All Outputs (16)

Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings (2024)
Journal Article
Jakubowski, K., Margulis, E. H., & Taruffi, L. (2024). Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.42.1.3

Music listening can evoke a range of extra-musical thoughts, from colors and smells to autobiographical memories and fictional stories. We investigated music-evoked thoughts as an overarching category, to examine how the music’s genre and emotional e... Read More about Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings.

Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music (2023)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., Ayyildiz, C., & Herff, S. A. (2023). Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music. Imagination, Cognition and Personality Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, 43(2), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366231193145

Imagination plays a key role in evidence-based, cognitive therapies, and recent research highlights that music – a perceptual stimulus imbued with affective and social meaning – can influence some aspects of imagination, such as vividness and emotion... Read More about Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music.

Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study (2022)
Journal Article
Deil, J., Markert, N., Normand, P., Kammen, P., Küssner, M. B., & Taruffi, L. (2023). Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study. Musicae Scientiae, 27(3), 616–636. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649221103210

During a live concert, the mind can wander to unrelated thoughts such as personal concerns or past memories or to vivid images that are inspired by the music. This is an omnipresent phenomenon commonly referred to as mind-wandering. Psychological res... Read More about Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study.

Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence (2021)
Journal Article
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), Article 12321. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312321

Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive thoughts and images. While music represents a promising option, work on... Read More about Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence.

Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task (2021)
Journal Article
Herff, S., 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), Article 15990. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95260-8

Directed, intentional imagination is pivotal for self-regulation in the form of escapism and therapies for a wide variety of mental health conditions, such anxiety and stress disorders, as well as phobias. Clinical application in particular benefits... Read More about Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task.

Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music (2021)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., Skouras, S., Pehrs, C., & Koelsch, S. (2021). Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(1), 231-241. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00861-x

Individuals with a predisposition to empathize engage with sad music in a compelling way, experiencing overall more pleasurable emotions. However, the neural mechanisms underlying these music-related experiences in empathic individuals are unknown. T... Read More about Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music.

The Neuropsychology of Music and Emotions (2019)
Book Chapter
Taruffi, L. (2019). The Neuropsychology of Music and Emotions. In H. Kappelhoff, J. Bakels, H. Lehmann, & C. Schmitt (Eds.), Emotionen: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (427-432). J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05353-4_59

A Review of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery: Conceptual Issues, Relation to Emotion, and Functional Outcome (2019)
Journal Article
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000226

Visual mental imagery has been characterized as an important aspect of our mental life, which consists of “seeing” in the absence of a sensory stimulus. However, the mechanisms underlying how visual mental images unfold during music listening have re... Read More about A Review of Music-Evoked Visual Mental Imagery: Conceptual Issues, Relation to Emotion, and Functional Outcome.

Why we listen to sad music: Philosophical perspectives, psychological functions and underlying brain mechanisms (2018)
Book Chapter
Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2018). Why we listen to sad music: Philosophical perspectives, psychological functions and underlying brain mechanisms. In P. Gouk, J. Kennaway, J. Prins, & W. Thormaehlen (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Wellbeing. Routledge

Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation During Social Cognition (2018)
Journal Article
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), Article 9409. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24557-y

People are better able to empathize with others when they are given information concerning the context driving that person’s experiences. This suggests that people draw on prior memories when empathizing, but the mechanisms underlying this connection... Read More about Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation During Social Cognition.

The need to consider pluralistic functions of music from a global perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., & Küssner, M. (2018). The need to consider pluralistic functions of music from a global perspective. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 88-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.03.003

Sad music and self-reflection (2018)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L. (2018). Sad music and self-reflection. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 131-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.03.007

Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network (2017)
Journal Article
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), Article 14396. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14849-0

Music is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human cultures, mostly due to its power to evoke and regulate emotions. However, effects of music evoking different emotional experiences such as sadness and happiness on cognition, and in particular on self-genera... Read More about Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network.

Implications of the Vienna Integrated Model of Art Perception for art-based interventions in clinical populations. (2017)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2017). Implications of the Vienna Integrated Model of Art Perception for art-based interventions in clinical populations. Physics of Life Reviews, 21, 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.06.017

Individual Differences in Music-Perceived Emotions (2017)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., Allen, R., Downing, J., & Heaton, P. (2017). Individual Differences in Music-Perceived Emotions. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(3), 253-266. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.3.253

The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey (2014)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2014). The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey. PLoS ONE, 9(10), Article e110490. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110490

This study explores listeners’ experience of music-evoked sadness. Sadness is typically assumed to be undesirable and is therefore usually avoided in everyday life. Yet the question remains: Why do people seek and appreciate sadness in music? We pres... Read More about The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey.