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Virginia B. Penhune

Virginia B. Penhune

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
18251
World Ranking
5012
National Ranking
291

Overview

Virginia B. Penhune is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience, particularly focusing on cognitive neuroscience and music-related research. Their work spans multiple intersecting areas such as music perception, neural dynamics, and auditory-motor brain pathways.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies

Key publication venues where Penhune frequently publishes include:

  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • PLoS ONE

Coauthors who regularly collaborate with Penhune are:

  • Tomas E. Matthews
  • Robert J. Zatorre
  • Maria A. G. Witek
  • Peter Vuust
  • Christopher J. Steele

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Penhune include:

  • "The sensation of groove engages motor and reward networks," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Perceived Motor Synchrony With the Beat is More Strongly Related to Groove Than Measured Synchrony," 2022, Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • "Arcuate fasciculus architecture is associated with individual differences in pre-attentive detection of unpredicted music changes," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "What you learn & when you learn it: Impact of early bilingual & music experience on the structural characteristics of auditory-motor pathways," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "A gene-maturation-environment model for understanding sensitive period effects in musical training," 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Their main fields of study are broadly categorized under Neuroscience, with specific subfields in Cognitive Neuroscience, Music, Signal Processing, Social Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. This interdisciplinary approach reflects a focus on how the brain processes music and related auditory experiences.

Through the integration of neuroscience and music education, Penhune's work addresses how neural structures and functions contribute to music perception, synchronization to rhythm, and auditory-motor learning mechanisms. The recurring collaboration with other experts in the field underscores a networked research approach that combines expertise in brain imaging, signal processing, and psychology.

Best Publications

  • When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production

    Robert J. Zatorre;Joyce L. Chen;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech

    Robert J. Zatorre;Pascal Belin;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Distinct contribution of the cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar systems to motor skill learning

    Julien Doyon;Julien Doyon;Virginia Penhune;Leslie G Ungerleider

  • Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain

    Joyce L. Chen;Virginia B. Penhune;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning.

    Julien Doyon;Pierre Bellec;Rhonda Amsel;Virginia Penhune

  • Interhemispheric Anatomical Differences in Human Primary Auditory Cortex: Probabilistic Mapping and Volume Measurement from Magnetic Resonance Scans

    V. B. Penhune;R. J. Zatorre;J. D. MacDonald;A. C. Evans

  • Moving on time: Brain network for auditory-motor synchronization is modulated by rhythm complexity and musical training

    Joyce L. Chen;Virginia B. Penhune;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Functional specificity in the right human auditory cortex for perceiving pitch direction.

    Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Virginia B. Penhune;Robert J. Zatorre

  • Cerebellar Contributions to Motor Timing: A PET Study of Auditory and Visual Rhythm Reproduction

    V. B. Penhune;R. J. Zatorre;A. C. Evans

  • Early Musical Training and White-Matter Plasticity in the Corpus Callosum: Evidence for a Sensitive Period

    Christopher J. Steele;Christopher J. Steele;Jennifer A. Bailey;Robert J. Zatorre;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Congenital Amusia: A Disorder of Fine-Grained Pitch Discrimination

    Isabelle Peretz;Julie Ayotte;Julie Ayotte;Robert J. Zatorre;Jacques Mehler

  • Parallel contributions of cerebellar, striatal and M1 mechanisms to motor sequence learning.

    Virginia B. Penhune;Christopher J. Steele

  • Interactions between auditory and dorsal premotor cortex during synchronization to musical rhythms.

    Joyce L. Chen;Robert J. Zatorre;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: relationship to language lateralization.

    Raquel Dorsaint-Pierre;Virginia B. Penhune;Kate E. Watkins;Peter Neelin

  • Relating Structure to Function: Heschl's Gyrus and Acoustic Processing

    Catherine Warrier;Patrick Wong;Virginia Penhune;Robert Zatorre

  • Dynamic Cortical and Subcortical Networks in Learning and Delayed Recall of Timed Motor Sequences

    Virginia B. Penhune;Julien Doyon;Julien Doyon

  • Volume of Left Heschl's Gyrus and Linguistic Pitch Learning

    Patrick C.M. Wong;Catherine M. Warrier;Virginia B. Penhune;Virginia B. Penhune;Anil K. Roy

  • The effect of early musical training on adult motor performance: evidence for a sensitive period in motor learning

    Donald Watanabe;Tal Savion-Lemieux;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Spatial localization after excision of human auditory cortex.

    Robert J. Zatorre;Virginia B. Penhune

  • Sensitive periods in human development: Evidence from musical training

    Virginia B. Penhune

  • Congenital Amusia: A Disorder of Case Study Fine-Grained Pitch Discrimination

    Isabelle Peretz;Julie Ayotte;Robert J. Zatorre;Jacques Mehler

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Zatorre
Robert J. Zatorre McGill University
Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Peter Vuust
Peter Vuust Royal Academy of Music
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Patrick C. M. Wong
Patrick C. M. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joel S. Snyder
Joel S. Snyder University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies

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