Understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of vocal communication in health and disease

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Vincenzi, M., Correia, A. I., Vanzella, P., Pinheiro, A. P., Lima, C. F., & Schellenberg, E. G. (2022).
Associations between music training and cognitive abilities: The special case of professional musicians. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
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Martins, I., Lima, C. F., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2022).
Enhanced salience of musical sounds in singers and instrumentalists. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-19. 
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Conde, T., Correia, A., Roberto, M., Lima, C. F., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2022).
The time course of emotional authenticity detection in nonverbal vocalizations. Cortex, 151, 116-132. 
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Barros, C., Roach, B. J., Ford, J. M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Silva, C. A. (2022).
From sound perception to automatic detection of schizophrenia: an EEG-based deep learning approach. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 813460. 
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Pinheiro, A. P., Johnson, J. F., Amorim, M., Roberto, M., Schwartze, M., Kotz, S. A., & Shenton, M. E. (2021).
The Cerebellum Links to Positive Symptoms of Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 2(1). 
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Pinheiro, A. P., Anikin, A., Conde, T., Sarzedas, J., Chen S., Scott, S. K., & Lima, C. F. (2021).
Emotional authenticity modulates affective and social trait inferences from voices, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1840), 20200402. 
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Castiajo, P., & Pinheiro, A. P., (2021).
Attention to voices is increased in non-clinical auditory verbal hallucinations irrespective of salience. Neuropsychologia, 108030. 
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Amorim, M., Roberto, M. S., Kotz, S. A., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2021).
The perceived salience of vocal emotions is dampened in non-clinical auditory verbal hallucinations. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1-14. 
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Frade, M., Pinheiro, A. P., Santi, A, & Raposo, A. (2021).
Is second best good enough? An EEG study of the effects of word expectancy in sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-15. 
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Correia, A. I., Vincenzi, M., Vanzella, P., Pinheiro, A. P., Lima, C. F. & Schellenberg, E. G. (2021).
Can musical ability be tested online? Behavior Reseach Methods, 54, 955-969.
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Martins, M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Lima, C. F. (2021).
Does Music Training Improve Emotion Recognition Abilities? A Critical Review. Emotion Review, 13(3), 199-210. 
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Barros, C., Silva, C. A., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2021).
Advanced EEG-based learning approaches to predict schizophrenia: Promises and pitfalls. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 114, 102039. 
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Johnson, J. F., Belyk, M., Schwartze, M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Kotz, S. A. (2021).
Expectancy changes the self-monitoring of voice identity. European Journal of Neuroscience.
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Castiajo, P., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2021).
Acoustic salience in emotional voice perception and its relationship with hallucination proneness. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(2), 412-425. 
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Pereira, D. R., Sampaio, A., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2021).
Interactions of Emotion and Self-reference in Source Memory: An ERP Study. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(1), 172-190. 
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Amorim, M., Anikin, A., Mendes, A. J., Lima, C. F., Kotz, S. A., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2021).
Changes in vocal emotion recognition across the life span. Emotion, 21(2), 315-325.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2020).
Cerebellar circuitry and auditory verbal hallucinations: An integrative synthesis and perspective. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 485-503.
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Erb, J., Kreitewolf, J., Pinheiro, A. P., & Obleser, J. (2020).
Aberrant perceptual judgements on speech-relevant acoustic features in hallucination-prone individuals. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, sgaa059.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., Amorim, M., Coentre, R., Levy, P., & Kotz, S. A. (2020).
Changes in motor preparation affect the sensory consequences of voice production in voice hearers. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107531.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., Gutierrez, F., & Kotz, S. A. (2020)
Real and imagined sensory feedback have comparable effects on action anticipation. Cortex, 130, 290-301.
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Alameda, L., Abhishekh, A., Avery, S., Bani-Fatemi, A., Berkhout, S., Best, M., et al. (2020)
The 2019 Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, 10-14 April, Orlando, Florida: A summary of topics and trends. Psychiatry Research, 284, 112672.
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Pereira, D. R., Sampaio, A., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2020)
Is internal source memory recognition modulated by emotional encoding contexts? Psychological Research.
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Duggirala, S. X., Schwartze, M., Pinheiro, A. P.*, Kotz, S.A. (2020)
Interaction of emotion and cognitive control along the psychosis continuum: A critical review. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 156-75 
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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., Gutierrez, F., & Kotz, S. A. (2019)
When temporal prediction errs: ERP responses to delayed action-feedback onset. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107200.
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Castiajo, P., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2019)
Decoding emotions from nonverbal vocalizations: How much voice signal is enough? Motivation and Emotion, 43(5), 803-813.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Lima, D., Albuquerque, P., Anikin, A., & Lima, C. F. (2019)
Spatial location and emotion modulate voice perception. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8), 1577-1586.
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Johnson, J. F., Belyk, M., Schwartze, M., Pinheiro, A. P.*, & Kotz, S. A. (2019)
The role of the cerebellum in adaptation: ALE meta-analyses on sensory feedback error. Human Brain Mapping, 40(13), 3966-3981.
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Pereira, D. R., Sampaio, A., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2019)
Differential effects of valence and encoding strategy on internal source memory and judgments of source: Exploring the production and the self-reference effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1326.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Farinha-Fernandes, A., & Kotz, S. A. (2019)
Self-voice perception and its relationship with hallucination predisposition. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 24(4), 237-255.
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Pinheiro, A. P., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2019)
Altered attentional processing of happy prosody in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 206, 217-224.
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Soares, A. P., Macedo, J., Oliveira, H. M., Lages, A., Hernández-Cabrera, J., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2019)
Self-reference is a fast-acting automatic mechanism on emotional word processing: evidence from a masked priming affective categorisation task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31(3), 317-325,
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Soares, A. P., Lages, A., Silva, A., Comesaña, M., Sousa, I., Pinheiro, A. P., & Perea, M. (2019)
Psycholinguistic variables in visual word recognition and pronunciation of European Portuguese words: a mega-study approach. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(6), 689-719,
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Amorim, M., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2019)
Is the sunny side up and the dark side down? Effects of stimulus type and valence on a spatial detection task. Cognition and Emotion, 33(2), 346-360
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Pinheiro, A. P., Schwartze, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2018)
Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers. Scientific Reports, 8, 14717.
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Conde, T., Gonçalves, O. F., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2018)
Stimulus complexity matters when you hear your own voice: Attention effects on self-generated voice processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 133, 66-78.
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Carneiro, D., Pinheiro, A. P., Pereira, M., Ferreira, I., Domingues, M., & Novais, P. (2018)
Using behavioral features in tablet-based auditory emotion recognition studies. Future Generation Computer Systems, 89, 646-658.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Barros, C., Dias, M., & Kotz, S. A. (2017)
Laughter catches attention! Biological Psychology, 130, 11-21.
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Castiajo, P., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2017)
On “hearing” voices and “seeing” things: Probing hallucination predisposition in a Portuguese nonclinical sample with the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale-Revised. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1138.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Barros, C., Dias, M., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2017)
Does emotion change auditory prediction and deviance detection? Biological Psychology, 127, 123-133
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Vasconcelos, M., Dias, M., Soares, A. P., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2017)
What is the melody of that voice? Probing unbiased recognition accuracy of nonverbal vocalizations with the Montreal Affective Voices. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41(3), 239-267.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Rezaii, N., Rauber, A., Nestor, P. G., Spencer, K. M., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2017)
Emotional self-other voice processing in schizophrenia and its relationship with hallucinations: ERP evidence. Psychophysiology, 54(9), 1252-1265.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Barros, C., Vasconcelos, M., Obermeier, C., & Kotz, S. A. (2017)
Is laughter a better vocal change detector than a growl? Cortex, 92, 233-248.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Dias, M., Pedrosa, J., & Soares, A. P. (2017)
Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the role of sex, mood and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 698-716.
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Carneiro, D., Pinheiro, A. P., & Novais, P. (2017)
Context acquisition in auditory emotional recognition studies. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 8, 191.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Rezaii, N., Rauber, A., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2016)
Is this my voice or yours? The role of emotion and acoustic quality in self-other voice discrimination in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21(4), 335-353.
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Liu, T., Pinheiro, A. P., Nestor, P. G., McCarley, R. W., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2016)
Simultaneous face and voice processing in schizophrenia. Behavioural Brain Research, 305, 76-86.
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Conde, T., Gonçalves, O. F., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2016)
A Cognitive Neuroscience view of voice processing abnormalities in schizophrenia: a window into auditory verbal hallucinations? Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 24(2), 148-163.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Rezaii, N., Nestor, P. G., Rauber, A., Spencer, K. M., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2016)
Did you or I say pretty, rude or brief? An ERP study of the effects of speaker’s identity on emotional word processing. Brain and Language, 153-154, 38-49.
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Pinheiro, A. P., Barros, C., & Pedrosa, J. (2016)
Salience in a social landscape: electrophysiological effects of task-irrelevant and infrequent vocal change. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 11(1), 127-139.
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Conde, T., Gonçalves, O. F., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2016)
The effects of stimulus complexity on the preattentive processing of self-generated and non-self voices: An ERP study. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(1), 106-123.
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Soares, A. P., Pinheiro, A. P., Costa, A., Frade, C. S., Comesaña, M., & Pureza, R. (2015)
Adaptation of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) for European Portuguese. Behavior Research Methods, 47(4), 1159-1177.
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Conde, T., Gonçalves, O. F., & Pinheiro, A. P.* (2015)
Paying attention to my voice or yours: An ERP study with words. Biological Psychology, 111, 40-52.
→ doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.07.014

Pinheiro, A. P., Vasconcelos, M., Dias, M., Arrais, N., & Gonçalves, O. F. (2015)
The music of language: an ERP investigation of the effects of musical training on emotional prosody processing. Brain and Language, 140, 24-34.
→ doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.10.009

Pinheiro, A.P., Del Re, E., Nestor, P.G., Mezin, J., Rezaii, N., McCarley, R.W., Gonçalves, O.F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2015)
Abnormal interactions between context, memory structure, and mood in schizophrenia: An ERP investigation. Psychophysiology, 52(1), 20-31.
→ doi: 10.1111/psyp.12289

Pinheiro, A.P., Rezaii, N., Rauber, A., Liu, T., Nestor, P.G., McCarley, R.W., Gonçalves, O.F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2014)
Abnormalities in the processing of emotional prosody from single words in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 152(1), 253-241.
→ doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.10.042

Soares, A. P., Medeiros, J. C., Simões, A., Machado, J., Costa, A., Iriarte, A., Almeida, J. J., Pinheiro, A. P., Comesaña, M. (2014)
ESCOLEX: A grade-level lexical database from European Portuguese Elementary to Middle School school books. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 240-253.
→ doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0350-1

Pinheiro, A.P., Liu, T., Nestor, P.G., McCarley, R.W., Gonçalves, O.F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2013) Visual emotional information processing in male schizophrenia patients: Combining ERP, clinical and behavioural evidence. Neuroscience Letters, 550, 75-80. → doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.06.022 Soares, A. P., Pinheiro, A. P., Costa, A., Frade, C. S., Comesaña, M., & Pureza, R. (2013) Affective auditory stimuli: Adaptation of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS-2) for European Portuguese. Behavior Research Methods, 45(1168-1181). → doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0310-1 Comesaña, M., Soares, A. P., Perea, M., Piñeiro, A., Fraga, I., & Pinheiro, A. P. (2013) ERP correlates of masked affective priming with emoticons :). Computers in Human Behavior, 29(3), 588-595. → doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.10.020 Pinheiro, A. P., del Re, E., Mezin, J., Rauber, A., Nestor, P. G., McCarley, R. W., Gonçalves, O. F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2013) Sensory-based and higher-order operations contribute to abnormal emotional prosody processing in schizophrenia: an electrophysiological investigation. Psychological Medicine, 43(3), 603-618. → doi: 10.1017/S003329171200133X Pinheiro, A. P., del Re, E., Nestor, P., McCarley, R. W., Gonçalves, O. F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2013) Interactions between mood and the structure of semantic memory: Event-related potentials evidence. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 8(5), 579-594. → doi: 10.1093/scan/nss035

Comesaña, M., Soares, A. P., Sánchez-Casas, R., Pinheiro, A. P., Rauber, A., Frade, S., & Fraga, I. (2012)
The interplay of phonology and orthography to visual cognate words recognition: An ERP study. Neuroscience Letters, 529(1), 75-79.
→ doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.09.010

Pinheiro, A. P., McCarley, R. W., Thompson, E., Gonçalves, O. F., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2012)
From semantics to feelings: how do individuals with schizophrenia rate the emotional valence of words?. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, 2012, 431823 (Special issue: ‘Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Communication’).
→ doi: 10.1155/2012/431823

Liu, T., Pinheiro, A. P., Zhao, Z., McCarley, R. W., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2012)
Emotional cues during simultaneous face and voice processing: electrophysiological insights. PLoS One, 7(2), e31001.
→ doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031001

Liu, T., Pinheiro, A. P., Deng, G., Nestor, P. G., McCarley, R. W., & Niznikiewicz, M. (2012)
Electrophysiological insights into processing nonverbal emotional vocalizations. NeuroReport, 23, 108-112.
→ doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834ea757

Soares, A. P., Comesaña, M., Pinheiro, A. P., & Simões, A. (2012)
The adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for European Portuguese. Behavior Research Methods, 44(1), 256-269.
→ doi: 10.3758/s13428-011-0131-7

Pinheiro, A. P., Galdo, S., Rauber, A., Sampaio, A., Niznikiewicz, M., & Gonçalves, O. F. (2011) Abnormal processing of emotional prosody in Williams syndrome: An event-related potentials study. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 133-147. → doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.09.011 Gonçalves, O. F., Pinheiro, A. P., Sampaio, A., Sousa, N., Férnandez, M., & Henriques, M. (2011) Autobiographical narratives in Williams syndrome: Structural, process and content dimensions. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 23, 289-302. → doi: 10.1007/s10882-011-9228-2 Capitão, L., Sampaio, A., Prieto, M., Sousa, N., Pinheiro, A. P., & Gonçalves, O. F. (2011) Williams syndrome hypersociability: a neuropsychological study of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex hypotheses. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(3), 1169-1179. → doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.01.006
Pinheiro, A. P., Galdo, S., Sampaio, A., Niznikiewicz, M., & Gonçalves, O. F. (2010) Electrophysiological correlates of semantic processing in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 31(6), 1412-1425. → doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.06.017 Pinheiro, A. P., Soares, A. P., Começaña, M., Niznikiewicz, M., & Gonçalves, O. F. (2010) Sentence final word completion norms for European Portuguese children and adolescents: effects of age and sentence context. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 1022-1029. → doi: 10.3758/BRM.42.4.1022 Gonçalves, O. F., Pinheiro, A. P., Sampaio, A., Sousa, N., Fernandez, M., & Henriques, M. (2010) The narrative profile in Williams syndrome: There is more to storytelling than just telling a story. British Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 56(2), 89-109.
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