Publications and Media

publications

First-author journal articles on stand-up comedy timing, spatial formations for immersive recording and physiological response to music are listed in Publication Highlights.

Further Publications has a selection of articles I’ve contributed to as a second or third author. A full publication list can be found on ORCID and Google Scholar.

    • Vanessa C. Pope, Rebecca Stewart, Elaine Chew, Timing structures in live comedy: A matched-sequence approach to mapping performance dynamics, PNAS Nexus, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2026, pgaf394, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf394

    • Vanessa C. Pope, Robert Dawes, Florian Schweiger, and Alia Sheikh. 2017. The Geometry of Storytelling: Theatrical Use of Space for 360-degree Videos and Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 4468–4478. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025581

    • Vanessa C. Pope, Mateusz Soliński, Pier D. Lambiase and Elaine Chew. High blood pressure inhibits cardiovascular responsiveness to expressive classical music. Sci Rep15, 10908 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94341-2

    • Mateusz Soliński, Vanessa Pope, Pier Lambiase, Elaine Chew, Listeners’ baseline autonomic states associated with distinct music-physiology response patterns, European Heart Journal - Imaging Methods and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2026, qyag013, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjimp/qyag013

    • V Pope, P Pal, P D Lambiase, E Chew, Music Theranostics, Music-listening exposes gender differences in blood pressure reaction, European Heart Journal - Digital Health, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, January 2026, ztaf143.149, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf143.149

    • Natalia Cotic, Vanessa Pope, Pier D Lambiase, Elaine Chew, Autonomic entrainment to music structure in Verdi opera, European Heart Journal - Imaging Methods and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2026, qyag025, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjimp/qyag025

    • N. Cotic, V. Pope, M. Solinki, P. D. Lambiase and E. Chew, "Dynamics of Autonomic Entrainment to Music: Effect of Loudness and Tempo Phrase Structures on RR Intervals and Respiration," 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025, pp. 1-5, 10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11253655.

    • Cotic, N., Pope, V., Solinski, M., Lambiase, P., & Chew, E. (2024). A Computational Method for Empirically Validating Synchronisation Between Musical Phrase Arcs and Autonomic Variables. Proceedings of Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 8-11.

    • P. Pal, N. Cotic, M. Soliński, V. Pope, P. Lambiase and E. Chew, "Music-based Graph Convolution Neural Network with ECG, Respiration, Pulse Signal as a Diagnostic Tool for Hypertension," 2024 13th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO), ZARAGOZA, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-2, 10.1109/ESGCO63003.2024.10767042.

Media

Recent non-academic research outputs, including radio interviews and press coverage, are listed below.

“As IT HAPPENS”, CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs radio show “As It Happens” interviewed me about timing in stand-up comedy research, and what it means for generative AI. The interview begins at 17 minutes.

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Press release: “Mapping comedic timing, Ta-DA!”

Journal PNAS Nexus created a press release to accompany the publication of “Timing Structures in Live Stand-up Comedy.”

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BBC 5 Live interview

I was interviewed by Emma Vardy and Dr Chris Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live, and asked whether my comedy research could make people funnier.

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Classic fm article

Research I conducted as part of Prof. Elaine Chew’s Music Theranostics lab at King’s College London was featured on the Classic FM website.

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