Germanova, Ksenia; Studenova, Alina; Bredikhin, Dimitri; Gippert, Magdalena; Kapralov, Nikolai; Klucharev, Vasily; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Nikulin, Vadim. 2026. Voluntary movement initiation is associated with cardiac input in Libet鈥檚 task. bioRxiv,
Erazo Hidalgo, Andrea; Pearson, Lisa; Oku, Takanori; Kimoto, Yudai; Furuya, Shinichi and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2026. Performance anxiety is associated with uncertainty-dependent reward and punishment learning biases in skilled performers. Communications Biology, ISSN 2399-3642
Veniel-Mart铆, Francisco; Botella-Nicol谩s, Ana Mar铆a; Omigie, Diana and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2026. Comparing Interleaved and Blocked Practices in Secondary School Music Performance. Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, ISSN 8755-1233
Sporn, Sebastian; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Fathana, Rezka; Zich, Catharina; Bestmann, Sven and Ward, Nick S.. 2026. Impaired Reward-Based Learning but Preserved Motor Invigoration in Chronic Stroke. Brain, ISSN 0006-8950
Eguinoa, Ruben; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Vidaurre, Carmen. 2026. An EEG correlation framework to study state anxiety and learning under uncertainty. Journal of Neural Engineering, 23(1), 016027. ISSN 1741-2560
ThompSon, Nicalia; Pan, Xueni and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2025. Setting the Stage: Using Virtual Reality to Assess the Effects of Music Performance Anxiety in Pianists. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(5), 2504 -2514. ISSN 1077-2626
Ivanova, Marina; Germanova, Ksenia; Petelin, Dmitry S.; Ragimova, Aynur; Kopytin, Grigory; Volel, Beatrice A.; Nikulin, Vadim V. and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2025. Frequency-specific changes in prefrontal activity associated with maladaptive belief updating in volatile environments in euthymic bipolar disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 15, 13. ISSN 2158-3188
Lai, Giuseppe; Landi, David; Vidaurre, Carmen; Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2024. Cardiac cycle modulates alpha and beta suppression during motor imagery. Cerebral Cortex, 34(11), bhae442. ISSN 1047-3211
Kopytin, Grigory; Ivanova, Marina; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Shestakova, Anna. 2024. Evaluating the Influence of Musical and Monetary Rewards on Decision Making through Computational Modelling. Behavioral Sciences, 14(2), 124. ISSN 2076-328X
Banca, Paula; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Gonzalez-Zalba, Miguel Fernando; Biria, Marjan; Marzuki, Aleya A.; Piercy, Thomas; Sule, Akeem; Fineberg, Naomi Anne and Robbins, Trevor William. 2023. Action-sequence learning, habits and automaticity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. eLife, 12, RP87346. ISSN 2050-084X
Hein, Thomas P.; Gong, Zheng; Ivanova, Marina; Fedele, Tommaso; Nikulin, Vadim and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2023. Anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex oscillations underlie learning alterations in trait anxiety in humans. Communications Biology, 6, 271. ISSN 2399-3642
Tecilla, Margherita; Michael, Grossbach; Gentile, Giovanni; Holland, Peter; Antonini, Angelo and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2023. Modulation of Motor Vigor by Expectation of Reward Probability Trial-by-Trial Is Preserved in Healthy Ageing and Parkinson's Disease Patients. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(10), pp. 1757-1777. ISSN 1529-2401
Vidaurre, Carmen; Nikulin, Vadim V. and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2023. Identification of spatial patterns with maximum association between power of resting state neural oscillations and trait anxiety. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(8), pp. 5737-5749. ISSN 0941-0643
Tecilla, Margherita; Guerra, Andrea; Rocchi, Lorenzo; M盲盲tt盲, Sara; Bologna, Matteo; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Biundo, Roberta; Antonini, Angelo and Ferreri, Florinda. 2022. Action Selection and Motor Decision Making: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain Sciences, 12(5), 639. ISSN 2076-3425
Polychroni, Naya; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Terhune, Devin Blair. 2022. Introspection confidence predicts EEG decoding of self-generated thoughts and meta-awareness. Human Brain Mapping, 43(7), pp. 2311-2327. ISSN 1065-9471
Hein, Thomas and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2022. State anxiety alters the neural oscillatory correlates of predictions and prediction errors during reward-based learning. Neuroimage, 249, 118895. ISSN 1053-8119
Golemme, Mara; Tatti, Elisa; Di Bernardi Luft, Caroline; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Cappelletti, Marinella. 2021. Multivariate patterns and long-range temporal correlations of alpha oscillations are associated with flexible manipulation of visual working memory representations. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(9), pp. 7260-7273. ISSN 0953-816X
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Maudrich, Thomas; Kalloch, Benjamin; Sammler, Daniela; Kenville, Rouven; Villringer, Arno; Sehm, Bernhard and Nikulin, Vadim V.. 2021. Modulation of neural activity in frontopolar cortex drives reward-based motor learning. Scientific Reports, 11, 20303. ISSN 2045-2322
Azanova, Maria; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Belianin, Alexis V.; Klucharev, Vasily and Nikulin, Vadim V.. 2021. Resting-State Theta Oscillations and Reward Sensitivity in Risk Taking. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 608699. ISSN 1662-4548
Gula, Justyna; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria and Cappelletti, Marinella. 2021. Characterizing the middle-age neurophysiology using EEG/MEG. Neurobiology of Aging, ISSN 0197-4580
Hein, Thomas; De Fockert, J. W. and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2021. State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty and impairs reward learning in volatile environments. NeuroImage, 224, 117424. ISSN 1053-8119
Sporn, Sebastian; Hein, Thomas and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2020. Alterations in the amplitude and burst rate of beta oscillations impair reward-dependent motor learning in anxiety. eLife, 9, e50654. ISSN 2050-084X
Schmidt, Robert; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Kilavik, Bjorg; Lundqvist, Mikael; Starr, Philip and Aron, Adam R. 2019. Beta Oscillations in Working Memory, Executive Control of Movement and Thought, and Sensorimotor Function. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(42), pp. 8231-8238. ISSN 0270-6474
Bury, Gabriela; Garc铆a Huesca, Marta; Bhattacharya, Joydeep and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2019. Cardiac afferent activity modulates early neural signature of error detection during skilled performance. NeuroImage, 199, pp. 704-717. ISSN 1053-8119
Michail, Georgios; Nikulin, Vadim; Curio, Gabriel; Maess, Burkhard and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2018. Disruption of Boundary Encoding During Sensorimotor Sequence Learning: An MEG Study study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12(240), ISSN 1662-5161
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Maess, Burkhard; Altenm眉ller, Eckart; Curio, Gabriel and Nikulin, Vadim. 2017. Cingulate and cerebellar beta oscillations are engaged in the acquisition of auditory鈥恗otor sequences. Human Brain Mapping, 38(10), pp. 5161-5179. ISSN 1065-9471
Accolla, Ettore A; Horn, Andreas; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Neumann, Wolf-Julian and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2017. Reply: Oscillatory coupling of the subthalamic nucleus in obsessive compulsive disorder. Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 140(9), e57. ISSN 0006-8950
Accolla, Ettore A; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Horn, Andreas; Schneider, Gerd-Helge; Schmitz-H眉bsch, Tanja; Draganski, Bogdan and K眉hn, Andrea A. 2016. Brain networks modulated by subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation. Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 139(9), pp. 2503-2515. ISSN 0006-8950
Cheng, F.P.-H.; Eddy, M.-L.; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Gro脽bach, M. and Altenm眉ller, E.O.. 2015. Sensory feedback 鈥� Dependent neural de-orchestration: The effect of altered sensory feedback on Musician鈥檚 Dystonia. Cerebral Cortex, 34(1), pp. 55-65. ISSN 1047-3211
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Hong, Sang Bin; Hennig, Holger; Altenm眉ller, Eckart and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 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, Maria; Br眉cke, Christof; Nikulin, Vadim V.; Schneider, Gerd-Helge and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2014. Beta-band amplitude oscillations in the human internal globus pallidus support the encoding of sequence boundaries during initial sensorimotor sequence learning. NeuroImage, 85, pp. 779-793. ISSN 1053-8119
Siegert, Sandy; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Br眉cke, Christof; Huebl, Julius; Schneider, Gerd-Helge; Ullsperger, Markus and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2014. Error signals in the subthalamic nucleus are related to post-error slowing in patients with Parkinson's disease. Cortex, 60, pp. 103-120. ISSN 0010-9452
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Huebl, J.; Schonecker, T.; Kupsch, A.; Yarrow, K.; Krauss, J. K.; Schneider, G.-H. and Kuhn, A. A.. 2014. Involvement of Human Internal Globus Pallidus in the Early Modulation of Cortical Error-Related Activity. Cerebral Cortex, 24(6), pp. 1502-1517. ISSN 1047-3211
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Rusconi, M.; Brucke, C.; Haynes, J.-D.; Schonecker, T. and Kuhn, A. A.. 2014. Encoding of sequence boundaries in the subthalamic nucleus of patients with Parkinson's disease. Brain, 137(10), pp. 2715-2730. ISSN 0006-8950
Neumann, Wolf-Julian; Huebl, Julius; Br眉cke, Christof; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Kupsch, Andreas; Schneider, Gerd-Helge and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2012. Enhanced low-frequency oscillatory activity of the subthalamic nucleus in a patient with dystonia. Movement Disorders, 27(8), pp. 1063-1066. ISSN 0885-3185
Str眉bing, Felix; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Jabusch, Hans Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2012. Error monitoring is altered in musician's dystonia: evidence from ERP-based studies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252(1), pp. 192-199.
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Str眉bing, Felix; Jabusch, Hans-Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2010. EEG oscillatory patterns are associated with error prediction during music performance and are altered in musician's dystonia. NeuroImage, 55(4), pp. 1791-1803.
Pearce, Marcus T.; Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Kapasi, Selina; Wiggins, Geraint and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2010. Unsupervised statistical learning underpins computational, behavioural, and neural manifestations of musical expectation. NeuroImage, 50(1), pp. 302-313. ISSN 1053-8119
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Koelsch, Stefan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2009. Decrease in early right alpha band phase synchronization and late gamma band oscillations in processing syntax in music. Human Brain Mapping, 30(4), pp. 1207-1225. ISSN 1097-0193
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Jabusch, H.-C. and Altenmuller, E.. 2009. Detecting Wrong Notes in Advance: Neuronal Correlates of Error Monitoring in Pianists. Cerebral Cortex, 19(11), pp. 2625-2639. ISSN 1047-3211
Herrojo Ruiz, Maria; Senghaas, Patricia; Grossbach, Michael; Jabusch, Hans-Christian; Bangert, Marc; Hummel, Friedhelm; Gerloff, Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2009. Defective inhibition and inter-regional phase synchronization in pianists with musician's dystonia: An EEG study. Human Brain Mapping, 30(8), pp. 2689-2700. ISSN 1065-9471
Conference or Workshop Item
Vidaurre, Carmen; Nikulin, Vadim and Herrojo Ruiz, Maria. 2021. 'Optimized alpha band patterns correlated with trait anxiety'. In: 2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Aveiro, Portugal 7-9 June 2021.