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Fredrik Ullén

Fredrik Ullén

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
10305
World Ranking
6365
National Ranking
130

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Fredrik Ullén is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The primary fields of their research encompass Neuroscience and Psychology, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work intersects multiple subfields including Music, Social Psychology, and Signal Processing.

The research topics Ullén has contributed to are diverse, with a strong emphasis on Neuroscience and Music Perception. Other key topics include Diverse Music Education Insights, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Neural dynamics and brain function, Music and Audio Processing, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Ullén's recent publications cover a range of subjects related to music, neural processes, and personality. Notable papers include:

  • Musical expertise and personality - differences related to occupational choice and instrument categories (2021, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study (2020, Psychological Science)
  • Attentional modulation of the auditory steady-state response across the cortex (2020, NeuroImage)
  • Music and Genetics (2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Action-Perception Coupling and Near Transfer: Listening to Melodies after Piano Practice Triggers Sequence-Specific Representations in the Auditory-Motor Network (2020, Cerebral Cortex)

Frequent collaborators in Ullén's research include:

  • Miriam A. Mosing
  • Laura W. Wesseldijk
  • Örjan de Manzano
  • Cassia Low Manting
  • Balázs Gulyás

Ullén has published repeatedly in several academic venues. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Personality and Individual Differences, Scientific Reports, Intelligence, and Cerebral Cortex.

In recognition of academic standing, Ullén was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development.

    Sara L Bengtsson;Zoltán Nagy;Stefan Skare;Lea Forsman

  • Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity

    Robert A Power;Stacy Steinberg;Gyda Bjornsdottir;Cornelius A Rietveld

  • Listening to rhythms activates motor and premotor cortices

    Sara L. Bengtsson;Fredrik Ullén;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Toshihiro Hashimoto

  • The psychophysiology of flow during piano playing.

    Örjan de Manzano;Töres Theorell;László Harmat;Fredrik Ullén

  • Cortical Regions Involved in the Generation of Musical Structures during Improvisation in Pianists

    Sara L. Bengtsson;Mihály Csíkszentmihályi;Fredrik Ullén

  • Practice Does Not Make Perfect No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Music Ability

    Miriam A. Mosing;Guy Madison;Nancy L. Pedersen;Ralf Kuja-Halkola

  • Connecting to Create: Expertise in Musical Improvisation Is Associated with Increased Functional Connectivity between Premotor and Prefrontal Areas

    Ana Luísa Pinho;Örjan de Manzano;Peter Fransson;Helene Eriksson

  • Rethinking expertise: A multifactorial gene-environment interaction model of expert performance.

    Fredrik Ullén;David Zachary Hambrick;Miriam Anna Mosing

  • Modeling the tendency for music to induce movement in humans: First correlations with low-level audio descriptors across music genres

    Guy Madison;Fabien Gouyon;Fredrik Ullén;Kalle Hörnström

  • Neural networks for the coordination of the hands in time.

    Fredrik Ullén;Hans Forssberg;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Physiological correlates of the flow experience during computer game playing

    László Harmat;Örjan de Manzano;Töres Theorell;Lennart Högman

  • Thinking Outside a Less Intact Box: Thalamic Dopamine D2 Receptor Densities Are Negatively Related to Psychometric Creativity in Healthy Individuals

    Örjan de Manzano;Simon Cervenka;Anke Karabanov;Anke Karabanov;Lars Farde

  • Personality related traits as predictors of music practice: Underlying environmental and genetic influences

    Ana Butkovic;Fredrik Ullén;Miriam A. Mosing

  • Addressing a Paradox: Dual Strategies for Creative Performance in Introspective and Extrospective Networks

    Ana Luísa Pinho;Fredrik Ullén;Miguel Castelo-Branco;Peter Fransson

  • Individual differences in the proneness to have flow experiences are linked to dopamine D2-receptor availability in the dorsal striatum

    Örjan de Manzano;Simon Cervenka;Aurelija Jucaite;Oscar Hellenäs

  • Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test

    Fredrik Ullén;Miriam A. Mosing;Linus Holm;Helene Eriksson

  • Dissociating brain regions controlling the temporal and ordinal structure of learned movement sequences

    Sara L. Bengtsson;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Hans Forssberg;Fredrik Ullen

  • Goal-independent mechanisms for free response generation: creative and pseudo-random performance share neural substrates.

    Örjan de Manzano;Fredrik Ullén

  • Dissociation between melodic and rhythmic processing during piano performance from musical scores

    Sara L. Bengtsson;Fredrik Ullén

  • Effector-independent voluntary timing: behavioural and neuroimaging evidence.

    Sara L. Bengtsson;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Hans Forssberg;Fredrik Ullén

  • Beyond Born versus Made: A New Look at Expertise

    David Z. Hambrick;Brooke N. Macnamara;Guillermo J Campitelli;Fredrik Ullen

  • Intelligence and variability in a simple timing task share neural substrates in the prefrontal white matter.

    Fredrik Ullén;Lea Forsman;Örjan Blom;Anke Karabanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Grigori N. Orlovsky
Grigori N. Orlovsky Karolinska Institute
Tatiana G. Deliagina
Tatiana G. Deliagina Karolinska Institute
Hans Forssberg
Hans Forssberg Karolinska Institute
Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute
Karin J. H. Verweij
Karin J. H. Verweij University of Amsterdam
Töres Theorell
Töres Theorell Karolinska Institute
H. Henrik Ehrsson
H. Henrik Ehrsson Karolinska Institute
J. Devin McAuley
J. Devin McAuley Michigan State University
David A. Hinds
David A. Hinds 23andMe (United States)

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