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43
Citations
9116
World Ranking
7192
National Ranking
488

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Steven Brown is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology. They also engage in research related to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Signal Processing.

Their work covers a range of topics including Action Observation and Synchronization, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Music Technology and Sound Studies, Music and Audio Processing, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, and Face Recognition and Perception.

Recent publications by Steven Brown include the following:

  • Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia (2021) - Science Advances
  • Evolution of the speech-ready brain: The voice/jaw connection in the human motor cortex (2020) - The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans (2021) - New Ideas in Psychology
  • Neural correlates of partnered interaction as revealed by cross-domain ALE meta-analysis (2022) - Psychology & Neuroscience
  • The neural basis of creative production: A cross-modal ALE meta-analysis (2021) - Open Psychology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Elizabeth Phillips
  • Matthew Berry
  • J. Michael McBride
  • Patrick E. Savage
  • Eunseon Kim

Steven Brown has published multiple times in several venues, particularly:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Open Psychology

In 1991, Steven Brown was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music

    Patrick E. Savage;Steven Brown;Emi Sakai;Thomas E. Currie

  • Stuttered and fluent speech production: an ALE meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies

    Steven Brown;Roger J. Ingham;Janis C. Ingham;Angela R. Laird

  • Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic systems.

    Steven Brown;Michael J. Martinez;Lawrence M. Parsons

  • Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences

    Steven Brown;Michael J. Martinez;Lawrence M. Parsons

  • The Neural Basis of Human Dance

    Steven Brown;Michael J. Martinez;Lawrence M. Parsons

  • Naturalizing aesthetics: brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities.

    Steven Brown;Xiaoqing Gao;Loren Tisdelle;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • A Larynx Area in the Human Motor Cortex

    Steven Brown;Elton Ngan;Mario Liotti

  • Universals in the world’s musics

    Steven Brown;Joseph Jordania

  • The somatotopy of speech: Phonation and articulation in the human motor cortex

    Steven Brown;Angela R. Laird;Peter Q. Pfordresher;Sarah M. Thelen

  • The song system of the human brain

    Steven Brown;Michael J Martinez;Donald A Hodges;Peter T Fox

  • POOR-PITCH SINGING IN THE ABSENCE OF "TONE DEAFNESS"

    Peter Q. Pfordresher;Steven Brown

  • Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers

    Peter Q. Pfordresher;Steven Brown

  • Evolutionary Models of Music: From Sexual Selection to Group Selection

    Steven Brown

  • The influence of caregiver singing and background music on vocally expressed emotions and moods in dementia care: a qualitative analysis.

    Eva Götell;Steven Brown;Sirkka-Liisa Ekman

  • Correlations in the population structure of music, genes and language

    Steven Brown;Patrick E. Savage;Albert Min Shan Ko;Mark Stoneking

  • Perception of affective and linguistic prosody: an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies

    Michel Belyk;Steven Brown

  • Caregiver singing and background music in dementia care.

    Eva Götell;Steven Brown;Sirkka-Liisa Ekman

  • Imprecise singing is widespread

    Peter Q. Pfordresher;Steven Brown;Kimberly M. Meier;Michel Belyk

  • Stuttering as a trait or state - an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Michel Belyk;Shelly Jo Kraft;Steven Brown

  • Activation of premotor vocal areas during musical discrimination.

    Steven Brown;Michael J. Martinez

  • Music and manipulation : on the social uses and social control of music

    Steven Brown;Ulrik Volgsten

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Liotti
Mario Liotti University of Padua
Peter Q. Pfordresher
Peter Q. Pfordresher University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom University of Bristol
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Roger J. Ingham
Roger J. Ingham University of Southampton
Michael J. Richardson
Michael J. Richardson Macquarie University
Colwyn Trevarthen
Colwyn Trevarthen University of Edinburgh
Peter E. Turkeltaub
Peter E. Turkeltaub Georgetown University

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