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Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
15060
World Ranking
3841
National Ranking
25

Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
15069
World Ranking
4124
National Ranking
161

Mireille Besson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mireille Besson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 149 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Mireille Besson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mireille Besson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mireille Besson is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Aerospace Engineering, and Statistics and Probability.

Their research extensively covers topics such as Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Reading and Literacy Development, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills.

Recent publications by Mireille Besson include:

  • Semantic compensation and novel word learning in university students with dyslexia (2020, Neuropsychologia)
  • Sleep pattern in the dromedary camel: a behavioral and polysomnography study (2022, SLEEP)
  • Evidence for Enhanced Long-term Memory in Professional Musicians and Its Contribution to Novel Word Learning (2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Phonetic Skills and Verbal Memory Capacity Predict Phonetic-based Word Learning: An Event-related Potential Study (2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • The electrophysiological correlates of word pre-activation during associative word learning (2022, International Journal of Psychophysiology)

Mireille Besson frequently publishes in the following journals:

  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Neuropsychologia
  • SLEEP
  • NeuroImage

Coauthors who have collaborated regularly with Mireille Besson include:

  • Mylène Barbaroux
  • Stefan Elmer
  • Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
  • Eva Dittinger
  • Maud Rasamimanana

Best Publications

  • Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

    Sylvain Moreno;Carlos Marques;Andreia Santos;Manuela Santos

  • Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study

    Aniruddh D. Patel;Edward Gibson;Jennifer Ratner;Mireille Besson

  • The music of speech: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language

    Daniele Schön;Cyrille Magne;Mireille Besson

  • Musician Children Detect Pitch Violations in Both Music and Language Better than Nonmusician Children: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Approaches

    Cyrille Magne;Daniele Schön;Mireille Besson

  • AN EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL (ERP) STUDY OF MUSICAL EXPECTANCY : COMPARISON OF MUSICIANS WITH NONMUSICIANS

    Mireille Besson;Frédérique Faïta

  • Transfer of training between music and speech: common processing, attention, and memory

    Mireille Besson;Julie Chobert;Céline Marie

  • Songs as an aid for language acquisition

    Daniele Schön;Maud Boyer;Sylvain Moreno;Mireille Besson

  • Comparison between Language and Music

    Mireille Besson;Daniele Schön

  • Influence of musical expertise and musical training on pitch processing in music and language.

    Mireille Besson;Daniele Schön;Sylvain Moreno;Andréia Santos

  • Music Training for the Development of Speech Segmentation

    Clément François;Julie Chobert;Mireille Besson;Mireille Besson;Daniele Schön

  • Musicians Detect Pitch Violation in a Foreign Language Better Than Nonmusicians: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

    Carlos Marques;Sylvain Moreno;São Luís Castro;Mireille Besson

  • On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation.

    Sonja A Kotz;Martin Meyer;Kai Alter;Mireille Besson

  • Twelve Months of Active Musical Training in 8- to 10-Year-Old Children Enhances the Preattentive Processing of Syllabic Duration and Voice Onset Time

    Julie Chobert;Clément François;Jean-Luc Velay;Mireille Besson;Mireille Besson

  • Event-related potential asymmetries during the reading of sentences

    M. Kutas;C. Van Petten;M. Besson

  • An event-related potential analysis of incongruity in music and other non-linguistic contexts.

    M. Besson;F. Macar

  • The Time-Course of Metaphor Comprehension: An Event-Related Potential Study

    Joel Pynte;Mireille Besson;Fabrice-Henri Robichon;Jézabel Poli

  • An event-related potential (erp) analysis of semantic congruity and repetition effects in sentences

    Mireille Besson;Marta Kutas;Cyma Van Petten

  • Singing in the Brain: Independence of Lyrics and Tunes

    M. Besson;F. Faïta;I. Peretz;A.-M. Bonnel

  • Similar cerebral networks in language, music and song perception.

    Daniele Schön;Reyna Gordon;Aurélie Campagne;Cyrille Magne

  • Brain waves associated with musical incongruities differ for musicians and non-musicians

    Mireille Besson;Frédérique Faïta;Jean Requin

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniele Schön
Daniele Schön Aix-Marseille University
Kai Alter
Kai Alter Newcastle University
Sylvain Moreno
Sylvain Moreno Simon Fraser University
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
São Luís Castro
São Luís Castro University of Porto
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich

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