Publications

The centre's frequently cited peer-reviewed publications include the following selection:

• Bisesi, E., Friberg, A., & Parncutt, R. (2019). A computational model of immanent accent salience in tonal music. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 317.
• Brabec de Mori, B. (2015). Sonic substances and silent sounds: An auditory anthropology of ritual songs. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 13(2), 25-43.
• Brabec de Mori, B. (2021). The power of social attribution: Perspectives on the healing efficacy of ayahuasca. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 748131.
• Brabec de Mori, B., & Seeger, A. (2013). Considering music, humans, and non-humans. Ethnomusicology Forum, 22(3), 269-286).
• Brabec de Mori, B., & Winter, M. (2018). Auditive Wissenskulturen. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
• Cenkerová, Z., & Parncutt, R. (2015). Style-dependency of melodic expectation: changing the rules in real time. Music Perception, 33(1), 110-128.
• Christiner, M., & Reiterer, S. M. (2015). A Mozart is not a Pavarotti: Singers outperform instrumentalists on foreign accent imitation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 482.
• Christiner, M., & Reiterer, S. M. (2018). Early influence of musical abilities and working memory on speech imitation abilities: Study with pre-school children. Brain Sciences, 8(9), 169.
• Christiner, M., Renner, J., Groß, C., Seither-Preisler, A., Benner, J., & Schneider, P. (2022). Singing Mandarin? What short-term memory capacity, basic auditory skills, and musical and singing abilities reveal about learning Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 895063.
• Dukić, H., & Jakovljević, M. (2021). Music, religion and health: A scientific perspective on the origin of our relationship to music. Psychiatria Danubina, 33(suppl 3), 143-149.
• Dukić, H., Parncutt, R., & Bunt, L. (2021). Narrative archetypes in the imagery of clients in Guided Imagery and music therapy sessions. Psychology of Music, 49(2), 287-303.
• Kempf, A., Benedek, M., & Schiavio, A. (2024). An observation of a negative effect of social cohesion on creativity in musical improvisation. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 2922.
• Koegeler-Abdi, M., & Parncutt, R. (Eds.). (2013). Interculturality: Practice meets research. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Marin, M. M., & Bhattacharya, J. (2013). Getting into the musical zone: trait emotional intelligence and amount of practice predict flow in pianists. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 853.
• Marin, M. M., & Leder, H. (2013). Examining complexity across domains: Relating subjective and objective measures of affective environmental scenes, paintings and music. PloS one, 8(8), e72412.
• Parncutt, R. (2007). Systematic musicology and the history and future of western musical scholarship. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 1(1), 1-32.
• Parncutt, R. (2019). The human cost of anthropogenic global warming: Semi-quantitative prediction and the 1,000-tonne rule. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2323.
• Parncutt, R. (2011). The tonic as triad: Key profiles as pitch salience profiles of tonic triads. Music Perception, 28(4), 333-366.
• Parncutt, R. (2009). Prenatal and infant conditioning, the mother schema, and the origins of music and religion. Musicae Scientiae, 13(2_suppl), 119-150.
• Parncutt, R. (2024). Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality. MIT Press.
• Parncutt, R., Engel, I., & Radovanovic, L. (2023). Consonance and dissonance of simultaneous trichords in Western music: A listening experiment to test models of harmonicity and roughness. Psihologijske teme, 32(1), 13-34.
• Parncutt, R., Lindborg, P., Meyer-Kahlen, N., & Timmers, R. (2021). The multi-hub academic conference: global, inclusive, culturally diverse, creative, sustainable. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 6, 699782.
• Parncutt, R., Meyer-Kahlen, N., & Sattmann, S. (2019). Live-streaming at international academic conferences: Technical and organizational options for single-and multiple-location formats. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 7, 54.
• Parncutt, R., Reisinger, D., Fuchs, A., & Kaiser, F. (2019). Consonance and prevalence of sonorities in Western polyphony: Roughness, harmonicity, familiarity, evenness, diatonicity. Journal of New Music Research, 48(1), 1-20.
• Parncutt, R., Sattmann, S., Gaich, A., & Seither-Preisler, A. (2019). Tone profiles of isolated musical chords: Psychoacoustic versus cognitive models. Music Perception, 36(4), 406-430.
• Parncutt, R., & Seither-Preisler, A. (2019). Live streaming at international academic conferences: Ethical considerations. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 7, 55.
• Prem, D., Parncutt, R., & Stiegler, H. J. Jazz vocal sound: A timbre knowledgebase for research and practice. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 1, 62-91.
• Schiavio, A., Biasutti, M., & Antonini Philippe, R. (2021). Creative pedagogies in the time of pandemic: A case study with conservatory students. Music education research, 23(2), 167-178.
• Schiavio, A., & Høffding, S. (2015). Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance. Musicae Scientiae, 19(4), 366-388.
• Schiavio, A., & van der Schyff, D. (2018). 4E music pedagogy and the principles of self-organization. Behavioral Sciences, 8(8), 72.
• Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Cespedes-Guevara, J., & Reybrouck, M. (2017). Enacting musical emotions. Sense-making, dynamic systems, and the embodied mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16, 785-809.
• Schneider, P., Engelmann, D., Groß, C., Bernhofs, V., Hofmann, E., Christiner, M., ... & Seither-Preisler, A. (2023). Neuroanatomical disposition, natural development, and training-induced plasticity of the human auditory system from childhood to adulthood: A 12-year study in musicians and nonmusicians. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(37), 6430-6446.
• Schneider, P., Groß, C., Bernhofs, V., Christiner, M., Benner, J., Turker, S., ... & Seither‐Preisler, A. (2022). Short‐term plasticity of neuro‐auditory processing induced by musical active listening training. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1517(1), 176-190.
• Seither-Preisler, A., Parncutt, R., & Schneider, P. (2014). Size and synchronization of auditory cortex promotes musical, literacy, and attentional skills in children. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(33), 10937-10949.
• Seither-Preisler, A., & Schneider, P. (2024). Positive Effekte des Musizierens auf Wahrnehmung und Kognition aus neurowissenschaftlicher Perspektive. In Musik und Medizin: Chancen für Therapie, Prävention, Rehabilitation und Bildung (pp. 539-562). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Turker, S., Reiterer, S. M., Seither-Preisler, A., & Schneider, P. (2017). “When music speaks”: Auditory cortex morphology as a neuroanatomical marker of language aptitude and musicality. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2096.
• Turker, S., Seither-Preisler, A., & Reiterer, S. M. (2021). Examining individual differences in language learning: A neurocognitive model of language aptitude. Neurobiology of Language, 2(3), 389-415.
• Turker, S., Reiterer, S. M., Schneider, P., & Seither-Preisler, A. (2019). Auditory cortex morphology predicts language learning potential in children and teenagers. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 824.
• Weth, K., Raab, M. H., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Investigating emotional responses to self-selected sad music via self-report and automated facial analysis. Musicae Scientiae, 19(4), 412-432.