Selected articles
Rochette, F. & Moussard, A. (in preparation) Using music for cognitive therapy: A review. in prep
Moussard, A., Minot, D., Bigand, E. & Samson, S. (in preparation) Distinct processes for statistical implicit learning ? in prep
Lidji, P., Jolicoeur, P., Kolinsky, R., Moreau, P., Connolly, JF. & Peretz, I. (in press) Early integration of vowel and pitch: A mismatch negativity study. Clinical Neurophysiology
Peretz, I. (in press) Towards a neurobiology of musical emotions. Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, research, applications. Eds P. Juslin & J. Sloboda. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter
Peretz, I., Brattico, E., Tervaniemi, M. & Moreau, P. (in press) Activité électrophysiologique anormale en réponse à des différences de hauteurs chez les amusiques congénitaux. Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Rinaldi, A. (published) Speak to me, melody. EMBO reports, vol. 10, pp. 1294-1297. Contain comments from Isabelle Peretz
Moussard, A., Bigand, E., Clément, S. & Samson, S. (published) Préservation des apprentissages implicites en musique dans le vieillissement normal et la maladie d'Alzheimer. Revue de Neuropsychologie, vol. 18(1-2), pp. 127-152
Fresnel, E., Sikorski, S. & Zumbansen, A. (published) Plus haut, plus bas? Comment aider au classement d’une voix chantée lyrique. . Médecine des arts, vol. 57, pp. 22-27
Hutchins, S., Zarate, JM., Zatorre, R. & Peretz, I. (2010) An acoustical study of vocal pitch matching in congenital amusia. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, vol. 127(1), pp. 504-12
Roy, M., Piché, M., Chen, J-I., Peretz, I. & Rainville, P. (2009) Cerebral and spinal modulation of pain by emotions. PNAS
Moreau, P. (2009) The Sound of passion. Scientific American. Invited paper
Gosselin, N., Jolicoeur, P. & Peretz, I. (2009) Impaired Memory for Pitch in Congenital Amusia. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 1169, pp. 270-272
Nguyen, S., Tillman, B., Gosselin, N. & Peretz, I. (2009) Tonal Language Processing in Congenital Amusia. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 1169, pp. 490-493
Dalla Bella, S., Giguère, J-F. & Peretz, I. (2009) Singing in congenital amusia. J. Acoust. Soc. Am, vol. 126, pp. 414-424
Lidji, P., Jolicoeur, P., Moreau, P., Kolinsky, R. & Peretz, I. (2009) Integrated Preattentive Processing of Vowel and Pitch: A Mismatch Negativity Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1169, pp. 481-484
Moreau, P., Jolicoeur, P. & Peretz, I. (2009) Automatic Brain Responses to Pitch Changes in Congenital Amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1169, pp. 191-194
Peretz, I., Brattico, E., Järvenpää, M. & Tervaniemi, M. (2009) The amusic brain: in tune, out of key, and unaware. Brain, vol. 132, pp. 1277-1286
Fritz, T., Jentschke, S., Gosselin, N., Sammler, D., Peretz, I., Turner, R., Friederici, AD. & Koelsch, S. (2009) Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music. Current Biology, vol. 19, pp. 1-4
Roy, M., Mailhot, J-P., Gosselin, N., Paquette, S. & Peretz, I. (2009) Modulation of the startle reflex by pleasant and unpleasant music. International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 71, pp. 37-42
Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Belin, P., Zattore, R., Plailly, J. & Tillmann, B. (2009) Music Lexical networks: The cortical organization of music recognition. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1169, pp. 256-265
Kolinsky, R., Lidji, P., Peretz, I., Besson, M. & Morais, J. (2009) Processing interactions between phonology and melody: Vowels sing but consonants speak. Cognition, vol. 112, pp. 1-20
Lidji, P. & Kolinsky, R. (2008) Hauteurs musicales: Quand l'espace s'en mêle. Revue de Neuropsychologie, vol. 18, pp. 7-32. in French
Peretz, I. (2008) The need to consider underlying mechanisms: A response from dissonance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 31, pp. 590-591. see Open Peer Commentary (I. Peretz) on page 590
Peretz, I. (2008) Musical Disorders: From Behavior to Genes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 17, pp. 329-333
Patel, A., Wong, M., Foxton, J., Lochy, A. & Peretz, I. (2008) Speech intonation perception deficits in musical tone deafness (congenital amusia). Music Perception, vol. 25, pp. 357-368
Särkämö, T., Tervaniemi, M., Laitinen, S., Forsblom, A., Soinila, S., Mikkonen, M., Autti, T., Silvennoinen, H., Erkkilä, J., Laine, M., Peretz, I. & Hietanen, M. (2008) Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke. Brain, vol. 131, pp. 866-876
Hébert, S., Béland, R., Beckett, C., Cuddy, L.L., Peretz, I. & Wolforth, J. (2008) A case study of music and text dyslexia. Music Perception, vol. 25, pp. 369-381
Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Tillmann, B., Cuddy, L.L., Gagnon, B., Trimmer, CG., Paquette, S. & Bouchard, B. (2008) On-line Identification of Congenital Amusia. Music Perception, vol. 25-4, pp. 331-343
Khalfa, S., Roy, M., Rainville, P., Dalla Bella, S. & Peretz, I. (2008) Role of tempo entrainment in psychophysiological differentiation of happy and sad music? International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 68, pp. 17-26
Schön, D., Boyer, M., Moreno, S., Besson, M., Peretz, I. & Kolinsky, R. (2008) Songs as an aid for language acquisition. Cognition, vol. 106, pp. 975-983
Phillips-Silver, J. (2008) Steal Away, Music. Science, vol. 319:5862, pp. 413. Book review of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Schellenberg, G., Peretz, I. & Vieillard, S. (2008) Linking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure. Cognition and Emotion, vol. 22, pp. 218-237
Roy, M., Peretz, I. & Rainville, P. (2008) Emotional valence contributes to music-induced analgesia. Pain, vol. 134, pp. 140-147
Vieillard, S., Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Khalfa, S., Gagnon, L. & Bouchard, B. (2008) Happy, sad, scary and peaceful musical excerpts for research on emotions. Cognition and Emotion
Hyde, K., Peretz, I. & Zatorre, R. (2008) Evidence for the role of the right auditory cortex in fine pitch resolution. Neuropsychologia
Phillips-Silver, J. & Trainor, LJ. (2008) Vestibular influence on auditory metrical interpretation. Brain and Cognition, vol. 67, pp. 94-102
Schellenberg, G. & Peretz, I. (2007) Music, language and cognition: unresolved issues. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 12
Hyde, K., Lerch, J., Zatorre, R., Griffiths, T.D., Evans, A. & Peretz, I. (2007) Cortical thickness in congenital amusia: When less is better than more. The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 47, pp. 13028-13032
Tillmann, B., Peretz, I., Bigand, E. & Gosselin, N. (2007) Harmonic priming in an amusic patient:The power of implicit tasks. Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 24, pp. 603-622
Peretz, I., Cummings, S. & Dubé, M-P. (2007) The genetics of congenital amusia (Tone Deafness): A family-aggregation study. The American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 81
Racette, A. & Peretz, I. (2007) Learning lyrics: to sing or not to sing? Memory & Cognition
Bélizaire, G., Fillion-Bilodeau, S., Chartrand, J-P., Bertrand-Gauvin, C. & Belin, P. (2007) Cerebral response to 'voiceness': a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroreport, vol. 18, pp. 29-33
Lidji, P. (2007) Intégralité et séparabilité : Revue et application aux interactions entre paroles et mélodies dans le chant. L'Année Psychologique, vol. 107, pp. 659-694
Gosselin, N., Peretz, I., Johnsen, E. & Adolphs, R. (2007) Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognition from music. Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, pp. 236-244
Phillips-Silver, J. & Trainor, LJ. (2007) Hearing what the body feels: Auditory encoding of rhythmic movement. Cognition, vol. 105, pp. 533-546
Dalla Bella, S., Giguère, J-F. & Peretz, I. (2007) Singing proficiency in the general population. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America
Lidji, P., Kolinsky, R., Lochy, A. & Morais, J. (2007) Spatial Associations for Musical Stimuli : A Piano in the Head? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and performance. 33 (5), 1189-1207.
Peretz, I. & Lidji, P. (2006) Une perspective biologique sur la nature de la musique. Revue de Neuropsychologie.
Brattico, E., Tervaniemi, M., Näätänen, R. & Peretz, I. (2006) Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortex. Brain research, vol. 1117, pp. 162-174
Chartrand, J-P. & Belin, P. (2006) Superior voice timbre processing in musicians. Neuroscience Letters, vol. 405, pp. 154-167
Peretz, I. (2006) The nature of music from a biological perspective Cognition, vol. 100, pp. 1-32
Hyde, K., Zatorre, R., Griffiths, T.D., Lerch, J. P. & Peretz, I. (2006) Morphometry of the amusic brain: a two-site study. Brain, vol. 129, pp. 2562-2570
Gosselin, N., Samson, S., Adolphs, R., Noulhiane, M., Roy, M., Hasboun, D., Baulac, M. & Peretz, I. (2006) Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortex Brain, vol. 129, pp. 2585-2592
Racette, A., Bard, C. & Peretz, I. (2006) Making non-fluent aphasics speak: Sing along! Brain, vol. 129, pp. 2571-2584
Phillips-Silver, J. & Trainor, LJ. (2005) Feeling the beat: movement influences infants' rhythm perception. Science, vol. 308:5727, pp. 1430
Sloboda, J.A., Wise, K.J. & Peretz, I. (2005) Quantifying Tone Deafness in the General Population. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1060, pp. 255-261
Samson, S. & Peretz, I. (2005) Effects of Prior Exposure on Music Liking and Recognition in Patients with Temporal Lobe Lesions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1060, pp. 418-428
Cuddy, L.L., Balkwill, L-L., Peretz, I. & Holden, RR. (2005) Musical Difficulties Are Rare: A Study of "Tone Deafness" among University Students. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1060, pp. 311-324
Peretz, I., Brattico, E. & Tervaniemi, M. (2005) Abnormal Electrical Brain Responses to Pitch in Congenital Amusia. Annals of Neurology, vol. 58, pp. 478-482
Peretz, I. & Zatorre, R. (2005) Brain organization for music processing. Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 56, pp. 89-114
Dalla Bella, S. & Peretz, I. (2005) Fine differentiation and ordering of classical music requires little learning but rhythm. Cognition
Gosselin, N., Peretz, I., Noulhiane, M., Hasboun, D., Beckett, C., Baulac, M. & Samson, S. (2005) Impaired recognition of scary music following unilateral temporal lobe excision. Brain, vol. 128, pp. 628-640
Foxton, J.M., Dean, J.L., Gee, R., Peretz, I. & Griffiths, T.D. (2004) Characterization of deficits in pitch perception underlying 'tone deafness'. Brain, vol. 127(4), pp. 801-810
Hyde, K. & Peretz, I. (2004) Brains that are out of tune but in time. Psychological Science, vol. 15(5), pp. 356-360
Peretz, I., Gagnon, L., Hébert, S. & Macoir, J. (2004) Singing in the brain: Insights from cognitive neuropsychology. Music Perception, vol. 21(3), pp. 373-390
Peretz, I., Radeau, M. & Arguin, M. (2004) Two-way interactions between music and language: Evidence from priming recognition of tune and lyrics in familiar songs. Memory & Cognition
Quoniam, N., Ergis, A.M., Fossati, P., Peretz, I., Samson, S., Sarazin, M. & Allilaire, J.F. (2003) Implicit and explicit emotional memory for melodies in Alzheimer's disease and depression. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 999, pp. 381-384
Khalfa, S., Dalla Bella, S., Roy, M., Peretz, I. & Lupien, S.J. (2003) Effects of relaxing music on salivary cortisol level after psychological stress. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 999, pp. 374-376
Peretz, I., Champod, S. & Hyde, K. (2003) Varieties of Musical Disorders: The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 999, pp. 58-75
Gagnon, L. & Peretz, I. (2003) Mode and tempo relative contributions to "happy - sad" judgments in equitone melodies. Cognition and Emotion, vol. 17, pp. 25-40
Hébert, S., Racette, A., Gagnon, L. & Peretz, I. (2003) Revisiting the dissociation between singing and speaking in expressive aphasia. Brain, vol. 126(8), pp. 1838-1850
Dalla Bella, S., Peretz, I. & Aronoff, N. (2003) Time course of melody recognition: A gating paradigm study. Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 65(7), pp. 1019-1028
Bonnel, A., Mottron, L., Peretz, I., Trudel, M., Gallun, E. & Bonnel, A-M. (2003) Enhanced pitch sensitivity in individuals with autism: A signal detection analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 15(2), pp. 226-235
Belleville, S., Caza, N. & Peretz, I. (2003) A neuropsychological argument for a processing view of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 48(4), pp. 686-703
Peretz, I. & Coltheart, M. (2003) Modularity of music processing. Nature Neuroscience, vol. 6(7), pp. 688-691
Peretz, I. & Hyde, K. (2003) What is specific to music processing? Insights from congenital amusia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 7(8), pp. 362-367
Kolinsky, R., Fery, P., Messina, D., Peretz, I., Evinck, S., Ventura, P. & Morais, J. (2002) The fur of the crocodile and the mooing sheep: A longitudinal study of a patient with category-specific impairment for biological things. Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 19, pp. 301-342
Khalfa, S., Peretz, I., Blondin, J-P. & Manon, R. (2002) Event-related skin conductance responses to musical emotions in humans. Neuroscience Letters, vol. 328, pp. 145-149
Peretz, I. (2002) Brain specialization for music. The Neuroscientist, vol. 8, pp. 372-380
Peretz, I., Ayotte, J., Zatorre, R., Mehler, J., Ahad, P., Penhune, V. & Jutras, B. (2002) Congenital Amusia: A Disorder of Fine-Grained Pitch Discrimination. Neuron, vol. 33, pp. 185-191
Ayotte, J., Peretz, I. & Hyde, K. (2002) Congenital amusia. A group study of adults afflicted with a music-specific disorder. Brain, vol. 125, pp. 238-251
Ptito, M., Giguère, J-F., Boire, D., Frost, D.O. & Casanova, C. (2001) When the auditory cortex turns visual. Progress in Brain Research, vol. 134, pp. 447-458
Hyde, K., Peretz, I. & Patel, A.D. (2001) A dissociation between the processing of prosodic and musical patterns: evidence from a new case of congenital amusia. J Cogn Neurosci. Suppl: 15.
Peretz, I. (2001) Brain specialization for music: New evidence from congenital amusia. In: Biological foundations of music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 930, pp. 153-165
Peretz, I., Blood, A.J., Penhune, V. & Zatorre, R. (2001) Cortical deafness to dissonance. Brain, vol. 124, pp. 928-940
Hébert, S. & Peretz, I. (2001) Are text and tune of familiar songs separable by brain damage ? Brain and Cognition, vol. 46, pp. 169-175
Dalla Bella, S., Peretz, I., Rousseau, L. & Gosselin, N. (2001) A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music. Cognition, vol. 80, pp. B1-B10
Peretz, I. & Hébert, S. (2000) Toward a biological account of music experience. Brain and Cognition, vol. 42, pp. 132-134. Invited paper
Griffiths, T.D., Penhune, V., Peretz, I., Dean, J.L., Patterson, R.D. & Green, G.G.R. (2000) Frontal processing and auditory perception. Neuroreport, vol. 11(5), pp. 919-922
Gagnon, L. & Peretz, I. (2000) Laterality effects in processing tonal and atonal melodies with affective and non-affective task instructions. Brain and Cognition, vol. 43(1-3), pp. 206-210
Mottron, L., Peretz, I. & Ménard, E. (2000) Local and global processing of music in high-functioning persons with autism: Beyond cerebral coherence ? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 41, pp. 1057-1065
Ayotte, J., Peretz, I., Rousseau, I., Bard, C. & Bojanowski, M. (2000) Patterns of music agnosia associated with middle cerebral artery artefact. Brain, vol. 123(9), pp. 1926-1938
Peretz, I. & Gagnon, L. (1999) Dissociation between recognition and emotional judgment for melodies. Neurocase, vol. 5, pp. 21-30
Gaudreau, D. & Peretz, I. (1999) Implicit and explicit memory for music in old and young adults. Brain and Cognition, vol. 40, pp. 126-129
Mottron, L., Peretz, I., Belleville, S. & Rouleau, N. (1999) Absolute pitch in autism: A case-study. Neurocase, vol. 5, pp. 485-501. Invited paper
Dalla Bella, S. & Peretz, I. (1999) Music agnosias: Selective impairments of music recognition after brain damage. Journal of New Music Research, special issue on "Neuromusicology", vol. 28, pp. 209-216. Invited paper
Steele, K., Dalla Bella, S., Peretz, I., Dunlop, T., Dawe, L., Humphrey, G., Shannon, R., Kirby, J. Jr. & Olmstead, C. (1999) Prelude or requiem for "The Mozart effect"? Nature, vol. 400, pp. 827-828
Besson, M., Faïta, F., Peretz, I., Bonnel, A-M. & Requin, J. (1998) Singing in the brain: Independence of Lyrics and Tunes. Psychological Science, vol. 9(6), pp. 494-498
Peretz, I., Gaudreau, D. & Bonnel, A-M. (1998) Exposure effects on music preference and recognition. Memory & Cognition, vol. 26(5), pp. 884-902
Peretz, I., Gagnon, L. & Bouchard, B. (1998) Music and emotion: perceptual determinants, immediacy and isolation after brain damage. Cognition, vol. 68, pp. 111-141
Patel, A.D., Peretz, I., Tramo, M. & Labrecque, R. (1998) Processing prosodic and musical patterns: A neuropsychological investigation. Brain and Language, vol. 61(2), pp. 123-144
Peretz, I., Lussier, I. & Béland, R. (1998) The differential role of syllabic structure in stem completion for French and English. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 10(1), pp. 75-112
Liégeois-Chauvel, C., Peretz, I., Babaï, M., Laguitton, V. & Chauvel, P. (1998) Contribution of different cortical areas in the temporal lobes to music processing. Brain, vol. 121, pp. 1853-1867
Hébert, S. & Peretz, I. (1997) Recognition of music in long-term memory: Are melodic and temporal patterns equal partners? Memory & Cognition, vol. 25, pp. 518-533
Paquette, C. & Peretz, I. (1997) Role of familiarity in auditory discrimination of musical instrument: A laterality study. Cortex, vol. 33, pp. 689-696
Peretz, I., Belleville, S. & Fontaine, F-S. (1997) Dissociations entre musique et langage après atteinte cérébrale: un nouveau cas d'amusie sans aphasie. Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, vol. 51(4), pp. 354-367. Invited paper
Belleville, S., Peretz, I. & Malenfant, D. (1996) Examination of the working memory components in normal aging and in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychologia, vol. 34(3), pp. 195-207
Peretz, I. (1996) Can we lose memories for music? The case of music agnosia in a nonmusician. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 8(6), pp. 481-496
Rousseau, L., Peretz, I., Liégeois-Chauvel, C., Demany, L., Semal, C. & Larue, S. (1996) Spectral and virtual pitch perception of complex tones: An opposite lateralization? Brain and Cognition, vol. 30(3), pp. 303-308
Paquette, C., Bourassa, M. & Peretz, I. (1996) Left-ear advantage in pitch perception of complex tones without energy at the fundamental frequency. Neuropsychologia, vol. 34(2), pp. 153-157
Peretz, I., Babaï, M., Lussier, I., Hébert, S. & Gagnon, L. (1995) Corpus d'extraits musicaux: indices relatifs à la familiarité, à l'âge d'acquisition et aux évocations verbales. Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, vol. 49, pp. 211-239
Peretz, I., Kolinsky, R., Tramo, M., Labrecque, R., Hublet, C., Demeurisse, G. & Belleville, S. (1994) Functional dissociations following bilateral lesions of auditory cortex. Brain, vol. 117, pp. 1283-1302
Peretz, I. & Kolinsky, R. (1993) Boundaries of separability between melody and rhythm in music discrimination: A neuropsychological perspective. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 46A, pp. 301-325
Chatelois, J., Pineau, H., Belleville, S., Peretz, I., Lussier, I., Fontaine, F-S. & Renaseau-Leclerc, C. (1993) Batterie informatisée d'évaluation de la mémoire inspirée de l'approche cognitive. Psychologie canadienne, vol. 34, pp. 45-63
Peretz, I. (1993) Auditory Atonalia for Melodies. Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 10, pp. 21-56
Peretz, I. & Babaï, M. (1992) The role of contour and intervals in the recognition of melody parts: Evidence from cerebral asymmetries in musicians. Neuropsychologia, vol. 30(3), pp. 277-282
Belleville, S., Peretz, I. & Arguin, M. (1992) Contribution of articulatory rehearsal to short-term memory: Evidence from a case of selective disruption. Brain and Language, vol. 43, pp. 713-746
Peretz, I. (1990) Processing of local and global musical information in unilateral brain-damaged patients. Brain, vol. 113, pp. 1185-1205
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1989) Music and modularity. Contemporary Music Review, vol. 4, pp. 277-291
Bertoncini, J., Morais, J., Bijeljac-Babic, R., McAdams, S., Peretz, I. & Mehler, J. (1989) Dichotic perception and laterality in neonates. Brain and Language, vol. 37, pp. 591-605
Peretz, I., Morais, J. & Bertelson, P. (1987) Shifting ear differences in melody recognition through strategy inducement. Brain and Cognition, vol. 6, pp. 202-215
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1987) Analytic processing in the classification of melodies as same or different. Neuropsychologia, vol. 25, pp. 645-652
Peretz, I. (1987) Shifting ear-asymmetry in melody comparison through transposition. Cortex, vol. 23, pp. 317-323
Peretz, I. (1985) Asymétrie hémisphérique dans les amusies. Revue neurologique, vol. 141, pp. 169-183
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1983) Task determinants of ear differences in melody processing. Brain and Cognition, vol. 2(4), pp. 313-330
Morais, J., Peretz, I., Gudansky, M. & Guiard, Y. (1982) Ear asymmetry for chord recognition in musicians and nonmusicians. Neuropsychologia, vol. 20, pp. 351-354
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1980) Modes of processing melodies and ear-asymmetry in nonmusicians. Neuropsychologia, vol. 20, pp. 447-489