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Laurel J. Trainor

Laurel J. Trainor

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Psychology

D-Index
88
Citations
24839
World Ranking
1049
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Laurel J. Trainor is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and specializes in research spanning neuroscience and psychology, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their work frequently addresses interdisciplinary aspects of music perception and neural function.

The main fields of study covered by their research include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

The subfields of study that feature prominently in their publications are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Signal Processing

The principal research topics associated with Laurel J. Trainor include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Laurel J. Trainor has contributed several recent papers to the scientific literature. Notable publications include:

  • "Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition" (2020) in Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • "Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders" (2021) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Collective music listening: Movement energy is enhanced by groove and visual social cues" (2021) in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • "Please don't stop the music: A meta-analysis of the cognitive and academic benefits of instrumental musical training in childhood and adolescence" (2022) in Educational Research Review
  • "Extra-Curricular Activities and Well-Being: Results From a Survey of Undergraduate University Students During COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions" (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology

Their research has been published repeatedly in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Developmental Science
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal

Laurel J. Trainor has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Dobromir Dotov
  • Andrew Chang
  • Erica Flaten
  • Mohammadreza Edalati
  • Fabrice Wallois

Among their recognitions, they were named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 with an affiliation to the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children.

    Sima H Anvari;Laurel J Trainor;Jennifer Woodside;Betty Ann Levy

  • Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception

    Jessica Phillips-Silver;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) distinguishes valence and intensity of musical emotions

    Louis A. Schmidt;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development

    Erin E. Hannon;Erin E. Hannon;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Internalized Timing of Isochronous Sounds Is Represented in Neuromagnetic Beta Oscillations

    Takako Fujioka;Laurel J. Trainor;Edward W. Large;Bernhard Ross

  • Interpersonal synchrony increases prosocial behavior in infants.

    Laura K. Cirelli;Kathleen M. Einarson;Laurel J. Trainor;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Is Infant-Directed Speech Prosody a Result of the Vocal Expression of Emotion?

    Laurel J. Trainor;Caren M. Austin;Renée N. Desjardins

  • Hearing what the body feels: Auditory encoding of rhythmic movement☆

    Jessica Phillips-Silver;Laurel J. Trainor

  • One year of musical training affects development of auditory cortical-evoked fields in young children

    Takako Fujioka;Bernhard Ross;Ryusuke Kakigi;Christo Pantev

  • Enhancement of Neuroplastic P2 and N1c Auditory Evoked Potentials in Musicians

    Antoine Shahin;Daniel J. Bosnyak;Laurel J. Trainor;Larry E. Roberts

  • Musical Training Enhances Automatic Encoding of Melodic Contour and Interval Structure

    Takako Fujioka;Laurel J. Trainor;Bernhard Ross;Ryusuke Kakigi

  • Infant preferences for infant-directed versus noninfant-directed playsongs and lullabies

    Laurel J. Trainor

  • Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

    Hugo Merchant;Jessica Grahn;Laurel Trainor;Martin Rohrmeier

  • Cortical plasticity induced by short-term unimodal and multimodal musical training.

    Claudia Lappe;Sibylle C. Herholz;Laurel J. Trainor;Christo Pantev

  • The development of evaluative responses to music:: Infants prefer to listen to consonance over dissonance

    Laurel J. Trainor;Becky M. Heinmiller

  • A comparison of infants' and adults' sensitivity to western musical structure.

    Laurel J. Trainor;Sandra E. Trehub

  • Preference for Sensory Consonance in 2- and 4-Month-Old Infants

    Laurel J. Trainor;Christine D. Tsang;Vivian H. W. Cheung

  • The Acoustic Basis of Preferences for Infant-Directed Singing

    Laurel J. Trainor;Elissa D. Clark;Anita Huntley;Beth A. Adams

  • Beta and gamma rhythms in human auditory cortex during musical beat processing.

    Takako Fujioka;Takako Fujioka;Laurel J. Trainor;Laurel J. Trainor;Edward W. Large;Bernhard Ross

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Mothers' and fathers' singing to infants.

    Sandra E. Trehub;Anna M. Unyk;Stuart B. Kamenetsky;David S. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra E. Trehub
Sandra E. Trehub University of Toronto
Claude Alain
Claude Alain University of Toronto
Simon Haykin
Simon Haykin McMaster University
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing University of Amsterdam
John Cairney
John Cairney University of Queensland
Diane L. Santesso
Diane L. Santesso University of Winnipeg
E. Glenn Schellenberg
E. Glenn Schellenberg University of Toronto
Geoffrey B. Hall
Geoffrey B. Hall McMaster University
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society

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