- Nawaz, Safiyyah and Omigie, Diana. 2025. Qualities of music-evoked autobiographical memories are associated with auditory features of the memory-evoking music. PLoS ONE, 20(8), e0329072. ISSN 1932-6203
- Ariza, Juan Felipe P茅rez and Omigie, Diana. 2025. Curiosity and Mind Wandering During Music Listening Are Negatively Correlated. Behavioral Sciences, 15(3), 393. ISSN 2076-328X
- Omigie, Diana. 2025. Book Review: Robert Zatorre (2024). From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It. Music & Science, 8, ISSN 2059-2043
- Jones, Nicky; Jones Bartoli, Alice and Omigie, Diana. 2025. Character Strengths Afforded by Arts Engagement During Adolescence: The Development and Validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale (CAASA scale). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 19(4), pp. 776-792. ISSN 1931-3896
- Kelleher-Clarke, Alicia; Bartoli Jones, Alice and Omigie, Diana. 2025. Exploring Barriers to and Drivers of Participatory Arts Engagement in Early Adolescence. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 19(4), pp. 608-621. ISSN 1931-3896
- Omigie, Diana and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2024. Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e109. ISSN 0140-525X
- Hashim, Sarah; K眉ssner, Mats B.; Weinreich, Andr茅 and Omigie, Diana. 2024. The neuro-oscillatory profiles of static and dynamic music-induced visual imagery. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 199, 112309. ISSN 0167-8760
- Antovi膰, Mihailo; K眉ssner, Mats B.; Kempf, Adrian; Omigie, Diana; Hashim, Sarah and Schiavio, Andrea. 2024. 鈥楢 huge man is bursting out of a rock'. Bodies, motion, and creativity in verbal reports of musical connotation. Journal of New Music Research, 52(1), pp. 73-86. ISSN 0929-8215
- Hashim, Sarah; Pulcini, Claudia; Jansari, Ashok S.; K眉ssner, Mats B. and Omigie, Diana. 2024. The Experience of Music in Aphantasia: Emotion, Reward, and Everyday Functions. Music & Science, 7, ISSN 2059-2043
- Omigie, Diana and Mencke, Iris. 2024. A model of time-varying music engagement. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379, 20220421. ISSN 0962-8436
- Hashim, Sarah; Stewart, Lauren; K眉ssner, Mats B. and Omigie, Diana. 2023. Music listening evokes story-like visual imagery with both idiosyncratic and shared content. PLoS ONE, 18(10), e0293412. ISSN 1932-6203
- Chalas, Nikos; Omigie, Diana; Poeppel, David and van Wassenhove, Virginie. 2023. Hierarchically nested networks optimize the analysis of audiovisual speech. iScience, 26(3), 106257. ISSN 2589-0042
- Nawaz, Safiyyah and Omigie, Diana. 2023. Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm. Cognition and Emotion, 37(2), pp. 320-328. ISSN 0269-9931
- Murphy, Ellen; North, E.; Nawaz, Safiyyah and Omigie, Diana. 2023. The Influence of Music Liking on Episodic Memory for Rich Spatiotemporal Contexts. Memory, 31(5), pp. 589-604. ISSN 0965-8211
- Omigie, Diana and Ricci, Jessica. 2023. Accounting for expressions of curiosity and enjoyment during music listening. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 17(2), pp. 225-241. ISSN 1931-3896
- Galvan, Jasmin and Omigie, Diana. 2022. Individual differences in the expression and experience of curiosity are reflected in patterns of music preferences and appreciation. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 32(3-4), pp. 59-75. ISSN 0275-3987
- Lange, Elke; Omigie, Diana; Trenado, Carlos; M眉ller, Viktor; Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie and Merrill, Julia. 2022. In touch: Cardiac and respiratory patterns synchronize during ensemble singing with physical contact. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 928563. ISSN 1662-5161
- Omigie, Diana and Ricci, Jessica. 2022. Curiosity emerging from the perception of change in music. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(2), pp. 296-316. ISSN 0276-2374
- Mencke, Iris; Omigie, Diana; Quiroga-Martinez, David Ricardo and Brattico, Elvira. 2022. Atonal Music as a Model for Investigating Exploratory Behavior. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 793163. ISSN 1662-4548
- Liptak, Taylor A.; Omigie, Diana and Floridou, Georgia A.. 2022. The Idiosyncrasy of Involuntary Musical Imagery Repetition (IMIR) Experiences: The Role of Tempo and Lyrics. Music Perception, 39(3), pp. 320-338. ISSN 0730-7829
- Mencke, Iris; Quiroga-Martinez, David Ricardo; Omigie, Diana; Michalareas, Georgios; Schwarzacher, Franz; Trusbak Haumann, Niels; Vuust, Peter and Brattico, Elvira. 2021. Prediction Under Uncertainty: Dissociating Sensory from Cognitive Expectations in Highly Uncertain Musical Contexts. Brain Research, 1773, 147664. ISSN 0006-8993
- Schlotz, Wolff; Wallot, Sebastian; Omigie, Diana; Masucci4, Michael D.; Hoelzmann, Sonja C. and Vessel, Edward A.. 2021. The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(4), pp. 682-696. ISSN 1931-3896
- Omigie, Diana; Frieler, Klaus; B盲r, Christian; Muralikrishnan, R.; Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie and Fischinger, Timo. 2021. Experiencing musical beauty: emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(2), pp. 197-215. ISSN 1931-3896
- Merrill, Julia; Omigie, Diana and Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie. 2020. Locus of emotion influences psychophysiological reactions to music. PLoS ONE, 15(8), e0237641. ISSN 1932-6203
- Omigie, Diana; Lehongre, Katia; Navarro, Vincent; Adam, Claude and Samson, Severine. 2020. Neuro-oscillatory tracking of low- and high-level musico-acoustic features during naturalistic music listening: insights from an intracranial electroencephalography study. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 30(1), pp. 37-51. ISSN 0275-3987
- Bianco, Roberta; Ptasczynski, Lena Esther and Omigie, Diana. 2020. Pupil responses to pitch deviants reflect predictability of melodic sequences. Brain and Cognition, 138, 103621. ISSN 0278-2626
- Omigie, Diana; Pearce, Marcus T.; Lehongre, Katia; Hasboun, Dominic; Navarro, Vincent; Adam, Claude and Samson, Severine. 2019. Intracranial recordings and computational modelling of music reveal the time course of prediction error signaling in frontal and temporal cortices. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(6), pp. 855-873. ISSN 0898-929X
- Mencke, Iris; Omigie, Diana; Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie and Brattico, Elvira. 2019. Atonal Music: Can Uncertainty Lead to Pleasure? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 979. ISSN 1662-4548
- Anglada-Tort, Manuel; Thueringer, Heather and Omigie, Diana. 2019. The Busking Experiment: A Field 牛牛资源 Measuring Behavioural Responses to Street Music Performances. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 29(1), pp. 46-55. ISSN 0275-3987
- Omigie, Diana; Dellacherie, Delphine; Hasboun, Dominique; George, Nathalie; Clement, Sylvain; Baulac, Michel; Adam, Claude and Samson, Severine. 2015. An intracranial EEG study of the neural dynamics of musical valence processing. Cerebral Cortex, 25(11), pp. 4038-4047. ISSN 1047-3211
- Elvers, Paul; Omigie, Diana; Fuhrmann, Wolfgang and Fischinger, Timo. 2015. Exploring the musical taste of expert listeners: musicology students reveal tendency toward omnivorous taste. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1252), pp. 1-11. ISSN 1664-1078
- Omigie, Diana. 2015. Music and literature: are there shared empathy and predictive mechanisms underlying their affective impact? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1250. ISSN 1664-1078
- Omigie, Diana. 2015. Basic, specific, mechanistic? Conceptualizing musical emotions in the brain. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524(8), pp. 1676-1686. ISSN 0021-9967
- Omigie, Diana; Dellacherie, Delphine; Hasboun, Dominique; Cl茅ment, Sylvain; Baulac, Michel; Adam, Claude and Samson, S茅verine. 2014. Intracranial markers of emotional valence processing and judgments in music. Cognitive Neuroscience, 6(1), pp. 16-23. ISSN 1758-8928
- El Haj, Mohamad; Omigie, Diana and Cl茅ment, Sylvain. 2014. Music causes deterioration of source memory: Evidence from normal ageing. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(12), pp. 2381-2391. ISSN 1747-0218
- El Haj, Mohamad; Omigie, Diana and Samson, S茅verine. 2014. Destination memory and familiarity: better memory for conversations with Elvis Presley than with unknown people. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 27(3), pp. 337-344. ISSN 1594-0667
- El Haj, Mohamad; Delerue, C茅line; Omigie, Diana; Antoine, Pascal; Nandrino, Jean Louis and Boucart, Muriel. 2014. Autobiographical recall triggers visual exploration. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 7(5), pp. 1-7. ISSN 1995-8692
- Omigie, Diana and Samson, Severine. 2014. A protective effect of musical expertise on cognitive outcome following brain damage? Neuropsychology Review, 24(4), pp. 445-460. ISSN 1040-7308
- El Haj, Mohamad; Omigie, Diana and Moroni, Christine. 2014. Time reproduction during high and low attentional tasks in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease 鈥淎 watched kettle never boils鈥�. Brain and Cognition, 88, pp. 1-5. ISSN 0278-2626
- El Haj, Mohamad; Moroni, Christine; Luyat, Marion; Omigie, Diana and Allain, Philippe. 2014. To what extent does destination recall induce episodic reliving? Evidence from Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 36(2), pp. 127-136. ISSN 1380-3395
- Ticini, Luca Francesco and Omigie, Diana. 2013. Why do we like what we like? When information flow matters. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(731), ISSN 1662-5161
- Omigie, Diana; Pearce, Marcus T.; Williamson, Victoria J. and Stewart, Lauren. 2013. Electrophysiological correlates of melodic processing in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, 51(9), pp. 1749-1762. ISSN 0028-3932
- Omigie, Diana; Pearce, M. T. and Stewart, Lauren. 2012. Tracking of pitch probabilities in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, 50(7), pp. 1483-1493. ISSN 0028-3932
- Omigie, Diana and Stewart, Lauren. 2011. Preserved Statistical Learning of Tonal and Linguistic Material in Congenital Amusia. Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(109), pp. 1-11.
- Dakin, Steven C and Omigie, Diana. 2009. Psychophysical evidence for a non-linear representation of facial identity. Vision Research, 49(18), pp. 2285-2296. ISSN 0042-6989
Dr Diana Omigie
Diana has research interests that revolve around the behaviour, physiology and neurology of music-induced emotions.
Staff details
Position
Lecturer
School
Subject
I鈥檓 a cognitive neuroscientist and member of the at 牛牛资源 where I co-direct the MSc programme in Music, Mind and Brain with Daniel M眉llensiefen. My research interests revolve around the behavioural, physiological and neural correlates of music-induced emotions and the aesthetic experience.
Supervision
I鈥檓 available to supervise students at BSc, MSc and PhD level on projects related to music psychology and empirical aesthetics. Feel free to contact me to discuss possible opportunities.
Publications and research outputs
Article
- Hashim, Sarah and Omigie, Diana. 2026. Spontaneous visual imagery during extended music listening is associated with reliable alpha suppression. Neuropsychologia, 222, 109346. ISSN 0028-3932
- Fancourt, Amy Catherine; Williamson, Victoria J.; Omigie, Diana and Heaton, Pam F.. 2026. Verbal, visual and musical memory in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 170, 105251. ISSN 0891-4222
- Arthurs, Yuko; Merlini, Eve and Omigie, Diana. 2025. Unpacking musical beauty: Sound, emotion, and impact differences across expertise and personality. PLoS ONE, 20(11), e0335905. ISSN 1932-6203
Thesis
- Omigie, Diana. 2012. Studies into the cognitive and neural basis of congenital amusia. Doctoral thesis, 牛牛资源