Journal publications
* = shared first/senior authorship.
preprint
Stagnitto SM, van Vugt FT, Cherchia G, Lecce S.
Do You See What I See (DYSWIS)? Understanding Individual Differences in Spontaneous Visuo-Spatial Perspective-Taking.
PsyArXiv. dataset
2025
Morand-Grondin D, Oliveira B, van Vugt FT*, Rigoulot S*.
A new look at the potential links between music practice, empathy, and prosociality.
Psychology of Music. doi: 10.1177/03057356241312213 dataset
Béland S, Cantinotti M, Cousineau D, Barroca-Paccard M, Boislard-Pépin M-A, Bourassa C, Bureau J, Caron P-O, Chanquoy L, Chénier C, Daoust J-F, Dionne É, Forté S, Frenette É, Girard S, Grenon V, Harding B, Lacourse É, Lalande D, Michelot F, Nguyen QD, Renaud J-S, St-Amand J, van Vugt FT.
Pourquoi tout ce bruit autour de la valeur p? Quelques pistes de compréhension pour le non-expert.
Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne. doi: 10.1037/cap0000413
2024
Zagala A, Foster NEV, van Vugt FT, Dal Maso F, Dalla Bella S.
The Ramp protocol: A new method for uncovering individual differences in walking to an auditory beat using TeensyStep.
Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-72508-7
Lazzari G, Sacheli LM, Benoit CE, Lega C*, van Vugt FT*.
Musical pleasantness shapes interpersonal synchronization: exploring the role of consonance and dissonance in dyadic joint action.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1472632 dataset
Lazzari G, van de Vorst R, van Vugt FT*, Lega C*.
Subtle patterns of altered responsiveness to delayed auditory feedback during finger tapping in people who stutter.
Brain Sciences 14(5): 472. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14050472 dataset
van Vugt FT.
How can musicians be both more and less empathic than nonmusicians? using R and Shiny to reveal how Simpson’s paradox emerges when comparing unbalanced groups.
The Quantitative Methods for Psychology 20(3), v4-v10. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.20.3.v004
Ferreri L, van Vugt FT, Bégel V, Albouy P, Lega C, Benoit CE.
Future Directions in the Psychology of Music.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.5709/acp-0410-9
2023
Bozzani A, Arici V, Tavazzi G, Ragni F, Mojoli F, Cavallini E, van Vugt FT, Sterpetti A, Arbustini E.
Trends (2020-2022) towards reduced prevalence of post-COVID syndrome and improved Quality of Life for hospitalized COVID-19 patients with severe infection and venous thromboembolism.
Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1776004
van de Vorst R, van Vugt FT.
Exploring feasibility and effectiveness of occasional whispering in adults who stutter: subjective and objective evaluations.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology 19(1), 92-103. doi: 10.5709/acp-0381-x dataset
2022
Müller V, Fairhurst-Menuhin MT, van Vugt, FT, Keller PE, Mueller MF.
Interpersonal Synchrony and Network Dynamics in Social Interaction.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:1095735. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1095735
Benoit CE, Ferreri L, Lega C, van Vugt FT.
The mysterious role of rhythm in human cognition and action.
Frontiers in Psychology 13:1047825. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1047825
Basile C, Lecce S, van Vugt FT.
Synchrony during online encounters affects social affiliation and theory of mind but not empathy.
Frontiers in Psychology 13:886639. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.886639 dataset
Rapisarda F, Vallarino M, Rosi A, Florkin A, Ceccato I, Lecce S, van Vugt FT, Briand C, Cavallini E.
Older adults’ subjective experiences of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown in Italy: a qualitative study.
Aging and Mental Health 27(3):580-587. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2022.2087208
Ahmadpour A, Heidari F, van Vugt FT.
The Effect of Constant or Variable Training Distance on the Generalization of Throwing Skills.
International Journal of Motor Control and Learning 4(1): 32-43. doi: 10.52547/ijmcl.4.1.32
2021
Cavallini E, Rosi A, van Vugt FT, Ceccato I, Rapisarda F, Vallarino M, Ronchi L, Vecchi T, Lecce S.
Closeness to friends explains age differences in positive emotional experience during the lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic.
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 33(9): 2623-2631. doi: 10.1007/s40520-021-01927-7
van Vugt FT, Hartmann K, Altenmueller E, Mohammadi B, Margulies DS.
The impact of early musical training on striatal functional connectivity.
NeuroImage 238: 118251. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118251 dataset
Kumar N, van Vugt FT, Ostry DJ.
Recognition memory for human motor learning.
Current Biology 31(8): 1678-1686.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.097
Rosi A, van Vugt FT, Lecce S, Ceccato I, Vallarino M, Rapisarda F, Vecchi T, Cavallini E.
Risk perception in a real-world situation (COVID-19): how it changes from 18 to 87 years old.
Frontiers in Psychology 12: 646558. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646558
2020
van Vugt FT, Near J, Hennessy T, Doyon J, Ostry DJ.
Early stages of sensorimotor map acquisition: neurochemical signature in primary motor cortex and its relation to functional connectivity.
Journal of Neurophysiology 124(6): 1615-1624. doi: 10.1152/jn.00285.2020 dataset
van Vugt FT.
The TeensyTap framework for sensorimotor synchronization experiments.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology 16(4): 302-308. doi: 10.5709/acp-0304-y
Gatti D, van Vugt FT, Vecchi T.
A causal role for the cerebellum in semantic integration: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
Scientific Reports 10, 18139. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75287-z
2019
van Vugt FT, Altenmüller E.
On the One Hand or on the Other: Trade-Off in Timing Precision in Bimanual Musical Scale Playing.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology 15(3): 216-227. doi: 10.5709/acp-0271-5
van Vugt FT, Ostry DJ.
Early stages of sensorimotor map acquisition: learning with free exploration, without active movement or global structure.
Journal of Neurophysiology 122(4): 1708-1720. doi: 10.1152/jn.00429.2019
2018
Sidarta A, van Vugt FT, Ostry DJ.
Somatosensory working memory in human reinforcement-based motor learning.
Journal of Neurophysiology 120(6): 3275-3286. doi: 10.1152/jn.00442.2018
Bernardi NF, van Vugt FT, Valle-Mena R, Vahdat S, Ostry DJ.
Error-related Persistence of Motor Activity in Resting-state Networks.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30(12): 1883-1901. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01323
van Vugt FT, Ostry DJ.
From known to unknown: moving to unvisited locations in a novel sensorimotor map.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1423(1): 368-377. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13608
van Vugt FT, Ostry DJ.
The Structure and Acquisition of Sensorimotor Maps.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30(3): 290-306. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01204
2016
van Vugt FT, Kafczyk T, Kuhn W, Rollnik JD, Tillmann B, Altenmüller E.
The role of auditory feedback in music-supported stroke rehabilitation: A single-blinded randomised controlled intervention.
Restor Neurol Neurosci 34(2): 297-311. doi: 10.3233/RNN-150588
Vaquero L, Hartmann K, Ripollés P, Rojo N, Sierpowska J, François C, Càmara E, van Vugt FT, Mohammadi B, Samii A, Münte TF, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Altenmüller E.
Structural neuroplasticity in expert pianists depends on the age of musical training onset.
Neuroimage 126: 106-19. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.008
Schultz BG, van Vugt FT.
Tap Arduino: An Arduino microcontroller for low-latency auditory feedback in sensorimotor synchronization experiments.
Behavioral Research Methods 48(4): 1591-1607. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0671-3
2015
van Vugt FT, Tillmann B.
Auditory feedback in error-based learning of motor regularity.
Brain Research 1606: 54-67. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.026 dataset
2014
van Vugt FT, Furuya S, Vauth H, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E.
Playing beautifully when you have to be fast: spatial and temporal symmetries of movement patterns in skilled piano performance at different tempi.
Experimental Brain Research 232(11): 3555-67. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4036-4
van Vugt FT, Ritter J, Rollnik JD, Altenmüller E.
Music-supported motor training after stroke reveals no superiority of synchronization in group therapy.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 315. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00315
van der Steen MC, van Vugt FT, Keller PE, Altenmüller E.
Basic timing abilities stay intact in patients with musician's dystonia.
PLoS One 9(3): e92906. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092906
van Vugt FT, Tillmann B.
Thresholds of auditory-motor coupling measured with a simple task in musicians and non-musicians: was the sound simultaneous to the key press?.
PLoS One 9(2): e87176. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087176
van Vugt FT, Boullet L, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E.
Musician's dystonia in pianists: long-term evaluation of retraining and other therapies.
Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 20(1): 8-12. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2013.08.009
2013
van Vugt FT, Treutler K, Altenmüller E, Jabusch HC.
The influence of chronotype on making music: circadian fluctuations in pianists' fine motor skills.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7: 347. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00347
van Vugt FT, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E.
Individuality That is Unheard of: Systematic Temporal Deviations in Scale Playing Leave an Inaudible Pianistic Fingerprint.
Frontiers in Psychology 4: 134. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00134
van Vugt FT, Schüpbach M, Altenmüller E, Bardinet E, Yelnik J, Hälbig TD.
Effects of dopaminergic and subthalamic stimulation on musical performance.
Journal of Neural Transmission 120(5): 755-9. doi: 10.1007/s00702-012-0923-7
2012
van Vugt FT, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E.
Fingers Phrase Music Differently: Trial-to-Trial Variability in Piano Scale Playing and Auditory Perception Reveal Motor Chunking.
Frontiers in Psychology 3: 495. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00495
van Vugt FT, Cavanagh P.
Response trajectories reveal conflict phase in image-word mismatch.
Attention, Perception and Psychophysics 74(2): 263-8. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0261-0