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Petr Janata
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 70
Citations - 4921
Petr Janata is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Music psychology & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 67 publications receiving 4445 citations. Previous affiliations of Petr Janata include Georgia Institute of Technology & University of Chicago.
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Music-evoked nostalgia: affect, memory, and personality.
Frederick S. Barrett,Kevin J. Grimm,Richard W. Robins,Tim Wildschut,Constantine Sedikides,Petr Janata +5 more
TL;DR: Nostalgia was stronger to the extent that a song was autobiographically salient, arousing, familiar, and elicited a greater number of positive, negative, and mixed emotions.
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The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music.
Petr Janata,Jeffrey L. Birk,John D. Van Horn,Marc Leman,Barbara Tillmann,Jamshed J. Bharucha +5 more
TL;DR: In functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, an area in the rostromedial prefrontal cortex that tracks activation in tonal space was identified and the tonality structure was maintained as a dynamic topography in cortical areas known to be at a nexus of cognitive, affective, and mnemonic processing.
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Sensorimotor Coupling in Music and the Psychology of the Groove
TL;DR: It is concluded that groove can be treated as a psychological construct and model system that allows for experimental exploration of the relationship between sensorimotor coupling with music and emotion.
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Embodied music cognition and mediation technology
Peter E. Keller,Petr Janata +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Leman examines how these developments might be unified into something that is simultaneously a theory of music cognition and a blueprint for the music mediation technology of the future, and the main mediating principle elaborated on in the monograph, which is more intellectual discourse than textbook, is rooted in the belief that musical interactions are socially charged, embodied affairs.
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Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming.
TL;DR: This study investigated the neural correlates of processing related and unrelated musical events presented as the last chord of eight-chord sequences.