Papers in peer-reviewed journals

• Sporn S, Hein T, Herrojo Ruiz M (2020). Alterations in the amplitude and burst distribution of sensorimotor beta oscillations impair reward-dependent motor learning in anxiety. eLife 9:e50654.

[press release]

• Herrojo Ruiz M, Maudrich T, Kalloch B, Sammler D, Kenville R, Villringer A, Sehm B, and Nikulin VV (2020, under review). Modulation of neural activity in frontopolar cortex drives reward-based motor learning. Biorxiv.
• Azanova M, Herrojo Ruiz M, Belyanin A, Klucharev V, Nikulin VV (2020, under review). Resting-state theta oscillations mediate sex differences in risk taking.
• Hein TP, Weber LA, de Fockert J, Herrojo Ruiz M. (2019, under review). State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty during reward learning in volatile environments. BioRxiv: 809749.
• Schmidt R, Herrojo Ruiz M, Kilavik BE, Lundqvist M, Starr P, Aron AR. (2019). Beta Oscillations in Working Memory, Executive Control of Movement and Thought, and Sensorimotor Function. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(42): 8231-8.
• Bury G, Garcia Huescar M, Bhattacharya J, Herrojo Ruiz M (2019). Cardiac afferent activity modulates early neural signature of error detection during skilled performance. NeuroImage, 199: 704-17.

[selected media]

• Sporn S, Hein T, Herrojo Ruiz M (2018). Alterations in the amplitude and burst distribution of sensorimotor beta oscillations impair reward-dependent motor learning in anxiety. Biorxiv: 442772.
• Michail G, Nikulin VV, Curio G, Maess B, Herrojo Ruiz M (2018). Disruption of boundary encoding during sensorimotor sequence learning: an MEG study. Frontiers in human neuroscience 12.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Maess B, Curio G, Nikulin V (2017). Cingulate and Cerebellar Beta Oscillations are Engaged in the Acquisition of Auditory-Motor Sequences. Human Brain Mapping, 38 (10), 5161-5179
• Accolla EA, Horn A, Herrojo Ruiz M, Neumann WJ, Kühn AA (2017). Reply: Oscillatory coupling of the subthalamic nucleus in obsessive compulsive disorder. Brain, 140(9): e56.
• Accolla EA, Herrojo Ruiz M, Horn A, Schneider GH, Schmitz-Hübsch T, Draganski B, Kühn AA (2016). Brain networks modulated by subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation. Brain, 139(9):2503-15.
  
• Cheng FH, Eddy ML, Herrojo Ruiz M, Großbach M, Altenmüller EO (2015). Sensory feedback–Dependent neural de-orchestration: The effect of altered sensory feedback on Musician’s Dystonia. Restorative neurology and neuroscience, 34(1):55-65.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Hong SB, Hennig H, Altenmüller E, Kühn AA (2014). Long-range correlation properties in timing of skilled piano performance: the influence of auditory feedback and deep brain stimulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1030.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Rusconi M, Brücke C, Haynes JD, Schönecker T, Kühn AA (2014). Encoding of sequence boundaries in the subthalamic nucleus of patients with Parkinson’s disease. Brain, 137 (Pt 10): 2715-30.

[reports in selected media (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)]

• Siegert S, Herrojo Ruiz M, Brücke C, Huebl J, Schneider GH, Ullsperger M, Kühn AA (2014). Error signals in the subthalamic nucleus are related to post-error slowing in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Cortex, 60:103-20.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Brücke C, Nikulin V, Schneider HG, Kühn AA (2014). Beta-band amplitude oscillations in the human basal ganglia support the encoding of sequence boundaries during sensorimotor sequence learning. Neuroimage, 85 (Pt 2): 779-793. Special Issue: New horizons for neural oscillations.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Huebl J, Schönecker T, Kupsch A, Yarrow K, Krauss JK, Schneider GH, Kühn AA (2013). Involvement of Human Internal Globus Pallidus in the Early Modulation of Cortical Error-Related Activity. Cerebral Cortex 24(6):1502-17
• Neumann WJ, Huebl J, Brücke C, Herrojo Ruiz M, Kupsch A, Schneider GH, Kühn AA (2012). Enhanced low-frequency oscillatory activity of the subthalamic nucleus in a patient with dystonia. Mov Disord. 27(8):1063-6.
• Strübing F, Herrojo Ruiz M, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E (2012). Error Monitoring Is Altered Within Musicians Dystonia: Evidence From ERP-Based Studies. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1252:192-9.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E (2011). EEG oscillatory patterns are associated with error prediction during music performance and are altered in musician’s dystonia. Neuroimage, 55(4):1791-803.
• Pearce MT, Herrojo Ruiz M, Kapasi S, Wiggins GA, Bhattacharya J (2010). Unsupervised statistical learning underpins computational, behavioural, and neural manifestations of musical expectation. Neuroimage, 50:302-313.

[see media report in Science Daily]

• Herrojo Ruiz M, Jabusch HC, Altenmüller E (2009). Detecting wrong notes in advance: Neural correlates of error-monitoring in pianists. Cerebral Cortex, 19(11):2625-2639.

 [see media report in Die Zeit]

• Herrojo Ruiz M, Senghaas P, Grossbach M, Jabusch HC, Bangert M, Hummel F, Gerloff C, Altenmüller E (2009). Defective inhibition and inter-regional phase synchronization in pianists with musician’s dystonia: An EEG study. Human Brain Mapping, 30(8):2689-700.
• Herrojo Ruiz M, Koelsch S, Bhattacharya J (2008). Decrease in early right alpha band phase synchronization and late gamma band oscillations in processing syntax in music. Human Brain Mapping, 30(4):1207-25.