2001 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion
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Most cited
484 papers in total2011 · Nature Neuroscience
Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music
1,878 citationsRead
2000 · Nature
Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex
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2007 · Nature reviews. Neuroscience
When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production
1,801 citationsRead
2012 · Nature Neuroscience
Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning
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2002 · Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech
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Newest first
484 papers in total2022
- Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based InterventionsJournal of Neuroscience · 102 citations
- The role of opioid transmission in music‐induced pleasureAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 67 citations
- Supramodality of neural entrainment: Rhythmic visual stimulation causally enhances auditory working memory performanceScience Advances · 65 citations
2021
- Common and distinct neural correlates of music and food-induced pleasure: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studiesNeuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 110 citations
- Dopamine modulations of reward‐driven music memory consolidationAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 85 citations
- Engagement in Music-Related Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Mirror of Individual Differences in Musical Reward and Coping StrategiesFrontiers in Psychology · 73 citations
- Unraveling the Temporal Dynamics of Reward Signals in Music-Induced Pleasure with TMSJournal of Neuroscience · 65 citations
- Oscillatory Entrainment of the Frequency-following Response in Auditory Cortical and Subcortical StructuresJournal of Neuroscience · 57 citations
2020
2019
- Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by musicProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 466 citations
- Predictability and Uncertainty in the Pleasure of Music: A Reward for Learning?Journal of Neuroscience · 262 citations
- Evolving perspectives on the sources of the frequency-following responseNature Communications · 222 citations
- Musical reward prediction errors engage the nucleus accumbens and motivate learningProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 214 citations
- White Matter Microstructure Reflects Individual Differences in Music Reward SensitivityJournal of Neuroscience · 104 citations
2018
- Musicians at the Cocktail Party: Neural Substrates of Musical Training During Selective Listening in Multispeaker SituationsCerebral Cortex · 100 citations
- Network-Based Asymmetry of the Human Auditory SystemCerebral Cortex · 84 citations
- Specialized neural dynamics for verbal and tonal memory: fMRI evidence in congenital amusiaHuman Brain Mapping · 73 citations
- Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello trainingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 66 citations
2017
- Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory PerformanceNeuron · 264 citations
- Speech-in-noise perception in musicians: A reviewHearing Research · 198 citations
- Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech betterProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 174 citations
- Modulating musical reward sensitivity up and down with transcranial magnetic stimulationNature Human Behaviour · 165 citations
- Neural Correlates of Early Sound Encoding and their Relationship to Speech-in-Noise PerceptionFrontiers in Neuroscience · 112 citations
- Subcortical and cortical correlates of pitch discrimination: Evidence for two levels of neuroplasticity in musiciansNeuroImage · 69 citations
2016
- Cortical contributions to the auditory frequency-following response revealed by MEGNature Communications · 431 citations
- Neural correlates of specific musical anhedoniaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 241 citations
- Modulation of Functional Connectivity in Auditory–Motor Networks in Musicians Compared with NonmusiciansCerebral Cortex · 148 citations
- Cortical Correlates of the Auditory Frequency-Following and Onset Responses: EEG and fMRI EvidenceJournal of Neuroscience · 113 citations
- Experience-dependent modulation of right anterior insula and sensorimotor regions as a function of noise-masked auditory feedback in singers and nonsingersNeuroImage · 76 citations
- Individual Differences in the Frequency-Following Response: Relation to Pitch PerceptionPLoS ONE · 66 citations
Research in numbers
From OpenAlex- article191
- review5
- book chapter2
- conference abstract1
- editorial1
- NeuroImage20
- Cerebral Cortex17
- Journal of Neuroscience17
- Neuropsychologia14
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience12
- Alan Charles Evans29
- Virginia B. Penhune23
- Marilyn Jones‐Gotman18
- Pascal Belin14
- Ernest Mas Herrero13
Experience and education
Universities
1999University of California, San Francisco
1978 to 1985Brown University
1978Boston University
Industry and labs
1985 to 2026Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
2020 to 2021Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2009Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
1993Massachusetts General Hospital
1993Office of Naval Research
1982 to 1983Providence VA Medical Center
1983Veterans Health Administration