Papers

Research articles

• Barrett, F. S., Grimm, K. J., Robins, R. W., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Janata, P. (in press). Music-evoked nostalgia: Affect, memory, and personality. Emotion
• Janata, P. The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Cerebral Cortex. Advance Access published February 24, 2009, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp008. For supplementary information, go to the Advance Access page and search for the article.
• Tomic, S. T., & Janata, P. (2008). Beyond the beat: modeling metric structure in music and performance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 124(6): 4024–4041. (also see our local project web-page with relevant code ).
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. L., & Bharucha, J. J. (2008). Tonal centers and expectancy: facilitation or inhibition of chords at the top of the harmonic hierarchy? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 34(4): 1031-1043.
• Janata, P., Tomic, S. T., & Rakowski, S. K. (2007). Characterization of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Memory, 15(8), 845–860.
• Tomic, S.T., & Janata, P. (2007). Ensemble: A Web-Based System for Psychology Survey and Experiment Management. Behavior Research Methods. 39(3), 635–650. (see also our local Ensemble web-page)
• Janata, P., & Paroo, K. (2006). Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time. Perception & Psychophysics. 68(5):829-844.
• Handy, T.C., Miller, M.B., Schott, B., Shroff, N.M., Janata, P., Van Horn, J. D., Inati, S., Grafton, S.T., & Gazzaniga, M.S. (2004).  Visual imagery and memory: Do retrieval strategies affect what the mind's eye sees?  European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 16(5): 631–652.
• Moran, J. M., Wig, G. S., Adams, R. B., Janata, P., & Kelley, W. M. (2004). Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation. Neuroimage, 21, 1055–1060.
• Janata, P. & Grafton, S.T. (2003). Swinging in the brain: shared neural substrates for behaviors related to sequencing and music. Nature Neuroscience. 6:682-687. Supporting information. Key for complexity matrix in Figure 1.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing. JEP: Human Perception and Performance.29:470-482.
• Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). Online detection of tonal pop-out in modulating contexts. Music Perception. 20:283-305.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., & Bharucha, J. J. (2003). Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. Cognitive Brain Research. 16:145-161.
• Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Van Horn, J.D., Leman, M., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (2002). The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science. 298:2167-2170. Abstract. Full text. Supporting information.
  See also the accompanying Perspectives article. Hear the modulating melody and see an animation of the torus here.
  
• Janata, P., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (2002). Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. 2(2): 121-140.
• Adams, R.B., Janata, P. (2002). A comparison of neural circuits underlying auditory and visual object categorization. NeuroImage. 16, 361-377.
  If you cannot obtain the paper from NeuroImage and you would like hardcopy of the paper, please contact Petr Janata directly.
• Janata, P. (2001b). Quantitative assessment of vocal development in the zebra finch using self-organizing neural networks. JASA. 110(5): 2593-2603.
• Kikas, T., Janata, P., Ishida, H., and Janata, J. (2001). Chemical plume tracking. 2. Multiple-frequency modulation. Analytical Chemistry 73(15), 3669 -3673.
• Janata, P. (2001a) Brain electrical activity evoked by mental formation of auditory expectations and images, Brain Topography, 13(3): 169-193.
• Janata, P. & Margoliash, D. (1999) Gradual emergence of song-selectivity in sensorimotor structures of the male zebra finch song-system. J. Neurosci. 19(12): 5108-5118.
• Janata, P. (1995) ERP measures assay the degree of expectancy violation of harmonic contexts in music. J. Cog. Neurosci. 7(2): 153-164.
• Janata, P. & Petsche, H. (1993) Spectral analysis of the EEG as a tool for evaluating expectancy violations of musical contexts. Music Perception 10: 281-304.
• Potje-Kamloth, K.; Janata, P.; Janata, J.; Josowicz, M. (1989). Electrochemical encapsulation for sensors. Sensors and Actuators. 18:613-623.
• Janata, P. & Reisberg, D. (1988) Response-time measures as a means of exploring tonal hierarchies. Music Perception. 6(2): 163-174.

Book chapters & conference proceedings

• Janata, P. (in press). Music and the Self. In R. Haas & V. Brandes (Eds.), Music That Works. Wien: Springer.
• Janata, P. (2008). Navigating tonal space. In E. Selfridge-Field (Ed.), Tonal Theory for the Digital Age (Computing in Musicology: Vol. 15, pp. 39–50).
• Janata, P. (2005). Brain networks that track musical structure. In The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance (Vol. 1060): New York Academy of Sciences.
• Janata, P. & Childs, E. (2004). MarketBuzz: sonification of real-time financial data. Proceedings of ICAD 04-Tenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., & Bharucha, J. J. (2003). Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. In Neurosciences and Music (Vol. 999, pp. 209-211).
• Janata, P. (2001c). Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying auditory image formation in music. In R. I. Godøy & H. Jørgensen (Eds.), Elements of Musical Imagery . Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.
• Potje-Kamloth, K.; Janata, P.; Josowicz, M. (1989)  Carbon fiber microelectrodes.  Proceedings of ElectroFinnAnalysis Conference.  Plenum Press.

Book reviews and commentaries

• Keller, P. E., & Janata, P. (2009). Marc Leman, Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology. Music Perception, 26(3), 289–292.
• Janata, P. (2007). When music stops making sense: Lessons from an injured brain [Electronic Version]. Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science.
• Janata, P. (2007). "The highs and lows of being tone deaf." Nature Neuroscience 10(7): 810–812.
• Janata, P. (2006). Commentary on "The Processing of Pitch and Scale: An ERP Study of Musicians Trained Outside of the Western Musical System" by Bischoff Renninger, Wilson, and Donchin. Empirical Musicology Review, 1(4), 198–200.
• Janata, P. (2006). Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation. Nature, 443(7107), 29-30.
• Janata, P. (2004). When music tells a story. Nat Neurosci, 7(3), 203-204.
• Janata, P. (2003). Jazzing up neuroscience.  Review of The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music, eds. I. Peretz & R. Zatorre. Nature. 426:386.