Most cited papers in Neuroscience and Music Perception
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).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,042 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The cortical organization of speech processing Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 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 | 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 |
| 6 | Automatic and effortful processes in memory. Lynn Hasher, Rose T. Zacks · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1979 | 2,750 |
| 7 | The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: A review Risto Näätänen, Petri Paavilainen, Teemu Rinne et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology | 14 Nov 2007 | 2,721 |
| 8 | Quest: A Bayesian adaptive psychometric method Andrew B. Watson, Denis G. Pelli · Perception & Psychophysics | Mar 1983 | 2,532 |
| 9 | Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus-specific effects Kalanit Grill‐Spector, Richard N. Henson, Alex Martin · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 30 Nov 2005 | 2,367 |
| 10 | Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel · Cognition | 5 Feb 2004 | 2,261 |
| 11 | A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading Cathy J. Price · NeuroImage | 12 May 2012 | 2,227 |
| 12 | Scalar expectancy theory and Weber's law in animal timing. John Gibbon · Psychological Review | May 1977 | 2,188 |
| 13 | What makes us tick? Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing Catalin V. Buhusi, Warren H. Meck · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 15 Sep 2005 | 2,142 |
| 14 | Two varieties of long-latency positive waves evoked by unpredictable auditory stimuli in man Nancy K. Squires, Kenneth C. Squires, Steven A. Hillyard · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | Apr 1975 | 2,124 |
| 15 | A theory of magnitude: common cortical metrics of time, space and quantity Vincent Walsh · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 23 Sep 2003 | 2,104 |
| 16 | Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations Anne-Lise Giraud, David Poeppel · Nature Neuroscience | 18 Mar 2012 | 2,079 |
| 17 | Electrical Signs of Selective Attention in the Human Brain Steven A. Hillyard, Robert F. Hink, Vincent L. Schwent et al. · Science | 12 Oct 1973 | 1,981 |
| 18 | Word length and the structure of short-term memory Alan Baddeley, Neil C. Thomson, Mary Buchanan · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1975 | 1,966 |
| 19 | Recognizing Spoken Words: The Neighborhood Activation Model Paul A. Luce, David B. Pisoni · Ear and Hearing | Feb 1998 | 1,963 |
| 20 | Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms Patrik N. Juslin, Daniel Västfjäll · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2008 | 1,911 |
| 21 | Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing Mathieu Vigneau, Virginie Beaucousin, Pierre‐Yves Hervé et al. · NeuroImage | 19 Jan 2006 | 1,891 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Attention: Some theoretical considerations. J. A. Deutsch, Diana Deutsch · Psychological Review | 1963 | 1,853 |
| 24 | Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: Different channels, same code? Patrik N. Juslin, Petri Laukka · Psychological Bulletin | 2003 | 1,835 |
| 25 | Scalar Timing in Memory John Gibbon, Russell M. Church, Warren H. Meck · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | May 1984 | 1,826 |
| 26 | Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing Josef P. Rauschecker, Sophie Kerttu Scott · Nature Neuroscience | 26 May 2009 | 1,824 |
| 27 | Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex Pascal Belin, Robert J. Zatorre, Philippe Lafaille et al. · Nature | 2000 | 1,811 |
| 28 | When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production Robert J. Zatorre, Joyce L. Chen, Virginia B. Penhune · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 21 Jun 2007 | 1,782 |
| 29 | Human studies of prepulse inhibition of startle: normal subjects, patient groups, and pharmacological studies DAVID L. BRAFF, Mark A. Geyer, Neal R. Swerdlow · Psychopharmacology | 22 Jun 2001 | 1,731 |
| 30 | A continuous measure of phasic electrodermal activity Mathias Benedek, Christian Kaernbach · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | 7 May 2010 | 1,714 |
| 31 | The role of attention in auditory information processing as revealed by event-related potentials and other brain measures of cognitive function Risto Näätänen · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Jun 1990 | 1,695 |
| 32 | Affect and memory: A review. Paul H. Blaney · Psychological Bulletin | 1986 | 1,693 |
| 33 | Vocal affect expression: A review and a model for future research. Klaus R. Scherer · Psychological Bulletin | 1986 | 1,682 |
| 34 | Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians Christian Gaser, Gottfried Schlaug · Journal of Neuroscience | 8 Oct 2003 | 1,658 |
| 35 | Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Adolescent Brain Jay N. Giedd · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Jun 2004 | 1,631 |
| 36 | Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech Robert J. Zatorre, Pascal Belin, Virginia B. Penhune · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2002 | 1,626 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions Stefan Koelsch · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Feb 2014 | 1,542 |
| 39 | The mismatch negativity: A review of underlying mechanisms Marta Isabel Garrido, James Morvan Kilner, Klaas Enno Stephan et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology | Feb 2009 | 1,532 |
| 40 | Auditory temporal perception, phonics, and reading disabilities in children Paula Tallal · Brain and Language | Mar 1980 | 1,502 |
| 41 | Temporal discrimination and the indifference interval: Implications for a model of the "internal clock". Michel Treisman · The Psychological Monographs | 1963 | 1,498 |
| 42 | Context, cortex, and dopamine: A connectionist approach to behavior and biology in schizophrenia. Jonathan D. Cohen, David Servan-Schreiber · Psychological Review | 1992 | 1,495 |
| 43 | Human auditory evoked potentials. I: Evaluation of components Terence W. Picton, Steven A. Hillyard, Howard I. Krausz et al. · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | 1974 | 1,492 |
| 44 | Sensorimotor synchronization: A review of the tapping literature Bruno H. Repp · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Dec 2005 | 1,489 |
| 45 | ERP components on reaction errors and their functional significance: a tutorial Michael Falkenstein, Jörg Hoormann, Stefan Christ et al. · Biological Psychology | 2000 | 1,477 |
| 46 | Balanced inhibition underlies tuning and sharpens spike timing in auditory cortex Michael Wehr, Anthony M. Zador · Nature | Nov 2003 | 1,475 |
| 47 | Frequencies contributing to functional connectivity in the cerebral cortex in "resting-state" data. Dietmar Cordes, Victor M. Haughton, Konstantinos Arfanakis et al. · PubMed | Aug 2001 | 1,453 |
| 48 | Mechanisms and streams for processing of “what” and “where” in auditory cortex Josef P. Rauschecker, Biao Jun Tian · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 Oct 2000 | 1,434 |
| 49 | Cultural Recycling of Cortical Maps Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen · Neuron | Oct 2007 | 1,390 |
| 50 | The dynamics of attending: How people track time-varying events. Edward W. Large, Mari Riess Jones · Psychological Review | 1999 | 1,384 |
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