888-z.
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2021
de Manzano, Ö., & Ullén, F. (2021). Domain specific traits predict achievement in music and multipotentiality. Intelligence,89: 101584. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2021.101584.
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