1. Books

  • Schiavio, A., Vuoskoski, J., & Kim, Y. (under contract). Music and the Cognitive Humanities. ​Oxford University Press 
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  • van der Schyff, D., Schiavio, A. & Elliott, D. (2022). Musical Bodies, Musical Minds. Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality. ​MIT Press [html]

2. Journal Articles

  • Kempf, A., Benedek, M. & Schiavio, A. (2024). An observation of a negative effect of social cohesion on creativity in musical improvisation. Scientific Reports, 14, 2922. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52350-7.  
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  • Antović, M., Küssner, M., Kempf, A., Omigie, D., Hashim, S. & Schiavio, A. (2024). “A huge man is bursting out of a rock”. Bodies, motion, and creativity in verbal reports of musical connotation. Journal of New Music Research. online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2306406.
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  • Owen, C., Egermann, H., & Schiavio, A. (2024). Putting musical feelings into words: Children's verbal descriptions of music-evoked experiences. Music & Science, 7, 1-21. doi: 10.1177/20592043241265318.

  • Di Stefano, N., Ansani, A., Schiavio, A., & Spence, C. (2024). Prokofiev was (almost) right: A cross-cultural investigation of auditory-conceptual associations in Peter and the Wolf. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. online first, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02435-7.
 
  • Schiavio, A., Witek, M., & Stupacher, J. (2024). Meaning-making and creativity in musical entrainment. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1326773. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1326773.
 
  • Schiavio, A., Biasutti, M., Kempf, A., Popescu, T., & Benedek, M. (2024). The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale. Construction and psychometric analysis of a new self-assessment inventory. Music Perception, 41(3), 217–231. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.217.
 
  • Reybrouck, M., & Schiavio, A. (2024). Music performance as knowledge acquisition. A review and preliminary conceptual framework. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1331806. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1331806.
 
  • Biasutti, M., Antonini Philippe, R., & Schiavio, A. (2024). “A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Musicae Scientiae. online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864923122571.
 
  • Schiavio*, A., Popescu*, T., Kempf, A. & Timmers, R. (2023). Distinguishing between musical excepts learned by novices individually or in pairs (*shared first authorship). Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356231212408 
 
  • Nijs, L., Bremmer, M., van der Schyff, D., & Schiavio, A. (2023). Embodying dynamical systems in music performance. Music Performance Research, 11, 58–84. https://doi.org/10.14439/mpr.11.3. [html] 
 
  • Curwen, C., Timmers, R., & Schiavio, A. (2023). Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia. An exploration of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-023-01856-2. [html]  
 
  • Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Antonini Philippe, R., & Biasutti, M. (2023). Music teachers self-reported views of creativity in the context of their work. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 22(1), 60–80. doi: 10.1177/147402222211256. [html]  
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  • Antonini Philippe, R., Biasutti, M., van der Schyff, D., & Schiavio, A. (2023). Challenges and understandings of creative practice in professional sport training, PLoS ONE, 18(2), e0279702. [html].
 
  • Biasutti, M., Antonini Philippe, R., & Schiavio, A. (2023). E-learning during the COVID-19 lockdown. An interview study with primary school music teachers in Italy. International Journal of Music Education, 41(2), 256–270. doi: 10.1177/02557614221107190. [html|
 
  • Kruse-Weber, S., Schiavio, A., Kirchgäßner, E.M., & Bucura, E. (2023). Reflective writing in a community music project with students in higher music education. Research Studies in Music Education, 45(3), 634-652. doi: 10.1177/1321103X221107513.​ [html|
 
  • Schiavio, A., Moran, N., Antovic, M., & van der Schyff, D. (2022). Grounding creativity in music perception? A multidisciplinary conceptual analysis. Music & Science, 5. doi: 10.1177/1029864920988319. [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., Ryan, K., Moran, N., van der Schyff, D., & Gallagher, S. (2022). By myself but not alone. Agency, creativity, and extended musical historicity. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147(2), 533-556. doi: 10.1017/rma.2022.22. [html]. 
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  • Schiavio, A., Maes, P.-J., & van der Schyff, D. (2022). The dynamics of musical participation. Musicae Scientiae, 26(3), 694-626. doi: 10.1177/1029864920988319. [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., & Nijs, L. (2022). Implementation of a remote instrumental music course focused on creativity, interaction, and bodily movement. Preliminary insights and thematic analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:899381. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.899381. [html|
 
  • Schiavio, A., Moran, N., van der Schyff, D., Biasutti, M., & Parncutt, R. (2022). Processes and experiences of creative cognition in seven Western classical composers. Musicae Scientiae, 26(2), 303–325. doi: 10.1177/1029864920943931.
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  • Gesbert, V., Hauw, D., Kempf, A., Blauth, D., & Schiavio, A. (2022). Creative togetherness. A joint-methods analysis of collaborative artistic performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:835340. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.835340 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Xypolitaki, E., Parncutt, R. & Timmers, R. (2021). Musical novices perform with equal accuracy when learning to drum alone or with a peer. Scientific Reports, 11, 12422. [html]
 
  • Biasutti, M., Antonini Philippe, R., & Schiavio, A. (2021). Assessing teachers' perspectives on giving music lessons remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Musicae Scientiae, online first. doi: 10.1177/1029864921996033 [html]
 
  • Peñalba, A., Martinez, L., & Schiavio, A. (2021). The Active Musical Room. Fostering sensorimotor discoveries and musical creativity in toddlers. Journal of Research in Music Education, 69(2), 128–151. [html]
 
  • Høffding* S., & Schiavio*, A. (2021). Exploratory expertise and the dual intentionality of music-making (*both first author). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20, 811–829. doi: 10.1007/s11097-019-09626-5.​ [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., Biasutti, M., & Antonini Philippe, R. (2021). Creative pedagogies in the time of pandemic. A case study with conservatory students. Music Education Research, 23(2), 167–178. doi: 10.1080/14613808.2021.1881054 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A. & Benedek, M. (2020). Dimensions of musical creativity. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14: 578932. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.578932 [html]
 
  • Antonini Philippe, R., Schiavio, A., & Biasutti. M. (2020). Adaptation and destabilisation of interpersonal relationship in sport and music during the COVID-19 lockdown. Heliyon, 6(10), e05212. [html]
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  • Schiavio, A., Biasutti, M., van der Schyff, D., & Parncutt, R. (2020). A matter of presence: A qualitative study on teaching individual and collective music classes. Musicae Scientiae, 24(3), 356–376. [html]
  
  • Schiavio, A., Stupacher, J., Parncutt, R. & Timmers, R. (2020). Learning music from each other. Synchronization, turn-taking, or imitation? Music Perception, 37(5), 403-422. [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., Küssner, M., & Williamon, A. (2020). Music teachers’ perspectives and experiences of ensemble and learning skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:291. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00291 [html]​  
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  • ​Ryan, K., & Schiavio, A. (2019). Extended musicking, extended mind, extended agency. Notes on the third wave. New Ideas in Psychology, 55, 8-17. doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2019.03.001 [html]​
 
  • Schiavio, A., Gesbert, V., Reybrouck, M., Hauw, D., & Parncutt, R. (2019). Optimizing performative skills in social interaction. Insights from embodied cognition, music education, and sport psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1542. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01542 [html]​ 
 
  • ​Schiavio*, A., van der Schyff*, D., Biasutti, M., Moran, N., & Parncutt, R. (2019). Instrumental technique, expressivity, and communication. A qualitative study on learning music in individual and collective settings (*both first author). Frontiers in Psychology, 10:737. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00737 [html]​
 
  • Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Gande, A., & Kruse-Weber, S. (2019). Negotiating individuality and collectivity in community music. A qualitative case study. Psychology of Music, 47(5), 706-721. doi: 10.1177/0305735618775806. [html]​
   
  • Schiavio, A., & van der Schyff, D. (2018). 4E music pedagogy and the principles of self-organization. ​Behavioral Sciences, 8(8), 72; doi: 10.3390/bs8080072 [html]​
 
  • van der Schyff, D., Schiavio, A., Walton, A., Velardo, V., & Chemero, T. (2018). Musical creativity and the embodied mind. Exploring the possibilities of 4E cognition and dynamical systems theory. ​Music & Science, 1. doi: 10.1177/2059204318792319 [html]​
 
  • Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Cespedes-Guevara, J., & Reybrouck, M. (2017). Enacting musical emotions. Sense-making, dynamic systems, and the embodied mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16(5), 785-809. doi: 10.1007/s11097-016-9477-8 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Kruse-Weber, S., & Timmers, R. (2017). When the sound becomes the goal. 4E cognition and teleomusicality in early infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1585. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01585 [html]
 
  • van der Schyff, D., & Schiavio, A. (2017). Evolutionary musicology meets embodied cognition. Biocultural coevolution and the enactive origins of human musicality. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11:519. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00519 [html]
 
  • van der Schyff, D., & Schiavio, A. (2017). The future of musical emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:988. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00988 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A. & Timmers, R. (2016). Motor and audiovisual learning consolidate auditory memory of tonally ambiguous melodies. Music Perception, 34(1), 21-32 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., & van der Schyff, D. (2016). Beyond musical qualia. Reflecting on the concept of experience. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 26(4), 366-378 [html]
 
  • van der Schyff, D., Schiavio, A., & Elliott, D. (2016). Critical ontology for an enactive music pedagogy. Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, 15(5), 81-121 . doi:10.22176/act15.5.81 [html]
 
  • Gerson*, S., Schiavio*, A., Timmers, R., & Hunnius, S. (2015). Active drumming experience increases infants’ sensitivity to audiovisual synchronicity during observed drumming actions (*both first author). PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0130960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130960 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., & Altenmüller, E. (2015). Exploring music-based rehabilitation for Parkinsonism through embodied cognitive science. Frontiers in Neurology, 6:217. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00217 [html]
 
  • Schiavio*, A., & Høffding* S. (2015). Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance (*both first author). Musicae Scientiae, 19(4), 366-388 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A., Menin, D., & Matyja, J. (2015). Music in the flesh. Embodied simulation in musical understanding. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 24(4), 340-343 [html]
 
  • Matyja, J., & Schiavio, A. (2013). Enactive music cognition. Background and research themes. Constructivist Foundations, 8(3), 351-357 [html]
 
  • Menin, D., & Schiavio, A. (2012). Rethinking musical affordances.  AVANT. Trends in interdisciplinary studies, 3(2), 202-215 [html]
 
  • Schiavio, A. (2012). Constituting the musical object. A neurophenomenological perspective on musical research.  Teorema, 31(3), 63-80 [html]

3. Book Chapters

  • Schiavio, A., Messner, H., & Timmers, R. (2024). Influences of physical and imagined others in music students’ experiences of practice and performance. In B. Bogunović, R. Timmers, & S. Nikolić (Eds.). Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills. Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe(pp. 165-188). Open Book Publishers
 
  • Schiavio, A., & van der Schyff, D. (2024). 4E music cognition in theory and practice. In B. Bogunović, R. Timmers, & S. Nikolić (Eds.). Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills. Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe (pp. 189-210). Open Book Publishers.

  • van der Schyff, D., & Schiavio, A. (2022). Musical creativity and performance. In McPherson, G. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Musical Performance (Vol. 1, pp. 483–509). Oxford University Press.

  • Schiavio, A., & Kimmel, M. (2021). The ecological dynamics of musical creativity and skill acquisition. In A. Scarinzi (Ed.). Meaningful Relations: The Enactivist Making of Experiential Worlds (pp. 123–158). Academia-Verlag.

  • Schiavio, A. (2021). Enhanced learning through joint instrumental music education. In R. Timmers, F. Bailes, & H. Daffern (Eds.). Together in Music: Participation, coordination, and creativity in ensemble (pp. 255–260). Oxford University Press.

  • Schiavio, A. (2019). The primacy of experience. Phenomenology, embodied cognition, and assessments in music education, in Elliott, D., McPherson, G., & Silverman, M. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Perspectives on Assessment in Music Education (pp. 65-81). Oxford University Press.
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  • Schiavio, A., & De Jaegher, H. (2017). Participatory sense-making in joint musical practices, in Lesaffre, M., Leman, M., & Maes, P.J. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction (pp. 31-39). Routledge
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  • Schiavio, A., & Gerson, S. (2015). Una prospettiva enattiva sulla musicalità infantile, in Ruggiero, G., & Bruni, D. (Eds.), Il Ritmo della Mente. La Musica tra Scienza Cognitiva e Psicoterapia (pp. 119-139). Mimesis

4. Commentaries and reports

  • Parncutt, R., & Schiavio, A. (2023). Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps. Comment on: “Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses” by Di Stefano et al. Physics of Life Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.06.003.
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  • Schiavio, A. (2016). Enactive affordances and the interplay of biological and phenomenological subjectivity. Constructivist Foundations, 11(2), 315-317
 
  • Schiavio, A. (2014). Action, Enaction, Inter(en)action. Empirical Musicology Review, 9(3-4), 254-262 
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  • Schiavio, A., Bramsley, S, Veltri, T., Cespedes-Guevara, J., & Arthurs, Y. (2014). Report of the International Summer School of Musical Understanding. Philosophical, Psychological and Neuroscientific approaches (University of Sheffield, 8-11 July 2013). Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 24(1), 109-113 

5. Book Reviews

  • Schiavio, A. (2021). Review of ‘Enacting Musical Time. The Bodily Experience of New Music’ by Mariusz Kozak. Music & Science, 4, 1–3. doi: 10.1177/20592043211028767.

  • Schiavio, A. (2019). Review of The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. [Review of the book The Routledge companion to music cognition. edited by R. Ashley & R. Timmers]. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 29(1), 56-58.
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  • Schiavio, A. (2018). Review of ‘Music & Embodied Cognition’ by Arnie Cox. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 71(2), 546-550

  • Schiavio, A. (2015). Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness, and Language. Philosophical Psychology, 28(5), 735-739 
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  • Schiavio, A. & Menin, D. (2013). Embodied music cognition and the mediation technology. A critical review. Psychology of Music, 41(6), 804-814 

6. Papers in Proceedings

  • Schiavio, A., Gande, A., & Kruse-Weber, S. (2020). The complementarity of interaction and creativity in collective musicking. In A. Sangiorgio, & Mastnak, W. (Eds.), Creative interactions – Dynamic processes in group music activities (pp. 47-56). University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Germany.

  • Timmers, R., Dibben, N., Eitan, Z., Granot, R., Metcalfe, T., Schiavio, A., & Williamson, V. (2015). Introduction to the Proceedings of ICMEM 2015, in Timmers, R., Dibben, N., Eitan, Z., Granot, R., Metcalfe, T., Schiavio, A., & Williamson, V. (Eds.). Proceedings of ICMEM 2015. International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music. Sheffield: HRI Online Publications, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9571022-4-8.

  • Schiavio, A., & Cummins, F. (2015). An inter(en)active approach to musical agency and learning, in Timmers, R., Dibben, N., Eitan, Z., Granot, R., Metcalfe, T., Schiavio, A., & Williamson, V. (Eds.). Proceedings of ICMEM 2015. International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music. Sheffield: HRI Online Publications, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9571022-4-8.
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  • Timmers, R., Schiavio, A., & Cowell, H. (2015). Influences of visual activity on memorised tempo of a performance. ESCOM9, 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. 

7. Edited Volumes and Special Issues

  • Popescu, T., Schiavio, A., & Haiduk, F. (Eds. 2024). Prediction, Creativity, and Cultural Evolution in Music Cognition. Special issue of the Journal of Cognition. [html].

  • Schiavio, A., Bashwiner, D., & Jung, R. (Eds. 2022). What is Musical creativity? Interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches. Lausanne, CH: Frontiers Media. [html].

  • Schiavio, A., Nijs, L., van der Schyff, D., & Juntonen, M.-L. (Eds., 2021). Towards a Meaningful Instrumental Music Education. Methods, Perspectives, and Challenges. Lausanne, CH: Frontiers Media. [html].

  • Schiavio, A., & Moran, N. (Eds., 2020). Embodiment in Music. Special Issue of JIMS - Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. [html].
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  • Schiavio, A., Xypolitaki, E., Scuderi, C., Seither-Preisler, A., & Parncutt, R. (Eds., 2019). CIM19: Conference of Interdisciplinary Musicology - “Embodiment in Music”. Book of Abstracts. Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. [html].
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  • Timmers, R., Dibben, N., Eitan, Z., Granot, R., Metcalfe, T., Schiavio, A., & Williamson, V. (Eds., 2015). Proceedings of ICMEM 2015. International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music. Sheffield: HRI Online Publications, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9571022-4-8. [html]