Presentations

Bignardi, G., & Fisher, S. E. (2025). A brief guide to heritability. Talk presented at the Fourth Annual MusicGens Consortium Meeting. Barcelona, Spain. 2025-09-18 - 2025-09-20.

Bignardi, G. (2025). Genetics of aesthetic and music reward sensitivity. Talk presented at the Centre for Music and Science seminar series, Cambridge University. Cambridge, UK. 2025-02-25.

Bignardi, G. (2025). Towards a genomics of human experiences; Session: Integrating genetics with -omics and exposome. Talk presented at the Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics (LPSHG 2025). Hinxton, UK. 2025-07-27 - 2025-07-31.

Bignardi, G. (2025). Towards a genomics of human musical experiences. Talk presented at the Fondazione Science & Music, scientific retreat. Montecastelli, Italy. 2025-10.

du Mérac, T. R., Bignardi, G., Eising, E., Berg, J. M., Admiraal, D., Nayak, S., Mosing, M., Lense, M., Ullén, F., Fisher, S. E., & Gordon, R. L. (2025). Unravelling the genetic architecture of social music-making enjoyment and its ties to human socio-emotional traits. Poster presented at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ASHG 2025), Boston, MA, USA.

Bignardi, G., Wesseldijk, L. W., Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., Ullén, F., Fisher, S. E., & Mosing, M. A. (2024). Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Poster presented at the 2024 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2024), Majorca, Spain.

Bignardi, G. (2024). Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Talk presented at the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab Meeting, Vanderbilt University. online. 2024-02.

Bignardi, G. (2024). Gene-environment interplay in musical reward. Talk presented at the Fondazione Science & Music, scientific retreat. Montecastelli, Italy. 2024-11.

Bignardi, G., Eising, E., Wesseldijk, L. W., Molz, B., Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., & Fisher, S. E. (2024). Genetic pathways to music-evoked emotions: from twins to genome-wide association studies. Talk presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association. London, UK. 2024-06-26 - 2024-06-29.

Bignardi, G., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2024). Genetics of “talent” in the arts, a critical perspective. Talk presented at the Genetic Network Amsterdam Meeting. online. 2024-04.

Bignardi, G. (2024). Intergenerational transmission of sensitivity to the arts. Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Department, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt, Germany. 2024-10.

Bignardi, G. (2024). Research Highlights. Talk presented at the IMPRS Intro Days, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2024-10.

du Mérac, T. R., Bignardi, G., Eising, E., Admiraal, D., Mosing, M., Ullén, F., Fisher, S. E., & Gordon, R. L. (2024). Investigating shared genetic effects between social reward sensitivity through music and human psychiatric traits. Poster presented at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG 2024), Singapore.

Alagöz, G., Eising, E., Bignardi, G., Mekki, Y. N., Doust, C., Luciano, M., Fisher, S. E., & Gordon, R. L. (2023). Novel genomic evidence for shared biology between musical rhythm and language skills. Talk presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association. Murcia, Spain. 2023-06-21 - 2023-06-24.

Bignardi, G., Nivard, M. G., Schaare, H. L., Bernhardt, B. C., Bethlehem, R. A., Fisher, S. E., & Valk, S. L. (2023). Distinct causes of alteration in principles of structural and functional human brain organisation. Talk presented at the Talking Brain: Language & Communication Open Theme Meeting. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023-03-21 - 2023-03-22.

Bignardi, G. (2023). On the etiology of aesthetic value. Talk presented at the Max Planck School of Cognition Evaluation Days, University of Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany. 2023-02.

Bignardi, G., Schaare, H. L., Verhulst, B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). A functional gradient association study of aesthetic sensitivity. Poster presented at the workshop Gradients of Brain Organization, Cambridge, UK.

Bignardi, G., Schaare, H. L., Verhulst, B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). A functional gradient association study of aesthetic sensitivity. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2022), Glasgow, Scotland.

Bignardi, G., Schaare, H. L., Verhulst, B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Brain-wide alterations of the principal gradient of human brain functional connectivity relate to aesthetic sensitivity. Poster presented at the 2022 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Bignardi, G., Schaare, H. L., Verhulst, B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Brain-wide functional alterations of the principal gradients of human brain connectivity relate to aesthetic sensitivity. Talk presented at the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC 2022). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2022-08-24 - 2022-08-27.

Bignardi, G., & Fisher, S. E. (2022). On the etiology of aesthetics. Talk presented at the 2022 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2022). Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2022-08-31 - 2022-09-02.