Jane W. Davidson

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

• Social science
• Social psychology
• Cognition

Jane W. Davidson focuses on Musical, Social psychology, Music education, Developmental psychology and Cognitive psychology. Her study focuses on the intersection of Musical and fields such as Perception with connections in the field of Performing arts, Covert, Observer and Musicology. Her work carried out in the field of Social psychology brings together such families of science as Musicality, Exploratory research, Choir and Ontology.

Her research in Music education focuses on subjects like Musical development, which are connected to Social environment, Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and Cognition. Her research in the fields of Aptitude overlaps with other disciplines such as Range. Her Cognitive psychology research includes themes of Communication, Expression and Gesture.

Her most cited work include:

• Innate talents: reality or myth? (511 citations)
• The role of practice in the development of performing musicians (301 citations)
• Visual Perception of Performance Manner in the Movements of Solo Musicians (295 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Jane W. Davidson mostly deals with Musical, Social psychology, Music education, Cognitive psychology and Developmental psychology. Her Musical research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Aesthetics, Perception and Communication. Her Social psychology research includes elements of Performing arts and Choir.

Music education is a subfield of Pedagogy that she studies. Jane W. Davidson works mostly in the field of Cognitive psychology, limiting it down to topics relating to Music psychology and, in certain cases, Music therapy, as a part of the same area of interest. Developmental psychology is closely attributed to Cognition in her research.

She most often published in these fields:

• Musical (30.37%)
• Social psychology (15.71%)
• Music education (13.61%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

• Musical (30.37%)
• Aesthetics (9.95%)
• Visual arts (7.85%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Jane W. Davidson spends much of her time researching Musical, Aesthetics, Visual arts, Cognitive psychology and Well-being. In the field of Musical, her study on Music making overlaps with subjects such as Perspective. Her research in Aesthetics tackles topics such as Meaning which are related to areas like Feeling, Greeks, Power and Politics.

Her work in Visual arts covers topics such as Contextual information which are related to areas like Active listening. Her research integrates issues of Embodied cognition, Embodied music cognition, Simulation theory of empathy, Music psychology and Order in her study of Cognitive psychology. The various areas that Jane W. Davidson examines in her Well-being study include Psychosocial, Cognition, Applied psychology and Mood.

Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:

• Using Self-Determination Theory to Examine Musical Participation and Well-Being (10 citations)
• Trait Empathy associated with Agreeableness and rhythmic entrainment in a spontaneous movement to music task: Preliminary exploratory investigations (10 citations)
• Musical Activity and Well-being: A New Quantitative Measurement Instrument (9 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

• Social science
• Social psychology
• Cognition

Her primary scientific interests are in Musical, Well-being, Cognitive psychology, Music psychology and Social psychology. Her study of Music making is a part of Musical. Her Well-being study combines topics in areas such as Coping, Categorization and Exploratory factor analysis.

Jane W. Davidson combines subjects such as Agreeableness, Embodied music cognition and Embodied cognition with her study of Cognitive psychology. In her research on the topic of Music psychology, Psychosocial, Developmental psychology, Autonomy, Competence and Perception is strongly related with Cognition. Her work in the fields of Social psychology, such as Personality, Individual difference, Impression management and Social group, intersects with other areas such as Investment.