Marcel Zentner

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Marcel Zentner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel Zentner has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marcel Zentner's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (14 papers), Music and Audio Processing (8 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers). Marcel Zentner is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (14 papers), Music and Audio Processing (8 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers). Marcel Zentner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Marcel Zentner's co-authors include Klaus R. Scherer, Didier Grandjean, Tuomas Eerola, Jerome Kagan, John E. Bates, Patrik Vuilleumier, Thomas Ethofer, Wiebke Trost, Kimberly J. Saudino and Kristin A. Buss and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marcel Zentner

29 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement.

2008 807 citations Marcel Zentner, Didier Grandjean et al. Emotion profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcel Zentner United Kingdom	22	1.7k	1.1k	971	688	480	31	3.1k
Nikki S. Rickard Australia	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	893 0.9×	701 1.0×	656 1.4×	98	4.3k
Suvi Saarikallio Finland	23	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	507 0.5×	205 0.3×	918 1.9×	76	2.3k
Petri Laukka Sweden	31	3.2k 1.9×	1.7k 1.5×	2.7k 2.8×	286 0.4×	780 1.6×	80	5.7k
Disa Sauter Netherlands	35	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	495 0.7×	67 0.1×	101	4.1k
Nikolaus Steinbeis United Kingdom	29	1.7k 1.0×	892 0.8×	859 0.9×	383 0.6×	121 0.3×	60	2.7k
Petr Janata United States	29	2.9k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	860 0.9×	165 0.2×	578 1.2×	62	3.8k
Katie Overy United Kingdom	20	1.6k 0.9×	727 0.7×	377 0.4×	82 0.1×	573 1.2×	48	2.1k
Sylvie Droit‐Volet France	47	5.4k 3.1×	1.3k 1.2×	3.4k 3.5×	535 0.8×	512 1.1×	166	7.0k
Jo‐Anne Bachorowski United States	22	816 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	23 0.0×	40	3.5k
Jacques Launay United Kingdom	20	940 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	428 0.4×	148 0.2×	291 0.6×	29	1.9k

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Talamini, Francesca, et al.. (2024). The Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA): A systematically organized online database of emotionally evocative music excerpts. Behavior Research Methods. 56(4). 3560–3577. 4 indexed citations

Zangerle, Eva, et al.. (2024). Emotion-Based Music Recommendation from Quality Annotations and Large-Scale User-Generated Tags. University Library Linz repository (Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz). 159–164.

Venables, Peter H., et al.. (2023). Associations between early childhood poverty and cognitive functioning throughout childhood and adolescence: A 14-year prospective longitudinal analysis of the Mauritius Child Health Project. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0278618–e0278618. 3 indexed citations

Parada‐Cabaleiro, Emilia, Anton Batliner, Marcel Zentner, & Markus Schedl. (2023). Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study. Royal Society Open Science. 10(12). 230574–230574. 1 indexed citations

Zentner, Marcel. (2018). A sadness-independent account of the enjoyment of music-evoked sadness: Comment on “An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music” by Tuomas Eerola et al.. Physics of Life Reviews. 25. 144–146.

Zentner, Marcel & Alice H. Eagly. (2015). A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence. European Review of Social Psychology. 26(1). 328–373. 38 indexed citations

Shiner, Rebecca L., Kristin A. Buss, Sandee McClowry, et al.. (2012). What Is Temperament Now ? Assessing Progress in Temperament Research on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Goldsmith et al. (1987). Child Development Perspectives. 6(4). 436–444. 240 indexed citations

Zentner, Marcel, et al.. (2012). Assessing Musical Abilities Objectively: Construction and Validation of the Profile of Music Perception Skills. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e52508–e52508. 185 indexed citations

Trost, Wiebke, Thomas Ethofer, Marcel Zentner, & Patrik Vuilleumier. (2011). Mapping Aesthetic Musical Emotions in the Brain. Cerebral Cortex. 22(12). 2769–2783. 213 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel & Tuomas Eerola. (2010). Rhythmic engagement with music in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(13). 5768–5773. 318 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel, Didier Grandjean, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2008). Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement.. Emotion. 8(4). 494–521. 807 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zentner, Marcel & John E. Bates. (2008). Child Temperament: An Integrative Review of Concepts, Research Programs, and Measures. International Journal of Developmental Science. 2(1-2). 7–37. 190 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel & Olivier Renaud. (2007). Origins of adolescents' ideal self: An intergenerational perspective.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92(3). 557–574. 89 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel. (2005). Ideal Mate Personality Concepts and Compatibility in Close Relationships: A Longitudinal Analysis.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 89(2). 242–256. 38 indexed citations

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Scherer, Klaus R., Marcel Zentner, & Daniel N. Stern. (2004). Beyond Surprise: The Puzzle of Infants' Expressive Reactions to Expectancy Violation.. Emotion. 4(4). 389–402. 54 indexed citations

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Scherer, Klaus R., Marcel Zentner, & Annekathrin Schacht. (2001). Emotional states generated by music: An exploratory study of music experts. Musicae Scientiae. 5(1_suppl). 149–171. 63 indexed citations

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Kagan, Jerome, Nancy Snidman, Marcel Zentner, & Eric D. Peterson. (1999). Infant temperament and anxious symptomsin school age children. Development and Psychopathology. 11(2). 209–224. 157 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel & Jerome Kagan. (1998). Infants' perception of consonance and dissonance in music. Infant Behavior and Development. 21(3). 483–492. 132 indexed citations

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Kagan, Jerome & Marcel Zentner. (1996). Early Childhood Predictors of Adult Psychopathology. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 3(6). 341–350. 49 indexed citations

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Zentner, Marcel. (1995). Die Flucht ins Vergessen : die Anfänge der Psychoanalyse Freuds bei Schopenhauer. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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