Publikationen Anja-Xiaoxing Cui
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2026
Hentschel, F., Kreutz, G., Schurig, E., & Cui, A.-X. - Listening back in time: Today’s listeners recognize selected historical expressive connotations in 19th-century music.
Karbanova, A., & Cui, A.-X. - Music speaks louder than lyrics: A conceptual priming experiment.
2025
Cui, A. X., Choi, Y., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Hermiston, N., Werker, J. F., & Boyd, L. A. - Music training and language learning improve verbal memory performance but do not change white matter characteristics of the splenium: A longitudinal DTI study.
Cui, A. X., Hu, G., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Werker, J. F., Boyd, L. A., Hermiston, N., VanHandel, L., & Ciocca, V. - Participant and musical characteristics influence singers’ physiological stress during opera performances.
Davis, A. D., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Hermiston, N., Werker, J. F., Boyd, L. A., Kraeutner, S. N., & Cui, A.-X. - Examining the influence of musical sophistication, cognitive performance, and social skills on the Brain Age Gap Estimate (BrainAGE).
Lichtensztejn, M., Cui, A.-X., Geretsegger, M., Lundervold, A. J., Koelsch, S., Pfabigan, D. M., Assmus, J., Langeland, E., Tabernig, C., Skogseth, R. E., & Gold, C. - Memory for Music (M4M) protocol for an international randomized controlled trial: Effects of individual intensive musical training based on singing in non-musicians with Alzheimer’s disease.
2024
Agrawal, T., Cui, A.-X., Lense, M. D., Lopez, G., Owusu, B.-A. K., Schachner, A., Slevc, L. R., Swaminathan, S., & Vuvan, D. T. - From Commitment to Action.
Cui, A. X., Kraeutner, S., Kepinska, O., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Hermiston, N., Werker, J. F., & Boyd, L. - Musical sophistication and multilingualism: Effects on Arcuate Fasciculus characteristics.
2023
Cui, A. X., Kraeutner, S., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Hermiston, N., Werker, J. F., & Boyd, L. - Resting-state brain connectivity correlates of musical sophistication.
Hermiston, N., Motamed Yeganeh, N., & Cui, A. X. - Opera (training (research)) during lockdown.
Motamed Yeganeh, N., McKee, T., Werker, J. F., Hermiston, N., Boyd, L. A., & Cui, A. X. - Opera singers' cognitive functioning is associated with physiological stress during performance.
Vanstone, A. D., Cui, A. X., & Cuddy, L. - Using fsQCA to illuminate person attributes of music engagement in Alzheimer's disease.
2022
Cui, A. X., Motamed Yeganeh, N., Sviatchenko, O., Leavitt, T., McKee, T., Guthier, C., Hermiston, N., & Boyd, L. - The phantoms of the opera – Stress offstage and stress onstage.
Cui, A. X., Troje, N. F., & Cuddy, L. L. - Electrophysiological and behavioral indicators of musical knowledge about unfamiliar music.
Hentschel, F. & Cui, A. X. - Exploring 19th-century perception of “uncanny” music using a semantic network approach.
Kraeutner, S., Cui, A. X., Boyd, L. A., & Boe, S. G. - Modality of practice modulates resting state connectivity during motor learning.
Kreutz, G. & Cui, A. X. - Music empathizing and music systemizing are associated with music listening reward.
2021
Brook, J. E., & Cui, A. X. - Place-based music education in a Canadian Sistema-inspired music program.
Munhall, K. G., Cui, A. X., O’Donoghue, E., Lamontagne, S., & Lutes, D. - Perceptual Control of Speech.
Neto, P., Cui, A. X., Rojas, P., Vanzella, P., & Cuddy, L. L. - Not just cents: Physical and psychological influences on interval perception.
2020
Lantz, M. E., Cui, A. X., & Cuddy, L. L. - The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure.
2016
Cui, A. X., Diercks, C., Troje, N. F., & Cuddy, L. L. - Short and long term representation of an unfamiliar tone distribution.
2015
Cui, A. X., Collett, M., Troje, N. F., & Cuddy, L. L. - Familiarity and preference for pitch probability profiles.
Saravanan, V., Arabali, D., Jochems, A., Cui, A. X., Gootjes-Dreesbach, L., Cutsuridis, V., & Yoshida, M. - Transition between encoding and consolidation/replay dynamics via cholinergic modulation: a modelling study.
