Pascal Belin

19.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
165 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Pascal Belin is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Belin has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 81 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 21 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Pascal Belin's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (74 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (52 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (31 papers). Pascal Belin is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (74 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (52 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (31 papers). Pascal Belin collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United Kingdom. Pascal Belin's co-authors include Robert J. Zatorre, Pierre Ahad, Virginia B. Penhune, Shirley Fecteau, Marianne Latinus, G. Bruce Pike, Patricia E.G. Bestelmeyer, Catherine Bédard, Yves Samson and Mônica Zilbovicius and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Belin

159 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex

2000 1.3k citations Pascal Belin, Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech

2002 1.1k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Pascal Belin et al. profile →
Thinking the voice: neural correlates of voice perception

2004 631 citations Pascal Belin, Shirley Fecteau et al. profile →
Speech Rhythms and Multiplexed Oscillatory Sensory Coding in the Human Brain

2013 419 citations Pascal Belin et al. profile →
How Do You Say ‘Hello’? Personality Impressions from Brief Novel Voices

2014 245 citations Pascal Belin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pascal Belin Canada	56	10.8k	5.7k	1.9k	1.6k	996	165	13.2k
Sonja A. Kotz Germany	69	11.3k 1.0×	5.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	3.0k 1.9×	506 0.5×	349	13.9k
Isabelle Peretz Canada	73	16.0k 1.5×	5.8k 1.0×	4.3k 2.3×	1.8k 1.1×	2.5k 2.5×	265	18.5k
Laurel J. Trainor Canada	62	10.2k 0.9×	3.2k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.6×	1.8k 1.8×	205	12.5k
Sophie K. Scott United Kingdom	65	12.2k 1.1×	5.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.6×	3.2k 2.1×	718 0.7×	184	16.4k
Stefan Koelsch Germany	68	12.7k 1.2×	4.3k 0.8×	4.7k 2.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.9×	167	14.9k
Mikko Sams Finland	68	12.7k 1.2×	6.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	997 0.6×	979 1.0×	228	15.0k
Josh H. McDermott United States	38	9.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	537 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	97	10.4k
Timothy D. Griffiths United Kingdom	61	10.6k 1.0×	3.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	939 0.6×	808 0.8×	228	12.3k
Sandra E. Trehub Canada	57	7.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.9k 1.8×	1.8k 1.8×	199	9.9k
Gregory Hickok United States	54	13.7k 1.3×	5.0k 0.9×	2.9k 1.5×	5.5k 3.5×	465 0.5×	186	16.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pascal Belin

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Ravel, Sabrina, et al.. (2025). A large annotated dataset of vocalizations by common marmosets. Scientific Data. 12(1). 782–782. 1 indexed citations

Zatorre, Robert J., Julien Sein, Jean‐Luc Anton, et al.. (2024). Auditory hemispheric asymmetry for actions and objects. Cerebral Cortex. 34(7). 2 indexed citations

Meunier, David, et al.. (2023). Anatomo-functional correspondence in the voice-selective regions of human prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage. 279. 120336–120336. 2 indexed citations

Velly, Lionel, et al.. (2021). FMRI-based identity classification accuracy in left temporal and frontal regions predicts speaker recognition performance. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 489–489. 16 indexed citations

Didic, Mira, et al.. (2020). Progressive phonagnosia in a telephone operator carrying a C9orf72 expansion. Cortex. 132. 92–98. 3 indexed citations

Bodin, Clémentine, et al.. (2020). Plis de passage in the superior temporal sulcus: Morphology and local connectivity. NeuroImage. 225. 117513–117513. 11 indexed citations

Barone, Pascal, Kuzma Strelnikov, Bernard Fraysse, et al.. (2016). Crossmodal interactions during non-linguistic auditory processing in cochlear-implanted deaf patients. Cortex. 83. 259–270. 9 indexed citations

Paquette, Sébastien Rioux, Isabelle Peretz, & Pascal Belin. (2013). The “Musical Emotional Bursts”: a validated set of musical affect bursts to investigate auditory affective processing. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 509–509. 57 indexed citations

Belin, Pascal & Christophe Moulin. (2013). Analyse des situations de danger dans le cadre du retour d’expérience des inondations des 15 et 16 juin 2010 dans le Var. La Houille Blanche. 10–15. 3 indexed citations

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Charest, Ian, Cyril Pernet, Marianne Latinus, Frances Crabbe, & Pascal Belin. (2012). Cerebral Processing of Voice Gender Studied Using a Continuous Carryover fMRI Design. Cerebral Cortex. 23(4). 958–966. 49 indexed citations

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Strelnikov, Kuzma, et al.. (2011). Effects of vocoding and intelligibility on the cerebral response to speech. BMC Neuroscience. 12(1). 122–122. 12 indexed citations

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Sammler, Daniela, Amee Baird, Romain Valabrègue, et al.. (2010). The Relationship of Lyrics and Tunes in the Processing of Unfamiliar Songs: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Adaptation Study. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(10). 3572–3578. 51 indexed citations

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Gougoux, Frédéric, Pascal Belin, Patrice Voss, et al.. (2009). Voice perception in blind persons: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuropsychologia. 47(13). 2967–2974. 90 indexed citations

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Plourde, Gilles, Pascal Belin, Daniel Chartrand, et al.. (2006). Cortical Processing of Complex Auditory Stimuli during Alterations of Consciousness with the General Anesthetic Propofol. Anesthesiology. 104(3). 448–457. 92 indexed citations

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Belin, Pascal & Robert J. Zatorre. (2005). The Auditory Cortex: a Synthesis of Human and Animal Research. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations

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Fecteau, Shirley, Jorge L. Armony, Yves Joanette, & Pascal Belin. (2004). Is voice processing species-specific in human auditory cortex? An fMRI study. NeuroImage. 23(3). 840–848. 135 indexed citations

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Belin, Pascal, et al.. (2004). Vieillissement des bétons en milieu naturel : une expérimentation pour le XXIe siècle. IV. Résultats issus des prélèvements effectués sur les corps d'épreuve de différents sites aux premières échéances de mesure. 49–100. 3 indexed citations

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Thivard, Lionel, Pascal Belin, Mônica Zilbovicius, Jean‐Baptiste Poline, & Yves Samson. (2000). A cortical region sensitive to auditory spectral motion. Neuroreport. 11(13). 2969–2972. 57 indexed citations

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Warrier, Catherine M., Pascal Belin, Isabelle Merlet, & Robert J. Zatorre. (1999). FMRI study examining effect of melodic context on pitch discrimination. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 25. 1629. 3 indexed citations

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Carlomagno, Sergio, P. Van Eeckhout, Valeria Blasi, et al.. (1997). The Impact of Functional Neuroimaging Methods on the Development of a Theory for Cognitive Remediation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 7(4). 311–326. 12 indexed citations

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