OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Music Perception is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Music Exposure and Maternal Musicality Predict Vocabulary Development in Children with Cochlear Implants	34
Continuous Response to Perceived Affective Intentions in Music Listening	22
Is Absolute Pitch Learnable? Implicit and Explicit Absolute Pitch	15
Perceived and Induced Affective Responses to Musical Sounds	15
Japanese Version of the Experience of Groove Questionnaire (EGQ-JA)	14
Metric Accent Affects Perception of Key Center in Pop-Music Chord Loops	11
Musical Advantage in Lexical Tone Perception Hinges on Musical Instrument	11
Music Perception, Emotions, and Listening Motives in Older Adults and Individuals with Alzheimer Disease	11
Slower Response Time When Brake Lights Align with Musical Beats	9
Timbre Semantic Associations Vary Both Between and Within Instruments	9
Musician Advantage for Segregation of Competing Speech in Native Tonal Language Speakers	9
Genre-typical Timbre and the Urge to Move to Music	9
Sandra Trehub (1938–2023)	9
Beat Perception and Production in Musicians and Dancers	8
Editorial	8
Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy with the Dùndún Talking Drum	8
The Associations Between Music Training, Musical Working Memory, and Visuospatial Working Memory	7
The Idiosyncrasy of Involuntary Musical Imagery Repetition (IMIR) Experiences	7
The Activated Singer	7
Instrument Timbre Combinations Influence the Relative Prominence of Perceptual Layers in Orchestral Music	6
Marching to Your Own Beat	6
Harmonizing Minds	6
From Bach to Pélog	5
The Effects of Local and Global Key Consistency on Musical Tension	5
No Heightened Musical Pitch Weighting For Tone Language Speakers in Early Childhood	4

Rapid Learning and Long-term Memory in the Speech-to-song Illusion	4
Popular Music Excerpts Are Rated As More Memorable And Salient If They Involve Vocals, Compound Hooks, and Choruses	4
Neuroscience in Music Research	4
Learning and Recalling Melodies	3
Music’s Familiar Flow	3
Consonance Dissonance and Cadences	3
Italian Validation of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire	3
Effect of Timbre on Goodness-of-Fit Ratings of Short Chord Sequences	3
Acoustical and Cultural Explanations for Contextual Tonal Stability	3
Appreciation of Form in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier	3
The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale	3
Unraveling the Filled Duration Illusion and its Stability in Repeated Measurements	3
Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading	2
Rhythm and Reading Abilities	2
Exploring Melodic Contour	2
Saxophone Players’ Self-Perceptions About Body Movement in Music Performing and Learning	2
From Commitment to Action	2
Audience’s Perceived Expectancy and Authenticity of Classical Music Performance by Digital Musical Instrument Mobile Apps	2
Processing Components in Song Attunement	2
Real-Time Modulation Perception in Western Classical Music	2
Cultural Accounts of Consonance Perception. A Lakatosian Approach to Save Pythagoras	2
The Vocal Advantage in Memory for Melodies is Based on Contour	2
Contrasts of Register Underlie the Perception of Musical Humor	2
Interval Patterns Facilitate Short-Term Memory Encoding of Auditory Pitch Sequences	2
Modeling and Perception of Melodic Contour Families	2
Managing Reverberant Acoustics in Singing by Extending the Plosive Closures in Vowel–Plosive–Vowel Sequences	1
Move Your Body! Low-frequency Amplitude and Syncopation Increase Groove Perception in House Music	1
The Effect of Aural and Visual Presentation Formats on Categorical and Dimensional Judgements of Emotion for Sung and Spoken Expressive Performances	1
The Relationship of Musical Expertise, Working Memory, and Intelligence	1
Perceived Motor Synchrony With the Beat is More Strongly Related to Groove Than Measured Synchrony	1
The Effect of Subjective Fatigue on Auditory Processing in Musicians and Nonmusicians	1
Do Picardy Thirds Smile? Tonal Hierarchy and Tonal Valence	1
Violinists Employ More Expressive Gesture and Timing Around Global Musical Resolutions	1
Stroop-like Effects in Pitch Identification Training and Generalization to Untrained Timbres	1
Musicians Can Reliably Discriminate Between String Register Locations on the Violoncello	1
Investigating the Shared Meaning of Metaphorical Sound Attributes	1
The Music of Perfume	1
Testing Rhythmic Abilities in Developmental Dyslexia	1
Perception of Thematic Structure in Music Over Short and Long Timescales	1
Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head	1
Constructing the Live Experience at Pop Music Concerts	1
Audience Members’ Attentional Focus in a Live Concert Setting is Shaped by the Performers’ Sonic and Temporal Relationships	1
Jazz Piano Training Modulates Neural Oscillations and Executive Functions in Older Adults	1