Sensorimotor Foundations of Communicative Musicality

Project Information

MUSICOM

Grant agreement ID: 948186

DOI

10.3030/948186

EC signature date 19 January 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 562,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 562,00

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

EEG of the dancing brain: Decoding sensory, motor and social processes during dyadic dance

Author(s): Félix Bigand, Roberta Bianco, Sara F. Abalde, Trinh Nguyen, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2026, ISSN 1529-2401
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.17.628913

Distinct and content-specific neural representations of self- and other-produced actions in joint piano performance

Author(s): Natalie Kohler, Anna M. Czepiel, Örjan de Manzano, Giacomo Novembre, Peter E. Keller, Arno Villringer, Daniela Sammler
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1543131

Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure

Author(s): Roberta Bianco, Brigitta Tóth, Felix Bigand, Trinh Nguyen, István Sziller, Gábor P. Háden, István Winkler, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 24, 2026, Page(s) e3003600, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003600

How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy

Author(s): Atesh Koul, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, 2024, ISSN 1554-351X
Publisher: Springer Verlag

Interpersonal synchronization of spontaneously generated body movements

Author(s): Koul, Atesh; Ahmar, Davide; Iannetti, Gian Domenico; Novembre, Giacomo
Published in: iScience, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) volume 26,issue 3, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106104

Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives

Author(s): Trinh Nguyen; Erica Flaten; Laurel Trainor; Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/j5g69

A Cortical Mechanism Linking Saliency Detection and Motor Reactivity in Rhesus Monkeys

Author(s): Giacomo Novembre, Irene Lacal, Diego Benusiglio, Eros Quarta, Andrea Schito, Stefano Grasso, Ludovica Caratelli, Roberto Caminiti, Alexandra Battaglia Mayer and Gian Domenico Iannetti
Published in: Journal of Neuroscience, 2024, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0422-23.2023

Spontaneous dyadic behavior predicts the emergence of interpersonal neural synchrony

Author(s): Atesh Koul, Davide Ahmar, Gian Domenico Iannetti, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Neuroimage, 2023, ISSN 2666-9560
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120233

Rhythmic categories in horse gait kinematics

Author(s): Lia Laffi, Félix Bigand, Christian Peham, Giacomo Novembre, Marco Gamba, Andrea Ravignani
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 246, 2025, Page(s) 456-465, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.14200

Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.

Author(s): Giacomo Novembre; Trinh Nguyen; Félix Bigand; Valter Tucci; Francesco Papaleo; Roberta Bianco; Atesh Koul
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.023

The geometry of interpersonal synchrony in human dance

Author(s): Félix Bigand, Roberta Bianco, Sara F. Abalde, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 3011-3019.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.055

Measuring the nonselective effects of motor inhibition using isometric force recordings

Author(s): Benjamin O. Rangel, Giacomo Novembre, Jan R. Wessel
Published in: Behavior research methods, 2023, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02197-z

Neural encoding of musical expectations in a non- human primate

Author(s): Roberta Bianco, Nathaniel J. Zuk, Felix Bigand, Eros Quarta, Stefano Grasso, Flavia Arnese, Andrea Ravignani, Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer, and Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Current Biology, 2024, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.019

Emotions in multi-brain dynamics: A promising research frontier

Author(s): Federica Antonelli, Fabrizio Bernardi, Atesh Koul, Giacomo Novembre, Francesco Papaleo
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 168, 2025, Page(s) 105965, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105965

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Postnatal Year

Author(s): Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand, Susanne Reisner, Atesh Koul, Roberta Bianco, Gabriela Markova, Stefanie Hoehl, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: eLife, 2026, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.04.649695

Sex-related communicative functions of voice spectral energy in human chorusing

Author(s): Peter E. Keller , Jennifer Lee , Rasmus König and Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Biology Letters, 2023, ISSN 1744-957X
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0326

How accurately can we estimate spontaneous body kinematics from video recordings? Effect of movement amplitude on OpenPose accuracy

Author(s): Atesh Koul, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 57, 2025, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02546-6

The Interpersonal Neuroscience of Social Learning

Author(s): Yafeng Pan, Giacomo Novembre, and Andreas Olsson
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021, ISSN 1745-6924
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/17456916211008429

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models

Author(s): Sara F. Abalde, Alison Rigby, Peter E. Keller, Giacomo Novembre
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 167, 2024, Page(s) 105816, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105816