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D. Huron

h-index: 35
Works: 154
Citations: 5,950

Most-cited papers

Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
D. Huron
20061,072 citations
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The psychological functions of music listening
T. Schäfer, P. Sedlmeier, Christine Städtler, D. Huron
2013Frontiers in Psychology589 citations Open access
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Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin
D. Huron
2011174 citations
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A Comparison of Average Pitch Height and Interval Size in Major- and Minor-key Themes: Evidence Consistent with Affect-related Pitch Prosody
D. Huron
200880 citations Open access
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An Empirical Study of Syncopation in American Popular Music, 1890–1939
D. Huron, A. Ommen
200660 citations
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Influence of Pitch Height on the Perception of Submissiveness and Threat in Musical Passages
D. Huron, Daryl W. Kinney, K. Precoda
200654 citations Open access
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Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art
D. Huron
201653 citations
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Two Studies of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR): The Relationship between ASMR and Music-Induced Frisson
Alexsandra Kovacevich, D. Huron
2019Empirical Musicology Review50 citations Open access
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Comparison of Word Intelligibility in Spoken and Sung Phrases
L. Collister, D. Huron
200845 citations Open access
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On the Enjoyment of Sad Music: Pleasurable Compassion Theory and the Role of Trait Empathy
D. Huron, J. Vuoskoski
2020Frontiers in Psychology42 citations Open access
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The Happy Xylophone: Acoustics Affordances Restrict An Emotional Palate
M. Schutz, D. Huron, Kristopher Keeton, Gred Loewer
200842 citations Open access
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Affect induction through musical sounds: an ethological perspective
D. Huron
2015Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences41 citations Open access
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Western Classical Music in the Minor Mode is Slower (Except in the Romantic Period)
Olaf Post, D. Huron
200940 citations Open access
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Science & Music: Lost in music
D. Huron
2008Nature39 citations
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Catching the Lyrics: Intelligibility in Twelve Song Genres
Nathaniel Condit-Schultz, D. Huron
201538 citations
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Characterizing Idiomatic Organization in Music: A Theory and Case Study of Musical Affordances
D. Huron, Jonathon Berec
200938 citations Open access
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The New Empiricism : Systematic Musicology in a Postmodern Age
D. Huron
200937 citations
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Music and Lyrics Interactions and their Influence on Recognition of Sung Words: An Investigation of Word Frequency, Rhyme, Metric Stress, Vocal Timbre, Melisma, and Repetition Priming
Randolph Johnson, D. Huron, L. Collister
201336 citations Open access
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A Statistical Approach to Tracing the Historical Development of Major and Minor Pitch Distributions, 1400-1750
Joshua Albrecht, D. Huron
201434 citations
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Changing the Tune: Listeners Like Music that Expresses a Contrasting Emotion
E. Schellenberg, Kathleen A. Corrigall, O. Ladinig, D. Huron
2012Front. Psychology34 citations Open access
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A Psychological Approach to Musical Form: The Habituation-Fluency Theory of Repetition
D. Huron
201333 citations
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A Comparison of Dynamics in Major- and Minor-key Works
Ben Turner, D. Huron
200832 citations Open access
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Using auditory imagery tasks to map the cognitive linguistic dimensions of musical instrument timbre qualia.
Lindsey Reymore, D. Huron
202031 citations
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On the Changing Use of the Major and Minor Modes 1750–1900
Katelyn Horn, D. Huron
201526 citations Open access
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Eyebrow movements and vocal pitch height: evidence consistent with an ethological signal.
D. Huron, D. Shanahan
2013Journal of the Acoustical Society of America26 citations
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On the Virtuous and the Vexatious in an Age of Big Data
D. Huron
201326 citations
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Facial Expression and Vocal Pitch Height: Evidence of an Intermodal Association
D. Huron, S. Dahl, Randolph Johnson
200926 citations Open access
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The sounds of safety: stress and danger in music perception
T. Schäfer, D. Huron, D. Shanahan, P. Sedlmeier
2015Frontiers in Psychology25 citations Open access
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“You Can’t Play a Sad Song on the Banjo:” Acoustic Factors in the Judgment of Instrument Capacity to Convey Sadness
D. Huron, N M Anderson, D. Shanahan
201425 citations Open access
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Is Higher Music Faster? Pitch–Speed Relationships in Western Compositions
Yuri Broze, D. Huron
201323 citations
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The first three seconds
J. Plazak, D. Huron
201123 citations
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An Association between Breaking Voice and Grief-related Lyrics in Country Music
Brandon T. Paul, D. Huron
201023 citations Open access
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Cues and Signals: An Ethological Approach to Music-Related Emotion
D. Huron
201521 citations Open access
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The Harmonic Minor Scale Provides an Optimum Way of Reducing Average Melodic Interval Size, Consistent with Sad Affect Cues
D. Huron, Matthew J. Davis
201320 citations Open access
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THE EFFECT OF PITCH EXPOSURE ON SADNESS JUDGMENTS : AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SADNESS AND LOWER THAN NORMAL PITCH
D. Huron, Gary Yim, Parag Chordia
201019 citations
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On the Functions of Sadness and Grief
D. Huron
201817 citations
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Dynamic Levels in Classical and Romantic Keyboard Music: Effect of Musical Mode
O. Ladinig, D. Huron
201015 citations Open access
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Understanding Music-Related Emotion: Lessons from Ethology
D. Huron
201214 citations
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Enjoying sad music: A test of the prolactin theory
O. Ladinig, Charles Brooks, N. C. Hansen, Katelyn Horn +1 more
2019Music & Science13 citations
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Measurement of similarity in music : A quantitative approach for non-parametric representations . Measurement of Similarity in Music : A Quantitative Approach for Non-parametric Representations
Keith S. Orpen, D. Huron
201813 citations
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Musical Aesthetics: Uncertainty and Surprise Enhance Our Enjoyment of Music.
D. Huron
2019Current Biology12 citations Open access
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Two Challenges in Cognitive Musicology
D. Huron
2012Topics in Cognitive Science11 citations Open access
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Interval Size and Phrase Position: A Comparison between German and Chinese Folksongs
D. Shanahan, D. Huron
201111 citations Open access
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Asynchronous Preparation of Tonally Fused Intervals in Polyphonic Music
D. Huron
20088 citations Open access
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The Influence of Body Morphology on Preferred Dance Tempos
S. Dahl, D. Huron
2007International Conference on Mathematics and Computing8 citations
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De la motivation à l’engagement pour le service public : étude comparative entre la France, la Chine et la Corée du Sud
Pierre-Charles Pupion, Hae-Ok Pyun, Kwang-jai Yun, Philippe Dorbaire +3 more
2018Les nouvelles frontières du management public7 citations Open access
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Heroes and Villains: The Relationship between Pitch Tessitura and Sociability of Operatic Characters
D. Shanahan, D. Huron
20147 citations Open access
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Book review Musical thrills and chills
D. Huron, L. Stewart
20087 citations
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Are Humoresques Humorous? On the Similarity Between Laughter and Staccato
C. Trevor, D. Huron
2019Empirical Musicology Review6 citations Open access
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Are Stopped Strings Preferred in Sad Music
D. Huron, C. Trevor
20176 citations Open access
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