Ernest Mas‐Herrero

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ernest Mas‐Herrero is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest Mas‐Herrero has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Ernest Mas‐Herrero's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (20 papers), Music Therapy and Health (13 papers) and Diverse Music Education Insights (10 papers). Ernest Mas‐Herrero is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (20 papers), Music Therapy and Health (13 papers) and Diverse Music Education Insights (10 papers). Ernest Mas‐Herrero collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Canada and United States. Ernest Mas‐Herrero's co-authors include Robert J. Zatorre, Josep Marco‐Pallarés, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Alain Dagher, Pablo Ripollés, Urbano Lorenzo‐Seva, Noelia Martínez‐Molina, Benjamin P. Gold, Laura Ferreri and Marta Valle and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ernest Mas‐Herrero

32 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music
    2019 219 citations Laura Ferreri, Ernest Mas‐Herrero et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ernest Mas‐Herrero Spain 18 1.4k 662 362 329 157 34 1.5k
Patrick Bermudez Canada 15 1.3k 1.0× 378 0.6× 261 0.7× 388 1.2× 134 0.9× 19 1.6k
Sebastian Jentschke Germany 23 1.4k 1.0× 353 0.5× 264 0.7× 441 1.3× 280 1.8× 37 1.8k
Vesa Putkinen Finland 20 913 0.7× 319 0.5× 295 0.8× 243 0.7× 67 0.4× 56 1.1k
Roni Granot Israel 17 779 0.6× 328 0.5× 153 0.4× 394 1.2× 193 1.2× 42 1.1k
Sibylle C. Herholz Germany 21 2.0k 1.4× 476 0.7× 393 1.1× 553 1.7× 192 1.2× 37 2.2k
Wiebke Trost Switzerland 12 798 0.6× 329 0.5× 119 0.3× 285 0.9× 90 0.6× 22 946
Psyche Loui United States 30 2.2k 1.6× 616 0.9× 503 1.4× 729 2.2× 445 2.8× 80 2.5k
Vinoo Alluri Finland 17 1.1k 0.8× 379 0.6× 196 0.5× 306 0.9× 311 2.0× 33 1.2k
Anne Caclin France 26 1.8k 1.3× 177 0.3× 170 0.5× 740 2.2× 273 1.7× 74 2.0k
Andreas Widmann Germany 30 2.6k 1.9× 337 0.5× 100 0.3× 1.1k 3.4× 187 1.2× 82 2.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ernest Mas‐Herrero

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wesseldijk, Laura W., Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Robert J. Zatorre, et al.. (2025). Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2904–2904. 1 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, Robert J. Zatorre, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2025). Understanding individual differences to specific rewards through music. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(2). 175–186.
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2025). Predictive processes shape individual musical preferences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(29). e2500494122–e2500494122. 1 indexed citations
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Lopez-Gamundi, Paula, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2024). Disentangling effort from probability of success: Temporal dynamics of frontal midline theta in effort-based reward processing. Cortex. 176. 94–112. 2 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, et al.. (2024). Changing Your Love of Music by Stimulating the Brain. Frontiers for Young Minds. 12.
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the Temporal Dynamics of Reward Signals in Music-Induced Pleasure with TMS. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(17). 3889–3899. 31 indexed citations
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Orpella, Joan, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Pablo Ripollés, Josep Marco‐Pallarés, & Ruth de Diego‐Balaguer. (2021). Language statistical learning responds to reinforcement learning principles rooted in the striatum. PLoS Biology. 19(9). e3001119–e3001119. 10 indexed citations
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Lopez-Gamundi, Paula, Yuan‐Wei Yao, Trevor T.‐J. Chong, et al.. (2021). The neural basis of effort valuation: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 131. 1275–1287. 61 indexed citations
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Ferreri, Laura, et al.. (2021). Engagement in Music-Related Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Mirror of Individual Differences in Musical Reward and Coping Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 673772–673772. 33 indexed citations
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Ferreri, Laura, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Robert J. Zatorre, et al.. (2019). Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(9). 3793–3798. 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Martínez‐Molina, Noelia, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Robert J. Zatorre, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2019). White Matter Microstructure Reflects Individual Differences in Music Reward Sensitivity. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(25). 5018–5027. 49 indexed citations
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Alicart, Helena, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Xavier Rifà‐Ros, David Cucurell, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2019). Brain oscillatory activity of skill and chance gamblers during a slot machine game. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 19(6). 1509–1520. 4 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, Guillaume Sescousse, Roshan Cools, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2019). The contribution of striatal pseudo-reward prediction errors to value-based decision-making. NeuroImage. 193. 67–74. 9 indexed citations
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Gold, Benjamin P., Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2019). Musical reward prediction errors engage the nucleus accumbens and motivate learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(8). 3310–3315. 85 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, et al.. (2018). The impact of visual art and emotional sounds in specific musical anhedonia. Progress in brain research. 237. 399–413. 22 indexed citations
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Vilà‐Balló, Adrià, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Pablo Ripollés, et al.. (2017). Unraveling the Role of the Hippocampus in Reversal Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(28). 6686–6697. 43 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Molina, Noelia, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Robert J. Zatorre, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2016). Neural correlates of specific musical anhedonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). E7337–E7345. 131 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2016). Theta oscillations integrate functionally segregated sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage. 143. 166–174. 17 indexed citations
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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, Pablo Ripollés, Azadeh HajiHosseini, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2015). Beta oscillations and reward processing: Coupling oscillatory activity and hemodynamic responses. NeuroImage. 119. 13–19. 57 indexed citations
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Alicart, Helena, David Cucurell, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2015). Human oscillatory activity in near-miss events. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 10(10). 1405–1412. 15 indexed citations

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