
Academic Journal
Q1Music Perception
About Music Perception
Music Perception is a scholarly journal published by University of California Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.57 and H-index of 76.
Coverage: 1983-2001, 2005-2026. Research categories: Music (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Neuroscience and Music Perception; Music and Audio Processing; Music Technology and Sound Studies; Diverse Music Education Insights; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Multisensory perception and integration.
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Aims & Scope
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Recent Research Articles
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Kexin Qi, Renee Timmers
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2694951Seeing the Music
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Keegan Q. X. Kok, Adrian C. North, Takeshi Hamamura
2026-08-07 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2682775Developmental Trajectories of Tonal Schemas in Japanese Listeners from Childhood to Late Adulthood
Rie Matsunaga, Pitoyo Hartono, Jun-ichi Abe
2026-09-03 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2831127When and How Music Promotes Fantasies
Laura Ferreri, Lilya Abergel, Ilaria Bufalari, Laura Fusar-Poli et al.
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2727452The Effect of Tempo Manipulation on the Urge to Move
Rafael Jerjen, Toni Bechtold, Florian Hoesl, Takahide Etani et al.
2026-06-26 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2684123Tempo Implications of Simple and Compound Meter in European Art Music
Marc Perlman
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2472628Timbre Semantics of the Singing Voice
Lindsey Reymore, Theodora Nestorova, Jay Marchand Knight, Kit Soden et al.
2026-08-14 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2825017Long-term Associations Between Early Childhood Music Training and Music and Language Abilities
Sean Hutchins
2026-08-19 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2715035Humans but not Budgerigars ( Melopsittacus undulatus ) Consistently Prefer Sounds with Clear Harmonic Spectra
Oliver Tab Bellmann, Melina Witt, Bernhard Wagner, Marisa Hoeschele et al.
2026-06-25 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2679709Can Melodic Contour Help Encoding Luminance Sequences? A Crossmodal Short-Term Memory Study
Francesca Talamini, Julia Vigl, Dominik Wille, Marcel Zentner et al.
2026-08-14 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2431582Expectancy-Value Effects of Self-Perceived Musical Ability and Musical Contingent Self-Worth on Tonal Working Memory
Douglas A. Kowalewski, Ronald S. Friedman, Nathan F. Gillespie
2026-08-10 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2715266Investigating Instrument Identification in a Virtual Orchestral Scene
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2026-07-29 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2702234Musical Timbre Influences Time Perception
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2026-10-06 · DOI: 10.1525/mp.2026.2618953Reviews
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