Selected Publications

Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L., Rosenberg, R., Leder, H. & Forster, M., (2020, in press). The Kitsch Switch—or (When) Do Experts Dislike Thomas Kinkade Art? A Study of Time-Based Evaluation Changes in Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Assessment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Gartus, A.. Völker, , & Leder, H. (2020). What Experts Appreciate in Patterns: Art Expertise Modulates Preference for Asymmetric and Face-Like Patterns. Symmetry 2020, 12(5), 707; doi.org/10.3390/sym12050707

Reitstätter, L., Brinkmann, H., Santini, T., Specker, E., Dare, Z., Bakondi, F., Miscena, A., Kasneci, E., Leder, H. & Rosenberg, R.(2020). The Display Makes a Difference: A Mobile Eye Tracking Study on the Perception of Art before and After a museum's Rearrangement. In : Journal of Eye Movement Research. 13, 2, p. 1–29

Hur, Y.-J., Gerger, G., Leder, H., & McManus, I. C. (2020). Facing the sublime: Physiological correlates of the relationship between fear and the sublime. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 14(3), 253–263. doi.org/10.1037/aca0000204

Mitrovic, A., Helgelmaier, L.M., Leder, H. & Pelowski, M. (2020, in press). Does beauty capture the eye, even if it’s not (overtly) adaptive? A comparative eye-tracking study of spontaneous attention and visual preference with VAST abstract art. Acta Psychologica.

Kaisler, R., Marin, M. & Leder, H. (2020, in press). Effects of emotional expressions, gaze, and head orientation on person perception in social situations. Plos One.

Clay, V., Schrumpf, J., Tessenow, J., Leder, H., Ansorge, U. & König, P. (2020). A Quantitative Analysis of the Taxonomy of Artistic Styles. Journal of Eye Movement Research.

Specker, E., Stamkou, E., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2020, in press). Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? An experimental museum study of the impact of curatorial narrative highlighting artistic deviance on the visitor’s assessment of artist influence. Psychology of Aesthe tics, Creativity, and the Arts. Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

Specker , E., Forster, M., Brinkmann, H., Boddy, J., Immelmann, B., Goller, J., Pelowski, M., Rosenberg, R. & Leder, H. (2020). Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks. Plos One., 15(5): e0232083, May 13, 2020. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232083

Brieber, D., Forster, M., & Leder, H. (2020). On the mutual relation between art experience and viewing time. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 14(2), 197–208. doi.org/10.1037/aca0000210

Pelowski, M., Graser, A., Specker, E., Forster, M., von Hinüber, J., & Leder, H. (2020). Does Gallery Lighting Really have an Impact on Appreciation of Art? An ecologically-valid study of lighting changes and the assessment and emotional experience with representational and abstract paintings. Frontiers in Psychology, Environmental Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02148

Pelowski, M., Hur, Y., Cotter, K., Ishizu, T., Christensen, A., Leder, H., & McManus, C. (2019). Quantifying the if, the what, and the when of the sublime: A survey and network model of incidence, emotions, triggers, and distinct varieties within reports of personal sublime experiences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000273

Immelmann, B., Boddy, J., Rosenberg, R., Leder, H. & Brinkmann, H., (2019). Kandinsky´s Bauhaus Questionnaire: Color-Form Correspondences between Introspection and Experiment, (2020) in : Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft. 64, 2, S. 99-125.

Markey, P., Jakesch, M. & Leder, H. (2019). Art looks different – semantic and syntactic processing of paintings and associated neurophysiological brain responses. Brain and Cognition 134 (2019) 58–66

Selected Publications

Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S. J., Massaccesi, C., Sezen, P., Graf, I.,  Willeit, M., Eisenegger, C.,  Silani, G. (2020). Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation of implicit hedonic facial reactions during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards. eLife; 9:e55797 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.55797

Bird, G*, Silani, G*, Brindley, R, White, S, Frith, U., Singer, T. (2010). Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain, 133: 1515-25.

Bugnyar, T., & Kotrschal, K. (2002). Observational learning and the raiding of food caches in ravens, Corvus corax: is it ‘tactical’deception?. Animal behaviour, 64(2), 185-195. Fitch, W. T. (2010). The evolution of language. Cambridge University Press.

Fitch, W. T., Huber, L., & Bugnyar, T. (2010). Social cognition and the evolution of language: constructing cognitive phylogenies. Neuron, 65(6), 795-814.

Lamm, C. , Bukowski, H., & Silani, G. (2016).  From shared to distinct self – other  representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio - cognitive disorders.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,371 , 20150083.

Cogoni, C., Carnaghi, A., Silani, G. (2018). Reduced empathic responses for sexually objectified women: an fMRI investigation. Cortex. 99: 258-272.

Hein, G., Silani, G., Preuschoff, K., Bateson, C.D., Singer, T. (2010). Differential empathic brain responses in In- and Outgroup pain predict ingroup favouritism in altruistic helping. Neuron, 68: 149-60.

Huber, L., &  Lamm, C. (2017).  Understanding dog cognition by functional  magnetic resonance imaging.  Learning & Behavior, 45(2),101-102.

Rütgen, M., Seidel, E.M., Silani, G., Riecansky, I., Hummer, A., Windischberger,  C., Petrovic, P., &  Lamm, C. (2015). Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain. Proceedings  of th e National Academy of Sciences USA, 112(41), E5638–E5646.

Rütgen, M., Seidel, E.M., Riecansky, I., &  Lamm, C. (2015).  Reduction of  empathy for pain by placebo analgesia suggests functional equivalence of  empathy and first - hand e motion experience.  Journal of Neuroscience ,  5(23):8938–8947.

Silani, G.,  Lamm, C. , Ruff, C.C., & Singer, T. (2013).  Right supramarginal  gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments.  9 Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (39),  15466 - 15476.

Striano, T., Reid, V. M., & Hoehl, S. (2006). Neural mechanisms of joint attention in infancy. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23(10), 2819-2823.

Selected Publications

Christiner, M., & Reiterer, S. (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., & Reiterer, S. M. (2013). Song and speech: examining the link between singing talent and speech imitation ability. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 874. 

Czedik-Eysenberg, I., Knauf, D., Reuter, C. (2017). "Hardness" as a semantic audio descriptor for music using automatic feature extraction. In M. Eibl, M. Gaedke (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Informatics  (p. 101-110). Bonn: Köllen. Fitch, W. T. (2006). "The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective," Cognition 100, 173-215. 

Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Santoro, R., Atanasova, T., Van De Ville, D. & Golestani, N. TASH: Toolbox for the automated segmentation of Heschl’s gyrus (2020). Scientific Reports, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60609-y [IF: 4.5]

Fitch, W. T. (2016). "Music, Dance, Meter and Groove: A Forgotten Partnership," Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10, 64. 

Fitch, W. T. (2017). "Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution," Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24, 3-33. 

Fischmeister, F. P., Martins, M. D., Beisteiner, R., and Fitch, W. T. (2017). "Self-similarity and recursion as default modes in human cognition," Cortex 97, 183-201.

Hoehl, S., Fairhurst, M., & Schirmer, A. (2020). Interactional Synchrony: Signals, Mechanisms, and Benefits. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa024

Kallulli, D. (2006). Triggering factivity: Prosodic evidence for syntactic structure. In Proceedings of 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 211-219).

Kimmel, M. (2019). A cognitive theory of joint improvisation: The case of tango argentino, in Midgelow, V. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance; Oxford University Press, p. 564-592.

Kimmel, M. & Preuschl, E. (2015). Dynamic coordination patterns in tango argentino: A cross-fertilization of subjective explication methods and motion capture. In Laumond J.-P. & Abe, N. (Eds.): Dance Notations and Robot Motion (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics collection), Berlin, 209-36.

Liu, M., König, P. & Mueller, J. L. (2019).ERPs reveal different mechanisms for processing of positive and negative polarity items. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:376.

Martins, M. D., Fischmeister, F. P., Puig-Waldmüller, E., Oh, J., Geissler, A., Robinson, S., Fitch, W. T., and Beisteiner, R. (2014). "Fractal image perception provides novel insights into hierarchical cognition," Neuroimage 96, 300-308. 

Mueller, J. L., Friederici, A. D. & Männel, C. (2019).Developmental changes in automatic rule learning mechanisms across early childhood. Developmental Science, 22,1, e12700.

Nguyen, T., Schleihauf, H., Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Vrticka, P., & Hoehl, S. (2020). Neural synchrony in mother-child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa079

Reiterer, S. M., et al (2005). "Impact of task difficulty on lateralization of pitch and duration discrimination," NeuroReport 16, 239-242. 

Reuter, C.,  Czedik-Eysenberg, I., Siddiq, S., Oehler, M. (2018). "Formant distances and the similarity perception of wind instrument timbres". In Parncutt, R., Sattmann, S.(Eds.), Proceedings of CMPC15/ESCOM10 (p. 367-371). Graz. 

Rutten, S., Santoro, R., Hervais-Adelman, A., Formisano, E.# & Golestani, N.# (2019) Cortical encoding of speech enhances task-relevant acoustic information. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 974-987 [IF: 10.5]. 

Thiesen, F. C., Kopiez, R., Reuter, C., & Czedik-Eysenberg, I. (2019). A snippet in a snippet: Development of the Matryoshka principle for the construction of very short musical stimuli (plinks). Musicae Scientiae 24. 

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.