publications
2024 and in press
Frame, J., Mehl, K., Head, K., & Belfi, A. M. (2024). The influence of sensory modality on aesthetic judgments of poetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online ahead of print.
Mehl, K., Reschke-Hernandez, A. E., Hanson, J., Linhardt, L., Frame, J. , Dew, M., Kickbusch, E., Johnson, C., Bai, E., & Belfi, A. M. (2024). Music-evoked autobiographical memories are associated with negative affect in younger and older adults. Experimental Aging Research. Online ahead of print.
2023
Mehl, K. , Gugliano, M. , & Belfi, A. M. (2023). The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online ahead of print.
Frame, J. , Gugliano, M. , Bai, E., Brielmann, A., & Belfi, A. M. (2023). Your ears don’t change what your eyes like: People can independently report the pleasure of music and images. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 774-785.
Jakubowski, K. Belfi, A. M., Kvavilashvili, L., Ely, A., Gill, M., & Herbert, G. (2023). Comparing music- and food-evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study. British Journal of Psychology. 114, 580-604.
Pearson, E., Graff, J., Bai, E., Jakubowski, K., & Belfi, A. M. (2023). Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life. Memory, 31, 393-405.
Davidson, W., Boulais, B., Tranel, D., & Belfi, A. M. (2023). Conceptual retrieval for unique entities does not require proper names. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38, 139-146.
Shank, D. B., Stefanik, C. , Stuhlsatz, C. , Kacirek, K. & Belfi, A. M. (2023). AI Composer Bias: Listeners like music less when they think it was composed by an AI. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29, 676-692.
2022
Belfi, A. M., Bai, E. , Stroud, A. , Twohy, R. & Beadle, J. N. (2022). Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Consciousness and Cognition, 100, 103305.
Belfi, A. M., Moreno, G. L., Gugliano, M., & Neill, C. (2022). Musical reward across the lifespan. Aging & Mental Health, 26, 932-939.
Belfi, A. M. (2022). Neuroscience measures of music and mental imagery. In M. B. Kussner, L. Taruffi, G. A. Floridou (Eds.), Music and Mental Imagery. (pp. 101-111). Routledge.
Belfi. A. M. & Loui, P. (2022). The music system. In M. Nadal and M. Skov (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. (pp. 315-336). Routledge.
2021
Belfi, A. M., & Jakubowski, K. (2021). Music and autobiographical memory. Music & Science, 4, 1-5.
Jakubowski, K., Belfi, A. M., & Eerola, T. (2021). Phenomenological differences in music- and television-evoked autobiographical memories. Music Perception, 38, 435-455.
Belfi, A. M., Samson, D. W., Crane, J., & Schmidt, N. L. (2021). Aesthetic judgments of live and recorded music: Effects of congruence between musical artist and piece. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 618025.
Belfi, A. M., Kacirek, K. (2021). The famous melodies stimulus set. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 34-48.
Belfi, A. M., Pralus, A., Hirel, C., Tranel, D., Tillmann, B.*, Caclin, A.* (2021). Investigating musical emotions in people with unilateral brain damage. In A. Chatterjee & E. Cardilo (Eds.), Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. (pp. 170). Oxford University Press.
Belfi, A. M. (2021). Social bonding and music: Evidence from lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E63.
2020
Reschke-Hernandez, A. E., Belfi, A. M., Guzman-Velez, E., & Tranel, D. (2020). Hooked on a feeling: Influence of brief exposure to familiar music on feelings of emotion in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 78, 1019-1031.
Baker, D. J., Belfi, A. M., Creel, S., Grahn, J., Hannon, E., Loui, P., Margulis, E. H., Schachner, A., Schutz, M., Shanahan, D., & Vuvan, D. T. (2020). Embracing anti-racist practices in the music perception and cognition community. Music Perception, 38, 103-105.
Belfi, A. M., Bai, E., & Stroud, A. (2020). Comparing methods for analyzing music-evoked autobiographical memories. Music Perception, 37, 392-402.
Pralus, A.*, Belfi, A. M.*, Hirel, C.*, Leveque, Y., Fornoni, L., Bigand, E., Jung, J., Tranel, D., Nighoghossian, N., Tillmann, B.*, & Caclin, A*. (2020). Recognition of musical emotions and their perceived intensity after unilateral brain damage. Cortex, 130, 78-93.. *authors contributed equally
Kasdan, A., & Belfi, A. M. (2020). Investigating a self-reference effect in musical aesthetics. Experimental Results, e9, 1-8.
Belfi. A. M. (2020). Book review: The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain. Thaut, M. H., & Hodges, D. A. (Eds). Perception, 49, 606-607.
Starr, G. G. & Belfi, A. M. (2020). Pleasure. In Matthew Rubery & Leah Price (Eds.), Further Reading. Oxford University Press.
Belfi, A. M., & Loui, P. (2020). Musical anhedonia and rewards of music listening: current advances and a proposed model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1464, 99-114.
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2019
Belfi, A. M. (2019). Emotional valence and vividness of imagery predict aesthetic appeal in music. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 29, 128-135.
Vessel, E. A., Isik, A. I., Belfi, A. M., & Starr, G. G. (2019). The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that generalizes across visual domains. PNAS, 116, 19155-19164.
Belfi, A. M.*, Vessel, E. A.*, Brielmann, A., Isik, A. I., Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Pelli, D. G., & Starr, G. G. (2019). Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network. NeuroImage, 188, 584-597. *authors contributed equally
Belfi, A. M., Kasdan, A., & Tranel, D. (2019). Anomia for musical entities. Aphasiology, 33, 382-404.
2018
Belfi, A. M., Karlan, B., & Tranel, D. (2018). Damage to the medial prefrontal cortex impairs music-evoked autobiographical memories. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 28, 201-208.
Schneider, B., Heskje, J., Bruss, J., Tranel, D., & Belfi, A. M. (2018). The left temporal pole is a convergence region mediating the relation between names and semantic knowledge for unique entities: Further evidence from a “recognition-from-name” study in neurological patients. Cortex, 109, 14-24.
Belfi, A. M., Kasdan, A., Rowland, J., Vessel, E. A., Starr, G. G., & Poeppel, D. (2018). Rapid timing of musical aesthetic judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1531-1543.
Belfi, A. M., Vessel, E. A., & Starr, G. G. (2018). Individual ratings of vividness predict aesthetic appeal in poetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12, 341-350.
2017
Belfi, A.M., Evans, E., Heskje, J., Bruss, J., & Tranel, D. (2017). Musical anhedonia after focal brain damage. Neuropsychologia, 97, 29-37.
2016
Belfi, A.M., Bruss, J., Karlan, B., Abel, T. J., & Tranel, D. (2016). Neural correlates of recognition and naming of musical instruments. Neuropsychology, 30, 860-868.
Belfi, A. M., Chen, K-H, Schneider, B., & Tranel. D. (2016). Neurological damage disrupts normal sex differences in psychophysiological responses to music. Psychophysiology, 53, 14-20.
Abel, T. J., Manzel, K., Bruss, J., Belfi, A. M., Howard, M. A. III., & Tranel, D. (2016). The cognitive and behavioral effects of meningioma lesions involving ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurosurgery, 124, 1568-1577.
Belfi, A. M., Karlan, B., & Tranel, D. (2016). Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories. Memory, 24, 979-989.
2015 and earlier
Belfi, A. M., Koscik, T. R., & Tranel, D. (2015). Damage to the insula is associated with abnormal interpersonal trust. Neuropsychologia, 71, 165-172.
Belfi, A. M. & Tranel, D. (2014). Impaired naming of famous musical melodies is associated with left temporal polar damage. Neuropsychology, 28, 429-435.
Belfi, A. M., Conrad, A. L., Dawson, J., & Nopoulos, P. (2014). Masculinity/Femininity predicts brain volumes in normal healthy children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39, 25-36.