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Andrea Halpern

Professor of Psychology

e ahalpern@bucknell.edu p 570-577-1295
• Memory
• Music perception
• Music cognition
• Auditory imagery
• Cognitive aging
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Dementia 

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About Andrea Halpern

e ahalpern@bucknell.edu p 570-577-1295
• Memory
• Music perception
• Music cognition
• Auditory imagery
• Cognitive aging
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Dementia 

Articles (91)

Covert singing in anticipatory auditory imagery

Faculty Journal Articles (2019)

Tim A. Pruitt, Andrea R. Halpern and P. Q. Pfordresher

To date, several fMRI studies reveal activation in motor planning areas during musical auditory imagery. We addressed whether such activations ...

Inner World of Music (And Other Sounds)

The Junkyard: a scholarly blog devoted to the study of the imagination (2018)

Andrea R. Halpern

In a famous anecdote, the 14-year old Mozart is said to have accurately transcribed a complex piece (Miserere by Allergri) ...

Attraction to Sad Music: The Role of Imagery, Absorption, and ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2018)

Emery Schubert, Andrea R. Halpern, Gunter Kreutz and Sandra Garrido

Previous studies have identified links between attraction to negative emotion in music with the traits of absorption and rumination. However, ...

Score one for jazz: Working memory in jazz and classical ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2018)

Bryan E. Nichols, Clemens Wöllner and Andrea R. Halpern

Jazz musicians rely on different skills than do classical musicians for successful performances. We investigated the working memory span of ...

Who's That Knocking at My Door? Neural Bases of ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2018)

Guillaume Lemaitre, John A. Pyles, Andrea R. Halpern, Nicole Navolio, et al.

When hearing knocking on a door, a listener typically identifies both the action (forceful and repeated impacts) and the object ...

Working Memory and Auditory Imagery Predict Sensorimotor Synchronisation With Expressively ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2018)

Ian D Colley, Peter E Keller and Andrea R Halpern

Sensorimotor synchronisation (SMS) is prevalent and readily studied in musical settings, as most people are able to perceive and synchronise ...

Audience Reactions to Repeating A Piece on A Concert Programme

Faculty Journal Articles (2017)

Andrea R. Halpern, Chloe H.K. Chan, Daniel Müllensiefen and John Sloboda

Repetition of a piece on a concert programme is a well-established, but uncommon performance practice. Musicians have presumed that repetition ...

Musical Expertise Has Minimal Impact on Dual Task Performance

Faculty Journal Articles (2017)

Gianna Cocchini, Maria Serena Filardi, Marcela Crhonkova and Andrea R. Halpern

Studies investigating effect of practice on dual task performance have yielded conflicting findings, thus supporting different theoretical accounts about the ...

Pitch Imitation Ability in Mental Transformations of Melodies

Faculty Journal Articles (2017)

Emma B. Greenspon, Peter Q. Pfordresher and Andrea R. Halpern

Previous research suggests that individuals with a vocal pitch imitation deficit (VPID, a.k.a. "poor-pitch singers") experience less vivid auditory images ...

That Note Sounds Wrong! Age-Related Effects in Processing of Musical ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2017)

Andrea R. Halpern, Ioanna Zioga, Martin Shankleman, Job Lindsen, et al.

Part of musical understanding and enjoyment stems from the ability to accurately predict what note (or one of a small ...

A Brain System for Auditory Working Memory

Faculty Journal Articles (2016)

Sukhbinder Kumar, Sabine Joseph, Phillip E. Gander, Nicolas Barascud, et al.

The brain basis for auditory working memory, the process of actively maintaining sounds in memory over short periods of time, ...

Attentional Flexibility and Memory Capacity in Conductors and Pianists

Faculty Journal Articles (2016)

Andrea R. Halpern and Clemens Wöllner

Individuals with high working memory (WM) capacity also tend to have better selective and divided attention. Although both capacities are ...

Perceived and Induced Emotion Responses to Popular Music: Categorical and ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2016)

Yading Song, Simon Dixon, Marcus T. Pearce and Andrea R. Halpern

Music both conveys and evokes emotions, and although both phenomena are widely studied, the difference between them is often neglected. ...

A Mechanism for Sensorimotor Translation in Singing: the Multi-Modal Imagery ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Peter Q. Pfordresher, Andrea Halpern and Emma B. Greenspon

WE PROPOSE A NEW FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND singing accuracy, based on multi-modal imagery associations: the MMIA model. This model is ...

Absolute Pitch in Naturalistic Singing: A Commentary On Olthof et ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Andrea R. Halpern

The parent article looks at pitch stability in an archive of folksongs recorded over several decades. Some evidence for pitch ...

Age-Related Patterns in Emotions Evoked by Music

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Marcus T. Pearce and Andrea Halpern

We presented older and younger nonmusician adult listeners with (mostly) unfamiliar excerpts of film music. All listeners rated their emotional ...

Differences in Auditory Imagery Self-Report Predict Neural and Behavioral Outcomes

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Andrea R. Halpern

Mental imagery abilities vary among individuals, as shown both by objective measures and by self-report. Few imagery studies consider auditory ...

Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Cesar F. Lima, Nadine Lavan, Samuel Evans, Zarinah Agnew, et al.

Humans can generate mental auditory images of voices or songs, sometimes perceiving them almost as vividly as perceptual experiences. The ...

Contribution to Book

Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (2015)

Neuroimaging has contributed greatly to our understanding of the sensory, motor, and cognitive systems involved in musical processing. Cortical loops ...

Musical Tasks Targeting Preserved and Impaired Functions in Two Dementias

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Andrea Halpern, Hannah L. Golden, Nadia Magdalinou, Pirada Witoonpanich, et al.

Studies of musical abilities in dementia have for the most part been rather general assessments of abilities, for instance, assessing ...

Right Parietal Cortex Mediates Recognition Memory for Melodies

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Nora K. Schaal, Amir-Homayoun Javadi, Andrea Halpern, Bettina Pollok, et al.

Functional brain imaging studies have highlighted the significance of right-lateralized temporal, frontal and parietal brain areas for memory for melodies. ...

The Effect of Exercise-Induced Arousal on Chosen Tempi for Familiar ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Many previous studies have shown that arousal affects time perception, suggesting a direct influence of arousal on the speed of ...

The Effect of Exercise-Induced Arousal on Chosen Tempi for Familiar ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Kelly Jakubowski, Andrea Halpern, Mick Grierson and Lauren Stewart

Many previous studies have shown that arousal affects time perception, suggesting a direct influence of arousal on the speed of ...

The Speed of Our Mental Soundtracks: Tracking the Tempo of ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2015)

Kelly Jakubowski, Nicolas Farrugia, Andrea Halpern, Sathish K. Sankarpandi, et al.

The study of spontaneous and everyday cognitions is an area of rapidly growing interest. One of the most ubiquitous forms ...

The Role of Features and Context in Recognition of Novel ...

Faculty Journal Articles (2014)

Daniel Mullensiefen and Andrea Halpern

WE INVESTIGATED HOW WELL STRUCTURAL FEATURES such as note density or the relative number of changes in the melodic contour ...