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Most cited papers in Diverse Music Education Insights

What are the most cited papers in Diverse Music Education Insights?

The most cited paper in Diverse Music Education Insights is "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring" (Benjamin S. Bloom, 1984), with 2,495 citations. Next come "Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms" (1,911) and "Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music" (1,864).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 361 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring Benjamin S. Bloom · Educational Researcher Jun 1984 2,495
2 Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms Patrik N. Juslin, Daniel Västfjäll · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2008 1,911
3 Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music Valorie N. Salimpoor, Mitchel Benovoy, Kevin Michel-Herve Larcher et al. · Nature Neuroscience 9 Jan 2011 1,864
4 The do re mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences. Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003 1,587
5 Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment Annette P. Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger · Theory and Society Dec 2003 1,446
6 Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement. Marcel R. Zentner, Didier Grandjean, Klaus R. Scherer · Emotion Open access 2008 1,256
7 The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population Daniel Müllensiefen, Bruno Gingras, Jason Jiri Musil et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 26 Feb 2014 1,222
8 Expression, Perception, and Induction of Musical Emotions: A Review and a Questionnaire Study of Everyday Listening Patrik N. Juslin, Petri Laukka · Journal of New Music Research Open access Sep 2004 1,149
9 Does mental practice enhance performance? James E. Driskell, Carolyn Copper, Aidan P. Moran · Journal of Applied Psychology Aug 1994 1,141
10 Therapeutic Songwriting in Music Therapy Felicity Baker, Tony Wigram, David J. Stott et al. · Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Jul 2008 1,138
11 Music training for the development of auditory skills Nina Kraus, Bharath Chandrasekaran · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review 21 Jul 2010 1,124
12 The neurochemistry of music Mona Lisa Chanda, Daniel J. Levitin · Trends in Cognitive Sciences Review 29 Mar 2013 1,046
13 An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology. Carol Lynne Krumhansl · Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale Dec 1997 1,031
14 Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development Krista L. Hyde, Jason P. Lerch, Andrea C. Norton et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Open access 11 Mar 2009 982
15 The power of music: Its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people Susan Hallam · International Journal of Music Education Aug 2010 971
16 Neuropharmacology of timing and time perception Warren H. Meck · Cognitive Brain Research Jun 1996 962
17 Focus on psychometrics. Aspects of item analysis Sandra L. Ferketich · Research in Nursing & Health 1991 918
18 Musical Training as a Framework for Brain Plasticity: Behavior, Function, and Structure Sibylle C. Herholz, Robert J. Zatorre · Neuron Open access Nov 2012 909
19 Neural mechanisms underlying melodic perception and memory for pitch RJ Zatorre, Alan Charles Evans, E. Meyer · Journal of Neuroscience Open access Apr 1994 881
20 Music Structure and Emotional Response: Some Empirical Findings JOHN A. SLOBODA · Psychology of Music Oct 1991 875
21 Brain Organization for Music Processing Isabelle Peretz, Robert J. Zatorre · Annual Review of Psychology Review 2 Nov 2004 863
22 ‘Strangers in Paradise’? Diane Reay, Gill Crozier, John S. Clayton · Sociology Dec 2009 850
23 Neuroanatomical and Neurochemical Substrates of Timing Jennifer T. Coull, Ruey‐Kuang Cheng, Warren H. Meck · Neuropsychopharmacology Open access 28 Jul 2010 830
24 Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity Sylvain Moreno, Carlos Peixeira Marques, Andreia Filipa Gonçalves dos Santos et al. · Cerebral Cortex Oct 2008 789
25 Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation Charles J. Limb, Allen R. Braun · PLoS ONE Open access 26 Feb 2008 784
26 A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music: Psychophysical and Cultural Cues Laura-Lee Balkwill, William Forde Thompson · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal 1999 758
27 Varieties of Musical Disorders Isabelle Peretz, Anne Sophie Champod, Krista L. Hyde · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Nov 2003 736
28 A behavioral theory of timing. Peter R. Killeen, J. Gregor Fetterman · Psychological Review 1988 720
29 A Source Analysis of the Late Human Auditory Evoked Potentials Michael Scherg, Jiri Vajsar, Terence W. Picton · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1989 714
30 The importance of music to adolescents Adrian C. North, David J. Hargreaves, Susan A. O’Neill · British Journal of Educational Psychology Jun 2000 678
31 Role of cortical N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in auditory sensory memory and mismatch negativity generation: implications for schizophrenia. D. Javitt, Mitchell Steinschneider, Charles E. Schroeder et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 15 Oct 1996 677
32 Uses of Music in Everyday Life Adrian C. North, David J. Hargreaves, Jon Hargreaves · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal Open access 2004 667
33 Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis Brooke N. Macnamara, David Z. Hambrick, Frederick Louis Oswald · Psychological Science Review Jul 2014 658
34 Memory‐based or afferent processes in mismatch negativity (MMN): A review of the evidence Risto Näätänen, Thomas Jacobsen, István Winkler · Psychophysiology 2005 641
35 The psychological functions of music listening Thomas Schäfer, Peter Sedlmeier, Christine Städtler et al. · Frontiers in Psychology Open access 2013 634
36 Selective adjustment of the speed of internal clock and memory processes. Warren H. Meck · Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes 1983 631
37 Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu, Patrick C. M. Wong · Scientific Reports Open access 2 Aug 2017 619
38 Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove. Petr Janata, Stefan T. Tomic, Jason M. Haberman · Journal of Experimental Psychology General 18 Jul 2011 600
39 Teaching creatively and teaching for creativity: distinctions and relationships Bob Jeffrey, Anna Craft · Educational Studies Open access Mar 2004 590
40 Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu: A ‘Practical’ Critique of the Habitus Anthony C. King · Sociological Theory Nov 2000 586
41 Dissociating explicit timing from temporal expectation with fMRI Jennifer T. Coull, Anna Christina Nobre · Current Opinion in Neurobiology Review Apr 2008 580
42 The development of rhythmic attending in auditory sequences: attunement, referent period, focal attending Carolyn Drake, Mari Riess Jones, Clarisse Baruch · Cognition Dec 2000 565
43 Coda—Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations: Implications for Organizational Learning Frank J. Barrett · Organization Science Oct 1998 563
44 `Making Up' the Middle-Class Child: Families, Activities and Class Dispositions Carol Vincent, Stephen J. Ball · Sociology Open access 19 Nov 2007 562
45 The time of our lives: Life span development of timing and event tracking. J. Devin McAuley, Mari Riess Jones, Shayla C. Holub et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General 2006 555
46 When That Tune Runs Through Your Head: A PET Investigation of Auditory Imagery for Familiar Melodies Andrea R. Halpern · Cerebral Cortex Open access Oct 1999 551
47 Properties of the Internal Clocka Russell M. Church · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences May 1984 543
48 Music in the exercise domain: a review and synthesis (Part I) Costas I. Karageorghis, David-Lee Priest · International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology Open access 7 Dec 2011 542
49 Are we “experienced listeners”? A review of the musical capacities that do not depend on formal musical training Emmanuel Bigand, Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat · Cognition 18 Jan 2006 540
50 That Rare Feeling: Re-presenting Research Through Poetic Transcription Corrine Glesne · Qualitative Inquiry Jun 1997 530

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