publications
2025
Henry, M., Obleser, J., Crusey, M., Fuller, E. R. †, Lee, Y. S., Meyer, M., Acosta, E. A. M., Van Hedger, S., Inbar, M., Oderbolz, C., Dunham, S. A., Anankul, Y., Sabo, L. E., Keitel, C., Maddox, R. K., Mehl, K. †, Aslan, G., Martens, P.A., … Belfi, A. M., … Peelle, J. (2025). How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok, Farahbod and Saberi (2015). Royal Society Open Science, 12, 220497.
Mehl, K., Reschke-Hernandez, A. E., Hanson, J., Linhardt, L., Frame, J. , Dew, M., Kickbusch, E., Johnson, C., Bai, E., & Belfi, A. M. (2025). Music-evoked autobiographical memories are associated with negative affect in younger and older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 51, 1-18.
Jakubowski, K., Lee, E., Bai, E. , & Belfi, A. M. (2025). Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Musicae Scientiae, 29, 195-216.
2024
Kragness, H., Mehl, K, & Belfi, A. M. (2024). Musical reward in young children. Music & Science, 7.
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.
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.