2026 Daniel J. Levitin: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	53	4705	4358	316	295	98	19102

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel J. Levitin is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on understanding complex neural mechanisms and their behavioral correlates.

Their scholarly output includes publications in various reputable venues. Some recent papers include:

"The Future of Higher Education: Identifying Current Educational Problems and Proposed Solutions," 2022, Education Sciences
"Breaking (musical) boundaries by investigating brain dynamics of event segmentation during real-life music-listening," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem," 2023, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
"Towards an Understanding of Control of Complex Rhythmical "Wavelike" Coordination in Humans," 2020, Brain Sciences
"1/f laws found in non-human music," 2023, Scientific Reports

Levitin's frequent collaborators include Lindsay Fleming, Ross Sanders, Haya Halabieh, S. Christopher M. Hawkins, and Alexandra E. Bernstein.

The main research fields of the scientist are psychology and neuroscience, with specific concentration in the following subfields:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Biomedical Engineering
Education

The core topics addressed in Levitin's body of work are:

Neuroscience and Music Perception
Music and Audio Processing
Neural dynamics and brain function
Multisensory perception and integration
Motor Control and Adaptation
Muscle activation and electromyography studies
Higher Education and Employability

Levitin has been recognized by several professional organizations, notably as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 within the Academy of Social Sciences, and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

A critical role for the right fronto-insular cortex in switching between central-executive and default-mode networks

Devarajan Sridharan;Daniel J. Levitin;Vinod Menon

3193
Citations
The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system

Vinod Menon;Daniel J. Levitin

1516
Citations
The neurochemistry of music

Mona Lisa Chanda;Daniel J. Levitin

1342
Citations
Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice.

Dale J. Langford;Sara E. Crager;Zarrar Shehzad;Shad B. Smith

1151
Citations
This is your brain on music : the science of a human obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

962
Citations
Musical structure is processed in “language” areas of the brain: a possible role for Brodmann Area 47 in temporal coherence

Daniel J Levitin;Vinod Menon

573
Citations
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Daniel J. Levitin

556
Citations
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Daniel J. Levitin

548
Citations
Absolute memory for musical pitch: Evidence from the production of learned melodies

Daniel J. Levitin

534
Citations
The Structure of Musical Preferences: A Five-Factor Model

Peter J. Rentfrow;Lewis R. Goldberg;Daniel J. Levitin

523
Citations
Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Daniel J. Levitin;Anna K. Tirovolas

506
Citations
Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performance.

Bradley W. Vines;Carol L. Krumhansl;Marcelo M. Wanderley;Daniel J. Levitin

465
Citations
Absolute pitch: perception, coding, and controversies

Daniel J. Levitin;Susan E. Rogers

424
Citations
This Is Your Brain on Music

Daniel Levitin

345
Citations
Memory for musical tempo: Additional evidence that auditory memory is absolute

Daniel J. Levitin;Daniel J. Levitin;Perry R. Cook

338
Citations
Reducing Social Stress Elicits Emotional Contagion of Pain in Mouse and Human Strangers

Loren J Martin;Georgia Hathaway;Kelsey Isbester;Sara Mirali

312
Citations
Neural Dynamics of Event Segmentation in Music: Converging Evidence for Dissociable Ventral and Dorsal Networks

Devarajan Sridharan;Daniel J. Levitin;Chris H. Chafe;Jonathan Berger

256
Citations
The Psychology of Music: Rhythm and Movement

Daniel J Levitin;Jessica A Grahn;Justin London

234
Citations
Ecological validity of soundscape reproduction

Catherine Guastavino;Brian Katz;Jean-Dominique Polack;Daniel J. Levitin

231
Citations
Musical Abilities in Individuals with Williams Syndrome

Daniel J. Levitin;Ursula Bellugi

212
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University

Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Carol L. Krumhansl Cornell University

Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge

Lewis R. Goldberg Oregon Research Institute

Michal Kosinski Stanford University

Stephen McAdams McGill University

Alan J. Lincoln Alliant International University

Pamela Heaton Goldsmiths University of London

Petri Laukka Uppsala University

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