Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz

Staff details

Position

Reader

Department

Psychology

Email

M.Herrojo-Ruiz (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Mar铆a is interested in computational approaches to motor learning and decision making.

Mar铆a is a Reader at the Department of Psychology, where she also co-directs the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience.
Her research examines the neural processes underlying motor learning and decision-making, employing advanced methodological and computational techniques. Bridging her background in Theoretical Physics with a PhD in Neuroscience, she investigates decision-making and motor learning in both mental health and neurological conditions. Her long-standing research in the neuroscience of musical performance has evolved to focus on performance anxiety, where she now applies computational psychiatry methods to gain deeper insights into this phenomenon. She has received various awards, including the Susanne Klein-Vogelbach Prize for research in human movement (2014). Mar铆a is also dedicated to public engagement, contributing to a variety of international media, including regular radio collaborations with Spanish RTVE.es, BBC Radio 3 & 4 and the Conversation.

Academic qualifications

Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat, PhD) in Neuroscience, Centre for Systems Neuroscience. Hanover (Germany) 2009
Advanced Studies Diploma (MPhil.) in Physics of Complex Systems, Department of Fundamental Physics, Faculty of Science, UNED. Madrid (Spain) 2005
MSc. degree in Physics (Theoretical Physics), Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid. Madrid (Spain). 2001

Teaching and supervision

MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Research interests

Mar铆a's main themes of research relate to the areas of motor, clinical and computational cognitive neuroscience. She is a member of our Cognition and Neuroscience Group and our Science of the Creative and Performing Arts Group.
Key areas of interest are listed below.
Additional details can be found at

Motor Learning
Music Performance
Anxiety
Computational Modelling
Decision Making
Movement Disorders
Psychiatric conditions

Featured publications

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Grants and awards

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Publications and research outputs

Article

; Landi, David; Vidaurre, Carmen; and . 2024. . Cerebral Cortex, 34(11), bhae442. ISSN 1047-3211

Kopytin, Grigory; Ivanova, Marina; and Shestakova, Anna. 2024. . Behavioral Sciences, 14(2), 124. ISSN 2076-328X

Banca, Paula; ; Gonzalez-Zalba, Miguel Fernando; Biria, Marjan; Marzuki, Aleya A.; Piercy, Thomas; Sule, Akeem; Fineberg, Naomi Anne and Robbins, Trevor William. 2023. . eLife, 12, RP87346. ISSN 2050-084X

; Gong, Zheng; Ivanova, Marina; Fedele, Tommaso; Nikulin, Vadim and . 2023. . Communications Biology, 6, 271. ISSN 2399-3642

; Michael, Grossbach; Gentile, Giovanni; ; Antonini, Angelo and . 2023. . The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(10), pp. 1757-1777. ISSN 1529-2401

Vidaurre, Carmen; Nikulin, Vadim V. and . 2023. . Neural Computing and Applications, 35(8), pp. 5737-5749. ISSN 0941-0643

; Guerra, Andrea; Rocchi, Lorenzo; M盲盲tt盲, Sara; Bologna, Matteo; ; Biundo, Roberta; Antonini, Angelo and Ferreri, Florinda. 2022. . Brain Sciences, 12(5), 639. ISSN 2076-3425

; and . 2022. . Human Brain Mapping, 43(7), pp. 2311-2327. ISSN 1065-9471

and . 2022. . Neuroimage, 249, 118895. ISSN 1053-8119

; ; ; ; and . 2021. . European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(9), pp. 7260-7273. ISSN 0953-816X

; Maudrich, Thomas; Kalloch, Benjamin; Sammler, Daniela; Kenville, Rouven; Villringer, Arno; Sehm, Bernhard and Nikulin, Vadim V.. 2021. . Scientific Reports, 11, 20303. ISSN 2045-2322

Azanova, Maria; ; Belianin, Alexis V.; Klucharev, Vasily and Nikulin, Vadim V.. 2021. . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 608699. ISSN 1662-4548

Gula, Justyna; and . 2021. . Neurobiology of Aging, ISSN 0197-4580

; and . 2021. . NeuroImage, 224, 117424. ISSN 1053-8119

Sporn, Sebastian; and . 2020. . eLife, 9, e50654. ISSN 2050-084X

Schmidt, Robert; ; Kilavik, Bjorg; Lundqvist, Mikael; Starr, Philip and Aron, Adam R. 2019. . Journal of Neuroscience, 39(42), pp. 8231-8238. ISSN 0270-6474

Bury, Gabriela; Garc铆a Huesca, Marta; and . 2019. . NeuroImage, 199, pp. 704-717. ISSN 1053-8119

Michail, Georgios; Nikulin, Vadim; Curio, Gabriel; Maess, Burkhard and . 2018. . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12(240), ISSN 1662-5161

; Maess, Burkhard; Altenm眉ller, Eckart; Curio, Gabriel and Nikulin, Vadim. 2017. . Human Brain Mapping, 38(10), pp. 5161-5179. ISSN 1065-9471

Accolla, Ettore A; Horn, Andreas; ; Neumann, Wolf-Julian and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2017. . Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 140(9), e57. ISSN 0006-8950

Accolla, Ettore A; ; Horn, Andreas; Schneider, Gerd-Helge; Schmitz-H眉bsch, Tanja; Draganski, Bogdan and K眉hn, Andrea A. 2016. . Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 139(9), pp. 2503-2515. ISSN 0006-8950

Cheng, F.P.-H.; Eddy, M.-L.; ; Gro脽bach, M. and Altenm眉ller, E.O.. 2015. . Cerebral Cortex, 34(1), pp. 55-65. ISSN 1047-3211

; Hong, Sang Bin; Hennig, Holger; Altenm眉ller, Eckart and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2014. . Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1030.

Siegert, Sandy; ; Br眉cke, Christof; Huebl, Julius; Schneider, Gerd-Helge; Ullsperger, Markus and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2014. . Cortex, 60, pp. 103-120. ISSN 0010-9452

; Rusconi, M.; Brucke, C.; Haynes, J.-D.; Schonecker, T. and Kuhn, A. A.. 2014. . Brain, 137(10), pp. 2715-2730. ISSN 0006-8950

; Huebl, J.; Schonecker, T.; Kupsch, A.; Yarrow, K.; Krauss, J. K.; Schneider, G.-H. and Kuhn, A. A.. 2014. . Cerebral Cortex, 24(6), pp. 1502-1517. ISSN 1047-3211

; Br眉cke, Christof; Nikulin, Vadim V.; Schneider, Gerd-Helge and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2014. . NeuroImage, 85, pp. 779-793. ISSN 1053-8119

Neumann, Wolf-Julian; Huebl, Julius; Br眉cke, Christof; ; Kupsch, Andreas; Schneider, Gerd-Helge and K眉hn, Andrea A.. 2012. . Movement Disorders, 27(8), pp. 1063-1066. ISSN 0885-3185

Str眉bing, Felix; ; Jabusch, Hans Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2012. . Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252(1), pp. 192-199.

; Str眉bing, Felix; Jabusch, Hans-Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2010. . NeuroImage, 55(4), pp. 1791-1803.

; ; ; and . 2010. . NeuroImage, 50(1), pp. 302-313. ISSN 1053-8119

; Koelsch, Stefan and . 2009. . Human Brain Mapping, 30(4), pp. 1207-1225. ISSN 1097-0193

; Jabusch, H.-C. and Altenmuller, E.. 2009. . Cerebral Cortex, 19(11), pp. 2625-2639. ISSN 1047-3211

; Senghaas, Patricia; Grossbach, Michael; Jabusch, Hans-Christian; Bangert, Marc; Hummel, Friedhelm; Gerloff, Christian and Altenm眉ller, Eckart. 2009. . Human Brain Mapping, 30(8), pp. 2689-2700. ISSN 1065-9471

Conference or Workshop Item

Vidaurre, Carmen; Nikulin, Vadim and . 2021. ''. In: 2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Aveiro, Portugal 7-9 June 2021.

Professional projects

Mar铆a received funding from the Ernst Schering Stiftung and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience in T眉bingen, Germany, to co-organise with Prof. Boris Kleber the 鈥淚nternational Symposium on Music performance: Art and Neuroscience in Dialogue鈥� in April 2016 in Tu虉bingen, which involved international musicians, academics and members of the general public. Together with Dr. Anna Sadnicka and Dr. Katja Kornisheva, Mar铆a received funding from Guarantors of Brain to host a symposium for the general public in 2023 on "Public Understanding of Neurology".

Media engagements

2019:
Interview with David Baddiel on neuroscience and music

2019:
Join David Baddiel and friends on a journey though history, music and emotion by searching BBC Sounds for "My Trouble with Classical Music"

2018:
Monthly collaboration 2016-2019 to talk about music and neuroscience

2017:
Podcast on music and Parkinson's Disease

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