PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Stupacher, J., Bechtold, T., & Senn, O. (2024). A text mining approach to the use of "groove" in everyday language. Psychology of Music, 52, 340–361. DOI: 10.1177/03057356231205883. PDF

Schiavio, A., Witek, M. A. G., & Stupacher, J. (2024). Meaning-making and creativity in musical entrainment. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1326773. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1326773. PDF

Matthews, T. E., Stupacher, J., & Vuust, P. (2023). The pleasurable urge to move to music through the lens of learning progress. Journal of Cognition, 6, 55. DOI: 10.5334/joc.320. PDF

Stupacher, J., Matthews, T., Pando-Naude, V., Foster Vander Elst, O., & Vuust, P. (2022). The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: Musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 906190. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906190. PDF

Stupacher, J., Wrede, M., & Vuust, P. (2022). A brief and efficient stimulus set to create the inverted U-shaped relationship between rhythmic complexity and the sensation of groove. Plos One, 17, e0266902. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266902. PDF 

Corcoran, C., Stupacher, J., & Vuust, P. (2022). Swinging the score? Swing phrasing cannot be communicated via explicit notation instructions alone. Music Perception, 39, 386–400. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2022.39.4.386. PDF

Stupacher, J., Mikkelsen, J., & Vuust, P. (2022).  Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music. Psychology of Music, 50, 1511–1526. DOI: 10.1177/03057356211050681. PDF

Heggli, O. A., Stupacher, J., & Vuust, P. (2021). Diurnal fluctuations in musical preference. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 210885. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210885. PDF

Møller, C.*, Stupacher, J.*, Celma-Miralles, A.*, & Vuust, P. (2021). Beat perception in polyrhythms: Time is structured in binary units. Plos One, 16, e0252174. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252174. PDF

Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Xypolitaki, E., Parncutt, R., & Timmers, R. (2021). Musical novices perform with equal accuracy when learning to drum alone or with a peer. Scientific Reports, 11, 12422. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91820-0. PDF

Stupacher, J., Witek, M. A. G., Vuoskoski, J., & Vuust, P. (2020). Cultural familiarity and individual musical taste differently affect social bonding when moving to music. Scientific Reports, 10, 10015. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66529-1. PDF

Hove, M. J., Martinez, S. A., & Stupacher, J. (2020). Feel the bass: Music presented to tactile and auditory modalities increases aesthetic appreciation and body movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 1137–1147. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000708. PDF 

Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Parncutt, R., & Timmers, R. (2020). Learning music from each other. Synchronization, turn-taking, or imitation? Music Perception, 37, 403–422. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2020.37.5.403. PDF

Stupacher, J. (2019). The experience of flow during sensorimotor synchronization to musical rhythms. Musicae Scientiae, 23, 348-361. DOI: 10.1177/1029864919836720. PDF

Hove, M. J., Vuust, P., & Stupacher, J. (2019). Increased levels of bass in popular music recordings 1955-2016 and their relation to loudness. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 2247-2253. DOI: 10.1121/1.5097587. PDF

Stupacher, J., Maes, P.-J., Witte, M., & Wood, G. (2017). Music strengthens prosocial effects of interpersonal synchronization – If you move in time with the beat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 39-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.04.007. PDF

Stupacher, J., Wood, G., & Witte, M. (2017). Synchrony and sympathy: Social entrainment with music compared to a metronome. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 27, 158-166. DOI: 10.1037/pmu0000181. PDF

Stupacher, J., Wood, G., & Witte, M. (2017). Neural entrainment to polyrhythms: A comparison of musicians and non-musicians. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 208. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00208. PDF

Stupacher, J., Hove, M. J., & Janata, P. (2016). Audio features underlying perceived groove and sensorimotor synchronization in music. Music Perception, 33, 571-589. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2016.33.5.571. PDF

Stupacher, J., Witte, M., Hove, M. J., & Wood, G. (2016). Neural entrainment in drum rhythms with silent breaks: Evidence from steady-state evoked and event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 1865-1877. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01013. PDF

Stupacher, J., Hove, M. J., Novembre, G., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Keller, P. E. (2013). Musical groove modulates motor cortex excitability: A TMS investigation. Brain and Cognition, 82, 127-136. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.03.003. PDF

Book Chapters

Stupacher, J., Hove, M. J., & Vuust, P. (2023). The experience of musical groove: Body movement, pleasure, and social bonding. In C. Wöllner & J. London (Eds.). Performing time: Synchrony and temporal flow in music and dance (pp. 321-328). Oxford University Press.

Conference Proceedings

Stupacher, J. & Wood, G. (2018). Effects of cultural background and musical preference on affective social entrainment with music. In R. Parncutt & S. Sattmann (Eds.), Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10 (pp. 438–441). Graz, Austria. PDF

Stupacher, J., Witte, M., & Wood, G. (2017). Go with the flow: Subjective fluency of performance is associated with sensorimotor synchronization accuracy and stability. In E. Van Dyck (Ed.), Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (pp. 163–166). Ghent, Belgium. PDF

Stupacher, J., Witte, M., & Wood, G. (2016). Social effects of interpersonal synchronization during listening to music compared to a metronome: What can we learn from implicit measures? In B. Burger, J. Bamford, & E. Carlson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus 2016). Jyväskylä, Finland. PDF

Edited Volumes

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus21). Aarhus, Denmark, Nov 3-5, 2021. Jan Stupacher & Signe Hagner (Eds.). DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HG6RZ