Publications Brown, S. and Jordania, J. (In preparation). Towards a universal musicology. Brown, S., Laird, A. R., Pfordresher, P. Q., Thelen, S. M., Turkeltaub, P. and Liotti, M. (Submitted). Speaking is not special: Comparisons between speech and song using fMRI and ALE meta-analysis. Pfordresher, P. Q. and Brown, S. (Submitted). Linguistic background influences the production and perception of musical intervals. Brown, S. and Dissanayake, E. (In press). The arts are more than aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as narrow aesthetics. In M. Skov and O. Vartanian (Eds.) Neuroaesthetics. Brown, S. and Parsons, L. M. (In press). Dance and the brain. Scientific American. Brown, S. (In press). Music of language or language of music? Review of Patel's "Music, Language, and the Brain". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Brown, S., Ngan, E., and Liotti, M. (2008). A larynx area in the human motor cortex. Cerebral Cortex 18: 837-845.   Download PDF Götell, E., Brown, S., and Ekman, S.-L. (2008). The influence of caregiver singing and background music on vocally expressed emotions and moods in dementia care: A qualitative analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies.  Download PDF Pfordresher, P. Q. and Brown, S. (2007). Poor-pitch singing in the absence of "tone deafness". Music Perception 25: 95-115.   Download PDF Brown, S. (2007). Contagious heterophony: A new theory about the origins of music. Musicae Scientiae 11: 3-26.   Download PDF Brown, S. and Martinez, M. J. (2007). Activation of premotor vocal areas during musical discrimination. Brain and Cognition 63: 59-69.   Download PDF Brown, S. (2006). Bringing science to art. Review of Zaidel's Neuropsychology of Art: Neurological, Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10: 356-357.   Download PDF Brown, S. (2006). The perpetual music track: The phenomenon of constant musical imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies 13: 25-44.   Download PDF Brown, S., Martinez, M. J., and Parsons, L. M. (2006). Music and language side by side in the brain: A PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences. European Journal of Neuroscience 23: 2791-2803.   Download PDF Brown, S., Martinez, M. J., and Parsons, L. M. (2006). The neural basis of human dance. Cerebral Cortex 16: 1157-1167.  Download PDF Brown, S. and Volgsten, U. (Eds.) (2006). Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music.  New York: Berghahn Books.   Book Description Brown, S. (2006). "How does music work?" Towards a pragmatics of musical communication. In S. Brown and U. Volgsten (Eds.) Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music (pp. 1-27). New York: Berghahn Books.   Download PDF Brown, S. and Theorell, T. (2006). The social uses of background music for personal enhancement. In S. Brown and U. Volgsten (Eds.) Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music (pp. 126-160). New York: Berghahn Books. Brown, S. and Volgsten, U. (2006). Is Mozart's music good? In S. Brown and U. Volgsten (Eds.) Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music (pp. 365-369). New York: Berghahn Books. Brown, S., Ingham, R. J., Ingham, J. C., Laird, A., and Fox, P.T. (2005). Stuttered and fluent speech production: An ALE meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping 25: 105-117.   Download PDF Brown, S., Martinez, M. J., Hodges, D. A., Fox, P. T. and Parsons, L. M. (2004). The song system of the human brain. Cognitive Brain Research 20: 363-375.   Download PDF Brown, S., Martinez, M. J. and Parsons, L. M. (2004). Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic systems. NeuroReport 15: 2033-2037.   Download PDF Brown, S. (2003). Biomusicology, and three biological paradoxes about music. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts 4: 15-17. Götell, E., Brown, S., and Ekman, S.-L. (2003). The influence of caregiver singing and background music on posture, movement and sensory awareness in dementia care. International Psychogeriatrics 15: 411-430.   Download PDF Tandon, N., Narayana, S., Lancaster, J. L., Brown, S., Dodd, S., Vollmer, D. G., Ingham, R., Ingham, J., Liotti, M., and Fox, P. T. (2003). Role of the lateral premotor cortex in articulation. Clinical Neurosurgery 50: 341-349. Götell, E., Brown, S., and Ekman, S.-L. (2002). Caregiver singing and background music in dementia care. Western Journal of Nursing Research 24: 195-216.   Download PDF Brown, S., Götell, E., and Ekman, S.-L. (2001). 'Music-therapeutic caregiving': The necessity for active music-making in clinical care. The Arts in Psychotherapy 28: 125-135.   Download PDF Brown, S., Götell, E., and Ekman, S.-L. (2001). Singing as a therapeutic intervention in dementia care. Journal of Dementia Care 9: 33-37. Brown, S. (2001). Are music and language homologues? In R. Zatorre and I. Peretz (Eds.) The Biological Foundations of Music (pp. 372-374). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.   Download PDF Wallin, N. L., Merker, B., and Brown, S. (Eds.) (2000). The Origins of Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Released in paperback September, 2001).   Book Description Brown, S., Merker, B., and Wallin, N. (2000). An introduction to evolutionary musicology. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, and S. Brown (Eds.) The Origins of Music (pp. 3-24). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  Download PDF Brown, S. (2000). The "musilanguage" model of music evolution. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, and S. Brown (Eds.) The Origins of Music (pp. 271-300). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  Download PDF    Also, check out this Wikipedia link to "musilanguage". Brown, S. (2000). Evolutionary models of music: From sexual selection to group selection. In F. Tonneau and N. S. Thompson (Eds.) (pp. 231-281). Perspectives in Ethology. 13: Behavior, Evolution and Culture. New York: Plenum Publishers.   Download PDF Brown, S. and Volgsten, U. (2000). Controlling the music, controlling the listener. Music Forum 16: 23-25. Götell, E., Brown, S., and Ekman, S.-L. (2000). Caregiver-assisted music events in psychogeriatric care: An ethnographic study. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 7: 119-125. Brown, S. (1996). Evolutionary musicology. Working paper of the Institute for Biomusicology. Brown, S. D. and Van der Ploeg, L. H. T. (1994). Single-stranded DNA-protein binding in the Procyclic Acidic Repetitive Protein (PARP) promoter of Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 56: 109-122. Brown, S. D., Huang, J., and Van der Ploeg, L. H. T. (1992). The promoter for the procyclic acidic repetive protein (PARP) genes of Trypanosoma brucei shares features with RNA polymerase I promoters. Molecular and Cellular Biology 12: 2644-2652. Gottesdiener, K., Chung, H.-M., Brown, S. D., Lee, M. G.-S., and Van der Ploeg, L. H. T. (1991). Characterization of VSG gene expression site promoters and promoter-associated DNA rearrangement events. Molecular and Cellular Biology 11: 2467-2480. Shapiro, E., Brown, S. D., Saltiel, A. R., and Schwartz, J. H. (1991). Short-term action of insulin on Aplysia neurons: Generation of a possible novel modulator of ion channels. Journal of Neurobiology 22: 55-62. Schwartz, J. H., Shapiro, E., Brown, S. D., and Saltiel, A. R. (1990). Short-term electrophysiological actions of insulin on Aplysia neurons: Identification of a possible novel modulatory second-messenger mechanism. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 55: 95-100.