Mireille Besson

11.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

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Mireille Besson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mireille Besson has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 44 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 44 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mireille Besson's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (72 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (48 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers). Mireille Besson is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (72 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (48 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers). Mireille Besson collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Mireille Besson's co-authors include Daniele Schön, Cyrille Magne, Julie Chobert, Sylvain Moreno, Frédérique Faïta, Marta Kutas, Céline Marie, São Luís Castro, Cyma Van Petten and François Clément and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mireille Besson

110 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

2008 520 citations Sylvain Moreno, Mireille Besson et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mireille Besson	7.3k	2.7k	2.4k	1.3k	1.2k	113	8.2k
Sandra E. Trehub	7.4k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	199	9.9k
Thomas C. Gunter	5.0k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	411 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	92	5.9k
Daniele Schön	3.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	988 0.4×	711 0.5×	646 0.5×	94	4.4k
Sylvain Moreno	3.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	925 0.7×	757 0.6×	85	4.6k
Barbara Tillmann	5.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	902 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	999 0.9×	207	6.4k
Mari Riess Jones	4.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	436 0.2×	774 0.6×	655 0.6×	56	5.3k
Caroline Palmėr	4.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	459 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	147	5.5k
Simon Grondin	3.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	886 0.4×	352 0.3×	685 0.6×	186	5.4k
Krista L. Hyde	3.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	601 0.2×	839 0.6×	740 0.6×	49	4.3k
Thomas Rammsayer	4.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	453 0.2×	509 0.4×	741 0.6×	192	5.3k

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Elmer, Stefan, Mireille Besson, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, & Nathalie Giroud. (2023). Foreign speech sound discrimination and associative word learning lead to a fast reconfiguration of resting-state networks. NeuroImage. 271. 120026–120026. 1 indexed citations

Elmer, Stefan, Mireille Besson, & Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells. (2022). The electrophysiological correlates of word pre-activation during associative word learning. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 182. 12–22. 6 indexed citations

Elmer, Stefan, et al.. (2021). Phonetic Skills and Verbal Memory Capacity Predict Phonetic-based Word Learning: An Event-related Potential Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(10). 1–16. 6 indexed citations

Besson, Mireille, et al.. (2020). Evidence for Enhanced Long-term Memory in Professional Musicians and Its Contribution to Novel Word Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(4). 662–682. 11 indexed citations

Besson, Mireille, et al.. (2019). Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216874–e0216874. 31 indexed citations

D’Imperio, Mariapaola, et al.. (2018). Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience. 47(12). 1504–1516. 13 indexed citations

Jäncke, Lutz, et al.. (2017). Increased functional connectivity in the ventral and dorsal streams during retrieval of novel words in professional musicians. Human Brain Mapping. 39(2). 722–734. 21 indexed citations

Chobert, Julie, et al.. (2017). Fast Brain Plasticity during Word Learning in Musically-Trained Children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11. 233–233. 39 indexed citations

Cermolacce, Michel, Sébastien Scannella, Mélanie Faugère, Jean Vion‐Dury, & Mireille Besson. (2014). “All that glitters is not … alone”. Congruity effects in highly and less predictable sentence contexts. Neurophysiologie Clinique. 44(2). 189–201. 7 indexed citations

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Clément, François, Julie Chobert, Mireille Besson, & Daniele Schön. (2012). Music Training for the Development of Speech Segmentation. Cerebral Cortex. 23(9). 2038–2043. 218 indexed citations

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Marie, Céline, Cyrille Magne, & Mireille Besson. (2010). Musicians and the Metric Structure of Words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(2). 294–305. 139 indexed citations

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Gordon, Reyna L., Daniele Schön, Cyrille Magne, Corine Astésano, & Mireille Besson. (2010). Words and Melody Are Intertwined in Perception of Sung Words: EEG and Behavioral Evidence. PLoS ONE. 5(3). e9889–e9889. 50 indexed citations

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Schön, Daniele, Maud Boyer, Sylvain Moreno, et al.. (2007). Songs as an aid for language acquisition. Cognition. 106(2). 975–983. 181 indexed citations

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Magne, Cyrille, Daniele Schön, & Mireille Besson. (2006). Musician Children Detect Pitch Violations in Both Music and Language Better than Nonmusician Children: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Approaches. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18(2). 199–211. 244 indexed citations

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Moreno, Sylvain & Mireille Besson. (2005). Influence of Musical Training on Pitch Processing: Event‐Related Brain Potential Studies of Adults and Children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1060(1). 93–97. 22 indexed citations

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Magnié-Mauro, Marie-Noële, et al.. (2003). The Snodgrass and Vanderwart Set Revisited: Norms for Object Manipulability and for Pictorial Ambiguity of Objects, Chimeric Objects, and Nonobjects. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 25(4). 521–560. 55 indexed citations

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Schön, Daniele, Cyrille Magne, Maarten Schrooten, & Mireille Besson. (2002). The music of speech: electrophysiological approach. 635–638. 1 indexed citations

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Besson, Mireille & Daniele Schön. (2001). Comparison between Language and Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930(1). 232–258. 163 indexed citations

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Pynte, Joël, et al.. (1996). The Time-Course of Metaphor Comprehension: An Event-Related Potential Study. Brain and Language. 55(3). 293–316. 168 indexed citations

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Kutas, Marta, Cyma Van Petten, & Mireille Besson. (1988). Event-related potential asymmetries during the reading of sentences. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 69(3). 218–233. 251 indexed citations

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