Aaron Williamon

7.6k total citations
108 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Aaron Williamon is a scholar working on Music, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Williamon has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Music, 60 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 46 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Aaron Williamon's work include Diverse Music Education Insights (69 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (55 papers) and Music Therapy and Health (40 papers). Aaron Williamon is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Music Education Insights (69 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (55 papers) and Music Therapy and Health (40 papers). Aaron Williamon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Aaron Williamon's co-authors include Rosie Perkins, Elizabeth R. Valentine, Daisy Fancourt, Laura Ritchie, Sam Thompson, John C. Rothwell, Karin Rosenkranz, Terry Clark, Sara Ascenso and Jane Ginsborg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Williamon

102 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Aaron Williamon 1.9k 1.8k 1.4k 638 378 108 3.5k
Raymond MacDonald 1.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 105 0.2× 503 1.3× 122 3.1k
Gunter Kreutz 803 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 192 0.3× 365 1.0× 76 2.0k
Costas I. Karageorghis 1.1k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 2.8k 2.1× 142 0.2× 338 0.9× 116 4.9k
Sylvain Moreno 925 0.5× 3.5k 2.0× 757 0.6× 60 0.1× 1.0k 2.7× 85 4.6k
Lauren Stewart 882 0.5× 3.6k 2.0× 1.0k 0.8× 42 0.1× 1.2k 3.2× 118 4.6k
Peter C. Terry 446 0.2× 1000 0.6× 3.0k 2.2× 175 0.3× 728 1.9× 145 5.9k
Thomas Schäfer 386 0.2× 862 0.5× 651 0.5× 56 0.1× 423 1.1× 52 2.1k
Sabine C. Koch 98 0.1× 440 0.2× 969 0.7× 86 0.1× 840 2.2× 82 2.3k
Mei‐chun Cheung 189 0.1× 1.2k 0.7× 258 0.2× 45 0.1× 254 0.7× 91 2.4k
Craig Hall 130 0.1× 1.5k 0.8× 4.5k 3.3× 304 0.5× 602 1.6× 197 7.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Waddell, George, et al.. (2025). Simulating and stimulating performance: developing a next-generation music performance simulator. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1694986–1694986.
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Biasutti, Michele, George Waddell, Aaron Williamon, & Roberta Antonini Philippe. (2023). Evaluating Performance. Frontiers research topics.
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Thomson, Linda, Neta Spiro, Aaron Williamon, & Helen J. Chatterjee. (2023). The Impact of Culture-, Health- and Nature-Based Engagement on Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Public Health Restrictions on Wellbeing, Social Connectedness and Loneliness during COVID-19: Quantitative Evidence from a Smaller- and Larger-Scale UK Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(20). 6943–6943. 3 indexed citations
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Spiro, Neta, et al.. (2023). Modelling arts professionals’ wellbeing and career intentions within the context of COVID-19. PLoS ONE. 18(10). e0292722–e0292722. 3 indexed citations
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Cavalli, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Building community through higher music education: a training program for facilitating musical engagement among older adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1102446–1102446. 2 indexed citations
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Perkins, Rosie, et al.. (2021). Arts engagement supports social connectedness in adulthood: findings from the HEartS Survey. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 1208–1208. 26 indexed citations
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Ascenso, Sara, Rosie Perkins, Louise Atkins, Daisy Fancourt, & Aaron Williamon. (2018). Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being. 13(1). 1484219–1484219. 40 indexed citations
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Ascenso, Sara, Rosie Perkins, & Aaron Williamon. (2018). Resounding Meaning: A PERMA Wellbeing Profile of Classical Musicians. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1895–1895. 61 indexed citations
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Araújo, Liliana S., David Wasley, Rosie Perkins, et al.. (2017). Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1558–1558. 71 indexed citations
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Fancourt, Daisy & Aaron Williamon. (2016). Attending a concert reduces glucocorticoids, progesterone and the cortisol/DHEA ratio. Public Health. 132. 101–104. 21 indexed citations
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Fancourt, Daisy, Rosie Perkins, Sara Ascenso, et al.. (2016). Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0151136–e0151136. 102 indexed citations
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Fancourt, Daisy, et al.. (2016). Singing modulates mood, stress, cortisol, cytokine and neuropeptide activity in cancer patients and carers. ecancermedicalscience. 10. 631–631. 106 indexed citations
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Perkins, Rosie, Sara Ascenso, Louise Atkins, Daisy Fancourt, & Aaron Williamon. (2016). Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery. PubMed. 6(1). 11–11. 52 indexed citations
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Rosenkranz, Karin, et al.. (2009). Regaining Motor Control in Musician's Dystonia by Restoring Sensorimotor Organization. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(46). 14627–14636. 65 indexed citations
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Williamon, Aaron. (2004). Musical excellence : strategies and techniques to enhance performance. Oxford University Press eBooks. 75 indexed citations
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Williamon, Aaron & Tobias Egner. (2004). Memory structures for encoding and retrieving a piece of music: an ERP investigation. Cognitive Brain Research. 22(1). 36–44. 30 indexed citations
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Rink, John, John Rink, Colin Lawson, et al.. (2002). Musical Performance. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations

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