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Andrea R. Halpern is affiliated with Bucknell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Computer Science, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as a subfield. The work also intersects with areas such as Music, Signal Processing, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include Neuroscience and Music Perception, Diverse Music Education Insights, Music and Audio Processing, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Multisensory Perception and Integration, and Music Therapy and Health.

Halpern has published extensively in venues focused on auditory perception and cognition. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Auditory Perception & Cognition
  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Halpern cover various aspects of music perception and cognitive neuroscience. Examples include:

  • What do less accurate singers remember? Pitch-matching ability and long-term memory for music, 2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Mapping Specific Mental Content during Musical Imagery, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • Context-dependent neural responses to minor notes in frontal and temporal regions distinguish musicians from nonmusicians, 2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • The Role of Long-Term Memory in Mental Transformations of Pitch, 2020, Auditory Perception & Cognition
  • Imagined Musical Scale Relationships Decoded from Auditory Cortex, 2022, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Throughout their career, Halpern has collaborated multiple times with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Q. Pfordresher
  • Emma B. Greenspon
  • Mor Regev
  • Adrian M. Owen
  • Aniruddh D. Patel

Best Publications

  • When That Tune Runs Through Your Head: A PET Investigation of Auditory Imagery for Familiar Melodies

    Andrea R. Halpern;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Hearing in the mind's ear: A pet investigation of musical imagery and perception

    Robert J. Zatorre;Andrea R. Halpern;David W. Perry;Ernst Meyer

  • Mental Concerts: Musical Imagery and Auditory Cortex

    Robert J. Zatorre;Andrea R. Halpern

  • Absolute pitch and planum temporale

    Julian Paul Keenan;Ven Thangaraj;Andrea R. Halpern;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Behavioral and neural correlates of perceived and imagined musical timbre.

    Andrea R Halpern;Robert J Zatorre;Marc Bouffard;Jennifer A Johnson

  • Neuronal correlates of perception, imagery, and memory for familiar tunes

    Sibylle C. Herholz;Andrea R. Halpern;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Brain Activation during Anticipation of Sound Sequences

    Amber M. Leaver;Jennifer Van Lare;Brandon Zielinski;Andrea R. Halpern

  • Memory for the absolute pitch of familiar songs

    Andrea R. Halpern

  • A Brain System for Auditory Working Memory.

    Sukhbinder Kumar;Sabine Joseph;Phillip E. Gander;Nicolas Barascud

  • EFFECT OF UNILATERAL TEMPORAL-LOBE EXCISION ON PERCEPTION AND IMAGERY OF SONGS

    Robert J. Zatorre;Andrea R. Halpern

  • Mental scanning in auditory imagery for songs.

    Andrea R. Halpern

  • Musical expertise and melodic structure in memory for musical notation.

    Andrea Halpern

  • Cerebral Substrates of Musical Imagery

    Andrea R. Halpern

  • Mental reversal of imagined melodies: A role for the posterior parietal cortex

    Robert J. Zatorre;Andrea R. Halpern;Marc Bouffard

  • The persistence of musical memories: A descriptive study of earworms

    Andrea R. Halpern;James C. Bartlett

  • Perceived and Imagined Tempos of Familiar Songs

    Andrea R. Halpern

  • Recognition of familiar and unfamiliar melodies in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease

    James C. Bartlett;Andrea R. Halpern;W. Jay Dowling

  • Identification, discrimination, and selective adaptation of simultaneous musical intervals

    Robert J. Zatorre;Andrea R. Halpern

  • Implicit Memory for Music in Alzheimer's Disease

    Andrea R. Halpern;Margaret G. O'Connor

  • "I know what I like": stability of aesthetic preference in Alzheimer's patients.

    Andrea R. Halpern;Jenny Ly;Seth Elkin-Frankston;Margaret G. O’Connor

  • Duration discrimination in a series of rhythmic events

    Andrea R. Halpern;Christopher J. Darwin

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Bartlett
James C. Bartlett The University of Texas at Dallas
Peter Q. Pfordresher
Peter Q. Pfordresher University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Aniruddh D. Patel
Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University
Michael J. Banissy
Michael J. Banissy Goldsmiths University of London
Emery Schubert
Emery Schubert University of New South Wales
Lauren Stewart
Lauren Stewart Goldsmiths University of London
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Joydeep Bhattacharya Goldsmiths University of London
Jason D. Warren
Jason D. Warren University College London
Ernst Meyer
Ernst Meyer University of Basel

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