(Listed in reverse chronological order; † denotes equal contribution)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Book chapters
Book reviews
Other articles
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Marin, M. M., Schober, R., Gingras, B., & Leder, H. (2017). Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females. PLoS ONE, 12(9):e0183531. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183531. [Full text]
Martins, M., Gingras, B., Puig-Waldmüller, E., & Fitch, W. T. (2017). Cognitive representation of “musical fractals”: Processing hierarchy and recursion in the auditory domain. Cognition, 161, 31-45. [Full text]
Huisman, L., Gingras, B., Dhondt, G., & Leman, M. (2017). Musical Complexity and “Embodied Notation”: A Study of the Opus Clavicembalisticum (K. S. Sorabji). Empirical Musicology Review, 12(1-2), 59-71. [Full text]
Goodchild, M., Gingras, B., & McAdams, S. (2016). Analysis, performance, and tension perception of an unmeasured prelude for harpsichord. Music Perception, 34(1), 1-20. doi: 10.1525/mp.2016.34.1.1. [Abstract]
Gingras, B., Palmer, C., Schubert, P.N., & McAdams, S. (2016). Influence of melodic emphasis, texture, salience, and performer individuality on performance errors. Psychology of Music, 44(4), 847-863. doi: 10.1177/0305735615594491. [Abstract]
Gingras, B., Pearce, M. T., Goodchild, M., Dean, R. T., Wiggins, G., & McAdams, S. (2016). Linking melodic expectation to expressive performance timing and perceived musical tension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(4), 594-609. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000141. [Abstract]
Slana, A., Repovs, G., Fitch, W. T., & Gingras, B. (2016). Harmonic context influences pitch class equivalence judgments through gestalt and congruency effects. Acta Psychologica, 166, 54-63. doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.03.006. [Abstract]
Garcia, M., Gingras, B., Bowling, D. L., Herbst, C. T., Boeckle, M., Locatelli, Y., & Fitch, W. T. (2016). Structural classification of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) vocalizations. Ethology, 122(4), 329-342. doi: 10.1111/eth.12472. [Full text]
Gingras, B., Marin, M. M., Puig-Waldmüller, E., & Fitch, W. T. (2015). The eye is listening: Music-induced arousal and individual differences predict pupillary responses. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(619). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00619. [Full text]
Filippi, P., Gingras, B., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Pitch enhancement facilitates word learning across visual contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1468). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01468 [Full text]
Doolittle, E. L. †, Gingras, B. †, Endres, D. M., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Overtone-based pitch selection in hermit thrush song: Unexpected convergence with scale construction in human music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(46), 16616-16621. [Full text]
Gingras, B., Pohler, G., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Exploring shamanic journeying: Repetitive drumming with shamanic instructions induces specific subjective experiences but no larger cortisol decrease than instrumental meditation music. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102103. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102103 [Full text]
Gingras, B. (2014). Individuality in music performance: Introduction to the research topic. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(661). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00661 [Full text]
Srinivasan, N. & Gingras, B. (2014). Emotional intelligence predicts individual differences in proneness for flow among musicians: The role of control and distributed attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(608). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00608 [Full text]
Müllensiefen, D., Gingras, B., Musil, J., & Stewart, L. (2014). The musicality of non-musicians: An index for assessing musical sophistication in the general population. PLoS ONE, 9(2):e89642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089642 [Full text]
Koren, R., & Gingras, B. (2014). Perceiving individuality in harpsichord performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(141). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00141 [Full text]
Gingras, B., Marin, M. M., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Beyond intensity: Spectral features effectively predict music-induced subjective arousal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(7), 1428-1446. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.863954 [Abstract]
Bowling, D., Gingras, B., Han, S., Sundararajan, J., & Opitz, E. (2013). Tone of voice in emotional expression and its implications for the affective character of musical mode. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 7(1-2), 29-44.
Gingras, B., Asselin, P.-Y., & McAdams, S. (2013). Individuality in harpsichord performance: Disentangling performer- and piece-specific influences on interpretive choices. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(895). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00895 [Full text]
Ravignani, A., Olivera, V. M., Gingras, B., Hofer, R., Hernández, C. R., Sonnweber, R. S., & Fitch, W. T. (2013). Primate drum kit: A system for studying acoustic pattern production by non-human primates using acceleration and strain sensors. Sensors, 13(8), 9790-9820. [Full text]
Gingras, B., Mohandesan, E., Boko, D., & Fitch, W. T. (2013). Phylogenetic signal in the acoustic parameters of the advertisement calls of four clades of anurans. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13(134). doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-134 [Full text]
Gingras, B., Boeckle, M., Herbst, C. T., & Fitch, W. T. (2013). Call acoustics reflect body size across four clades of anurans. Journal of Zoology, 289(2), 143-150. [Abstract]
Gingras, B., & Fitch, W. T. (2013). A three-parameter model for classifying anurans into four genera based on advertisement calls. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(1), 547-559. [Abstract]
Marin, M. M., Gingras, B., & Bhattacharya, J. (2012). Crossmodal transfer of arousal, but not pleasantness, from the musical to the visual domain. Emotion, 12(3), 618-631. [Abstract]
Marin, M. M., Gingras, B., & Stewart, L. (2012). Perception of musical timbre in congenital amusia: Categorization, discrimination, and short-term memory. Neuropsychologia, 50(3), 367-378. [Abstract]
Gingras, B., Lagrandeur-Ponce, T., Giordano, B. L., & McAdams, S. (2011). Perceiving musical identity: Performer identification is dependent on performer expertise and on expressiveness, but not on listener expertise. Perception, 40(10), 1206-1220. [Abstract]
Gingras, B., & McAdams, S. (2011). Improved score-performance matching using both structural and temporal information from MIDI recordings. Journal of New Music Research, 40(1), 43-57. [Abstract]
Gingras, B. (2008). Partimento fugue in eighteenth-century Germany: A bridge between thoroughbass lessons and fugal composition. Eighteenth-Century Music, 5(1), 51-74. [Abstract]
Gingras, B.†, Rodier, G.†, Giasson, E., Coulombe, P., Chassagne, C., & Meloche S. (2003). Expression of angiotensin type II receptor downregulates Cdk4 synthesis and inhibits cell-cycle progression. Oncogene, 22(17), 2633-42. [Full text]
Chassagne, C., Adamy, C., Ratajczak, P., Gingras, B., Teiger, E., Planus, E., Oliviero, P., Rappaport, L., Samuel, J. L., & Meloche, S. (2002). Angiotensin II AT(2) receptor inhibits smooth muscle cell migration via fibronectin cell production and binding. American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology, 282(4), C654-64. [Full text]
Book chapters
Zentner, M., & Gingras, B. (2019). The assessment of musical ability. In J. Rentfrow & D. J. Levitin (Eds.), Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research (pp. 641-683). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gingras, B., Honing, H., Peretz, I., Trainor, L. J., & Fisher, S. E. (2018). Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality. In H. Honing (Ed.), The Origins of Musicality (pp. 221-250). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Filippi, F., & Gingras, B. (2018). Emotion expression in animal vocalizations, language, and music: An evolutionary perspective. In Luef, E. M., & Marin, M. M. (Eds.), The talking species: Perspectives on the evolutionary, neuronal, and cultural foundations of language (pp. 105-125). Graz, Austria: Unipress Graz Verlag.
Gingras, B. (2017). Music across the species. In R. Ashley & R. Timmers (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music Cognition (pp. 391-402). Oxford, UK: Routledge.
Gingras, B. (2017). Conveying expressivity and individuality in keyboard performance. In M. Lesaffre, M. Leman, & P. J. Maes (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction (pp. 87-95). Oxford, UK: Routledge.
Gingras, B. (2014). Cross-species comparisons. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An encyclopedia, vol. 1 (pp. 287-290). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Gingras, B. (2014). Systematic musicology. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An encyclopedia, vol. 2 (pp. 1093-1095). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Gingras, B., McAdams, S., & Schubert, P. (2010). The performer as analyst: A case study of J.S. Bach’s “Dorian” Fugue (BWV 538). In C. Utz (Ed.), Music Theory and Interdisciplinarity – 8th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Graz 2008 (Musik.theorien der Gegenwart, vol. 4) (pp. 305-318). Saarbrücken, Germany: Pfau-Verlag.
Book reviews
Gingras, B. & McLean, A. (2010). Review of Marc Leman, Embodied Music Cognition. Psychology of Music, 38(1), 119-124. [Full text – subscription required]
Gingras, B. (2005). Review of Thomas Christensen, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Intersections : Canadian Journal of Music, 25(1-2), 233-240.
Other articles
Gingras, B. (2017). Commentary on Kopiez, Wolf, and Platz: The impact of playing from memory on performance evaluation. Empirical Musicology Review, 12(1-2), 15-18. [Full text]
Gingras, B. (2015). Cue redundancy in the communication of musical emotions: The case of sound intensity. Brunswik Society Newsletter, 30, 12-14. [Full text]
Doolittle, E. L., & Gingras, B. (2015). Quick guide: Zoomusicology. Current Biology, 25(19), R819-820. [Full text]
Gingras, B., & Marin, M. M. (2015). Evolutionary considerations on complex emotions and music-induced emotions: Comment on “The quartet of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model” by S. Koelsch et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 13, 53-54. [Preview]
Gingras, B. (2014). Expressive timing, musical tension, and listener-performer synchronicity: Commentary on Ohriner. Empirical Musicology Review, 9(2), 130-133. [Full text]
Pohler, G., & Gingras, B. (2014). Schamanisches Reisen versus Entspannung. Ärztewoche, 46, 54. [Full text]
Fitch, W. T., & Gingras, B. (2011). Multiple varieties of musical meaning: Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch. Physics of Life Reviews, 8(2), 108-109. [Preview]
Gingras, B. (2003). Johannes Kepler’s Harmonice Mundi : A “Scientific” Version of the Harmony of the Spheres. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 97(5), 228-232 (first part) and 97(6), 259-265 (second part). [PDF first part] [PDF second part]