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Neuroscience and Music Perception

Neuroscience and Music Perception is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing, including music and speech perception, temporal processing, emotional responses to music, brain plasticity related to musical training, and the neuroanatomical correlates of auditory perception. It delves into topics such as the organization of the auditory cortex, interval timing, cortical responses to music and speech, and the effects of musical training on brain development.

  • Auditory Cortex
  • Temporal Processing
  • Music Perception
  • Neural Mechanisms
  • Emotional Responses
  • Speech Processing
  • Brain Plasticity
  • Interval Timing
  • Cortical Responses
  • Neuroanatomical Correlates
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neuroscience and Music Perception

Which countries lead Neuroscience and Music Perception research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 735 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 735 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 437 works
  4. 4 Germany 384 works
  5. 5 Canada 270 works
  6. 6 Japan 269 works
  7. 7 India 229 works
  8. 8 France 222 works
  9. 9 Italy 194 works
  10. 10 Australia 173 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.3%China: 17.3%United Kingdom: 10.3%Germany: 9.1%6 others listed: 32.0%31%largest
United States1,326 · 31.3%China735 · 17.3%United Kingdom437 · 10.3%Germany384 · 9.1%6 others listed1,356 · 32.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Neuroscience and Music Perception research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Neuroscience and Music Perception research, followed by University of Toronto and Max Planck Society.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 82 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 49 works
  3. 3 Max Planck SocietyGermany 40 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  5. 5 McGill UniversityCanada 35 works
  6. 6 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 32 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 26 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neuroscience and Music Perception?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neuroscience and Music Perception include Yoshua Bengio, Daniel J. Kahneman and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Carol Brayne United Kingdom 220k citations
  7. 7 John Joseph McGrath Australia 214k citations
  8. 8 David John Hunter Australia 211k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Neuroscience and Music Perception?

The most cited paper in Neuroscience and Music Perception is "The cortical organization of speech processing" (Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel, 2007), with 5,693 citations. Next come "Is the P300 component a manifestation of context updating?" (3,627) and "The N1 Wave of the Human Electric and Magnetic Response to Sound: A Review and an Analysis of the Component Structure" (3,372).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The cortical organization of speech processing Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review 13 Apr 2007 5,693
2 Is the P300 component a manifestation of context updating? Emanuel Donchin, MICHAEL G. H. COLES · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Sep 1988 3,627
3 The N1 Wave of the Human Electric and Magnetic Response to Sound: A Review and an Analysis of the Component Structure Risto Näätänen, Terence W. Picton · Psychophysiology Jul 1987 3,372
4 Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion Anne J. Blood, Robert J. Zatorre · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 25 Sep 2001 2,868
5 Early selective-attention effect on evoked potential reinterpreted Risto Näätänen, Anthony W. K. Gaillard, Sirkka Mäntysalo · Acta Psychologica Jul 1978 2,755
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Where is Neuroscience and Music Perception research done?

The largest centres of Neuroscience and Music Perception research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jyvaskyla.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 139 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 132 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 97 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 95 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 68 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 67 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 62 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 48 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JyvaskylaFI · 23.0 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neuroscience and Music Perception than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neuroscience and Music Perception?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, Royal Academy of Music and McGill University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 16.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Royal Academy of MusicMcGill UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Cambri…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of TorontoCanada 70.013.5%4.6×49 -6.8%
2Royal Academy of MusicDenmark 68.824.8%724.1×11 +46.8%
3McGill UniversityCanada 67.717.6%6.8×35 -35.1%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 66.912.7%5.1×32 +14.7%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 64.515.9%3.6×26 +6.0%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 64.421.4%4.2×19 +10.8%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.89.9%4.5×38 -17.4%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.018.4%1.6×28 -18.4%
9Goldsmiths University of LondonUnited Kingdom 59.517.9%54.0×17 +23.8%
10University of JyväskyläFinland 59.113.3%22.7×21 +1.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Neuroscience and Music Perception, country by country

Is Neuroscience and Music Perception research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neuroscience and Music Perception.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Neuroscience and Music Perception as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Neuroscience and Music Perception over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Neuroscience and Music Perception9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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