Research output

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Savage P., .. Popescu T., .. (forthcoming). Does singing enhance cooperation more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report.

2. Popescu T., Fitch W.T. (forthcoming) On the evolution of human synchronisation abilities.

3. Popescu T., Farrugia N., Ruge H., Boneh O., Bravo F., Tian X., Rohrmeier M. (under review). Neural representations of harmonic function in musical imagery.

4. Popescu T., Rohrmeier M. (under review). Building blocks of tonality emerge from transmission chains with random melodies.

5. Schiavio A., Biasutti M., Kempf A., Popescu T., Benedek M. (2024). Construction and psychometric analysis of a new self-assessment inventory: The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale Music Perception

6. Schiavio A.*, Popescu T.*, Kempf A., Timmers R. (2023) Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs. (*: shared first-authors) Psychology of Music

7. Popescu T., Stahl B., Wiernik B. M., Helm H., Zemanek M., Haiduk F., Matzinger T., Beisteiner R., Fitch W. T. (2022). Melodic Intonation Therapy for aphasia: a multi-level meta-analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

8. Popescu T., Widdess R., Rohrmeier M. (2021). Western listeners detect phrase boundaries in Indian music: a cross-cultural segmentation study. Scientific Reports

9. Popescu T., Oesch N., Buck B. (2021). Musical features emerging from a biocultural musicality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences

10. Popescu T., Pernet C., Beisteiner R. (2020). Transcranial ultrasound pulse stimulation reduces cortical atrophy in Alzheimer’s patients: a follow-up study. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

11. Popescu T., Fitch W.T. (2020). Dynamic hierarchical cognition: Music and language demand further types of abstracta. Behavioral and Brain Sciences

12. Fitch W.T., Popescu T. (2019). The world in a song. Science [PDF]

13. Popescu T., Cohen Kadosh R. (2019). Drawing the boundaries of expertise: who is a mathematician? Cortex

14. Popescu T., Pascale M., Bravo F., Neuwirth M., Moss F., Boneh O., Mende W., Rohrmeier M. (2019). The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise. Scientific Reports

15. Popescu T., Sader E., Schaer M., Thomas A., Terhune D. B., Dowker A., Mars R. B., Cohen Kadosh R. (2018). The brain-structural correlates of mathematical expertise. Cortex

16. Witek M., Popescu T., Clarke E., Hansen M., Kringelbach M. & Vuust, P. (2016).  Syncopation affects free body-movement in musical groove. Experimental Brain Research [PDF]

17. Popescu T., Krause B., Terhune D.B., Twose O., Page T., Humphreys G., Cohen Kadosh R. (2015). Transcranial random noise stimulation mitigates increased difficulty in an arithmetic learning task. Neuropsychologia

18. Snowball A., Tachtsidis I., Popescu T., Thompson J., Delazer M., Zamarian L., Cohen Kadosh R. (2013). Long-term enhancement of brain function and cognition using cognitive  training and brain stimulation. Current Biology

19. Terhune D. B., Tai S., Cowey A., Popescu T., & Cohen Kadosh R. (2011). Enhanced cortical excitability in grapheme-color synaesthesia and its modulation. Current Biology

20. Cohen Kadosh R., Bahrami B., Walsh V., Butterworth B., Popescu T., & Price C. J. (2011). Specialization in the human brain: the case of numbers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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Journal guest-editing

1. Popescu T., Haiduk F., Schiavio A., guest eds. (2024). Prediction, creativity, and cultural evolution in music. Special issue. Journal of Cognition