Publications
2023
Margulis, E. H., Loui, P., & Loughridge, D. (Eds.). (2023). Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning the Past and Imagining the Future. MIT Press.
Loui, P., Kubit, B. Y., Ou, Y., & Margulis, E. H. Imaginings from an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement with a New Musical System. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts. In press.
Belden, A., Quinci, M. A., Geddes, M. R., Hanser, S. B., Donovan, N. J., & Loui, P. (2023). Functional Organization of Auditory and Reward Systems in Healthy Aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In press. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.01.522417 .
Tinney, E. M., Loui, P., Raine, L. B., Hiscox, L. V., Delgorio, P. L., Kramer, M. K., Schwarb, H., Martens, C. R., Kramer, A. F., Hillman, C. H., & Johnson, C. L. (2023). Influence of mild cognitive impairment and body mass index on white matter integrity assessed by diffusion tensor imaging. Psychophysiology, e14306. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14306
Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J., Benetos, E., Proutskouva, P., … Savage, P. E. (Accepted in Principle). Similarities and differences in a global sample of song and speech recordings [Stage 1 Registered Report]. Peer Community in Registered Reports. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jr9x7
Loui, P. (2023). BP Sequencer: A Low-Barrier-to-Entry Assessment Tool for Musical Creativity. Proceedings of the TENOR Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
2022
Tichko, P.*, Page, N.*, Kim, J. C., Large, E. W., & Loui, P. (2022). Neural Entrainment to Musical Pulse in Naturalistic Music Is Preserved in Aging: Implications for Music-Based Interventions. Brain Sciences, 12(12), 1676. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12121676 PDF
Chen, W., Iversen, J., Kao, M., Loui, P., Patel, A., Zatorre, R., & Edwards, E. (2022). Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based Interventions. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(45), 8498. PDF
Ai, M., Loui, P., Morris, T.P., Chaddock-Heyman, L., Hillman, C.H., McAuley, E., Kramer, A.F. Musical experience relates to insula-based functional connectivity in older adults. (2022). Musical Experience Relates to Insula-Based Functional Connectivity in Older Adults. Brain Sciences, 12(11), 1577. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12111577 PDF
Quinci, M. A., Belden, A., Goutama, V., Gong, D., Hanser, S., Donovan, N. J., Geddes, M., Loui, P. (2022). Longitudinal changes in auditory and reward systems following receptive music-based intervention in older adults. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11517. PDF
Loui, P. & Margulis, E.H. (2022). Creativity and Tradition: Music and Bifocal Stance Theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e262. PDF
Loui, P. (2022). New music system reveals spectral contribution to statistical learning. Cognition, 224, 105071. Full text
Kathios, N., & Loui, P. (2022). Musical Enculturation in the Social Coevolution of Emotions. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 6(1), 33-38. PDF
2021
Loui, P. (2021). Use-Inspired Music Cognition: Designing Cognitively Informed Musical Interventions for the Brain. Proceedings of the Future Directions of Music Cognition International Conference, 6–7 March 2021.
Krotinger, A., & Loui, P. (2021). Rhythm and Groove as Cognitive Mechanisms of Dance Intervention in Parkinson’s Disease. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0249933. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249933.
Savage, P.E., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S.J., & Fitch, W.T. (2021). Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In press.
Granot, R.Y., Spitz, D.H., Cherki, B.R., Loui, P., Timmers, R., Schaefer, R., ... Israel, S. (2021). "Help! I Need Somebody": Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis. Frontiers in Psychology. In press.
Tichko, P.*, Kim, J. C., Large, E., & Loui, P. (2020). Integrating music-based interventions with Gamma-frequency stimulation: Implications for healthy aging. European Journal of Neuroscience. In press.
Chaddock-Heyman, L., Loui, P., Weisshappel, R., McAuley, E., & Kramer, A.F. (2021). Musical training and brain volume in older adults. Brain Sciences, 11(1), 50.
2020
Loui, P. (2020). Neuroscientific Insights for Improved Outcomes in Music-Based Interventions. Music and Science, 3, 1-9.
Savage, P.E., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S.J., & Fitch, W.T. (2021). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In press.
Baker, D. J., Belfi, A., Creel, S., Grahn, J., Hannon, E., Loui, P., . . . Vuvan, D. T. (2020). Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community. Music Perception, 38(2), 103-105.
Wang, D.*, Belden, A.*, Hanser, S., Geddes, M., & Loui, P. (2020). Resting-State Connectivity of Auditory and Reward Systems in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14:280.
Belden, A.G.*, Zeng, T.*, Przysinda, E.*, Anteraper, S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Loui, P. (2020). Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz and classical music training with resting state functional connectivity. NeuroImage, (207), 116384.
Belfi, A., Loui, P. (2020). Musical anhedonia and rewards of music listening: Current advances and a proposed model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1464(1), 99-114.
2019
*Belden, A., *Zeng, T., *Przysinda, E., Anteraper, S. A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Loui, P. (2019). Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz and classical music training with resting state functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 116384. (preprint). Full text | Data repository (Neurovault)
*Lee, D. J., *Jung, H., Loui, P. (2019). Attention Modulates Electrophysiological Responses to Simultaneous Music and Language Syntax Processing. Brain Sciences, 9(11). (preprint). Full text
Woods, K. J. P., Hewett, A., Spencer, A., Morillon, B., & Loui, P. (2019). Modulation in background music influences sustained attention. (preprint).
Loui, P. Better Models: Challenges and Promises for Improved Outcomes in Music Therapy. In review.
*Zeng, T., *Przysinda, E., *Pfeifer, C., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. White Matter Connectivity Reflects Success in Musical Improvisation. In review. (preprint).
Loui, P., & *Belden, A.G. (2019). Music and the Brain. Acoustics Today. In press.
Belfi, A., & Loui, P. (2019). Musical anhedonia and rewards of music listening: Current advances and a proposed model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, In press. Full text | PDF
*Arkin, C., *Przysinda, E., *Pfeifer, C., *Zeng, T., & Loui, P. (2019). Grey Matter Correlates of Creativity in Musical Improvisation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13:169. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00169. Full text | PDF
Loui, P., Raine, L.B., Chaddock-Heyman, L., Kramer, A.F., Hillman, C.H. (2019). Musical Instrument Practice Predicts White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Abilities in Childhood. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:1198. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01198. Full text | PDF
2018
Timmers, R., & Loui, P. (2018). Music and Emotion. In D. Levitin, J. Rentfrow (Eds.), Foundations of Music Psychology (pp. 783-826): MIT Press.
Loui, P. (2018). Rapid and Flexible Creativity in Musical Improvisation: Review and a Model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 138-145. PDF
Loui, P., Patel, A.D., Gaab, N., Wong, L.M., Hanser, S., Schlaug, G. (2018). Music, Sound and Health: A Meeting of Minds in the Neurosciences of Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 7-9. PDF
Hohmann, A., Loui, P., Li, C. H., & Schlaug, G. (2018). Reverse Engineering Tone-deafness: Disrupting Pitch-Matching by Creating Temporary Dysfunctions in the Auditory-Motor Network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12(9). PDF
2017
*Przysinda, E., *Zeng, T., *Maves, K., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. (2017). Jazz Improvisers Reveal Role of Expectancy in Human Creativity. Brain and Cognition, 119, 45-53. PDF
Loui, P., Patterson, S., Sachs, M.E., Leung, Y., Zeng, T., & Przysinda, E. (2017). White Matter Correlates of Musical Anhedonia: Implications for Evolution of Music. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1664). PDF
*Guetta, R., & Loui, P. (2017). When Music is Salty: The Crossmodal Associations Between Sound and Taste. PLOS ONE, 12(3), e0173366. PDF.
Timmers, R., & Loui, P. Music and Emotion. To appear in D. Levitin, J. Rentfrow (Eds.), Foundations of Music Psychology. MIT Press.
2016
*Abel, M.K.A., Li, H., Russo, F.A., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2016). Audiovisual Interval Size Estimation is Associated with Early Musical Training. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0163589. PDF
Loui, P., *Przysinda, E., Aklaff, P., *Maves, K., *Arkin, C., *Zeng, T. (2016). Jazz Improvisation as a Model of the Creative Process: Heightened Perceptual Awareness and Sensitivity. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, 175-179. PDF
Sachs, M. E., Ellis, R. J., Schlaug, G., Loui, P. (2016). Brain Connectivity Reflects Human Aesthetic Responses to Music. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884-891. PDF
Loui, P., *Przysinda, E. (2017). Music and the brain: Areas and networks. In R. Ashley, R. Timmers (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. (pp. 13-24). New York, NY: Routledge. PDF
Loui, P., *O’Brien, S., *Sontag, S. Neural Connectivity of the Creative Mind. In S. J. Lopez, L. M. Edwards, S. C. Marques (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology, 3rd Edition: Oxford University Press. Full text | PDF
2015
*Jung, H., *Sontag, S., *Park, Y. S., & Loui, P. (2015). Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. PDF
*Lolli, S., *Lewenstein, A., *Basurto, J., *Winnik, S., & Loui, P. (2015). Sound Frequency Affects Speech Emotion Perception: Results from Congenital Amusia. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. PDF
Yuskaitis, C., Parviz, M., Loui, P., Wan, C., & Pearl, P. (2015). Neural Mechanisms Underlying Musical Pitch Perception and Clinical Applications Including Developmental Dyslexia. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 15(8), 1-7. PDF
Loui, P., Demorest, S. M., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Iyer, J. (2015). Neurological and Developmental Approaches to Poor Pitch Perception and Production. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337, 263-271. PDF
Loui, P. (2015). A Dual-Stream Neuroanatomy of Singing. Music Perception, 32(3), 232-241. PDF Recommended by Faculty of 1000
Demorest, S. M., Pfordresher, P. Q., Bella, S. D., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Methodological perspectives on singing accuracy: An introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (part 2). Music Perception, 32(3), 266-271. PDF
Pfordresher, P. Q., Demorest, S. M., Bella, S. D., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Theoretical perspectives on singing accuracy: An introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (part 1). Music Perception, 32(3), 227-231. PDF
2014
Devaney, J., Loui, P., Hafter, E. R., & Krumhansl, C. L. (2014). David Wessel (6 October, 1942 – 13 October, 2014): Tributes and remembrances. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 24(3), 274-278. PDF
Choi, I., Bharadwaj, H. M., Bressler, S., Loui, P., Lee, K., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2014). Automatic processing of abstract musical tonality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. PDF
Loui, P., *Koplin-Green, M., *Frick, M., & *Massone, M. J. L. (2014). Rapidly Learned Identification of Epileptic Seizures from Sonified EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. PDF. Demo.
*Harrison, L. D., & Loui, P. (2014). Thrills, Chills, Frissons, and Skin Orgasms: Toward an Integrative Model of Transcendent Psychophysiological Moments in Music. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. PDF
Loui, P. (2014). Absolute Pitch. To appear in S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology: Oxford University Press. PDF
Loui, P. (2014). Disorders of Music Cognition. To appear in S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology: Oxford University Press. PDF
2013
Loui, P. (2013). The Role of Brain Connectivity in Musical Experience. In J. D. Greene (Ed.), Positive Neuroscience: Oxford University Press. In press. Provisional PDF
Loui, P., Bachorik, J., Li, H. C., & Schlaug, G. (2013). Effects of Voice on Emotional Arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00675. PDF
Pearce, M., Rohrmeier, M., Loui, P., Large, E., Kim, J. C., Toiviainen, P., & Brattico, E. (2013). Music cognition: Bridging computation and insights from cognitive neuroscience. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany. PDF
Zamm, A., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2013). Pathways to Seeing Music: Enhanced Structural Connectivity in Colored-Music Synesthesia. NeuroImage, 74, 359-366. PDF
2012
Loui, P., Zamm, A., & Schlaug, G. (2012). Enhanced Functional Networks in Absolute Pitch. NeuroImage, 63(2), 632-640. PDF Cover art
Loui, P., Zamm, A., & Schlaug, G. (2012). Absolute Pitch and Synesthesia: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Shared and Distinct Neural Substrates of Music Listening. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, 618-623. Thessaloniki, Greece. PDF
Loui, P. (2012). Learning and liking of melody and harmony: Further studies in artificial grammar learning. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4, 1-14. PDF
Loui, P. (2012). Statistical Learning – What Can Music Tell Us? In P. Rebuschat and J. Williams (Ed), Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition, 433-462: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF
Loui, P., Schlaug, G. (2012). Impaired learning of event frequencies in tone-deafness. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252(1), 354-360. PDF
2011
Halwani, G. F., Loui, P., Rueber, T., & Schlaug, G. (2011). Effects of practice and experience on the arcuate fasciculus: comparing singers, instrumentalists, and non-musicians. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 156. PDF
Loui, P., Kroog, K., Zuk, J., Winner, E., & Schlaug, G. (2011). Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 111. PDF
Loui, P., Li, H., Schlaug, G. (2011). White Matter Integrity in Right Hemisphere Predicts Pitch-Related Grammar Learning. NeuroImage, 55(2), 500-507. PDF
Loui, P., Li, H., Hohmann, A., & Schlaug, G. (2011). Enhanced Cortical Connectivity in Absolute Pitch Musicians: a Model for Local Hyperconnectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(4), 1015-1026. PDF
2010
Mathys, C., Loui, P., Zheng, X., & Schlaug, G. (2010). Noninvasive brain stimulation applied to Heschl's gyrus modulates pitch discrimination. Frontiers in Psychology, 1,12. PDF
Loui, P., Wan, C. Y. & Schlaug, G. (2010). Neurological Bases of Musical Disorders and Their Implications for Stroke Recovery. Acoustics Today, 6, 28-36. PDF
Loui, P., Wessel, D. L., & Hudson Kam, C. L. (2010). Humans Rapidly Learn Grammatical Structure in a New Musical Scale. Music Perception, 27(5), 377-388. PDF Additional materials
Loui, P., Hohmann, A., & Schlaug, G. (2010). Inducing Disorders in Pitch Perception and Production: a Reverse-Engineering Approach. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 9, 1-8. PDF
2009
Loui, P., Alsop, D., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Tone-Deafness: a Disconnection Syndrome? Journal of Neuroscience, 29(33), 10215-10220. PDF
Loui, P., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Investigating Musical Disorders with Diffusion Tensor Imaging: A Comparison of Imaging Parameters. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169 (The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity), 121-125. PDF
Loui, P., Wu, E. H., Wessel, D. L., & Knight, R. T. (2009). A Generalized Mechanism for Perception of Pitch Patterns. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(2), 454-459. PDF
Rohrmeier, M., Honing, H., Rebuschat, P., Loui, P., Wiggins, G., Pearce, M. T., et al. (2009). Music Cognition: Learning and Processing. In N. A. Taatgen & H. v. Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 41-42). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Klostermann, E.C., Loui, P., & Shimamura, A.P. (2009). Activation of right parietal cortex during memory retrieval of non-linguistic auditory stimuli. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(3), 242-248. PDF
Bachorik, J., Bangert, M., Loui, P., Larke, K., Berger, J., Rowe, R., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Emotion in Motion: Investigating the Time-Course of Emotional Judgments of Musical Stimuli. Music Perception, 26, 355-364. PDF
2008
Loui, P., Guenther, F. H., Mathys, C., & Schlaug, G. (2008). Action-Perception Mismatch in Tone-Deafness. Current Biology, 18(8), R331-332.PDF
Loui, P., & Wessel, D. L. (2008). Effects of Set Size on the Learning and Liking of an Artificial Musical System. Musicae Scientiae, 12(2), 201-218. PDF
2007
Loui, P., & Wessel, D. L. (2007). Harmonic Expectation and Affect in Western Music: Effects of Attention and Training. Perception and Psychophysics, 69(7), 1084-1092. PDF
Hafter, E. R., Sarampalis, A., & Loui, P. (2007). Auditory Attention and Filters. In W. Yost (Ed), Auditory Perception of Sound Sources (pp. 115-142): Springer Verlag. PDF
2006
Loui, P., & Wessel, D. L. (2006). Acquiring New Musical Grammars: a Statistical Learning Approach. In M. Baroni, A.R. Addessi, R. Caterina, M. Costa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (pp. 1009-1017). Bologna, Italy: ICMPC-ESCOM. PDF
Loui, P., Wessel, D., & Hudson Kam, C. L. (2006). Acquiring New Musical Grammars – a Statistical Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1711-1716). Mahway, NJ: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
2005 and earlier
Loui, P., Grent-‘t-Jong, T., Torpey, D., & Woldorff, M. G. (2005). Effects of Attention on the Neural Processing of Harmonic Syntax in Western Music. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 678-687. PDF
Wessel, D., Loui, P., Jacobs, B., & Avedonakis, R. (2004). Music Perception and Cognition Experiments in a Classroom Setting: Temporally Precise Hardware and Software. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (p. 642). Evanston, IL: ICMPC.