(* equally contributed)
YP Peng, VKM Cheung, L Su (preprint). Whole-brain transferable representations from large-Scale fMRI data improve task-evoked brain activity decoding. (link)
VKM Cheung*, T Harada*, S Sakamoto, S Furuya (preprint). Spectral acoustic contributions to musical pleasure are dynamically shaped by autonomic neural inputs. (link)
P Kuhnke, O Numssen, J Voeller, VKM Cheung, K Weise, M Kiefer, G Hartwigsen (2025). Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval. Brain Stimulation (link)
S Turker, P Kuhnke, VKM Cheung, K Weise, G Hartwigsen (2025). Neurostimulation improves reading and alters communication within reading networks in dyslexia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (link)
VKM Cheung, PMC Harrison, S Koelsch, MT Pearce, AD Friederici, L Meyer (2023). Cognitive and sensory expectations independently shape musical expectancy and pleasure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (link)
S Turker, P Kuhnke, F Schmid, VKM Cheung, K Weise, M Knoke, B Zeidler, K Seidel, L Eckert, G Hartwigsen (2023). Adaptive short-term plasticity in the typical reading network. NeuroImage (link)
VKM Cheung, S Sakamoto (2022). Separating Uncertainty from Surprise in Auditory Processing with Neurocomputational Models: Implications for Music Perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (29) 5657-5659 (link)
P Kuhnke, CA Chapman, VKM Cheung, S Turker, A Graessner, S Martin, KA Williams, G Hartwigsen (2022). The role of the angular gyrus in semantic cognition–A synthesis of five functional neuroimaging studies. Brain Structure and Function (link)
S Koelsch, VKM Cheung, S Jentschke, JD Haynes (2021). Neocortical substrates of feelings evoked with music in the ACC, insula, and somatosensory cortex. Scientific Reports, 11:10119 (link, pdf)
P Kuhnke, MC Beaupain, VKM Cheung, K Weise, M Kiefer, G Hartwigsen (2020). Left posterior inferior parietal cortex causally supports the retrieval of action knowledge. NeuroImage (link, pdf)
VKM Cheung, PMC Harrison, L Meyer, MT Pearce, JD Haynes, S Koelsch (2019). Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity. Current Biology 29, 1-9 (link, pdf, video abstract)
Selected press coverage: BBC Science Focus, CBC, CNN, Independent, Newsweek, NME, Popular Mechanics, The Naked Scientists, The Times, U.S. News & World Report, BR - 'Gut zu wissen', ComputerBase, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, MDR, n-tv, Spiegel Online, wissenschaft.de, El Confidencial, El Periódico, Expansión, La Opinión, BFM TV, CNews, Le Soleil, Focus.pl, Gazeta.pl, Onet.pl, 中國日報網、科學網, Het Laatste Nieuws, vrt NWS, la Repubblica, Либо Либо, DCnews, Pravda, Dagens Nyheter, NME Japan
VKM Cheung, L Meyer, AD Friederici, S Koelsch (2018). The right inferior gyrus processes nested non-local dependencies in music. Scientific Reports, 8:3822. (link, pdf)
H Zhang, VKM Cheung, H Nishioka, S Furuya. LLaQo: Towards a Query-Based Coach in Expressive Music Performance Assessment. Accepted at ICASSP 2025 (link)
VKM Cheung, L Okuma, K Shibata, K Tsukuda, M Goto, S Furuya. Decoding drums, instrumentals, vocals, and mixed sources in music using human brain activity with fMRI. Accepted to the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), November 2023 (pdf)
VKM Cheung*, YP Peng*, JH Lin, L Su. Decoding musical pitch from human brain activity with automatic voxel-wise whole-brain fMRI feature selection. Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) - Selected for oral presentation (link, pdf)
VKM Cheung*, TP Chen*, L Su. An Interactive Automatic Violin Fingering Recommendation Interface. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), 2021, pp. 306-312 (link, video link, pdf)
VKM Cheung, HK Kao, L Su. Semi-supervised violin fingering generation using variational autoencoders. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), November 2021 (pdf)
H Zhang, VKM Cheung, H Nishioka, S Furuya. How does the teacher rate? Observations from the NeuroPiano dataset. Late-breaking/Demo Session of 25th International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), November 2024. (link)
S Sakamoto, VKM Cheung, S Furuya. Rapidly Predicting Music Artistic Expression Preference From Heart Rate and Respiration Rate. Late-breaking/Demo Session of 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), December 2022. (link)