Floris T. van Vugt

Presentations and publications

van Vugt FT, Furuya S, Vauth H, and Altenmueller E (2014). Playing beautifully when you have to be fast: spatial and temporal symmetries of movement patterns in skilled piano performance at different tempi. Experimental Brain Research. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4036-4.

van Vugt FT, Boullet L, Jabusch HC, and Altenmueller E (2013). Musician’s dystonia in pianists: long-term evaluation of retraining and other therapies. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 20(1), 8-12. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2013.08.009.
van Vugt FT, Treutler K, Altenmueller E, and Jabusch HC (2013). The influence of chronotype on making music: Circadian fluctuations in pianists’ fine motor skills. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7:347. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00347
van Vugt FT, Jabusch HC, and Altenmueller E (2013). Individuality that is unheard of: systematic temporal deviations in scale playing leave an inaudible pianistic fingerprint. Frontiers in Psychology 4:134. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00134
van Vugt FT, Schuepbach M, Altenmueller E, Bardinet E, Yelnik J, Haelbig, TD (2013). Effects of dopaminergic and subthalamic stimulation on musical performance. Journal of Neural Transmission 120(5), 755-759. doi:10.1007/s00702-012-0923-7

van Vugt FT, Jabusch HC, and Altenmueller E (2012). Fingers phrase music differently: trial-to-trial variability in piano scale playing and auditory perception reveal motor chunking. Frontiers in Psychology 3:495. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00495.
van Vugt FT, and Cavanagh P (2012). Response trajectories reveal conflict phase in image-word mismatch. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 74(2): 263-8. doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0261-0. pdf

Bonnay D, & van Vugt FT (to appear). Groundedness, Truth and Dependence. in: Achourioti T, Galinon H, Fujimoto K and Martinez-Fernandez J (eds). Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Springer: 2013.

van Vugt FT and Tillmann B (2013). Thresholds of auditory-motor coupling measured with a simple task in musicians and non-musicians: Was the sound simultaneous to the key press? Progress in Motor Control: IX, 14-16 July 2013. Montreal, Canada. poster (pdf).
van der Steen MC, van Vugt FT, Keller PE, Altenmueller E (2013). Separating perception and production abilities in auditory-motor processing of musician’s dystonia patients. Progress in Motor Control: IX, 14-16 July 2013. Montreal, Canada.
Jabusch HC, van Vugt FT, Bangert M, Treutler K, and Altenmuller E (2013). Piano playing and chronotype: Chronobiological influences on sensorimotor precision in pianists. International Symposium of Performance Science. Vienna, 28-31 August 2013.
van Vugt FT, Kafczyk T, Kuhn W, Rollnik JD, Tillmann B, Altenmueller E. (2013) Random delay boosts musical fine motor recovery after stroke. 11th meeting of the French Neuroscience Society, Lyon, 21-24 May 2013. poster (pdf).
van der Steen MC, van Vugt FT, Keller PE, Altenmueller E (2013). Perception and production abilities of musician’s dystonia patients in auditory-motor processing. Second International Congress on Treatment of Dystonia. Hannover, 8-11 May 2013.

van Vugt FT, Kuhn W, Rollnik J, & Altenmueller E (2012). Random delay boosts musical fine motor recovery after stroke. 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition: ICMPC-ESCOM 2012, 23-28 July 2012, Tessaloniki, Greece. poster (pdf)
Haelbig T, Altenmueller E, Schuepbach M, van Vugt FT (2012). Effects of dopaminergic and subthalamic stimulation on musical performance parameters: Dissociating timing, intonation, articulation and emotionality. 16th International Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. 17-21 June 2012, Dublin, Ireland.

van Vugt FT, Haelbig T, Schuepbach M, Buttkus F, & Altenmueller E. (2011). The musician doctor: A musical evaluation of treatments for movement disorders. International Symposium on Performance Science: ISPS 2011, 24-27 August, Toronto, Canada. poster (pdf)
van Vugt FT, Cheng F, Jabusch HC, & Altenmueller E. (2011). Fine temporal deviations in scale playing reveal motor program chunking: The Neurosciences and Music, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 9 - 12 June 2011. poster (pdf)

van Vugt FT and Cavanagh P. Tracking the time course of processing spatial prepositions using response trajectories. 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception. August 2009, Regensburg. poster (pdf)

van Vugt FT. Sounds on time: auditory feedback in motor learning, re-learning and over-learning. New perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes. Pavia, Italy. 20-22 September 2013.
van Vugt FT, Jabusch HC, and Altenmueller E. Der pianistische Fingerabdruck: individuelle systematische zeitliche Abweichungen beim Tonleiterspiel. 10. Symposium der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin DGfMM. November 2011.
van Vugt FT and Cavanagh P. Tracking the time course of processing spatial prepositions using response trajectories. GDR Vision Meeting. Toulouse, 5 June 2009.
van Vugt FT and Bonnay D. What makes a sentence be about the world? Towards a unified account of groundedness. Palmyr VII. Paris, October 2008.slides (pdf)

Kafczyk T, van Vugt FT, Zalpour C, Altenmueller E. Manipulation der auditiv-sensomotorischen Kopplung mit einem elektronischen Klavier in der Rehabilitation bei Patienten nach Schlaganfall Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Musik und Medizin. March 2013. conference site. -- Awarded 1st Poster Prize --
Westner B, van Vugt FT, and Altenmueller E. Die Rolle des auditorischen Feedbacks im musikunterstuetzten Training - Eine Pilot-Studie. Jahreskongress 2011 der Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Musikpsychologie. Osnabrueck, Germany. conference site.

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