Robert J. Zatorre

This study examines how prefrontal theta-burst stimulation affects the liking of newly learned melodies over time, finding delayed effects on musical preference without impacting early skill acquisition.

This study decodes individual imagined musical pitches from EEG oscillatory power during perception, imagery, and a random-pitch control condition, showing shared theta-beta signatures between perception and imagery.

The paper shows that short musical training induces mu suppression during passive listening to learned melodies in non-musicians, indicating motor predictions in auditory perception.

This study develops a musical neurofeedback approach to enable self-regulation of ventral striatal activity, showing improved reward system modulation and behavioral relevance.

This paper develops and validates a questionnaire to measure individual differences in reward from natural singing, identifying five distinct facets of singing-related rewards.

The paper identifies distinct genetic pathways contributing to different aspects of music enjoyment using twin data.

This study shows that musical training improves auditory stream segregation through enhanced auditory working memory, confirmed in two independent samples.

This study shows that congruent visual movements enhance music-induced pleasure through increased sensorimotor integration during vocal performances.

The paper investigates auditory hemispheric asymmetry, proposing that it supports the categorization of sounds based on actions and objects through differential processing of temporal and spectral acoustic modulations.

The paper shows spectro-temporal acoustical features reliably distinguish speech from song across 21 societies using machine learning and human listener analysis.

The paper investigates how rare genetic mutations affect brain asymmetry by analyzing CNVs in a cohort of individuals and linking genetic alterations to brain structure and function.

The paper investigates how semantic and social contexts affect phonetic encoding in natural conversations using a speech-in-noise paradigm, finding that dialogues and intact conversations improve performance.

This study shows that rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with auditory working memory training accelerates learning and improves performance, with benefits lasting up to 3 days.

The paper develops and validates an fMRI-informed EEG model to predict reward-related ventral striatum activation using spectro-temporal EEG features.

This study uses fMRI to show that expert cellists and singers share brain networks for pitch regulation, with differences in motor control areas.

The paper investigates oscillatory entrainment in auditory cortical and subcortical structures using FFR data from MEG and EEG, finding evidence of phase alignment and frequency convergence.

This study compares the neural correlates of music and food-induced pleasure using a meta-analysis of 38 neuroimaging studies, finding common and distinct brain regions involved.

The paper investigates how neural representations of music during imagery compare to perception and how rhythmic motion affects these representations.

This study investigates how dopamine affects memory consolidation of music, finding that dopaminergic interventions modulate memory recognition and pleasantness of music in individuals sensitive to musical reward.

This study compares brain activation during singing and cello playing in expert musicians to determine how musical instrument playing co-opts brain networks evolved for singing.

The paper shows that the right auditory cortex is more integrated in the brain network, enabling more efficient communication, with this asymmetry explained by diffusive communication mechanisms.