Petr Janata

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Acuity of mental representations of pitch
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California 95618, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:214-21. 2012
  2. ncbi Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 141:54-75. 2012
  3. ncbi Characterization of music-evoked autobiographical memories
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis 95618, USA
    Memory 15:845-60. 2007
  4. ncbi Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Percept Psychophys 68:829-44. 2006
  5. ncbi Brain networks that track musical structure
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, 95616, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:111-24. 2005
  6. ncbi Influences of multiple memory systems on auditory mental image acuity
    Ana Navarro Cebrian
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, California 95618, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 127:3189-202. 2010
  7. ncbi Electrophysiological correlates of accurate mental image formation in auditory perception and imagery tasks
    Ana Navarro Cebrian
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, USA
    Brain Res 1342:39-54. 2010
  8. ncbi Music-evoked nostalgia: affect, memory, and personality
    Frederick S Barrett
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    Emotion 10:390-403. 2010
  9. ncbi The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    Cereb Cortex 19:2579-94. 2009
  10. ncbi Beyond the beat: modeling metric structure in music and performance
    Stefan T Tomic
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California 95618, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 124:4024-41. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Mechanisms of sensory/cognitive interactions in audition
    Petr Janata; Fiscal Year: 2003

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Acuity of mental representations of pitch
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California 95618, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:214-21. 2012
    ..Each brain area helps shape the acuity of the unified representation based on current behavioral demands and past experience...
  2. ncbi Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 141:54-75. 2012
    ..We conclude that groove can be treated as a psychological construct and model system that allows for experimental exploration of the relationship between sensorimotor coupling with music and emotion...
  3. ncbi Characterization of music-evoked autobiographical memories
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis 95618, USA
    Memory 15:845-60. 2007
    ..The findings indicate that excerpts of popular music serve as potent stimuli for studying the structure of autobiographical memories...
  4. ncbi Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Percept Psychophys 68:829-44. 2006
    ..The results support a view that auditory images are multifaceted and that their acuity along any given dimension depends partially on the context in which they are formed...
  5. ncbi Brain networks that track musical structure
    Petr Janata
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, 95616, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:111-24. 2005
    ....
  6. ncbi Influences of multiple memory systems on auditory mental image acuity
    Ana Navarro Cebrian
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, California 95618, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 127:3189-202. 2010
    ..The results indicate that mental images formed at a sensory/cognitive interface for the purpose of making perceptual decisions are highly malleable...
  7. ncbi Electrophysiological correlates of accurate mental image formation in auditory perception and imagery tasks
    Ana Navarro Cebrian
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, USA
    Brain Res 1342:39-54. 2010
    ....
  8. ncbi Music-evoked nostalgia: affect, memory, and personality
    Frederick S Barrett
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    Emotion 10:390-403. 2010
    ..Nostalgia was associated with both joy and sadness, whereas nonnostalgic and nonautobiographical experiences were associated with irritation...
  9. ncbi The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
    Cereb Cortex 19:2579-94. 2009
    ..These findings extend the results of previous autobiographical memory research by demonstrating the spontaneous activation of an autobiographical memory network in a naturalistic task with low retrieval demands...
  10. ncbi Beyond the beat: modeling metric structure in music and performance
    Stefan T Tomic
    Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California 95618, USA
    J Acoust Soc Am 124:4024-41. 2008
    ..Finally, the relationship of the model to several other beat-finding and rhythm models is discussed, and several applications and extensions for the model are suggested...
  11. ncbi The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Science 298:2167-70. 2002
    ..The tonality structure was thus maintained as a dynamic topography in cortical areas known to be at a nexus of cognitive, affective, and mnemonic processing...
  12. ncbi The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing
    Barbara Tillmann
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, USA
    J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:470-82. 2003
    ..Findings are discussed in terns of tonal knowledge activation and suggest that an activated tonal center gives rise to strong expectations for the tonic...
  13. ncbi Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming
    Barbara Tillmann
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:145-61. 2003
    ..e. inferior frontal gyrus, frontal operculum, insula) that was stronger for unrelated than for related targets. We discuss our results with regard to the role of these areas in the processing and integration of temporal information...
  14. ncbi Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits
    Petr Janata
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:121-40. 2002
    ..Thus, attentive listening to music appears to be enabled by areas that serve general functions, rather than by music-specific cortical modules...
  15. ncbi Swinging in the brain: shared neural substrates for behaviors related to sequencing and music
    Petr Janata
    Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
    Nat Neurosci 6:682-7. 2003
    ..These studies are also brought into an existing framework concerning the interaction of attention and time-keeping mechanisms in perceiving complex patterns of information that are distributed in time, such as those that occur in music...
  16. ncbi The highs and lows of being tone deaf
    Petr Janata
    Nat Neurosci 10:810-2. 2007
  17. ncbi Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation
    Joseph M Moran
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Neuroimage 21:1055-60. 2004
    ..These findings provide evidence that humor depends critically upon extant neural systems important for resolving incongruities (humor detection) and for the expression of affect (humor appreciation)...
  18. ncbi When music tells a story
    Petr Janata
    Nat Neurosci 7:203-4. 2004
  19. ncbi Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming
    Barbara Tillmann
    Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:209-11. 2003
    ..Musical contexts influence the processing of target events. Our study investigated the neural correlates of processing related and unrelated musical events presented as the last chord of eight-chord sequences...
  20. ncbi A comparison of neural circuits underlying auditory and visual object categorization
    Reginald B Adams
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 6207 Moore Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
    Neuroimage 16:361-77. 2002
    ..As expected, BOLD signal increases in the fusiform gyrus varied with the semantic level of object categorization, though this effect was weak and restricted to the left hemisphere in the case of auditory objects...

Research Grants1

  1. Mechanisms of sensory/cognitive interactions in audition
    Petr Janata; Fiscal Year: 2003
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