Robert J. Zatorre

57.4k total citations · 15 hit papers
325 papers, 39.0k citations indexed

About

Robert J. Zatorre is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert J. Zatorre has authored 325 papers receiving a total of 39.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 279 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 108 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 42 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert J. Zatorre's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (202 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (91 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (85 papers). Robert J. Zatorre is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (202 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (91 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (85 papers). Robert J. Zatorre collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Robert J. Zatorre's co-authors include Virginia B. Penhune, Alan C. Evans, Pascal Belin, Anne J. Blood, Marilyn Jones‐Gotman, Joyce L. Chen, Ernst Meyer, Valorie N. Salimpoor, Isabelle Peretz and Albert Gjedde and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robert J. Zatorre

315 papers receiving 37.6k 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.

Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion

2001 1.8k citations Robert J. Zatorre et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex

2000 1.3k citations Pascal Belin, Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning

2012 1.2k citations Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing

1992 1.2k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Alan C. Evans et al. Science profile →
When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production

2007 1.1k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Virginia B. Penhune et al. profile →
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech

2002 1.1k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Pascal Belin et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music

2011 1.1k citations Alain Dagher, Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Spectral and Temporal Processing in Human Auditory Cortex

2001 994 citations Robert J. Zatorre Cerebral Cortex profile →
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions

1999 756 citations Robert J. Zatorre, Alan C. Evans et al. profile →
Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain

2008 571 citations Virginia B. Penhune, Robert J. Zatorre et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →
Brain Organization for Music Processing

2004 543 citations Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Musical Training as a Framework for Brain Plasticity: Behavior, Function, and Structure

2012 535 citations Robert J. Zatorre et al. profile →
Functional localization and lateralization of human olfactory cortex

1992 533 citations Robert J. Zatorre, Alan C. Evans et al. profile →
Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value

2013 389 citations Anthony R. McIntosh, Alain Dagher et al. Science profile →
Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

2019 219 citations Laura Ferreri, Ernest Mas‐Herrero et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert J. Zatorre Canada	105	32.1k	11.7k	7.6k	3.9k	3.9k	325	39.0k
Risto Näätänen Finland	108	41.5k 1.3×	16.5k 1.4×	2.5k 0.3×	2.4k 0.6×	5.8k 1.5×	402	45.5k
Lutz Jäncke Switzerland	88	19.0k 0.6×	5.9k 0.5×	4.1k 0.5×	971 0.2×	2.5k 0.6×	456	27.1k
Warren H. Meck United States	84	19.8k 0.6×	5.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.5×	213	25.3k
Steven A. Hillyard United States	103	41.6k 1.3×	12.1k 1.0×	3.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	5.4k 1.4×	225	45.3k
Riitta Hari Finland	98	27.0k 0.8×	5.7k 0.5×	5.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	3.0k 0.8×	415	33.9k
Vinod Menon United States	99	46.0k 1.4×	11.1k 0.9×	3.9k 0.5×	897 0.2×	4.0k 1.0×	268	58.3k
Morten L. Kringelbach United Kingdom	71	13.6k 0.4×	4.5k 0.4×	3.2k 0.4×	2.1k 0.5×	616 0.2×	326	22.6k
Gottfried Schlaug United States	95	16.0k 0.5×	2.9k 0.3×	4.2k 0.6×	405 0.1×	1.8k 0.5×	273	27.0k
Kimmo Alho Finland	78	19.0k 0.6×	8.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.2×	1.1k 0.3×	2.3k 0.6×	210	21.0k
Michael M. Merzenich United States	89	22.8k 0.7×	3.4k 0.3×	1.6k 0.2×	4.4k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	226	31.1k

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Wesseldijk, Laura W., Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Robert J. Zatorre, et al.. (2025). Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2904–2904. 1 indexed citations

Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, Robert J. Zatorre, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2025). Understanding individual differences to specific rewards through music. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(2). 175–186.

Albouy, Philippe, et al.. (2025). Auditory and vibrotactile interactions in perception of timbre acoustic features. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 38055–38055.

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

Steele, Christopher J., et al.. (2023). Using cortico‐cerebellar structural patterns to classify early‐ and late‐trained musicians. Human Brain Mapping. 44(12). 4512–4522. 7 indexed citations

Gold, Benjamin P., Marcus T. Pearce, Anthony R. McIntosh, et al.. (2023). Auditory and reward structures reflect the pleasure of musical expectancies during naturalistic listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1209398–1209398. 4 indexed citations

Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the Temporal Dynamics of Reward Signals in Music-Induced Pleasure with TMS. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(17). 3889–3899. 31 indexed citations

Albouy, Philippe, Lucas Benjamin, Benjamin Morillon, & Robert J. Zatorre. (2020). Distinct sensitivity to spectrotemporal modulation supports brain asymmetry for speech and melody. Science. 367(6481). 1043–1047. 137 indexed citations

Ferreri, Laura, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Robert J. Zatorre, et al.. (2019). Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(9). 3793–3798. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mas‐Herrero, Ernest, et al.. (2018). The impact of visual art and emotional sounds in specific musical anhedonia. Progress in brain research. 237. 399–413. 22 indexed citations

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Coffey, Emily B. J., Gabriella Musacchia, & Robert J. Zatorre. (2017). Cortical Correlates of the Auditory Frequency-Following and Onset Responses: EEG and fMRI Evidence. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(4). 830–838. 6 indexed citations

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Albouy, Philippe, et al.. (2017). Practicing an auditory working memory task recruits lower-level auditory areas in a task-specific manner.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Molina, Noelia, Ernest Mas‐Herrero, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Robert J. Zatorre, & Josep Marco‐Pallarés. (2016). Neural correlates of specific musical anhedonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). E7337–E7345. 131 indexed citations

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Champoux, François, et al.. (2014). Enhancement of Visual Motion Detection Thresholds in Early Deaf People. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e90498–e90498. 57 indexed citations

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Sutherland, Mary Elizabeth, Tomáš Paus, & Robert J. Zatorre. (2013). Neuroanatomical correlates of musical transposition in adolescents: a longitudinal approach. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 7. 113–113. 4 indexed citations

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Warrier, Catherine M., Patrick C. M. Wong, Virginia B. Penhune, et al.. (2009). Relating Structure to Function: Heschl's Gyrus and Acoustic Processing. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(1). 61–69. 172 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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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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Moreno-Cantú, J.J., Chris Thompson, & Robert J. Zatorre. (1998). Evaluation of the ECAT EXACT HR+ 3-D PET scanner in H/sub 2//sup 15/O brain activation studies: dose fractionation strategies for rCBF and signal enhancing protocols. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 17(6). 979–985. 13 indexed citations

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Zatorre, Robert J., Alan C. Evans, Ernst Meyer, & Albert Gjedde. (1992). Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing. Science. 256(5058). 846–849. 1170 indexed citations breakdown →

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