Investigating the Brain with Music

Stefan Koelsch



    

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Brain & Music (Wiley, 2012) - highly recommended!
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Cardiac Signatures of Personality (PLoS-ONE, 2012) 
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Electrophysiological correlates of verbal and tonal working memory (Brain Research, 2012) 
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Auditory Stroop and absolute pitch: An fMRI study (Human Brain Mapping, 2012) 

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Predictive information processing in music cognition. A critical review (Int J Psychophys, 2012) 

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Neuroarchitecture of Verbal and Tonal Working Memory in Non-Musicians and Musicians (Human Brain Mapping, 2011)
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Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics (Physics of Life Reviews, 2011)
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Towards a neural basis of music perception – a review and updated model (Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011)
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Affective Priming Effects of Musical Sounds on the Processing of Word Meaning (J Cog Neurosci, 2011)
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Can out-of-context musical sounds convey meaning? An ERP study on the processing of meaning in music (Psychophysiology, 2011)
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Shadows of music–language interaction on low frequency brain oscillatory patterns (Brain & Language, 2011)
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Effects of music listening on cortisol levels and propofol consumption during spinal anesthesia (Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011)
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Effects of Selective Attention on Syntax Processing in Music and Language
(J Cog Neurosci, 2011)
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Neural correlates of strategy use during auditory working memory in musicians and non-musicians (European Journal of Neuroscience, 2011)
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Are left fronto-temporal brain areas a prerequisite for normal music-syntactic processing?  (Cortex, 2011)
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Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions (Trends Cog Sci, 2010)
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Processing Expectancy Violations during Music Performance and Perception: An ERP Study (J Cog Neurosci, 2010)
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Differences in Electric Brain Responses to Melodies and Chords 
(J Cog Neurosci, 2010)
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Functional specializations for music processing in the human newborn brain (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2010)
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A method for continuously assessing the autonomic response to music-induced emotions through HRV analysis (Med Biol Eng Comput, 2010)
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Music in the treatment of affective disorders: An exploratory investigation of a new method for music-therapeutic research (Music Perception, 2010)
  
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Spatial selective attention in a complex auditory environment such as polyphonic music (JASA, 2010)
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Impulsive aggressiveness of pregnant women affects the development of the fetal heart (Int J Psychophys, 2009)
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Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music (Current Biology, 2009)
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Musical training modulates the development of syntax processing in children
(NeuroImage, 2009)
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P3a and Mismatch negativity in individuals with moderate Intermittent Explosive Disorder
(Neurosciene Letters, 2009)
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Nobody Is Perfect: ERP Effects Prior to Performance Errors in Musicians Indicate Fast Monitoring Processes
(PLoS-ONE, 2009)
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Understanding the Intentions Behind Man-Made Products Elicits Neural Activity in Areas Dedicated to Mental State Attribution (Cerebral Cortex, 2009)
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Functional Architecture of Verbal and Tonal Working Memory (Human Brain Mapping, 2009) 
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Amygdala activity can be modulated by unexpected chord functions during music listening (NeuroReport, 2008)
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Music-syntactic Processing and Auditory Memory – Similarities and Differences between ERAN and MMN (Psychophysiology, 2009)
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Overlap of Musical and Linguistic Syntax Processing: Intracranial ERP Evidence (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 2009)
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Decrease in early right alpha band phase synchronization and late gamma band oscillations during music-syntactic processing (Human Brain Mapping, 2009)
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A Neuroscientific Perspective on Music Therapy (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 2009)
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Effects of unexpected chords and of performer's expression on brain responses and electrodermal activity
(PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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Children with Specific Language Impairment also show impairment of music-syntactic processing (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008)
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Comparing the processing of music and language meaning using EEG and fMRI (PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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EEG correlates of moderate Intermittent Explosive Disorder (mIED) (Clinical Neurophysiology, 2008)
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A Cardiac Signature of Emotionality (European Journal of Neuroscience, 2007)
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Short-term effects of processing musical syntax (Brain Research, 2008) 
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Shared Neural Resources between Music and Language Indicate Semantic Processing of Musical Tension-Resolution Patterns (Cerebral Cortex , 2008)
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Cognitive components of regularity processing in the auditory domain (PLoS-ONE, 2008)
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Electrophysiological correlates of pleasantness and unpleasantness (Psychophysiology, 2007)
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Untangling syntactic and sensory processing: An ERP study of music perception (Psychophysiology, 2007)

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Investigating Emotion with Music: An fMRI study (Human Brain Mapping, 2006)
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Ann. N.Y. Acad. of Sci. 1060, 2006: Musical training enhances verbal skills in children

Clinical Neurophysiology (2006): Auditory processing during propofol sedation and recovery
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NeuroImage 31, 2006: Cognitive priming in sung and instrumental music: Activation of inferior frontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2006): Processing of Musical Syntax: An ERP Study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2006): The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical emotions
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      short version here: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.(2006): Emotional Processing of Harmonic Expectancy Violations

Cortex 42(4) 2006, p.518-520: Broca's Area and Ventral Premotor Cortex for Music-syntactic Processing 

Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1060, 2006: Investigating Emotion with Music - Neuroscientific Approaches

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 18, 2005: The effects of anesthetics on brain activity and cognitive function

Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (12), 2005: Towards a neural basis of music perception    

Pitch discrimination accuracy in musicians vs nonmusicians: an event-related potential and behavioral study (Experimental Brain Research, 2005)

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17, 2005: Interaction between syntax processing in language and in music
   
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Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15, 2005: Neural substrates of processing syntax and semantics in music
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    see also: Cortex (in press): Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing

NeuroImage 25, 2005: Adults and children processing music: An fMRI-study
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Anesthesiology 100, 2004: Sequential Effects of Increasing Propofol Sedation ...

Clinical Neurophysiology 115, 2004: Music perception in cochlear implant users

Nature Neuroscience 7(3), 2004: Music, Language and Meaning: Brain Signatures of Semantic Processing
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(8), 2003: Processing of Tonal Modulations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(5), 2003: Children Processing Music ...

NeuroReport 14(5), 2003: Gender Differences in Music Processing

Psychophysiology 39, 2002, 657-663: Effects of musical expertise on the ERAN...

Clinical Neurophysiology 113, 2002: Electric brain responses to inappropriate harmonies during listening to expressive music

NeuroImage, 17, 2002, Bach speaks: A cortical language network serves the processing of music

Psychophysiology 39, 2002, 38-48: Music matters: Pre-attentive musicality ...
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Nature Neuroscience 4(5), 2001: Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area

NeuroReport 12(7), 2001: Differentiating ERAN and MMN: An ERP-study 
This link includes sound examples of auditory oddball paradimgs suited to elicit an abstract feature MMN, and a frequency MMN. It also includes sound examples of  chord sequences with music-syntactic irregularities. 

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12(3), 2000: Brain indices of music processing - nonmusicians are musical
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NeuroReport 10(6), 1999: Superior pre-attentive auditory processing in musicians 
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