| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Perception of Temporal Patterns | Music Perception | 1985 | 507 |
| 2 | A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music: Psychophysical and Cultural Cues | Music Perception | 1999 | 426 |
| 3 | Effects of Musical Tempo and Mode on Arousal, Mood, and Spatial Abilities | Music Perception | 2002 | 421 |
| 4 | The Emotional Sources of "Chills" Induced by Music | Music Perception | 1995 | 404 |
| 5 | Uses of Music in Everyday Life | Music Perception | 2004 | 364 |
| 6 | A Perceptual Model of Pulse Salience and Metrical Accent in Musical Rhythms | Music Perception | 1994 | 340 |
| 7 | Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System | Music Perception | 2009 | 338 |
| 8 | A Comparison of Acoustic Cues in Music and Speech for Three Dimensions of Affect | Music Perception | 2006 | 272 |
| 9 | Music Cognition and Perceptual Facilitation: A Connectionist Framework | Music Perception | 1987 | 271 |
| 10 | Listening To Music As A Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, And Psychoacoustical Correlates Of Chills And Strong Emotions | Music Perception | 2007 | 270 |
| 11 | A Model of Expressive Timing in Tonal Music | Music Perception | 1985 | 267 |
| 12 | The Ecology of Entrainment: Foundations of Coordinated Rhythmic Movement | Music Perception | 2010 | 260 |
| 13 | Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation in Rehabilitation of Movement Disorders: A Review Of Current Research | Music Perception | 2010 | 236 |
| 14 | Synchronization of Timing and Motion Among Performing Musicians | Music Perception | 2009 | 226 |
| 15 | Modeling Perceived Emotion With Continuous Musical Features | Music Perception | 2004 | 222 |
| 16 | Expectation in Melody: The Influence of Context and Learning | Music Perception | 2006 | 222 |
| 17 | An Overview of Hierarchical Structure in Music | Music Perception | 1983 | 220 |
| 18 | THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC: INNATENESS, UNIQUENESS, AND EVOLUTION | Music Perception | 2005 | 218 |
| 19 | Individual Differences in Music Reward Experiences | Music Perception | 2013 | 213 |
| 20 | Visual Perception of Expressiveness in Musicians' Body Movements | Music Perception | 2007 | 210 |
| 21 | How Music Moves | Music Perception | 2006 | 204 |
| 22 | A Review of Music and Emotion Studies: Approaches, Emotion Models, and Stimuli | Music Perception | 2013 | 204 |
| 23 | Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution | Music Perception | 2006 | 203 |
| 24 | Stream Segregation and Peripheral Channeling | Music Perception | 1991 | 201 |
| 25 | Autism and Pitch Processing: A Precursor for Savant Musical Ability? | Music Perception | 1998 | 201 |
| 26 | Who Enjoys Listening to Sad Music and Why? | Music Perception | 2012 | 199 |
| 27 | Embodied Meter: Hierarchical Eigenmodes in Music-Induced Movement | Music Perception | 2010 | 198 |
| 28 | Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-Leading from Perceptual Principles | Music Perception | 2001 | 197 |
| 29 | Perception of the Major/Minor Distinction: IV. Emotional Connotations in Young Children | Music Perception | 1990 | 189 |
| 30 | Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music | Music Perception | 2002 | 185 |
| 31 | FROM SINGING TO SPEAKING: WHY SINGING MAY LEAD TO RECOVERY OF EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH BROCA'S APHASIA | Music Perception | 2008 | 181 |
| 32 | Grouping Conditions in Listening to Music: An Approach to Lerdahl & Jackendoff's Grouping Preference Rules | Music Perception | 1987 | 180 |
| 33 | Modeling Tonal Tension | Music Perception | 2007 | 180 |
| 34 | Emotional Communication in Music Performance: A Functionalist Perspective and Some Data | Music Perception | 1997 | 172 |
| 35 | Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison | Music Perception | 2004 | 170 |
| 36 | Expectation in Music: Investigation of Melodic and Harmonic Processes | Music Perception | 1989 | 169 |
| 37 | Preference for Sensory Consonance in 2- and 4-Month-Old Infants | Music Perception | 2002 | 164 |
| 38 | A Perceptual Analysis of Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 282: Segmentation, Tension, and Musical Ideas | Music Perception | 1996 | 160 |
| 39 | Temporal Information Processing in Musicians and Nonmusicians | Music Perception | 2006 | 160 |
| 40 | The Rhythmic Interpretation of Monophonic Music | Music Perception | 1984 | 155 |
| 41 | Tapping in Time with Mechanically and Expressively Performed Music | Music Perception | 2000 | 155 |
| 42 | Parallels and Nonparallels between Language and Music | Music Perception | 2009 | 154 |
| 43 | Humans Rapidly Learn Grammatical Structure in a New Musical Scale | Music Perception | 2010 | 154 |
| 44 | Individual Differences in the Enjoyment of Negative Emotion in Music: A Literature Review and Experiment | Music Perception | 2011 | 154 |
| 45 | Absolute Pitch, Speech, and Tone Language: Some Experiments and a Proposed Framework | Music Perception | 2004 | 148 |
| 46 | Experiencing Groove Induced by Music: Consistency and Phenomenology | Music Perception | 2006 | 148 |
| 47 | A Model of Melodic Expectation | Music Perception | 2005 | 143 |
| 48 | How Jazz Musicians Improvise | Music Perception | 2002 | 141 |
| 49 | Individual Differences, Auditory Imagery, and the Coordination of Body Movements and Sounds in Musical Ensembles | Music Perception | 2010 | 141 |
| 50 | Poor-Pitch Singing in the Absence of "Tone Deafness" | Music Perception | 2007 | 140 |
