by This is a list of researchers that I put together while researching my book about singing. It is by no means complete, it only reflects areas I looked into. Also, the descriptions in parenthesis are notes to myself and they are not necessarily how the person indicated would categorize their work. Some of the people on this list may not be researching singing per se, but I felt their work was related. (And a few of them were added recently.)
I thought this list might be useful to others looking into the science of singing. Suggestions for additions would be most welcome. I think I might update it later to include the papers I found useful and links to the researcher’s labs or websites.
Singing Researchers
Stephen Clift (Singing and Health)
The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health
s.clift@btinternet.com
Mary Cohen (Prison Choirs)
University of Iowa
mary-cohen@uiowa.edu
Proj. Jane Davidson (Group singing paper)
The University of Western Australia
jane.davidson@uwa.edu.au
Robin Dunbar (Performance and pain threshold)
University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK.
robin.dunbar@psy.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Thomas Fritz
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
fritz@cbs.mpg.de
Grenville Hancox (Singing and Health)
The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health
grenville.hancox@canterbury.ac.uk
David Huron (Sad music)
Ohio State University
School of Music
huron.1@osu.edu
Petr Janata
University of California
pjanata@ucdavis.edu
Sebastian Jentschke
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
jentschke@cbs.mpg.de
Julene Johnson, PhD (Singing and Aging)
UCSF School of Nursing
Institute for Health & Aging
julene.johnson@ucsf.edu
Ai Kawakami (sad music)
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
amour.kawakami@gmail.com
Prof. Gunter Kreutz (Singing, S-iga)
University of Oldenburg
gunter.kreutz@gmail.com
Edward Large (Singing, rhythm, mirror neurons)
Florida Atlantic University
Music Dynamics Lab
large@ccs.fau.edu
Daniel Levitin
McGill University
Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise
dlevitin@psych.mcgill.ca
Linda Maguire (Singing and Alzheimers)
George Mason University
maguire.usa@gmail.com
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs (Singing and autism, mirror neurons)
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
imolnar@ucla.edu
Kazuo Okanoya (sad music)
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Okanoya@brain.riken.jp
Katie Overy
University of Edinburgh
k.overy@ed.ac.uk
Lawrence Parsons
The University of Sheffield
L.Parsons@sheffield.ac.uk
Aniruddh Patel
The Neurosciences Institute/Tufts
a.patel@tufts.edu
Julie Ann Pooley
Edith Cown University
j.pooley@ecu.edu.au
Valorie N. Salimpoor (effects of listening to music)
Rotman Research Institute
valorie.salimpoor@mail.mcgill.ca
Ahmet Muhip Sanal
Abant Izzet Baysal University
muhipsanal@yahoo.com
Gottfried Schlaug (singing and stroke)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
The Music And Neuroimaging Lab
gschlaug@bidmc.harvard.edu
Dr. Jeanette Tamplin (Singing and brain injury)
University of Melbourne
jeanette.tamplin@unimelb.edu.au
Michael Thaut
Colorado State University
Michael.Thaut@colostate.edu
Laurel Trainor (infant response to singing)
McMaster University
Auditory Development Lab
Robert Zatorre (music and the brain)
Montreal Neurological Institute
robert.zatorre@mcgill.ca
