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Isabelle Peretz

Isabelle Peretz

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Psychology

D-Index
105
Citations
39626
World Ranking
495
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Isabelle Peretz is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant focus on cognitive neuroscience as a subfield. The scientist's work also includes music, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics of their research comprise neuroscience and music perception, diverse music education insights, music therapy and health, hearing loss and rehabilitation, music and audio processing, multisensory perception and integration, and reading and literacy development.

Among recent papers attributed to them are:

  • Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition, 2020, published in Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • The impact of music training on inhibition control, phonological processing, and motor skills in kindergarteners: a randomized control trial, 2020, Early Child Development and Care
  • Co-occurrence of Deficits in Beat Perception and Synchronization Supports Implication of Motor System in Beat Perception, 2021, Music & Science
  • Sex differences in music perception are negligible, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Basic timekeeping deficit in the Beat-based Form of Congenital Amusia, 2020, Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Michael W. Weiss, Pauline Tranchant, John R. Iversen, Samuel A. Mehr, and Nathalie Gosselin.

Isabelle Peretz has published multiple works in a number of venues, notably:

  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Early Child Development and Care
  • Music & Science

In recognition of contributions to their field, this scientist was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Brain Organization for Music Processing

    Isabelle Peretz;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke

    Teppo Särkämö;Mari Tervaniemi;Sari Laitinen;Anita Forsblom

  • Modularity of music processing.

    Isabelle Peretz;Max Coltheart

  • Varieties of musical disorders. The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia.

    Isabelle Peretz;Annie Sophie Champod;Krista Hyde

  • Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music

    Thomas Hans Fritz;Sebastian Jentschke;Nathalie Gosselin;Daniela Sammler

  • Music and emotion: perceptual determinants, immediacy, and isolation after brain damage

    Isabelle Peretz;Lise Gagnon;Bernard Bouchard

  • Individual Differences in Rhythmic Cortical Entrainment Correlate with Predictive Behavior in Sensorimotor Synchronization

    Sylvie Nozaradan;Sylvie Nozaradan;Isabelle Peretz;Peter E. Keller;Peter E. Keller

  • Congenital amusia: a group study of adults afflicted with a music-specific disorder.

    Julie Ayotte;Isabelle Peretz;Krista Hyde

  • Enhanced Pitch Sensitivity in Individuals with Autism: A Signal Detection Analysis

    Anna Bonnel;Laurent Mottron;Isabelle Peretz;Manon Trudel

  • Tagging the Neuronal Entrainment to Beat and Meter

    Sylvie Nozaradan;Isabelle Peretz;Marcus Missal;André Mouraux

  • A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music.

    Simone Dalla Bella;Isabelle Peretz;Luc Rousseau;Nathalie Gosselin

  • The nature of music from a biological perspective

    Isabelle Peretz

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

    Isabelle Peretz;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Contribution of different cortical areas in the temporal lobes to music processing.

    C Liégeois-Chauvel;I Peretz;M Babaï;Laguitton

  • Effects of relaxing music on salivary cortisol level after psychological stress.

    Stéphanie Khalfa;Simone Dalla Bella;Mathieu Roy;Isabelle Peretz

  • PROCESSING OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL MUSICAL INFORMATION BY UNILATERAL BRAIN-DAMAGED PATIENTS

    Isabelle Peretz

  • Happy, sad, scary and peaceful musical excerpts for research on emotions

    Sandrine Vieillard;Isabelle Peretz;Nathalie Gosselin;Stéphanie Khalfa

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

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

  • Songs as an aid for language acquisition

    Daniele Schön;Maud Boyer;Sylvain Moreno;Mireille Besson

  • Functional dissociations following bilateral lesions of auditory cortex.

    Isabelle Peretz;Régine Kolinsky;Mark Tramo;Raymonde Labrecque

  • Report Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music

    Thomas Fritz;Sebastian Jentschke;Nathalie Gosselin;Daniela Sammler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose Morais
Jose Morais Université Libre de Bruxelles
Barbara Tillmann
Barbara Tillmann Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development
Sylvie Belleville
Sylvie Belleville University of Montreal
Séverine Samson
Séverine Samson University of Lille
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Mireille Besson
Mireille Besson Aix-Marseille University
Sandra E. Trehub
Sandra E. Trehub University of Toronto
Caroline Palmer
Caroline Palmer McGill University
Elvira Brattico
Elvira Brattico University of Helsinki
Lola L. Cuddy
Lola L. Cuddy Queen's University

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