2025

• Bianco R, Chait M. Tracking the dynamics of discovery and abandonment of auditory models of regularities with MEG. The Journal of Neuroscience   accepted

• Bastug B, Rajendran V, Bianco R, Agus T, Chait M, Pressnitzer. Memory for repeated auditory textures. Cognition 268 106350 here

• Martins M J D, Bergmann Z, Leonova E, Bianco R, Sammler D, Villringer A. Acquisition and Utilization of Recursive Rules in Motor Sequence Generation. Cognitive Science 49 e70108 here

• Bigand F, Bianco R, Abalde S.F, Nguyen T, & Novembre. EEG of the Dancing Brain: Decoding Sensory, Motor, and Social Processes during Dyadic Dance. The Journal of Neuroscience  45(21):e2372242025 here

2024

• Bigand F, Bianco R, Abalde S.F & Novembre G. The geometry of interpersonal synchrony in human dance. Current Biology vol. 34, 3011–3019 here

• Hu M., Bianco R., Hidalgo A., Chait M.. Concurrent Encoding of Precision and Prediction Error in Unfolding Auditory Patterns: Insights from MEG. The Journal of Neuroscience 44(14):e1894232024 here

• Bianco R., Zuk N., Bigand F., Quarta E., Grasso S., Arnese F., Ravignani A., Battaglia-Mayer A.*, Novembre G.* Neural encoding of musical expectations in a non-human primate. Current Biology vol. 5, p. 179-181 here

2023

• Bianco R., Hall E., Pearce M., Chait M. Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: from encoding to 6-month retention, Current Research in Neurobiology here

• Novembre G., Nguyen T., Bigand F., Tucci V., Papaleo F,  Bianco R., Koul A., Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A., Physics of Life Reviews here

• Albury W.A., Bianco R., Gold P.B., Penhune P.. Context changes judgments of liking and predictability for melodies. Frontiers Psychology  here

• Bianco R., Chait M. No link between Speech-in-noise perception and Auditory short-term memory – evidence from a large cohort of older and younger listeners, Trends in Hearing (in press, 2023) here

2022

• Bianco R., Novembre G., Ringer H., Kohler N., Keller P.E., Villringer A., Sammler D. Lateral prefrontal cortex as a hub for music production from structural rules to movement sequences. Cerebral Cortex 32(18): 3878-3895, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab454). here

2021

• Bianco R., Mills G, Rosen S & Chait M. Reward enhances the online participants’ engagement with a demanding auditory task. Trends in Hearing. 25: 1-9. DOI: 10.1177/23312165211025941 here

2020

• Milne AE*, Bianco R.*, Poole KC.*, Zhao S.*, Billig AJ., Chait M. An online headphone screening test based on dichotic pitch. Behavior Research Methods. (here)

• Harrison P., Bianco R., Chait M., Pearce M. A. PPM-Decay: A Computational Model of Auditory Prediction with Memory Decay. PLoS Computat Biol 16(11): e1008304 (2020) ) here

• Bianco R., Harrison P., Bolger C., Picken S., Pearce M., Chait M. Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans. eLife 9:e56073 (2020). here

• Di Liberto G., Pelofi C.*, Bianco R.*, de Cheveigné A., Shamma S. Cortical encoding of melodic expectation in human temporal cortex. eLife 9:e51784 (2020). here

• Martins M.J.D., Fischmeister F.Ph.S., Gingras B., Bianco R., Puig-Waldmueller E., Villringer A., Fitch T.W., Beisteiner R. Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and discrimination of melodic hierarchies Brain Structure and Function 225, 1997–2015 (2020) (here).

• Bianco R., Ptasczynski L.E., Omigie D.: Pupil responses to pitch deviants reflect predictability of melodic sequences. Brain and Cognition, 138, 103621 (2020). here

• Bianco R. How regularities in sound sequences inform action planning: Neural and behavioral evidence from silent piano performance. Acoustical Science and Technology 41 (1), 355-357 (2020). here

2019

• Bianco R., Gold B., Pearce M., Johnson A., Penhune V.: Music predictability and liking enhance pupil dilation and promote motor learning in non-musicians. Nature Scientific Reports, 9:17060 (2019). here

• Martins M.J.D*, Bianco R.*, Sammler D., Villringer A.: Recursion in action: An fMRI study on the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences. Human Brain Mapping, 1-16 (2019). here

2018

• Bianco R., Novembre G., Keller P.E., Villringer A., Sammler D.: Musical genre-dependent behavioural and EEG signatures of action planning. A comparison between classical and jazz pianists. Neuroimage 169, 383-394 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.058. or here

2016

• Bianco R., Novembre G., Kim S.G., Keller P. E., Scharf F., Friederici A.D., Villringer A., Sammler D.: Neural networks for harmonic structure in music perception and action. NeuroImage 142, 454-464 (2016). here

• Bianco R., Novembre G., Keller P.E., Friederici A.D., Villringer A., Sammler D.: Syntax in action has priority over movement selection in piano playing: An ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28 (1), 41-54 (2016). here