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Edited Volume

Küssner, M. B., Taruffi, L., & Floridou, G. A (2023). Music and Mental Imagery (1st ed.). SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music. London, LDN: Routledge.

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Peer-Reviewed
Articles

Taruffi, L., Ayyildiz, C., & Herff, S. A. (2023). Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery Are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music. Imagination, Cognition and Personality.

Küssner, M. B., & Taruffi, L. (2023). Modalities and Causal Routes in Music-Induced Mental Imagery. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(2): 114-115.

Deil, J., Markert, N., Normand, P., Kammen, P., Küssner, M. B., & Taruffi, L. (2022). Mind-Wandering during Contemporary Live Music: An Exploratory Study. Musicae Scientiae.

Taruffi, L. (2021). Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23): 12321.

Herff, S. A., Cecchetti, G., Taruffi, L., & Déguernel, K. (2021). Music Influences Vividness and Content of Imagined Journeys in a Directed Visual Imagery Task. Scientific Reports, 11(1): 15990.

Taruffi, L., Skouras, S., Pehrs, C., & Koelsch, S. (2021). Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Towards Sad Music. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21: 231-241.

Taruffi, L., & Küssner, M. B. (2019). A Review of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery: Conceptual Issues, Relation to Emotion, and Functional Outcome. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 29(2-3): 62-74.

Pehrs, C., Zaki, J., Taruffi, L., Kuchinke, L., & Koelsch, S. (2018). Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation During Social Cognition. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 9409. 

Taruffi, L. (2018). Sad Music and Self-Reflection: Comment on "An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music" by Eerola T. et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 25: 131-133. 

Taruffi, L., & Küssner, M. B. (2018). The Need to Consider Pluralistic Functions of Music from a Global Perspective: Comment on "Physics of Mind: Experimental Confirmations of Theoretical Predictions" by Schoeller F. et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 25: 88-89.

Taruffi, L., Pehrs, C., Skouras, S., & Koelsch, S. (2017). Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network. Scientific Reports, 7(1): 14396. 

Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2017). Implications of the Vienna Integrated Model of Art Perception for Art-Based Interventions in Clinical Populations: Comment on "Move me, Astonish me... Delight my Eyes and Brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of Top-down and Bottom-up Processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and Corresponding Affective, Evaluative, and Neurophysiological Correlates" by Pelowski M. et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 21: 145-147.

Taruffi, L., Allen, R., Downing, J., & Heaton, P. (2017). Individual Differences in Music-Perceived Emotions: The Influence of Externally-Oriented Thinking. Music Perception, 34(3): 253-266. 

Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2014). The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey. PLOS ONE, 9(10): e110490.

Book Chapters

Taruffi, L., & Küssner, M. B. (2023). Visual Mental Imagery, Music, and Emotion: From Academic Discourse to Clinical Applications. In Küssner, M. B., Taruffi, L., & Floridou, G. A. (Eds.). Music and Mental Imagery (1st ed.). SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music. London, LDN: Routledge.

Küssner, M. B., Taruffi, L., & Floridou (2023). Introduction and Overview. In Küssner, M. B., Taruffi, L., & Floridou, G. A. (Eds.). Music and Mental Imagery (1st ed.). SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music. London, LDN: Routledge.

Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2022). Music-Evoked Emotions: Their Contribution to Aesthetic Experiences, Health, and Well-being. In Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics (1st ed.). Routledge. 

Taruffi, L. (2019). The Neuropsychology of Music and Emotions. In Kappelhoff, H., Bakels, J.-H., Lehmann, H., & Schmitt, C. (Eds.). Emotionen: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2018). Why We Listen to Sad Music: Philosophical Perspectives, Psychological Functions and Underlying Brain Mechanisms. In Gouk, P., Kennaway, J., Prins, J., & Thormaehlen, W. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Wellbeing. Routledge.

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