Fredrik Ullén

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Fredrik Ullén is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Fredrik Ullén has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 25 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Fredrik Ullén's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (56 papers), Diverse Music Education Insights (25 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Fredrik Ullén is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (56 papers), Diverse Music Education Insights (25 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Fredrik Ullén collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Fredrik Ullén's co-authors include Sara Bengtsson, Örjan de Manzano, Hans Forssberg, Miriam A. Mosing, Guy Madison, Lea Forsman, H. Henrik Ehrsson, Zoltán Nagy, Stefan Skare and Nancy L. Pedersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Fredrik Ullén

102 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development

2005 812 citations Sara Bengtsson, Lea Forsman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fredrik Ullén Sweden	37	3.3k	1.1k	1.0k	864	767	105	4.8k
Krista L. Hyde Canada	27	3.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	740 0.7×	839 1.0×	601 0.8×	49	4.3k
Thomas Rammsayer Germany	41	4.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.9×	741 0.7×	509 0.6×	453 0.6×	192	5.3k
Daniel J. Levitin Canada	41	6.5k 2.0×	1.9k 1.7×	2.6k 2.5×	1.4k 1.6×	420 0.5×	92	9.3k
Andrea Norton United States	26	3.1k 1.0×	493 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	713 0.8×	682 0.9×	42	3.7k
Peter E. Keller Australia	45	5.9k 1.8×	1.5k 1.3×	3.3k 3.1×	741 0.9×	634 0.8×	217	7.4k
Virginia B. Penhune Canada	45	9.3k 2.8×	2.4k 2.2×	2.3k 2.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	101	10.7k
Eckart Altenmüller Germany	59	8.0k 2.4×	1.6k 1.5×	3.3k 3.1×	1.6k 1.8×	664 0.9×	332	11.4k
Allen R. Braun United States	37	3.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	910 0.9×	140 0.2×	820 1.1×	60	5.2k
Ricarda I. Schubotz Germany	38	4.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	2.2k 2.1×	107 0.1×	1.1k 1.4×	129	5.8k
Claude Alain Canada	61	11.0k 3.3×	4.2k 3.8×	871 0.8×	360 0.4×	810 1.1×	267	12.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Fredrik Ullén

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fredrik Ullén

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Simonsson, Otto, Miriam A. Mosing, Walter Osika, et al.. (2024). Adolescent Psychedelic Use and Psychotic or Manic Symptoms. JAMA Psychiatry. 81(6). 579–579. 16 indexed citations

Wesseldijk, Laura W., et al.. (2024). The world as I see it: Genetic and environmental influences on primal world beliefs in a large Swedish twin sample. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 20(3). 510–520. 2 indexed citations

Ullén, Fredrik, et al.. (2024). Can flow proneness be protective against mental and cardiovascular health problems? A genetically informed prospective cohort study. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 144–144. 2 indexed citations

Ullén, Fredrik, et al.. (2024). Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 3 indexed citations

Mosing, Miriam A., Karin J. H. Verweij, David Z. Hambrick, Nancy L. Pedersen, & Fredrik Ullén. (2024). Testing the Deliberate Practice Theory: Does Practice Reduce the Heritability of Musical Expertise?. Journal of Intelligence. 12(9). 87–87.

Wassiliwizky, Eugen, et al.. (2023). How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18747–18747. 4 indexed citations

Gustavson, Daniel E., Lauren E. Petty, Miriam A. Mosing, et al.. (2023). Exploring the genetics of rhythmic perception and musical engagement in the Vanderbilt Online Musicality Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1521(1). 140–154. 12 indexed citations

Garzón, Benjamín, Gunther Helms, Claudio Brozzoli, et al.. (2023). Cortical changes during the learning of sequences of simultaneous finger presses. Imaging Neuroscience. 1. 2 indexed citations

Wesseldijk, Laura W., Yi Lu, Robert Karlsson, Fredrik Ullén, & Miriam A. Mosing. (2023). A comprehensive investigation into the genetic relationship between music engagement and mental health. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 15–15. 7 indexed citations

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Theorell, Töres, László Harmat, Heléne Eriksson, & Fredrik Ullén. (2018). Talking about childhood music: A twin study. Progress in brain research. 237. 279–289. 2 indexed citations

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Mosing, Miriam A., Ana Butković, & Fredrik Ullén. (2017). Can flow experiences be protective of work-related depressive symptoms and burnout? A genetically informative approach. Journal of Affective Disorders. 226. 6–11. 26 indexed citations

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Mosing, Miriam A., Karin J. H. Verweij, Christoph Abé, Örjan de Manzano, & Fredrik Ullén. (2016). On the Relationship Between Domain-Specific Creative Achievement and Sexual Orientation in Swedish Twins. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 45(7). 1799–1806. 5 indexed citations

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Ullén, Fredrik, David Z. Hambrick, & Miriam A. Mosing. (2015). Rethinking expertise: A multifactorial gene–environment interaction model of expert performance.. Psychological Bulletin. 142(4). 427–446. 110 indexed citations

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Holm, Linus, Fredrik Ullén, & Guy Madison. (2012). Motor and executive control in repetitive timing of brief intervals.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 39(2). 365–380. 11 indexed citations

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Manzano, Örjan de, et al.. (2012). Individual differences in the proneness to have flow experiences are linked to dopamine D2-receptor availability in the dorsal striatum. NeuroImage. 67. 1–6. 72 indexed citations

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Ullén, Fredrik, et al.. (2008). Intelligence and Variability in a Simple Timing Task Share Neural Substrates in the Prefrontal White Matter. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(16). 4238–4243. 67 indexed citations

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Ullén, Fredrik. (2007). Independent neural control of rhythmic sequences — behavioral and fMRI evidence. Physiology & Behavior. 92(1-2). 193–198. 9 indexed citations

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Ullén, Fredrik, Sara Bengtsson, H. Henrik Ehrsson, & Hans Forssberg. (2005). Neural Control of Rhythmic Sequences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1060(1). 368–376. 12 indexed citations

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Bengtsson, Sara, H. Henrik Ehrsson, Hans Forssberg, & Fredrik Ullén. (2004). Dissociating brain regions controlling the temporal and ordinal structure of learned movement sequences. European Journal of Neuroscience. 19(9). 2591–2602. 91 indexed citations

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Ullén, Fredrik, T. G. Deliagina, G. N. Orlovsky, & Sten Grillner. (1996). Visual Potentiation of Vestibular Responses in Lamprey Reticulospinal Neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(11). 2298–2307. 21 indexed citations

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