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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceived and Induced Affective Responses to Musical Sounds	35
Is Absolute Pitch Learnable? Implicit and Explicit Absolute Pitch	23
Japanese Version of the Experience of Groove Questionnaire (EGQ-JA)	16
Musical Expertise Selectively Modulates the Interplay of Tonality and Meter in Short-Term Memory	14
Continuous Response to Perceived Affective Intentions in Music Listening	14
Musical Advantage in Lexical Tone Perception Hinges on Musical Instrument	12
Music Exposure and Maternal Musicality Predict Vocabulary Development in Children with Cochlear Implants	12
Metric Accent Affects Perception of Key Center in Pop-Music Chord Loops	11
Music Perception, Emotions, and Listening Motives in Older Adults and Individuals with Alzheimer Disease	11
Genre-typical Timbre and the Urge to Move to Music	10
Slower Response Time When Brake Lights Align with Musical Beats	10
Musician Advantage for Segregation of Competing Speech in Native Tonal Language Speakers	9
Sandra Trehub (1938–2023)	9
Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy with the Dùndún Talking Drum	9
Timbre Semantic Associations Vary Both Between and Within Instruments	9
Editorial	8
Marching to Your Own Beat	7
The Activated Singer	7
Instrument Timbre Combinations Influence the Relative Prominence of Perceptual Layers in Orchestral Music	7
Relationships Between Visual Imagery, Emotion, and Music During Music Performance	6
The Effects of Local and Global Key Consistency on Musical Tension	5
Harmonizing Minds	5
Popular Music Excerpts Are Rated As More Memorable And Salient If They Involve Vocals, Compound Hooks, and Choruses	4
Music’s Familiar Flow	4
Rapid Learning and Long-term Memory in the Speech-to-song Illusion	4

Learning and Recalling Melodies	4
From Bach to Pélog	4
Italian Validation of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire	4
Neuroscience in Music Research	4
No Heightened Musical Pitch Weighting For Tone Language Speakers in Early Childhood	3
Effect of Timbre on Goodness-of-Fit Ratings of Short Chord Sequences	3
Acoustical and Cultural Explanations for Contextual Tonal Stability	3
Unraveling the Filled Duration Illusion and its Stability in Repeated Measurements	3
The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale	3
Appreciation of Form in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier	3
From Commitment to Action	2
Contrasts of Register Underlie the Perception of Musical Humor	2
The Vocal Advantage in Memory for Melodies is Based on Contour	2
Real-Time Modulation Perception in Western Classical Music	2
Rhythm and Reading Abilities	2
Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading	2
Motivations for Using Music for Sleep	2
Cultural Accounts of Consonance Perception. A Lakatosian Approach to Save Pythagoras	2
Processing Components in Song Attunement	2
Consonance Dissonance and Cadences	2
Audience’s Perceived Expectancy and Authenticity of Classical Music Performance by Digital Musical Instrument Mobile Apps	2
The Role of Visual Cues in Musical Synchronization	2
Interval Patterns Facilitate Short-Term Memory Encoding of Auditory Pitch Sequences	2
The Relationship of Musical Expertise, Working Memory, and Intelligence	1
Reverberation Time and Musical Emotion in Recorded Music Listening	1
Managing Reverberant Acoustics in Singing by Extending the Plosive Closures in Vowel–Plosive–Vowel Sequences	1
Jazz Piano Training Modulates Neural Oscillations and Executive Functions in Older Adults	1
Testing Rhythmic Abilities in Developmental Dyslexia	1
Constructing the Live Experience at Pop Music Concerts	1
Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head	1
Saxophone Players’ Self-Perceptions About Body Movement in Music Performing and Learning	1
The Effect of Aural and Visual Presentation Formats on Categorical and Dimensional Judgements of Emotion for Sung and Spoken Expressive Performances	1
Perceived Motor Synchrony With the Beat is More Strongly Related to Groove Than Measured Synchrony	1
Building the Anticipation	1
Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter	1
The Music of Perfume	1
Validating Spotify’s “Valence,” “Energy,” and “Danceability” Audio Features for Music Psychology Research	1
Exploring Melodic Contour	1
Modeling and Perception of Melodic Contour Families	1
Move Your Body! Low-frequency Amplitude and Syncopation Increase Groove Perception in House Music	1
There’s More to Timing than Time	1
Editorial	1
Do Picardy Thirds Smile? Tonal Hierarchy and Tonal Valence	1
Audience Members’ Attentional Focus in a Live Concert Setting is Shaped by the Performers’ Sonic and Temporal Relationships	1
Investigating the Shared Meaning of Metaphorical Sound Attributes	1
Stroop-like Effects in Pitch Identification Training and Generalization to Untrained Timbres	1
Perception of Thematic Structure in Music Over Short and Long Timescales	1
Musicians Can Reliably Discriminate Between String Register Locations on the Violoncello	1