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Aniruddh D. Patel

Aniruddh D. Patel

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Neuroscience

D-Index
57
Citations
19714
World Ranking
4266
National Ranking
1927

Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
19443
World Ranking
4119
National Ranking
2304

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Aniruddh D. Patel is a researcher affiliated with Tufts University in the United States, specializing in neuroscience with a focus on music perception and cognitive processes related to auditory stimuli. Their work intersects multiple disciplines including cognitive neuroscience, developmental biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, signal processing, and genetics.

Patel's research primarily addresses topics such as neuroscience and music perception, animal vocal communication and behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, music and audio processing, multisensory perception and integration, hearing loss and rehabilitation, and music therapy and health.

Frequent coauthors in Patel's publications include Mimi H. Kao, Psyche Loui, Adam Tierney, Robert J. Zatorre, and Daniel Müllensiefen. Their collaborations indicate ongoing engagement with experts in music cognition and brain research.

Looking at publication venues, Patel's work appears in journals such as Cognition, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PsycTESTS Dataset, International Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Patel include:

  1. "Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization" (2021) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  2. "Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution" (2021) published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Additional notable papers in related fields featuring or relevant to Patel's work include:

  • "Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based Interventions" (2022), Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Mapping Specific Mental Content during Musical Imagery" (2021), Cerebral Cortex

Patel was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2018, reflecting recognition for work in their scientific domain.

Best Publications

  • Music, Language, and the Brain

    Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Language, music, syntax and the brain.

    Aniruddh D Patel

  • Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study

    Aniruddh D. Patel;Edward Gibson;Jennifer Ratner;Mireille Besson

  • Why would Musical Training Benefit the Neural Encoding of Speech? The OPERA Hypothesis.

    Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Experimental evidence for synchronization to a musical beat in a nonhuman animal.

    Aniruddh D. Patel;John R. Iversen;Micah R. Bregman;Micah R. Bregman;Irena Schulz

  • The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis

    Aniruddh D. Patel;John R. Iversen

  • An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music

    Aniruddh D Patel;Joseph R Daniele

  • Temporal modulations in speech and music.

    Nai Ding;Aniruddh D. Patel;Lin Chen;Henry Butler

  • Processing Prosodic and Musical Patterns: A Neuropsychological Investigation ☆ ☆☆

    Aniruddh D. Patel;Isabelle Peretz;Mark Tramo;Raymonde Labreque

  • Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution

    Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Can nonlinguistic musical training change the way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis.

    Aniruddh D. Patel

  • The influence of metricality and modality on synchronization with a beat.

    Aniruddh D. Patel;John R. Iversen;Yanqing Chen;Bruno H. Repp

  • Top-Down Control of Rhythm Perception Modulates Early Auditory Responses

    John R. Iversen;Bruno H. Repp;Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Structural integration in language and music: evidence for a shared system.

    Evelina G. Fedorenko;Aniruddh Patel;Daniel Casasanto;Jonathan Winawer

  • Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: The case of British English and French

    Aniruddh D. Patel;John R. Iversen;Jason C. Rosenberg

  • Making Psycholinguistics Musical: Self-Paced Reading Time Evidence for Shared Processing of Linguistic and Musical Syntax

    L. Robert Slevc;Jason C. Rosenberg;Aniruddh D. Patel

  • Perception of rhythmic grouping depends on auditory experience.

    John R. Iversen;Aniruddh D. Patel;Kengo Ohgushi

  • The linguistic benefits of musical abilities

    Aniruddh D. Patel;John R. Iversen

  • Intonation processing in congenital amusia: discrimination, identification and imitation

    Fang Liu;Aniruddh D. Patel;Adrian Fourcin;Lauren Stewart

  • Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework

    Aniruddh D. Patel

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Roel M. Willems
Roel M. Willems Radboud University
Bruno H. Repp
Bruno H. Repp Haskins Laboratories
Adrian M. Owen
Adrian M. Owen University of Western Ontario
Frank A. Russo
Frank A. Russo Toronto Metropolitan University
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney
Andrea R. Halpern
Andrea R. Halpern Bucknell University

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