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  1. Timbral cues underlie instrument-specific absolute pitch in expert oboists

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2024, PLOS

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  2. Afterword

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  3. Music in times of COVID-19

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  4. Linked auditory and motor patterns in the improvisation vocabulary of an artist-level jazz pianist

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  5. Oxytocin as an allostatic agent in the social bonding effects of music

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  6. Afterword: Coping through crisis with coronamusic

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  7. Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception

    Article • Psychological Science, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Marcus Pearce, Niels Chr. Hansen

  8. Viral tunes: changes in musical behaviours and interest in coronamusic predict socio-emotional coping during COVID-19 lockdown

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Claire Howlin, Niels Chr. Hansen

  9. Music for hedonia and eudaimonia during pandemic social isolation

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  10. A crowd-sourced database of coronamusic: documenting online making and sharing of music during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  11. Can expert musicians better guess the pitch of tones played on their own instrument?

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2021, PLOS

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  12. Viral Tunes: Changes in musical behaviours and interest in coronamusic predict socio-emotional coping during COVID-19 lockdown

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Claire Howlin, Niels Chr. Hansen

  13. Oxytocin as an allostatic agent in the social bonding effects of music

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  14. Perceptual learning of tone patterns changes the effective connectivity between Heschl's gyrus and planum temporale

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, November 2020, Wiley

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  15. A Theory of Instrument-Specific Absolute Pitch

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2020, Frontiers

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  16. The Expectancy Dynamics of Anti-Tonal Twelve-Tone Rows: A Commentary and Reanalysis of von Hippel & Huron (2020)

    Article • Empirical Musicology Review, October 2020, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  17. Decomposing neural responses to melodic surprise in musicians and non-musicians: Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions in the auditory system

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2020, Elsevier

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  18. Musical prediction error responses similarly reduced by predictive uncertainty in musicians and non‐musicians

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, January 2020, Wiley

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  19. Enjoying Sad Music: A Test of the Prolactin Theory

    Article • Musicae Scientiae, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  20. Reduced prediction error responses in high-as compared to low-uncertainty musical contexts

    Article • Cortex, November 2019, Elsevier

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  21. A Call for Hypothesis-Driven, Multi-Level Analysis in Research on Emotional Word Painting in Music: Commentary on Sun & Cuthbert (2018)

    Article • Empirical Musicology Review, April 2019, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  22. Poorer auditory sensitivity is related to stronger visual enhancement of the human auditory mismatch negativity (MMNm)

    Article • April 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  23. Domain-relevant auditory expertise modulates the additivity of neural mismatch responses in humans

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  24. Twirling Triplets: The Qualia of Rotation and Musical Rhythm

    Article • Music & Science, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  25. The Lone Instrument

    Article • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, June 2018, University of California Press

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  26. Visually induced gains in pitch discrimination: Linking audio-visual processing with auditory abilities

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  27. Commentary: Predictions and the brain: how musical sounds become rewarding

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2017, Frontiers

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  28. Oxytocin improves synchronisation in leader-follower interaction

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  29. "If You Have to Ask, You'll Never Know": Effects of Specialised Stylistic Expertise on Predictive Processing of Music

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2016, PLOS

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  30. Nonlinear Changes in the Rhythm of European Art Music

    Article • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, April 2016, University of California Press

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  31. Dissociating Prediction Failure: Considerations from Music Perception

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2016, Society for Neuroscience

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  32. Predictive uncertainty in auditory sequence processing

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2014, Frontiers

    Niels Chr. Hansen

  33. Personality influences career choice: sensation seeking in professional musicians

    Article • Music Education Research, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Niels Chr. Hansen