Publications

Papers currently under revision (preprint online)

  • Ivanova M, Germanova K, Petelin D, Ragimova A, Kopytin G, Volel B, Nikulin V, Herrojo Ruiz M (2024, under review). Frequency-specific changes in prefrontal activity associated with maladaptive belief updating in volatile environments in euthymic bipolar disorder. Biorxiv.
  • ThombSon N, Pan X, Herrojo Ruiz M (2024, under anonymous review). Work related to Music Performance Anxiety.

    Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  • Lai G, Landi D, Vidaurre C, Bhattacharya J, Herrojo Ruiz M (2024, in press). Cardiac Cycle Modulates Alpha and Beta Suppression during Motor Imagery. Cerebral Cortex.
  • Banca P, Herrojo Ruiz M, Gonzalez-Zalba MF, Biria M, Marzuki AA, Piercy T, Sule A, Fineberg NA, Robbins TW (2024). Action-sequence learning, habits and automaticity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. eLife 12:RP87346.
  • Kopytin G, Ivanova M, Herrojo Ruiz M, Shestakova A (2024).Evaluating the Influence of Musical and Monetary Rewards on Decision Making through Computational Modelling. Behav. Sciences 14(2): 124.
  • Hein T, Gong Z, Ivanova M, Fedele T, Nikulin VV, Herrojo Ruiz M (2023). Oscillations in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex explain learning alterations in trait anxiety. Communications Biology 6: 271.
  • Tecilla M, Grossbach M, Gentile G, Holland P, Antonini A, Herrojo Ruiz M (2023). Modulation of motor vigour by expectation of reward probability trial-by-trial is preserved in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease patients. Journal of neuroscience 43 (10): 1757-1777.
  • Vidaurre C, Nikulin VV, Herrojo Ruiz M (2022). Identification of spatial patterns with maximum association between power of resting state neural oscillations and trait anxiety. Neural Computing and Applications.
  • Tecilla M, Guerra A, Rocchi L, Määttä S, Bologna M, Herrojo Ruiz M, Biundo R, Antonini A, Ferreri F (2022). Action Selection and Motor Decision Making: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain Sciences 12(5):639.
  • Hein TP, Herrojo Ruiz M (2022). State anxiety alters the neural oscillatory correlates of predictions and prediction errors during reward learning. NeuroImage: 118895.
  • Polychroni N, Herrojo Ruiz M, Terhune DB (2022). Introspection confidence predicts EEG decoding of self-generated thoughts and meta-awareness. Human Brain Mapping.
  • Herrojo Ruiz M, Maudrich T, Kalloch B, Sammler D, Kenville R, Villringer A, Sehm B, and Nikulin VV (2021). Modulation of neural activity in frontopolar cortex drives reward-based motor learning. Scientific Reports 11:20303.
  • Golemme M, Tatti E, Di Bernardi Luft C, Bhattacharya J, Herrojo Ruiz M, Cappelletti M (2021). Alpha-band resting activity predicts flexible manipulation of visual working memory representations. European Journal of Neuroscience: 15486.
  • Vidaurre C, Nikulin VV, Herrojo Ruiz M (2021). Optimized alpha band patterns correlated with trait anxiety. IEEE: 450-454.
  • Gula J, Moiseeva V, Herrojo Ruiz M, Cappelletti M (2021, under review). Characterizing the middle-age neurophysiology using EEG/MEG. Biorxiv.
  • Azanova M, Herrojo Ruiz M, Belyanin A, Klucharev V, Nikulin VV (2021). Resting-state theta oscillations and reward sensitivity in risk taking. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15: 608699.
  • Hein TP, de Fockert J, Herrojo Ruiz M (2020). State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty during reward learning in volatile environments. NeuroImage, 224: 117424.
  • 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]

  • 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.

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  • 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.