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Overview

Elvira Brattico is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and focuses on research within the field of neuroscience, particularly emphasizing the intersection of neural dynamics and music perception. Their scholarly work spans several related subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, signal processing, social psychology, music, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The primary research topics include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Multisensory perception and integration

The scientist's publication record includes a range of research articles and a book publication. Recent papers highlight various aspects of music and brain function, with representative examples such as:

  • Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Decomposing neural responses to melodic surprise in musicians and non-musicians: Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions in the auditory system, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Rapid encoding of musical tones discovered in whole-brain connectivity, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses, 2022, Physics of Life Reviews

Elvira Brattico has contributed one book titled Language Electrified, published in 2023 by Humana Press.

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Peter Vuust
  • Leonardo Bonetti
  • Niels Trusbak Haumann
  • Morten L. Kringelbach
  • Mariangela Lippolis

Frequent publication venues reflect Brattico's engagement with a variety of platforms focused on neuroscience, music psychology, and interdisciplinary studies, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Psychology of Music
  • NeuroImage
  • Physics of Life Reviews

Best Publications

  • Music and emotions in the brain: familiarity matters

    Carlos Silva Pereira;João Teixeira;Patrícia Figueiredo;João Xavier

  • Large-scale brain networks emerge from dynamic processing of musical timbre, key and rhythm.

    Vinoo Alluri;Petri Toiviainen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Enrico Glerean

  • A functional MRI study of happy and sad emotions in music with and without lyrics

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Vinoo Alluri;Brigitte Bogert;Brigitte Bogert;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Cognitive control in auditory working memory is enhanced in musicians

    Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Christopher J. Bailey;Antti Korvenoja

  • Cognitive and motor loops of the human cerebro-cerebellar system

    Juha Salmi;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Tuomas Neuvonen;Tuomas Neuvonen;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico

  • The neuroaesthetics of music.

    Elvira Brattico;Marcus Pearce

  • The amusic brain: in tune, out of key, and unaware.

    Isabelle Peretz;Elvira Brattico;Miika Järvenpää;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Toward a Neural Chronometry for the Aesthetic Experience of Music

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Bogert Brigitte Bogert;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortex

    Elvira Brattico;Mari Tervaniemi;Risto Näätänen;Isabelle Peretz

  • The sound of music: Differentiating musicians using a fast, musical multi-feature mismatch negativity paradigm

    Peter Vuust;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Miia Seppänen;Miia Seppänen;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen

  • Abstract phoneme representations in the left temporal cortex: Magnetic mismatch negativity study

    Anna Shestakova;Elvira Brattico;Minna Huotilainen;Valery Galunov

  • It's Sad but I Like It: The Neural Dissociation Between Musical Emotions and Liking in Experts and Laypersons.

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Brigitte Bogert;Vinoo Alluri;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Neural discrimination of nonprototypical chords in music experts and laymen: An meg study

    Elvira Brattico;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Olga Varyagina;Christopher Bailey

  • Emotion processing of major, minor, and dissonant chords: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Elvira Brattico;Christopher Bailey;Antti Korvenoja

  • Maladaptive and adaptive emotion regulation through music: a behavioral and neuroimaging study of males and females

    Emily Carlson;Suvi Saarikallio;Petri Toiviainen;Brigitte Bogert

  • Aesthetic judgments of music in experts and laypersons — An ERP study

    Mira Müller;Lea Höfel;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Thomas Jacobsen

  • Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory

    Anne Caclin;Elvira Brattico;Mari Tervaniemi;Risto Näätänen

  • Representation of harmony rules in the human brain: further evidence from event-related potentials.

    Sakari Leino;Elvira Brattico;Mari Tervaniemi;Peter Vuust;Peter Vuust

  • Abnormal electrical brain responses to pitch in congenital amusia.

    Isabelle Peretz;Elvira Brattico;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Connectivity Patterns During Music Listening: Evidence for Action-Based Processing in Musicians

    Vinoo Alluri;Petri Toiviainen;Iballa Burunat;Marina Kliuchko

  • Context Effects on Pitch Perception in Musicians and Nonmusicians: Evidence from Event-Related-Potential Recordings

    Elvira Brattico;Risto Näääätäänen;Mari Tervaniemi

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vuust
Peter Vuust Royal Academy of Music
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
Minna Huotilainen
Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki
Morten L. Kringelbach
Morten L. Kringelbach University of Oxford
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Synnöve Carlson
Synnöve Carlson Aalto University
Albert Gjedde
Albert Gjedde University of Copenhagen

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