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Overview

Barbara Tillmann is affiliated with the Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development in France. Their research primarily focuses on intersections between neuroscience, psychology, and music perception, emphasizing auditory processing and developmental aspects of speech and language.

The main fields of study for Tillmann include neuroscience and psychology, with significant work in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their research also extends into developmental and educational psychology, signal processing, and social psychology.

Key topics explored in their work cover:

  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Diverse music education insights
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Music and audio processing

Tillmann's recent publications illustrate ongoing investigations in rhythmic processing, music cognition, and developmental speech and language disorders. Notable papers include:

  • "Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?", 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science
  • "Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.", 2021, Neuropsychology
  • "Near and far transfer: Is music special?", 2021, Memory & Cognition
  • "You got rhythm, or more: The multidimensionality of rhythmic abilities", 2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "A stimulus-brain coupling analysis of regular and irregular rhythms in adults with dyslexia and controls", 2020, Brain and Cognition

Frequent collaborators in Tillmann's work include:

  • Anne Caclin
  • Lesly Fornoni
  • Anna Fiveash
  • Nathalie Bedoin
  • Agathe Pralus

The most commonly used publication venues for their research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain and Cognition
  • Music & Science
  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The scope of Tillmann's work reflects a strong multidisciplinary approach, combining aspects of cognitive neuroscience with applied psychology fields related to developmental disorders and sensory processing, particularly related to music and language.

Best Publications

  • Implicit learning of tonality: A self-organizing approach

    Barbara Tillmann;Jamshed J. Bharucha;Emmanuel Bigand

  • The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music.

    Petr Janata;Jeffrey L. Birk;John D. Van Horn;Marc Leman

  • Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming.

    Barbara Tillmann;Petr Janata;Jamshed J Bharucha

  • Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits.

    Petr Janata;Barbara Tillmann;Jamshed J. Bharucha

  • Cognitive priming in sung and instrumental music: Activation of inferior frontal cortex

    B. Tillmann;S. Koelsch;N. Escoffier;E. Bigand

  • Impaired pitch perception and memory in congenital amusia: the deficit starts in the auditory cortex

    Philippe Albouy;Jérémie Mattout;Romain Bouet;Emmanuel Maby

  • Rhythmic auditory stimulation influences syntactic processing in children with developmental language disorders.

    Lauranne Przybylski;Lauranne Przybylski;Nathalie Bedoin;Sonia Krifi-Papoz;Vania Herbillon

  • Effect of global structure and temporal organization on chord processing

    Emmanuel Bigand;François Madurell;Barbara Tillmann;Marion Pineau

  • Sensory Versus Cognitive Components in Harmonic Priming

    Emmanuel Bigand;Benedicte Poulin;Barbara Tillmann;Francois Madurell

  • The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music

    E Bigand;B Tillmann;B Poulin;D.A D'Adamo

  • Congenital amusia: a short-term memory deficit for non-verbal, but not verbal sounds.

    Barbara Tillmann;Katrin Schulze;Katrin Schulze;Jessica M. Foxton;Jessica M. Foxton

  • Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders

    Enikő Ladányi;Valentina Persici;Valentina Persici;Valentina Persici;Anna Fiveash;Barbara Tillmann

  • Auditory Processing in High-Functioning Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Anne-Marie R. DePape;Geoffrey B. C. Hall;Barbara Tillmann;Laurel J. Trainor;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Implicit learning of musical timbre sequences: statistical regularities confronted with acoustical (dis)similarities.

    Barbara Tillmann;Stephen McAdams

  • Can Musical or Painting Interventions Improve Chronic Pain, Mood, Quality of Life, and Cognition in Patients with Mild Alzheimer's Disease? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Elodie Pongan;Barbara Tillmann;Yohana Leveque;Béatrice Trombert

  • Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.

    Anna Fiveash;Nathalie Bedoin;Reyna L Gordon;Barbara Tillmann

  • Music lexical networks: the cortical organization of music recognition.

    Isabelle Peretz;Nathalie Gosselin;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin;Robert J. Zatorre

  • ON-LINE IDENTIFICATION OF CONGENITAL AMUSIA

    Isabelle Peretz;Nathalie Gosselin;Barbara Tillmann;Lola L. Cuddy

  • The Feeling of Familiarity of Music and Odors: The Same Neural Signature?

    Jane Plailly;Barbara Tillmann;Jean-Pierre Royet

  • Implicit investigations of tonal knowledge in nonmusician listeners.

    Barbara Tillmann

  • Effects of Global and Local Contexts on Harmonic Expectancy

    B. Tillmann;E. Bigand;M. Pineau

  • Music and Language Perception: Expectations, Structural Integration, and Cognitive Sequencing

    Barbara Tillmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Bigand
Emmanuel Bigand University of Burgundy
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Laurel J. Trainor
Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Pierre Perruchet
Pierre Perruchet University of Burgundy
Mari Riess Jones
Mari Riess Jones The Ohio State University
Hervé Abdi
Hervé Abdi The University of Texas at Dallas

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