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Missouri University of Science and Technology: Rolla, MO, US

2017-12-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Psychological Science)
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Amy M. Belfi

New York University: New York, NY, US

2015-06 to 2017-12-01 | Postdoctoral Associate (Psychology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA, US

2010-08 to 2015-05 | PhD (Neuroscience)
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St. Olaf College: Northfield, MN, US

2006-09 to 2010-06 | BA (Psychology, Neuroscience, Women's Studies)
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Works (34)

Review of The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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Editors’ introduction April 2024.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Thalia R. Goldstein
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The influence of sensory modality on aesthetic judgments of poetry.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2024-02-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jessica Frame; Kendra Mehl; Karen Head; Amy M. Belfi
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Musical Reward in Young Children

Music & Science
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Haley E. Kragness; Kendra Mehl; Amy M. Belfi
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Editor’s introduction December 2023.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Thalia R. Goldstein
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The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2023-11-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Kendra Mehl; Maria Gugliano; Amy M. Belfi
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AI composer bias: Listeners like music less when they think it was composed by an AI.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel B. Shank; Courtney Stefanik; Cassidy Stuhlsatz; Kaelyn Kacirek; Amy M. Belfi
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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
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Jessica Frame; Maria Gugliano; Elena Bai; Aenne Brielmann; Amy M. Belfi
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Guest editor's introduction April 2023.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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The music system

2022-10-13 | Book chapter
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Psyche Loui
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Musical signs and the human organism

2022-09-23 | Book chapter
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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Musical reward across the lifespan

Aging & Mental Health
2022-05-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1360-7863
Part of ISSN: 1364-6915
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Georgina L. Moreno; Maria Gugliano; Claire Neill
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Social bonding and music: Evidence from lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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Music and Autobiographical Memory

Music & Science
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Kelly Jakubowski
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Comparing Methods for Analyzing Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories

Music Perception
2020-06-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0730-7829
Part of ISSN: 1533-8312
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Elena Bai; Ava Stroud
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Thaut, M. H., & Hodges, D. A. (Eds.). (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain

Perception
2020-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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Musical anhedonia and rewards of music listening: current advances and a proposed model

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2020-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Psyche Loui
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Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network

NeuroImage
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85059286147

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Vessel, E.A.; Brielmann, A.; Isik, A.I.; Chatterjee, A.; Leder, H.; Pelli, D.G.; Starr, G.G.
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The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that generalizes across visual domains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85072304944

Contributors: Vessel, E.A.; Isik, A.I.; Belfi, A.M.; Stahl, J.L.; Gabrielle Starr, G.
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Emotional valence and vividness of imagery predict aesthetic appeal in music.

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain
2019-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi
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Anomia for musical entities

Aphasiology
2019-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Anna Kasdan; Daniel Tranel
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Individual ratings of vividness predict aesthetic appeal in poetry

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85035212139

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Vessel, E.A.; Starr, G.G.
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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
2018-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Brett Schneider; Jonah Heskje; Joel Bruss; Daniel Tranel; Amy M. Belfi
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Damage to the medial prefrontal cortex impairs music-evoked autobiographical memories.

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain
2018-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Brett Karlan; Daniel Tranel
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Rapid timing of musical aesthetic judgments.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2018-10-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy M. Belfi; Anna Kasdan; Jess Rowland; Edward A. Vessel; G. Gabrielle Starr; David Poeppel
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Musical anhedonia after focal brain damage

Neuropsychologia
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85011636670

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Evans, E.; Heskje, J.; Bruss, J.; Tranel, D.
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Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories

Memory
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84938829504

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Karlan, B.; Tranel, D.
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Neural correlates of recognition and naming of musical instruments

Neuropsychology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84958568027

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Bruss, J.; Karlan, B.; Taylor, J.A.; Tranel, D.
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Neurological damage disrupts normal sex differences in psychophysiological responsiveness to music

Psychophysiology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84952705341

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Chen, K.-H.; Schneider, B.; Tranel, D.
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A neuropsychological investigation of music, emotion, and autobiographical memory

2015 | Dissertation/Thesis
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Damage to the insula is associated with abnormal interpersonal trust

Neuropsychologia
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84927650133

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Koscik, T.R.; Tranel, D.
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The cognitive and behavioral effects of meningioma lesions involving the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neurosurgery
2015 | Journal article
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Impaired naming of famous musical melodies is associated with left temporal polar damage

Neuropsychology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84914151415

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Tranel, D.
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Masculinity/femininity predicts brain volumes in normal healthy children

Developmental Neuropsychology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84892170143

Contributors: Belfi, A.M.; Conrad, A.L.; Dawson, J.; Nopoulos, P.
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