All Stories

  1. Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, August 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Laura Verga

  2. Speech rhythm in the perception-action-cycle

    Article • June 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Laura Verga

  3. Unravelling individual rhythmic abilities using machine learning

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentin Bégel, Dr. Laura Verga

  4. The evolution of social timing

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  5. Sleeping with time in mind? A literature review and a proposal for a screening questionnaire on self-awakening

    Article • PLOS One, March 2023, PLOS

    Dr. Laura Verga

  6. Neuropsychological Changes in Isolated REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Studies

    Article • Neuropsychology Review, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Verga

  7. Neurophysiology of Language Pathologies

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Verga

  8. Spontaneous rhythm discrimination in a mammalian vocal learner

    Article • Biology Letters, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Laura Verga

  9. Can harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) discriminate familiar conspecific calls after long periods of separation?

    Article • PeerJ, November 2021, PeerJ

    Dr. Laura Verga

  10. Dysfunctional Timing in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Co-occurrence of Cognitive, Motor, and Perceptual Deficits

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga

  11. Neuroanatomy of the grey seal brain: bringing pinnipeds into the neurobiological study of vocal learning

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Laura Verga

  12. Strange Seal Sounds: Claps, Slaps, and Multimodal Pinniped Rhythms

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga

  13. Corrigendum: Preservation of Language Processing and Auditory Performance in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Assessment

    Article • Frontiers in Neurology, February 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga

  14. Preservation of Language Processing and Auditory Performance in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: A Multimodal Assessment

    Article • Frontiers in Neurology, December 2020, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga

  15. European Association of Nuclear Medicine October 22 – 30, 2020 Virtual

    Article • European Journal of Pediatrics, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mohamed El Hafedh ABDI, Dr. Laura Verga

  16. Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn‐taking

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Laura Verga

  17. Spatial attention underpins social word learning in the right fronto-parietal network

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  18. Insomnia Patients With Subjective Short Total Sleep Time Have a Boosted Response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Despite Residual Symptoms

    Article • Behavioral Sleep Medicine, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura Verga, Marco Sforza

  19. The risk of neurodegeneration in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    Article • Sleep Medicine Reviews, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  20. Putting language back into ecological communication contexts

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura Verga

  21. Test-retest reliability of the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA)

    Article • Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga, Valentin Bégel

  22. Evaluation of the outcome of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with subjective short or normal total sleep time

    Article • Sleep Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  23. Worry and rumination traits are associated with polysomnographic indices of disrupted sleep in insomnia disorder

    Article • Sleep Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  24. Help me if I can't: Social interaction effects in adult contextual word learning

    Article • Cognition, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  25. Benefits of Music on Verbal Learning and Memory: How and When Does It Work?

    Article • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, December 2016, University of California Press

    Dr. Laura Verga

  26. BAASTA: Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura Verga, Valentin Bégel

  27. Play along: effects of music and social interaction on word learning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga

  28. The auditory scene: An fMRI study on melody and accompaniment in professional pianists

    Article • NeuroImage, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Laura Verga

  29. How relevant is social interaction in second language learning?

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr. Laura Verga