Brown, S. (2022). The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, S., Phillips, E., Husein, K., and McBride, J. (Submitted). Musical scales optimize pitch spacing: A global analysis of traditional vocal music.

Brown, S. (Submitted). On the connection between creativity and aesthetics.

Brown, S. (Submitted). Role playing in human evolution: From life to art and everything in between.

Lazar-Kurz, Z., and Brown, S. (Submitted). Trajectories of the creative process: A multiple-drafts analysis of graphic design.

Brown, S., Berry. M., and Phillips, E. (Submitted). Localizing music’s “language of emotion” in the human brain: A functional MRI study of scale and emotion processing.

Brown, S. (In press). Beading for beating: Body percussion and the interpersonal origins of rhythm.

Brown, S. (In press). A joint prosodic origin of music, language, and their combination in song. In D. Sammler (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Music and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, S. (2024). Creativity as emulation: The cultural basis of creative cognition. Frontiers in Psychology 15: 1364596.

Brown, S. (2024). The performing arts combined: The triad of music, dance, and narrative. Frontiers in Psychology 15: 1344354.

Brown, S. (2024). The pantomimic origins of the narrative arts. In P. Zywiczynski, J. Blomberg, and M. Boruta-Zywiczynska (Eds.) Perspectives on Pantomime: Evolution, Development, Interaction (pp. 139-158). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Brown, S., and Phillips, E. (2023). The vocal origin of musical scales: The Interval Spacing model. Frontiers in Psychology 14: 1261218.

Brown, S. and Cameirao, J. (2023). Toward a new science of the clinical uses of the arts. Open Psychology 5: 20220133.

Phillips, E. and Brown, S. (2022). Vocal imprecision as a universal constraint on the structure of musical scales. Scientific Reports 12: 19820.

Tu, C., Tunggal, J., and Brown, S. (2022). Character immersion in video games as a form of acting. Psychology of Popular Media.

Asano, R., Lo, V. and Brown, S. (2022). The neural basis of tonal processing in music: An ALE meta-analysis. Music & Science 5: 1-15.

Matharu, K., Berry, M., and Brown, S. (2022). Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts 16: 272–289.

Berry, M., Lewin, S. and Brown, S. (2022). Correlated expression of the body, face, and voice during character portrayal in actors. Scientific Reports 12: 8253.

Brown, S. (2022). Partnering up: The social cognition of partnered interaction in life and art. Frontiers in Communication 7: 834001.

Berry, M. and Brown, S. (2022). The dynamic mask: Facial correlates of character portrayal in professional actors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 75(5): 936-953.

Phillips, E. and Brown, S. (2022). Beyond harmonicity: Toward a vocal-melodic theory of the origin of musical scales. In J. Friedmann (Ed.) Music in Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Musical Species (pp. 247-276). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Prince, K. and Brown, S. (2022). Neural correlates of partnered interaction as revealed by cross-domain ALE meta-analysis. Psychology & Neuroscience 15: 1-13.

Brown, S. (2022). Naturalizing aesthetics. In A. Chatterjee and E. Cardillo (eds.) Brain, Beauty, & Art (pp. 18-21). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, S. (2022). Movement, synchronization, and partnering in dance. In A. Chatterjee and E. Cardillo (eds.) Brain, Beauty, & Art (pp. 195-198). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, S. and Kim, E. (2021). The neural basis of creative production: A cross-modal ALE meta-analysis. Open Psychology 3: 123-152.

Brown, S. (2021). Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans. New Ideas in Psychology 64: 100902.

Matsumea, H., Savage, P. E., Ranacher, P., Blasi, D. E., T. E., Sato, T., Tajima, A., Brown, S., Stoneking, M., Shimizu, K. K., Oota, H., & Bickel, B. (2021). Exploring deep-time relationships between cultural and genetic evolution in Northeast Asia. Science Advances 7: eabd9223.

Brown, S. and Lazar-Kurz, Z. (2021). How a creative product evolves: A structural analysis of creative trajectories in graphic design. Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’21 conference), ACM, New York, NY.

Brown, S. and Tu, C. (2020). The shapes of stories: A “resonator” model of plot structure. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6(2): 1-29.

Brown, S., Yuan, Y., and Belyk, B. (2020). Evolution of the speech-ready brain: The voice/jaw connection in the human motor cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology 529: 1018–1028.

Tu, C. and Brown, S. (2020). Character mediation of plot structure: Toward an embodied model of narrative. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6(1): 77-112.

Brown, S. (2020). The “who” system of the human brain: A system for social cognition about the self and others. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14: 224.

Brown, S., Howe, M., and Belyk, M. (2019). Music enhances empathic engagement with characters in films. Music and Arts in Action 7: 3-16.

Brown, S., Berry, M., Dawes, E., Hughes, A., and Tu, C. (2019). Character mediation of story generation via protagonist insertion. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 31: 326-342.

Berry, M., and Brown, S. (2019). Acting in action: Prosodic analysis of character portrayal during acting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148: 1407-1425.

Brown, S., Mittermaier, E., Kher, T., and Arnold, P. (2019). How pantomime works: Implications for theories of language origin. Frontiers in Communication 4: 9.

Brown, S., Cockett, P., and Yuan, Y. (2019). The neuroscience of Romeo and Juliet: An fMRI study of acting. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181908.

Brown, S. (2019). A unifying model of the arts: The Narration/Coordination model. Empirical Studies of the Arts 37: 172-196.

Chauvigné, L. A. S., Walton, A., Richardson, M. J., and Brown, S. (2019). Multi-person and multisensory synchronization among folk dancers. Human Movement Science 63: 199-208.

Brown, S. (2018). Toward a unification of the arts. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 1938.

Chauvigné, L. A. S., and Brown, S. (2018). Role-specific brain activations in leaders and followers during joint action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12: 401.

Belyk, M., Lee. Y. S., and Brown, S. (2018). How is vocal pitch regulated by the human motor cortex in singers? Royal Society Open Science 5: 172208.

Brown, S. and Yuan, Y. (2018). Broca’s area is jointly activated during speech and gesture production. NeuroReport 29: 1214-1216.

Yuan, Y., Major-Giradin, J., and Brown, S. (2018). Storytelling is intrinsically mentalistic: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of narrative production across modalities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30: 1298-1314.

Brown, S., and Dissanayake, E. (2018). The synthesis of the arts: From ceremonial ritual to “total work of art”. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 9.

Chow, I., and Brown, S. (2018). A musical approach to speech melody. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 247.

Chauvigné, L. A. S., Belyk, M., and Brown, S. (2018). Taking two to tango: fMRI analysis of improvised joint action with physical contact. PLoS ONE 13: e0191098.

Ellis, B. K., Hwang, H., Savage, P. E., Pan, B.-Y., Cohen, A., and Brown, S. (2018). Identifying style-types in a sample of musical improvisations using dimensional reduction and cluster analysis. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts 18: 110-122.

Brown, S. (2017). A joint prosodic origin of language and music. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 1894. See commentary by Nikolsky here.

Berry, M., and Brown, S. (2017). A classification scheme for literary characters. Psychological Thought 10: 288-302.

Brown, S. (2017). Proto-acting as a new concept: Personal mimicry and the origins of role playing. Humanities 6:43.

Belyk, M., Brown, S., and Kotz, S. (2017). Demonstration and validation of kernel density estimation (KDE) for spatial meta-analyses of neuroimaging data. Data in Brief 13: 346-352.

Brown, S., Pfordresher, P. Q. and Chow, I. (2017). A musical model of speech rhythm. Psychomusicology 27: 95-112.

Chauvigné, L. A. S., Belyk, M., and Brown, S. (2017). Following during physically-coupled joint action engages motion area MT+/V5. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 16: 307-318.

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2017). The origins of the vocal brain in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 77: 177-193.

Belyk, M., Brown, S., Lam, J., and Kotz, S. (2017). Convergence of semantics and emotional expression in the IFG pars orbitalis. Neuroimage 156: 240-248.

Pfordresher, P. Q. and Brown, S. (2017). Vocal mistuning reveals the nature of musical scales. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 29: 35-52.

Belyk, M., Kraft, S. J., and Brown, S. (2017). Stuttering as a trait or a state revisited: Motor system involvement in persistent developmental stuttering. European Journal of Neuroscience.45: 622-624.

Belyk, M., Pfordresher, P. Q., Liotti, M. and Brown, S. (2016). The neural basis of vocal pitch imitation in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28: 621-635.

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2016). Pitch underlies activation of the vocal system during affective vocalization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11: 1078-1088.

Savage, P. E., Matsumae, H., Oota, H., Stoneking, M., Currie, T., Tajima, A., Gillan, M. and Brown. S. (2015). How 'circumpolar' is Ainu music? A musical and genetic perspective on the history of the Japanese archipelago. Ethnomusicology Forum 24: 443–467.

Savage, P. E., Brown, S., Sakai, E., and Currie, T. E. (2015). Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 8987-8992.

Yuan, Y. and Brown, S. (2015). Drawing and writing: An ALE meta-analysis of sensorimotor activations. Brain and Cognition 98: 15-26.

Belyk, M., Kraft, S. J. and Brown, S. (2015). Stuttering as a trait or state: An ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. European Journal of Neuroscience 41: 275-284.

Chow, I., Belyk, M., Tran, V. and Brown, S. (2015). Syllable synchronization and the P-center in Cantonese. Journal of Phonetics 49: 55-66.

Belyk, M., Kraft, S. J., and Brown, S. (2015). PlexinA polymorphisms mediate the developmental trajectory of human corpus callosum microstructure. Journal of Human Genetics 60: 147-150.

Yuan, Y. and Brown, S. (2014). The neural basis of mark making: A functional MRI study of drawing. PLoS ONE 9: e108628.

Chauvigné, L., Gitau, K. and Brown, S. (2014). The neural basis of audiomotor entrainment: An ALE meta-analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 776.

Belyk, M., and Brown, S. (2014). Somatotopy of the extrinsic laryngeal muscles in the human sensorimotor cortex. Behavioural Brain Research 270: 364-371.

Savage, P. E. and Brown, S. (2014). Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée: Cinq champs de recherche, cinq débats essentiels [Toward a new comparative musicology: Five key areas and debates]. Anthropologie et Sociétés 38: 193-216.

Pfordresher, P., Mantell, J. T., Brown, S., Zivadinov, R., and Cox, J. L. (2014). Brain responses to altered auditory feedback during musical keyboard production: An fMRI study. Brain Research 1556: 28-37.

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2014). The acoustic correlates of valence depend on emotion family. Journal of Voice 28: 523.e9-523.e18.

Savage, P. E. and Brown, S. (2014). Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée: Cinq champs de recherche, cinq débats essentiels [Toward a new comparative musicology: Five key areas and debates]. Anthropologie et Sociétés 38: 193-216.

Pfordresher, P., Mantell, J. T., Brown, S., Zivadinov, R., and Cox, J. L. (2014). Brain responses to altered auditory feedback during musical keyboard production: An fMRI study. Brain Research 1556: 28-37.

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2014). The acoustic correlates of valence depend on emotion family. Journal of Voice 28: 523.e9-523.e18.

Savage, P. E. and Brown, S. (2014). Mapping music: Cluster analysis of song-type frequencies within and between cultures. Ethnomusicology 58: 133-155. Supplementary information.

Brown, S., Savage, P. E., Ko, A. M.-S., Stoneking, M., Ko, Y.-C., Loo, J.-H. and Trejaut, J. A. (2014). Correlations in the population structure of music, genes, and language. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281: 20132072.
Supplementary information and Raw song codings

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2014). Speech prosody perception: An ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9: 1395-1403.

Savage, P. E. and Brown, S. (2013). Toward a new comparative musicology. Analytical Approaches to World Music 2: 148-197.
A single-spaced version of the article can be found here.

Bourke, P., Brown, S., Ngan, E., and Liotti, M. L. (2013). Functional brain organization of preparatory attentional control in visual search. Brain Research 1530: 32-43.

Brown, S. and Jordania, J. (2013). Universals in the world's musics. Psychology of Music 41: 229-248.

Brown, S. (2013). Religious ritual and the loss of self. Religion, Brain and Behavior 3: 58-60.

Savage, P. E., Merritt, E., Rzeszutek, T. and Brown, S. (2012). CantoCore: A new cross-cultural song classification scheme. Analytical Approaches to World Music 2: 87-137.
A single-spaced version of the article can be found here.

Rzeszutek, T., Savage, P. E. and Brown, S. (2011). The structure of cross-cultural musical diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 1606-1612. Supplementary information.

Brown, S., Gao, X., Tisdelle, L., Eickhoff, S. B. and Liotti, M. (2011). Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities. Neuroimage 58: 250-258.

Pfordresher, P. Q., Brown, S., Meier, K. M., Belyk, M. and Liotti, M. (2010). Imprecise singing is widespread. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128: 2182-2190.

Nagy, E., Liotti, M., Brown, S., Waiter, G., Bromiley, A., Trevarthen, C. and Bardos, G. (2010). The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication. Brain Research 1353: 159-167.

Brown, S. and Weishaar, K. (2010). Speech is “heterometric”: The changing rhythms of speech. Speech Prosody 2010 100074: 1-4.

Chow, I., Brown, S., Poon, M., and Weishaar, K. (2010). A musical template for phrasal rhythm in spoken Cantonese. Speech Prosody 2010 100078: 1-4.

Takai, O., Brown, S. and Liotti, M. (2010). Representation of the speech effectors in the human motor cortex: Somatotopy or overlap? Brain and Language 113: 39-44.

Brown, S., Laird, A. R., Pfordresher, P. Q., Thelen, S. M., Turkeltaub, P. and Liotti, M. (2009). The somatotopy of speech: Phonation and articulation in the human motor cortex. Brain and Cognition 70: 31-41.

Pfordresher, P. Q. and Brown, S. (2009). Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 71: 1385-1398.

Brown, S. (2009). Review of Patel's "Music, Language, and the Brain". Musicae Scientiae 13: 163-171.

Brown, S. and Dissanayake, E. (2009). The arts are more than aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as narrow aesthetics. In M. Skov and O. Vartanian (Eds.) Neuroaesthetics (pp. 43-57). Amityville: Baywood.

Götell, E., Brown, S., and Ekman, S.-L. (2009). 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 46: 422-430.

Brown, S. and Parsons, L. M. (2008). The neuroscience of dance. Scientific American 299: 32-37.

Brown, S. (2008). Music of language or language of music? Review of Patel's "Music, Language, and the Brain". Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12: 246-247.

Brown, S., Ngan, E., and Liotti, M. (2008). A larynx area in the human motor cortex. Cerebral Cortex 18: 837-845.

Pfordresher, P. Q. and Brown, S. (2007). Poor-pitch singing in the absence of "tone deafness". Music Perception 25: 95-115.

Brown, S. (2007). Contagious heterophony: A new theory about the origins of music. Musicae Scientiae 11: 3-26. Download French version of the article.

Brown, S. and Martinez, M. J. (2007). Activation of premotor vocal areas during musical discrimination. Brain and Cognition 63: 59-69.

Brown, S., Martinez, M. J. and Parsons, L. M. (2006). The neural basis of human dance. Cerebral Cortex 16: 1157-1167.

Brown, S. (2006). The perpetual music track: The phenomenon of constant musical imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies 13: 25-44.

Brown, S., Martinez, M. J. and Parsons, L. M. (2006). Music and language side by side in the brain. European Journal of Neuroscience 23: 2791-2803.

Brown, S. and Volgsten, U. (Eds.) (2006). Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music. New York: Berghahn Books.

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.

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. (2006). Bringing science to art. Review of Zaidel's Neuropsychology of Art: Neurological, Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10: 356-357.

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.

Brown, S., Parsons, L. M., Martinez, M. J., Hodges, D. A., and Fox, P. T. (2004). The song system of the human brain. Cognitive Brain Research 20: 363-375.

Brown, S., Martinez, M. J. and Parsons, L. M. (2004). Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic areas. NeuroReport 15: 2033-2037.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brown, S., Götell, E., and Ekman, S.-L. (2001). Singing as a therapeutic intervention in dementia care.Journal of Dementia Care 9: 33-37.

Wallin, N. L., Merker, B., and Brown, S. (Eds.) (2000). The Origins of Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Released in paperback in September, 2001].

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.

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.

Brown, S. (2000). Evolutionary models of music: From sexual selection to group selection. In F. Tonneau and N. S. Thompson (Eds.) Perspectives in Ethology. 13: Behavior, Evolution and Culture (pp. 231-281). New York: Plenum Publishers.

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. and Volgsten, U. (2000). Controlling the music, controlling the listener. Music Forum 16: 23-25.