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Some of the studies below have brief descriptions in 'My studies', where you can also listen to the auditory rhythms used.


J.A. Grahn, M. J. Henry, J.D. McAuley. FMRI investigations of cross-modal interactions in beat perception: Audition primes vision, but not vice versa (in press) NeuroImage (uncorrected proof)

A.M. Owen, A. Hampshire, J.A. Grahn, R. Stenton, S. Dajani, A.S. Burns, R.J. Howard, C. G. Ballard. Putting brain training to the test. (2010) Nature, doi:10.1038/nature09042

J.A. Grahn, Advances in neuroimaging techniques: implications for the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis. (in press), In: Language and Music as Cognitive Systems (Rebuschat, P., Rohrmeier, M., Hawkins, J., & Cross, I., eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press pdf (acc manuscript)

J.A. Grahn, J.B. Rowe. Feeling the beat: premotor and striatal interactions in musicians and non-musicians during beat perception. (2009), Journal of Neuroscience, 29(23), 7540-7548

J.A. Grahn, J.D. McAuley. Neural bases of individual differences in beat perception. (2009), NeuroImage, 47, 1894-1903

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. Impairment of beat-based rhythm discrimination in Parkinson's disease. (2009), Cortex, 45(1), 54-61.

R.P. Carlyon, J.M. Deeks, Y. Shtyrov, J.A. Grahn, H.E. Gockel, O. Hauk, and F. Pulvermuller, Changes in the perceived duration of a narrowband sound induced by a preceding stimulus. (2009), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(6):1898-912.

J.A. Grahn. The role of the basal ganglia in beat perception: neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations. (2009), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 35-45

J.A. Grahn, J. Parkinson, A. M. Owen. The role of the basal ganglia in learning and memory: neuropsychological studies (2009), Behavioural Brain Research, 199(1), 53-60

J.A. Grahn, Neuroscientific investigations of musical rhythm: recent advances and future challenges (2009) Contemporary Music Review, 28(3), 251-277

J.A. Grahn, J. Parkinson, A. M. Owen. The cognitive functions of the caudate nucleus. (2008), Progress in Neurobiology, 86(3), 141-155

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. Rhythm and beat perception in motor areas of the brain. (2007), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(5), 893-906

J.A. Grahn, A. M. Owen, Memory: Obstacle avoidance without visual cues. (2006) Current Biology, 16(7), R247-R249 pdf

(Selected Proceedings)

J.A. Grahn, J.B. Rowe. Beat initiation versus continued beat perception: The role of motor areas in the brain. (2008). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.

J.A. Grahn, J.D. McAuley. Using fMRI to investigate individual differences in beat perception. Program No. 303.23. 2007 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online.

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. (2005) The role of the basal ganglia in beat-based rhythm processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: S202-202.

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. (2004). Beat-based rhythm processing in musicians and non-musicians. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: S184-184.

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. Beat-based rhythm processing in the brain. (2004) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, pp. 207-208. Evanston, IL.

J.A. Grahn, M. Brett. Listening to rhythms that induce an internal beat activates the basal ganglia. Program No. 390.7. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2003. Online.

J.A. Grahn. Beat-based versus Interval-based Timing: A Matter of Complexity? (2002) Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, pp.29 -35. Cambridge, UK.

My Thesis: Behavioural and Functional Imaging Studies of Rhythm Processing


Some posters:

HBM 2008 poster: Different cues to the beat during auditory sequence perception modulate motor area activity: an fMRI investigation of musicians and non-musicians.
SfN 2007 poster: Using fMRI to investigate individual differences in beat perception
HBM 2007 poster: Modulation of activity in motor areas by volume accents and beat perception when attending to auditory rhythms
CNS 2005 poster: The role of the basal ganglia in beat-based rhythm processing
CNS 2004 poster: Beat-based rhythm processing in musicians and non-musicians


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