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Musical structure is processed in "language" areas of the brain: a possible role for Brodmann Area 47 in temporal coherenceDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Penfield, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1
Neuroimage 20:2142-52. 2003..We speculate that this particular region of inferior frontal cortex may be more generally responsible for processing fine-structured stimuli that evolve over time, not merely those that are linguistic...- Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams SyndromeDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology and Faculty of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada
Child Neuropsychol 10:223-47. 2004..We discuss the neurobiological implications of these findings... - Music to my eyes: cross-modal interactions in the perception of emotions in musical performanceBradley W Vines
Psychology Department, McGill University, Canada
Cognition 118:157-70. 2011..quot;.. - Perception of emotion in musical performance in adolescents with autism spectrum disordersAnjali Bhatara
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Autism Res 3:214-25. 2010..Implications for theories of emotion in autism are discussed in light of these findings... - Perception of emotional expression in musical performanceAnjali Bhatara
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:921-34. 2011..Across all three experiments, listeners demonstrated sensitivity to the expressive cues we manipulated, with sensitivity increasing as a function of musical experience... - Screening for pain phenotypes: analysis of three congenic mouse strains on a battery of nine nociceptive assaysJeffrey S Mogil
Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada
Pain 126:24-34. 2006.... - Dimensions of emotion in expressive musical performanceBradley W Vines
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2V 2A3
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:462-6. 2005..Changes to the clarinetists' expressive intentions did not significantly affect emotions conveyed by sound. It was largely through the visual modality that expressive intentions influenced the experience for observers... - Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with Autism Spectrum DisordersEve Marie Quintin
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C P 8888, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 41:1240-55. 2011..incorrectly) recognized the emotions. These findings are reviewed within the context of the amygdala theory of autism... - Aversion, awareness, and attraction: investigating claims of hyperacusis in the Williams syndrome phenotypeDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:514-23. 2005.... - What does it mean to be musical?Daniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Dr Penfield, Montreal QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Neuron 73:633-7. 2012..The concept of musicality, however, is underspecified and not well understood. Here, I propose a framework for defining musicality to provide a foundation for studying the contributions of biological and environmental factors... - Current advances in the cognitive neuroscience of musicDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1156:211-31. 2009..The review serves to demonstrate the important role that music can play in informing broad theories of higher order cognitive processes such as music in humans... - Cross-modal interactions in the experience of musical performances: physiological correlatesCatherine Chapados
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Cognition 108:639-51. 2008.... - Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: evidence from Williams SyndromeDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology and Program in Behavioural Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:325-34. 2005..Williams syndrome represents a compelling model of the relationship between genes, brains, and such complex cognitive behaviors as music... - The effect of music on social attribution in adolescents with autism spectrum disordersAnjali K Bhatara
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Child Neuropsychol 15:375-96. 2009..We conclude that adolescents with ASD perceive and integrate musical soundtracks with visual displays equivalent to typically developing individuals... - Neural correlates of auditory perception in Williams syndrome: an fMRI studyDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Neuroimage 18:74-82. 2003..These results constitute an important first step in drawing out the links between genes, brain, cognition, and behavior in Williams syndrome... - Patterns of pain: meta-analysis of microarray studies of painMichael L LaCroix-Fralish
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1
Pain 152:1888-98. 2011..Most notable among these were Reg3b (regenerating islet-derived 3 beta; pancreatitis-associated protein) and Ccl2 (chemokine [C-C motif] ligand 2), which were significantly upregulated in every condition in the rat... - Absolute pitch: perception, coding, and controversiesDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Trends Cogn Sci 9:26-33. 2005..Research on pitch coding strategies informs wider theories in cognitive science of semantic memory, and the nature of perceptual categories... - Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performanceBradley W Vines
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Penfield, Montreal, Que, Canada H2V 2A3
Cognition 101:80-113. 2006..The investigation augments knowledge of human communicative processes spanning language and music, and involving multiple modalities of emotion and information transfer... - Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power lawDaniel J Levitin
Department of Psychology, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:3716-20. 2012..Furthermore, composers systematically manipulate (consciously or otherwise) the predictability in 1/f rhythms to give their compositions unique identities... - Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in miceDale J Langford
Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Science 312:1967-70. 2006..Finally, observation of a cagemate in pain altered pain sensitivity of an entirely different modality, suggesting that nociceptive mechanisms in general are sensitized... - Neural dynamics of event segmentation in music: converging evidence for dissociable ventral and dorsal networksDevarajan Sridharan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuron 55:521-32. 2007..Our study provides direct experimental evidence for dissociable and causally linked ventral and dorsal networks during event segmentation of ecologically valid auditory stimuli... - A critical role for the right fronto-insular cortex in switching between central-executive and default-mode networksDevarajan Sridharan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:12569-74. 2008..Our findings have important implications for a unified view of network mechanisms underlying both exogenous and endogenous cognitive control...