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Overview

John A. Sloboda is affiliated with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields, including neuroscience, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

Their work focuses extensively on topics related to music and its effects on the brain and society. Key areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

In terms of academic discipline, John A. Sloboda's contributions cover main fields such as neuroscience, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Subfields of their research incorporate cognitive neuroscience, music, sociology and political science, social psychology, and health.

The researcher has collaborated frequently with Hamit Dardagan, with at least three joint works documented.

Best Publications

  • The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music

    John A. Sloboda

  • Music and emotion: Theory and research

    Patrik N. Juslin;John A. Sloboda

  • Music structure and emotional response: Some empirical findings.

    John A. Sloboda

  • Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications

    Patrik N. Juslin;John A. Sloboda

  • Innate talents: reality or myth?

    Michael J. A. Howe;Jane W. Davidson;John A. Sloboda

  • Natural born talents undiscovered

    Michael J. A. Howe;Jane W. Davidson;John A. Sloboda

  • The role of practice in the development of performing musicians

    John A. Sloboda;Jane W. Davidson;Michael J. A. Howe;Derek G. Moore

  • Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    Andreas C. Lehmann;John A. Sloboda;Robert Henley Woody

  • Functions of music in everyday life: An exploratory study using the Experience Sampling Method.

    John A. Sloboda;Susan A. O'Neill;Antonia Ivaldi

  • Emotions in everyday listening to music.

    John A. Sloboda;Susan A. O'Neill

  • Psychological perspectives on music and emotion

    John A Sloboda;Patrik N Juslin

  • The Role of Harmonic Expectancy Violations in Musical Emotions: Evidence from Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Responses

    Nikolaus Steinbeis;Stefan Koelsch;John A. Sloboda

  • Biographical Precursors of Musical Excellence: An Interview Study:

    John A. Sloboda;Michael J. A. Howe

  • The role of parental influences in the development of musical performance

    Jane W. Davidson;Michael J. A. Howe;Derek G. Moore;John A. Sloboda

  • The musical mind

    John A. Sloboda

  • The communication of musical metre in piano performance.

    John A. Sloboda

  • Empirical studies of emotional response to music.

    John A. Sloboda

  • The acquisition of musical performance expertise: Deconstructing the "talent" account of individual differences in musical expressivity.

    John A. Sloboda

  • The young performing musician

    John Sloboda;Jane Davidson

  • Generative processes in music : the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition

    John A. Sloboda

  • Perception And Cognition Of Music

    Irene Deliege;John A. Sloboda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane W. Davidson
Jane W. Davidson University of Melbourne
Patrik N. Juslin
Patrik N. Juslin Uppsala University
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
Andrea R. Halpern
Andrea R. Halpern Bucknell University
John M. Findlay
John M. Findlay Durham University
Beate Hermelin
Beate Hermelin Goldsmiths University of London

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