Mireille Besson

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

About

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 Canada. 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.

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Mireille Besson

110 papers receiving 7.7k citations

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Pre-attentive Pitch Processing of Harmonic Complex Sounds at Sensor and Source Levels: Comparing Simultaneously Recorded EEG and MEG Data 2025 ·Brain Topography ·(unknown), Jean‐Michel Badier, Christian Bénar, (unknown), Mireille Besson, Valérie Chanoine	0
2	Phonetic Skills and Verbal Memory Capacity Predict Phonetic-based Word Learning: An Event-related Potential Study 2021 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Stefan Elmer, (unknown), (unknown), François Clément, Mireille Besson, Lutz Jäncke, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells	6
3	Evidence for Enhanced Long-term Memory in Professional Musicians and Its Contribution to Novel Word Learning 2020 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), Mireille Besson	11
4	Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), Mireille Besson	31
5	Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians 2018 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), Mariapaola D’Imperio, Mireille Besson	13
6	Increased functional connectivity in the ventral and dorsal streams during retrieval of novel words in professional musicians 2017 ·Human Brain Mapping ·(unknown), (unknown), Lutz Jäncke, Mireille Besson, Stefan Elmer	21
7	Effectiveness of music therapy as an aid to neurorestoration of children with severe neurological disorders 2015 ·Frontiers in Neuroscience ·María L. Bringas-Vega, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Lilia Morales, Carlos Maragoto, (unknown), Lı́dice Galán, Mireille Besson, Pedro A. Valdés‐Sosa	29
8	“All that glitters is not … alone”. Congruity effects in highly and less predictable sentence contexts 2014 ·Neurophysiologie Clinique ·Michel Cermolacce, Sébastien Scannella, Mélanie Faugère, Jean Vion‐Dury, Mireille Besson	7
9	Musical expertise and foreign speech perception 2013 ·Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience ·Eduardo Martínez‐Montes, (unknown), Julie Chobert, (unknown), (unknown), Pedro A. Valdés‐Sosa, Mireille Besson	19
10	Twelve Months of Active Musical Training in 8- to 10-Year-Old Children Enhances the Preattentive Processing of Syllabic Duration and Voice Onset Time 2012 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Julie Chobert, François Clément, Jean‐Luc Velay, Mireille Besson	204
11	Is the distinction between intra- and extra-musical meaning implemented in the brain? 2011 ·Physics of Life Reviews ·Mireille Besson, Aline Frey, Mitsuko Aramaki	3
12	Musicians and the Metric Structure of Words 2010 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Céline Marie, Cyrille Magne, Mireille Besson	139
13	Pre-attentive and attentive processing of French vowels 2010 ·Brain Research ·(unknown), Julie Chobert, (unknown), Noël Nguyen, Lucia Colombo, Mireille Besson	11
14	Influence of Syllabic Lengthening on Semantic Processing in Spoken French: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence 2007 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Cyrille Magne, Corine Astésano, Mitsuko Aramaki, Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Mireille Besson	87
15	Musician Children Detect Pitch Violations in Both Music and Language Better than Nonmusician Children: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Approaches 2006 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Cyrille Magne, Daniele Schön, Mireille Besson	244
16	The Snodgrass and Vanderwart Set Revisited: Norms for Object Manipulability and for Pictorial Ambiguity of Objects, Chimeric Objects, and Nonobjects 2003 ·Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology ·Marie-Noële Magnié-Mauro, Mireille Besson, (unknown), C Dolisi	55
17	Different brain mechanisms mediate two strategies in arithmetic: evidence from Event-Related brain Potentials 2003 ·Neuropsychologia ·Radouane El Yagoubi, Patrick Lemaire, Mireille Besson	83
18	The music of speech: electrophysiological approach 2002 ·Daniele Schön, Cyrille Magne, Maarten Schrooten, Mireille Besson	1
19	An electrophysiological study of dyslexic and control adults in a sentence reading task 2002 ·Biological Psychology ·Fabrice Robichon, Mireille Besson, Michel Habib	24
20	Comparison between Language and Music 2001 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Mireille Besson, Daniele Schön	163

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