selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- The dynamic mask: Facial correlates of character portrayal in professional actors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75:936-953. 2022
- Partnering Up: The Social Cognition of Partnered Interaction in Life and Art. Frontiers in Communication. 7:834001. 2022
- Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans. New Ideas in Psychology. 64:100902-100902. 2022
- Neural correlates of partnered interaction as revealed by cross-domain ALE meta-analysis.. Psychology and Neuroscience. 15:1-13. 2022
- Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia. Science advances. 7:eabd9223. 2021
- Evolution of the speech‐ready brain: The voice/jaw connection in the human motor cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 529:1018-1028. 2021
- Music and dance are two parallel routes for creating social cohesion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44:e65. 2021
- The neural basis of creative production: A cross-modal ALE meta-analysis. Open Psychology. 3:103-132. 2021
- The shapes of stories: A “resonator” model of plot structure. Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 6:259-288. 2020
- Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting.. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 2020
- The “Who” System of the Human Brain: A System for Social Cognition About the Self and Others. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14:224. 2020
- Acting in action: Prosodic analysis of character portrayal during acting.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 148:1407-1425. 2019
- A Unifying Model of the Arts: The Narration/Coordination Model. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 37:172-196. 2019
- Character mediation of story generation via protagonist insertion. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 31:326-342. 2019
- The neuroscience of Romeo and Juliet : an fMRI study of acting. Royal Society Open Science. 6:181908-181908. 2019
- Multi-person and multisensory synchronization during group dancing. Human Movement Science. 63:199-208. 2019
- How Pantomime Works: Implications for Theories of Language Origin. Frontiers in Communication. 4:9. 2019
- Broca’s area is jointly activated during speech and gesture production. NeuroReport. 29:1214-1216. 2018
- Storytelling Is Intrinsically Mentalistic: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Narrative Production across Modalities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 30:1298-1314. 2018
- How does human motor cortex regulate vocal pitch in singers?. Royal Society Open Science. 5:172208-172208. 2018
- Following during physically-coupled joint action engages motion area MT+/V5. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 16:307-318. 2018
- Identifying style-types in a sample of musical improvisations using dimensional reduction and cluster analysis.. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 12:110-122. 2018
- A Musical Approach to Speech Melody. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:247. 2018
- Role-Specific Brain Activations in Leaders and Followers During Joint Action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12:401. 2018
- Taking two to tango: fMRI analysis of improvised joint action with physical contact. PLoS ONE. 13:e0191098-e0191098. 2018
- The Synthesis of the Arts: From Ceremonial Ritual to “Total Work of Art”. Frontiers in Sociology. 3:9. 2018
- Toward a Unification of the Arts. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:1938. 2018
- Convergence of semantics and emotional expression within the IFG pars orbitalis. NeuroImage. 156:240-248. 2017
- Demonstration and validation of Kernel Density Estimation for spatial meta-analyses in cognitive neuroscience using simulated data. Data in Brief. 13:346-352. 2017
- A musical model of speech rhythm.. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain. 27:95-112. 2017
- The origins of the vocal brain in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 77:177-193. 2017
- Stuttering as a trait or a state revisited: motor system involvement in persistent developmental stuttering. European Journal of Neuroscience. 45:622-624. 2017
- Vocal mistuning reveals the origin of musical scales. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 29:35-52. 2017
- A Joint Prosodic Origin of Language and Music. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:1894. 2017
- A classification scheme for literary characters. Psychological Thought. 10:288-302. 2017
- Pitch underlies activation of the vocal system during affective vocalization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11:1078-1088. 2016
- The Neural Basis of Vocal Pitch Imitation in Humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28:621-635. 2016
- How ‘Circumpolar’ is Ainu Music? Musical and Genetic Perspectives on the History of the Japanese Archipelago. Ethnomusicology Forum. 24:443-467. 2015
- Drawing and writing: An ALE meta-analysis of sensorimotor activations. Brain and Cognition. 98:15-26. 2015
- Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112:8987-8992. 2015
- PlexinA polymorphisms mediate the developmental trajectory of human corpus callosum microstructure. Journal of Human Genetics. 60:147-150. 2015
- Syllable synchronization and the P-center in Cantonese. Journal of Phonetics. 49:55-66. 2015
- Stuttering as a trait or state - an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. European Journal of Neuroscience. 41:275-284. 2015
- Perception of affective and linguistic prosody: an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9:1395-1403. 2014
- Somatotopy of the extrinsic laryngeal muscles in the human sensorimotor cortex. Behavioural Brain Research. 270:364-371. 2014
- The Acoustic Correlates of Valence Depend on Emotion Family. Journal of Voice. 28:523.e9-523.e18. 2014
- Brain responses to altered auditory feedback during musical keyboard production: An fMRI study. Brain Research Brain Research Protocols Molecular Brain Research. 1556:28-37. 2014
- Mapping Music: Cluster Analysis Of Song-Type Frequencies Within And Between Cultures. Ethnomusicology. 58:133-155. 2014
- Correlations in the population structure of music, genes and language. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281:20132072-20132072. 2014
- Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée. Anthropologie et societes. 38:193-193. 2014
- The Neural Basis of Mark Making: A Functional MRI Study of Drawing. PLoS ONE. 9:e108628-e108628. 2014
- The neural basis of audiomotor entrainment: an ALE meta-analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:776. 2014
- Functional brain organization of preparatory attentional control in visual search. Brain Research Brain Research Protocols Molecular Brain Research. 1530:32-43. 2013
- Universals in the world’s musics. Psychology of Music. 41:229-248. 2013
- Religious ritual and the loss of self. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 3:58-60. 2013
- Feeling the pain of others is associated with self-other confusion and prior pain experience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7:470. 2013
- The structure of cross-cultural musical diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279:1606-1612. 2012
- Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities. NeuroImage. 58:250-258. 2011
- Imprecise singing is widespread. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128:2182-2190. 2010
- The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication. Brain Research Brain Research Protocols Molecular Brain Research. 1353:159-167. 2010
- Representation of the speech effectors in the human motor cortex: Somatotopy or overlap?. Brain and Language. 113:39-44. 2010
- Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers. Perception and Psychophysics Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 71:1385-1398. 2009
- The somatotopy of speech: Phonation and articulation in the human motor cortex. Brain and Cognition. 70:31-41. 2009
- The influence of caregiver singing and background music on vocally expressed emotions and moods in dementia care. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 46:422-430. 2009
- Book Reviews. Musicae Scientiae. 13:163-171. 2009
- Music of language or language of music?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12:246-247. 2008
- The Neuroscience of Dance. Scientific American. 299:78-83. 2008
- A Larynx Area in the Human Motor Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 18:837-845. 2008
- Poor-Pitch Singing in the Absence of "Tone Deafness". Music Perception. 25:95-115. 2007
- Contagious heterophony: A new theory about the origins of music. Musicae Scientiae. 11:3-26. 2007
- Activation of premotor vocal areas during musical discrimination. Brain and Cognition. 63:59-69. 2007
- Bringing science to art. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10:356-357. 2006
- The Neural Basis of Human Dance. Cerebral Cortex. 16:1157-1167. 2006
- The perpetual music track - THe phenomenon of constant musical imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 13:43-62. 2006
- Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences. European Journal of Neuroscience. 23:2791-2803. 2006
- Stuttered and fluent speech production: An ALE meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping. 25:105-117. 2005
- Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic systems. NeuroReport. 15:2033-2037. 2004
- The song system of the human brain. Cognitive Brain Research. 20:363-375. 2004
- Influence of Caregiver Singing and Background Music on Posture, Movement, and Sensory Awareness in Dementia Care. International Psychogeriatrics. 15:411-430. 2003
- CNS Resident Award: role of the lateral premotor cortex in articulation.. Clinical Neurosurgery. 50:341-349. 2003
- Caregiver Singing and Background Music in Dementia Care. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 24:195-216. 2002
- Are Music and Language Homologues?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930:372-374. 2001
- ‘Music-therapeutic caregiving’: The necessity of active music-making in clinical care. Arts in Psychotherapy. 28:125-135. 2001
- Singing as a therapeutic intervention in dementia care. Journal of Dementia Care. 9:33-37. 2001
- Caregiver-assisted music events in psychogeriatric care. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 7:119-125. 2000
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book
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chapter
- Aesth/ethic epilogue: Is mozart's music good?. 365-369. 2005
- The social uses of background music for personal enhancement. 126-160. 2005
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conference paper
- How a Creative Product Evolves: A Structural Analysis of Creative Trajectories in Graphic Design. Creativity and Cognition. 1-5. 2021
- A musical template for phrasal rhythm in spoken Cantonese. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody. 2010
- Speech is “heterometric”: The changing rhythms of speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody. 2010
- The cortical control of vocalization in humans. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 320-321. 2008
- Evolutionary models of music: From sexual selection to group selection. PERSPECTIVES IN ETHOLOGY, VOL 13. 231-281. 2000
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thesis
- Character mediation of plot structure: Toward an embodied model of narrative. Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 2020