John Sloboda

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

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John Sloboda is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Music and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Sloboda has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 54 papers in Music and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Sloboda's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (62 papers), Diverse Music Education Insights (52 papers) and Music Therapy and Health (18 papers). John Sloboda is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (62 papers), Diverse Music Education Insights (52 papers) and Music Therapy and Health (18 papers). John Sloboda collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and United States. John Sloboda's co-authors include Michael J. A. Howe, Jane W. Davidson, Allan Shields, Patrik N. Juslin, Don Rogers, Irène Deliège, David G. Moore, Susan O’Neill, Antonia Ivaldi and Nikolaus Steinbeis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

John Sloboda

115 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Music for Social Impact: An overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK 2020 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·John Sloboda, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alessandro Mazzola, (unknown), (unknown), Heidi Westerlund, (unknown)	6
2	The Improvisational State of Mind: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Improvisatory Approach to Classical Music Repertoire Performance 2018 ·Frontiers in Psychology ·David F. Dolan, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Miguel Molina-Solana, (unknown), Fernando E. Rosas, John Sloboda	41
3	Audience Reactions to Repeating A Piece on A Concert Programme 2017 ·Bucknell Digital Commons (Bucknell University) ·Andrea R. Halpern, (unknown), Daniel Müllensiefen, John Sloboda	1
4	Violent Deaths of Iraqi Civilians, 2003–2008: Analysis by Perpetrator, Weapon, Time, and Location 2011 ·PLoS Medicine ·Madelyn Hsiao‐Rei Hicks, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John Sloboda, Michael Spagat	40
5	The functions of music for affect regulation 2011 ·Musicae Scientiae ·(unknown), John Sloboda	180
6	Casualties in civilians and coalition soldiers from suicide bombings in Iraq, 2003–10: a descriptive study 2011 ·The Lancet ·Madelyn Hsiao‐Rei Hicks, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Spagat, John Sloboda	43
7	Music and art in conflict transformation: A review 2010 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), John Sloboda	54
8	The ear of the beholder 2008 ·Nature ·John Sloboda	22
9	Respuestas globales a amenazas globales: Seguridad sostenible para el siglo XXI 2006 ·Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers, John Sloboda	1
10	Emotional Processing of Harmonic Expectancy Violations 2005 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Nikolaus Steinbeis, Stefan Koelsch, John Sloboda	12
11	The war, what war? Psychology in denial 2003 ·John Sloboda	2
12	Interdependence of right and left hands in sight-read, written, and rehearsed fingerings of parallel melodic piano music 1999 ·Australian Journal of Psychology ·Richard Parncutt, John Sloboda, Eric Clarke	9
13	El joven intérprete 1998 ·LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) ·John Sloboda, Jane W. Davidson	1
14	Innate talents: Reality or myth? 1998 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·Michael J. A. Howe, Jane W. Davidson, John Sloboda	405
15	The Role of Parents and Teachers in the Success and Failure of Instrumental Learners. 1996 ·Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education ·Jane W. Davidson, John Sloboda, Michael J. A. Howe	58
16	Biographical Precursors of Musical Excellence: An Interview Study 1991 ·Psychology of Music ·John Sloboda, Michael J. A. Howe	144
17	Cognition and social worlds 1989 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·Angus Gellatly, Don Rogers, John Sloboda	26
18	Cognitive processes in mathematics 1987 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·John Sloboda, Don Rogers	170
19	The Psychology of Music Reading 1978 ·Psychology of Music ·John Sloboda	38
20	The locus of the word-priority effect in a target-detection task 1977 ·Memory & Cognition ·John Sloboda	16

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