Publications

Singh, B., Vaswani, K., Saarikallio, S., Kumaraguru, P., Alluri, V.  (in revision) Help! I Need Some Music!: Analysing Music Discourse and Depression on Reddit. Plos One.

Rasgado-Toledo, J., Duvvada, S.S., Shah, A., Ingalhalikar, M., Alluri, V., Garza-Villarreal, E. Structural and functional pathology in cocaine use disorder with polysubstance use: a multimodal fusion approach. medRxiv 2023.02.20.23285655; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.20.23285655

Books & Book Chapters:

Deshpande, G., Alluri, V., Ingalhalikar, M. (2022). It Is a Matter of Matters: Deciphering Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.951001

Brattico, E & Alluri, V (2021) Music in all its beauty: Adopting the naturalistic paradigm to uncover brain processes during the aesthetic musical experience. In  Chatterjee, A., & Cardilo, E. (Eds.). (2021). Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into Focus. Oxford University Press.

Alluri V, Kadiri, S (2019) Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing. In K. Siedenburg, et al. (Eds.), Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research 69.

Master's Theses: 

My music and I: Decoding Individual Differences via Musical Behaviour, Yudhik Agrawal, June 2021. Report no: IIIT/TH/2021/54 (pdf)

Can’t Get Enough: The Puzzle of Addiction and the Brain, Arun Garimella, March 2021. Report no: IIIT/TH/2021/40 (pdf)

Identifying Unique Brain Signatures Among Individuals Using Supervised Machine Learning, Rohan Gandhi, June 2021. Report no: IIIT/TH/2021/69 (pdf)

Examining effects of individual differences in empathy on behavioural and neural processing of music, Vishnu Moorthigari, November 2020. Report no: IIIT/TH/2020/100 (pdf)

Towards identifying expertise engendered differences in the musical brain - methods and findings., Dipankar Niranjan, April 2020. Report no: IIIT/TH/2020/18 (pdf)

PhD Theses: 

Co-Advised: Fibre, Fabricator and Fabric: A Study of Form, Space and Time in Arts, Banatanwi Dasmahapatra, July 2020. Report no: IIIT/TH/2020/70 (pdf)

Jain, A., Brattico, E., Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V. (2022). Predicting Individual Differences from Brain Responses to Music using Functional Network Centrality. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, San Fransisco. 

Shanker, RGR., Alluri V. (2022). Music Emotion Recognition via Deep Learning and comparison with human perception. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS8).

Srivastava, S., Alluri V. (2022). Use of Music and Social Media for Social Surrogacy during Covid-19 lockdowns in India. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS8).

Azhagammal, SC., Alluri V. (2022). Musical aptitude - a better indicator of reaction time than musical training. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS8).

Shriram, J., Tapaswi, M., Alluri, V. (2022) Sonus Texere! Automated Dense Soundtrack Construction for Books using Movie Adaptations. In 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, Bengaluru, India, 2022. 

Desur, P., Kamble, T., Krause, A., Kumaraguru, P., Alluri, V. (2022) “The Times They Are-a-Changin”: The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Online Music Sharing in India. In the 13th International Conference on Social Informatics. Preprint: https://lnkd.in/dBi3a_5u

Agrawal, Y., Carlson, E., Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V. (2022) Decoding Individual differences and musical preference via music-induced movement. Sci Rep 12, 2672 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06466-3

Alluri, V., Mittal, A., SC, A., Vuoskoski, J., Saarikallio, S. (2022) Maladaptive music listening strategies are modulated by individual traits. Psychology of Music. February 2022. doi:10.1177/03057356211065061

Vuoskoski, J., Zickfeld, J., Alluri, V.; Moorthigari, V., Seibt, B. (2022) Feeling moved by music: Investigating continuous ratings and acoustic correlates. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0261151. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261151

Gandhi, Rohan, Garimella A., Toiviainen P., Alluri V. (2021) Identifying Individuals Using Instantaneous Phase Synchrony as a Dynamic Functional Connectivity Measure. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS7).

Subramaniam, S.,Mittal, A.,Vuoskoski, J.,Alluri, V. Music or Lyrics? Individual differences associated with listening strategies (2021) In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Khan, F.F.,Alluri, V.,Carlson, E.,Saarikallio, S (2021) Cross-Cultural study on usage of music for mood regulation during a pandemic. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Mittal, A.,Subramanian, S.,Gulati, K.,Bhargava, H.,Chaturvedi, SK,Andrade, C.,Gangadhar, B.N.,Alluri, V.,Hegde, S. (2021) Assessing the validity of the Healthy-Unhealthy Music Scale in patients with depression: A study from India. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Agrawal, Y.,Alluri, V. (2021). Personality correlates of Preferred Emotions through Lyrics. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Goyal, Y., Alluri, V. (2021) Artist2Risk: Predicting Depression Risk based on Artist Preferences. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Guru Ravi Shanker, R.,Agrawal, Y., Alluri, V. (2021). Preferences for instrumental music on online music streaming platforms associated with individual differences. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Goyal, Y., Hanji, S.,Carlson, E., Alluri, V. (2021). Tag-based and acoustic-feature based emotions associated with online music consumption and personality. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Yadav, P., Kala, D.,Mankodi, N.,Hanji, S.,Alluri, V. (2021). Sing me a story: Background Music Generation for Books. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Hanji, S., Goyal, Y.,Alluri, V. (2021). Exploring gender-specific music preferences associated with risk for depression on online music streaming platforms. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Harris, M.Y, Alluri, V. (2021). Case Study: Appreciation of Complex Music in a Cognitively Impaired Subject. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Agarwal, R.,Singh, R.,Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V. (2021). Music emotion recogniton from lyrics using Transformers-Capsule network. In the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Alluri, V. (2021) Investigating neural effects of musical training using the dynamic, model-free naturalistic paradigm. Symposium on Neurodynamics Of Complex Mental Processing: What Can (And Can’t) We Learn From Engagement With Full- Length Pieces Of Music. The Neurosciences And Music - VII Conference. Aarhus.

Kedia, A., Abrol, N., Garza-Villarreal, E., Alluri, V. (2019). Resting state community structure in cocaine dependence. In Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Rome, Italy. Poster

Moorthigari, V., Toiviainen, P., Brattico, E., Alluri, V. (2019). Differential Effects of Trait Empathy on Functional Network Centrality. In Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Rome, Italy. Poster

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Burunat, I., Brattico, E. (2019). Effect of Active vs Passive Experience On Functional Network Centrality During Music Listening. In Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Rome, Italy. Poster

Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V., Burunat, I., Brattico, E (2019). Musical beat salience modulates functional network centrality. In Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Rome, Italy. Poster

Garimella, A., Alluri, V., Fruholz, S. (2019). A Study on Personality Traits and it’s Associations with Hippocampal Subfield Volumes in Psychologically Healthy Individuals. In Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Rome, Italy. Poster.

Varghese, S., Goel, M., Alluri, V. (2019). Nature of Musical Preferences Among Autistic Kids - Pilot Study in an Indian Context. The 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. New York City, USA.

Mittal, A., Vuoskoski, J., Alluri, V. (2018). Personality, trait empathy, and kinds of musical reward predict healthy and unhealthy music listening strategies. The 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, (ICMPC). Graz, Austria. Poster.

Subramaniam, S., Mittal, A., Alluri, V. (2018). Indian Validation of Healthy-Unhealthy Music Scale (HUMS). The 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, (ICMPC). Graz, Austria. Poster.

Saarikallio, S., Alluri, V., Maksimainen, J. (2018). Cultural factors in the constitution of emotions in meaningful music listening experiences. The 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, (ICMPC). Graz, Austria. Presentation.

Toiviainen, P. Alluri, V., & Brattico, E. (2015). Lateralized modulation of amygdala connectivity by valence during continuous music listening. In 4th International Conference on Music and Emotion. Geneva. Poster.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Brattico, E., (2015). Subcortical network hub differences in musicians and non-musicians during continuous listening to music. In 4th International Conference on Music and Emotion. Geneva. Poster.

Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V., Burunat, I., & Brattico, E. (2015) Whole-Brain Functional Connectivity During Naturalistic Music Listening: Effect of Musical Training. Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Manchester, UK.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Burunat, I., Bogert, B., Brattico, E., (2014). Musical training modulates liking-dependent connectivity during continuous listening. In The Neurosciences and Music V: Cognitive Stimulation and Rehabilitation. Dijon. Poster.

Tsatsishvili, V., Cong, F., Puoliväli, T., Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Nandi, A. K., Brattico, E., Ristaniemi, T (2013). Dimension Reduction for Independent Component Analysis to Decompose fMRI during Real-World Auditory Experiences: Canonical Correlation Analysis vs. Principal Component Analysis. In 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning. Belgium. Poster.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Lund, T., Wallentin, M., Vuust, P., & Brattico, E. (2012). From Vivaldi to Beatles and back: Predicting brain responses to music in real time. In The 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland. Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä, Presentation.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Lund, T., Wallentin, M., Vuust, P., Brattico, E (2012). From Vivaldi to Beatles and Back: Predicting Brain Responses to Music in Real Time. In The 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, (ICMPC). Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Presentation.

Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V., Brattico, E., Nielsen, A. H., Dohn, A., Wallentin, M., Vuust, P (2012). I Can Read Your Mind: Inverse Inference in Musical Neuroinformatics. In The 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, (ICMPC). Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Presentation.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Jääskeläinen, I., Sams, M., Glerean, E., & Brattico, E. (2011). Processing Tango Nuevo in the brain. In The Neurosciences and Music - IV. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Poster.

Glerean, E., Brattico, E., Toiviainen, P., Alluri, V., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Sams, M. (2011). Structural hearing of music: patterns of dynamic functional connectivity with fMRI. In The Neurosciences and Music – IV Learning and Memory, Edinburgh, UK. Poster.

Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Jääskeläinen, I., Sams, M., Glerean, E., & Brattico, E. (2011). Processing Tango Nuevo in the brain. In 100 Years of Musicological Scholarship Celebration Symposium, Helsinki, Finland. Presentation.