Haiduk F., Harley N., Popescu T. (forthcoming). An evolutionary systems approach to language and music: measuring predictive dynamics with viewpoint graph networks. PsyArXiv
Popescu T., Boenke P., Kempf A., Tettamanti M. (under review). Synergistic tension among the music and lyrics of late-Romantic choral songs. PsyArXiv
Savage P., .. Popescu T., .. (In-Principle Accepted). Does singing enhance cooperation more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report.
Popescu T., Fitch W.T. (in press) On the evolution of human synchronisation abilities. In Nature Beats volume
Popescu T., Farrugia N., Ruge H., Boneh O., Bravo F., Tian X., Rohrmeier M. (under review). Neural representations of harmonic function in musical imagery.
Popescu T., Fitch W.T. (2025). Music and animal song follow a mode of extra-genomic evolution similar to that of language. Physics of Life Reviews
Popescu T., Rohrmeier M. (2024). Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies. Evolution and Human Behavior
Popescu T., Schiavio A., Haiduk F. (2024). Editorial for the special issue on “Prediction, Creativity, and Cultural Evolution in Music Cognition”. Journal of Cognition
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
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
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
Popescu T., Widdess R., Rohrmeier M. (2021). Western listeners detect phrase boundaries in Indian music: a cross-cultural segmentation study. Scientific Reports
Popescu T., Oesch N., Buck B. (2021). Musical features emerging from a biocultural musicality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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
Popescu T., Fitch W.T. (2020). Dynamic hierarchical cognition: Music and language demand further types of abstracta. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Fitch W.T., Popescu T. (2019). The world in a song. Science [PDF]
Popescu T., Cohen Kadosh R. (2019). Drawing the boundaries of expertise: who is a mathematician? Cortex
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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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Popescu T., Haiduk F., Schiavio A., guest eds. (2024). Prediction, creativity, and cultural evolution in music. Special issue. Journal of Cognition