Publications and Media

publications

A list of selected academic publications, with first-author journal articles on stand-up comedy timing, spatial formations for immersive recording and physiological response to music in publication highlights compiled in “Publication Highlights.”

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 Rep 15, 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, doi: 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, doi: 10.1109/ESGCO63003.2024.10767042.

Media

Audio, video and press related to research (presentations, interviews, and articles)

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.

“As IT HAPPENS”, CBC

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

Press release to accompany the publication of “Timing Structures in Live Stand-up Comedy” in PNAS Nexus.

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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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