My research program is aimed at improving our understanding of the influence of music on cognition and health in both the non-clinical population and among people with neurological disorders or mental health problems. In particular, I am interested in the effect of musical moods (e.g. relaxing, stimulating) on the emotional state and on cognition (e.g. the executive functions). For instance, my research focuses on examining the impact of background music on cognition and on developing musical activities to reduce stress. My research is supported by the SSHRC.

Roman, M, Archambault K, Garel P, Gosselin N. (2023). Music interventions with Children, Adolescents and Emerging Adults in Mental Health Settings: A Scoping Review. Arts & Health. Aug 20: 1-21.
 

Bertacco M, Soyeux O, Durand R, Boudrias P, Wiseman L, Rompré P, Rainville P, Emami E, Gosselin N (2022). Effect of Personalized Musical Intervention on Burden of Care in Dental Implant Surgery: A Pilot Controlled Trial. Journal of Dentistery. 120: 1-9.
 

Vaillancourt G, Brault A, Perrin J, Gosselin N. (2022). Personalized Audio Montage: Impact of a Receptive Music Therapy Method-Variation on Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: 1-14.
 

Léonard C, Desaulniers-Simon JM, Tat D, De Beaumont L, Gosselin N. (2021). Effects of Music Intervention on Stress in Concussed and Non-Concussed Athletes. Brain Sciences. 11(1501): 1-15.
 

Anderson KS, Gosselin N, Sadikot AF, Laguë-Beauvais M, Kang ESH, Fogarty AE, Marcoux J, Dagher J, de Guise E. (2021). Pitch and Rhythm Perception and Verbal Short-term Memory in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Sciences. 11(9): 1-23.
 

Fernandez NB, Vuilleumier P, Gosselin N, Peretz I. (2021). Influence of background musical emotions on attention in congenital amusia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14: 1-15.

Nadon E,Tillmann B, Saj A, Gosselin N. (2021). The emotional effect of background music on selective attention for adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 1-9.
 

Bolduc J, Gosselin N, Chevrette T, Peretz I. (2020). The impact of music training on inhibition control, phonological processing, and motor skills in kindergarten: a randomized control trial. Early Child Development & Care. 191(12): 1886-1895.
 

Cloutier, A., Fernandez, N. B., Houde-Archambault, C., Gosselin, N. (2020). Effect of background music on attentional control in older and young adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 1-12.

Gauthier, B., Dupont, C., Gosselin, N., de Guise, E. (2020). Neuropsychology supervision: A survey of practices in Quebec and a cross-cultural comparison. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 35(7): 1-26.

Giroux, S.V., Caparos, S., Gosselin, N., Rutembesa, E., Blanchette, I. (2020). Impact of Music on Working Memory in Rwanda. Frontiers in Psychology. 11(774): 1-10.

Drapeau, J., Gosselin, N., Peretz, I., McKerral, M. (2019). Electrophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions following a mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Sciences. 9(6): 1-13.
 

Drapeau, J., Gosselin, N., Peretz, I., Mckerral M. (2017). Emotional recognition from dynamic facial, vocal and musical expressions following traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury. 31(2): 221-229.
 

Emami, E., Gosselin, N., Rainville, P., Durand, R. (2017). Culturally adapted musical intervention for patient-centered health care. Journal of the Canadian Dental Association. 83: 1-5.
 

Drouin, L., Gagnon, L., Platel, H., Ingari, R., Gosselin, N. (2016). Impacts multidimentionnels du chant pour les personnes âgées en perte d’autonomie. La Gérontoise. 27(1): 7-17.

Phillips-Silver J, Toiviainen P, Gosselin N, Turgeon C, Lepore F, Peretz I. (2015). Cochlear implant users move in time with the beat of drum music. Hearing Research. 321: 25-34.

Gosselin N, Paquette S, Peretz I. (2015). Sensitivity to musical emotion in amusia. Cortex. 71: 171-182.  

Phillips-Silver J, Toiviainen P, Gosselin N, Peretz I. (2013). Amusic does not mean unmusical: Beat perception and synchronization ability despite pitch deafness. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 30(5): 311-331.
 

Peretz I, Caron-Caplette E, Gosselin N, Nan Y, Trehub S et al. (2013). A novel tool for evaluating children’s musical abilities across age and culture. Frontier in Neuroscience. 7: 1-10.

Peretz I, Saffran J, Schön D, Gosselin N. (2012). Statistical learning of speech, not music, in congenital amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1252(36): 361-367.

Gagnon L, Gosselin N, Provencher V, Bier N. (2012). Perception and emotional judgment of music in dementia of the Alzheimer type: A short case study. Music Perception. 29: 509-519.
 

Tillmann B, Gosselin N, Bigand E, Peretz I. (2012). Priming paradigm reveals harmonic structure processing in congenital amusia. Cortex. 48(8): 1073-1078.

Drapeau J, Gosselin N, McKerral M. (2011). Emotional recognition from face, voice and music following a traumatic brain injury: Current state of knowledge. Neuropsicologia Latinonamericana. 3: 25-33.

Phillips-Silver J, Toiviainen P, Gosselin N, Piché O, Nozaradan S, Palmer C, Peretz I. (2011). Born to dance but beat deaf: a new form of congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia. 49(5): 961-969.
 

Tillmann B, Burnham D, Nguyen S, Grimault N, Gosselin N, & Peretz I. (2011). Congenital amusia (or tone- deafness) interferes with pitch processing in tone languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 2: 1-15.

Gosselin N, Peretz I, Hasboun D, Baulac M, Samson S. (2011). Impaired recognition of musical emotions and facial expressions following anteromedial temporal lobe excision. Cortex. 47(9): 1116-1125.
 

Tillmann B, Jolicoeur P, Ishihara M, Gosselin N, Bertrand O, Rossetti Y, Peretz I. (2010). The amusic brain: lost in music, but not in space. PloS One. 5(4): e10173.

Hutchins S, Gosselin N, Peretz I. (2010). Identification of changes along a continuum of speech intonation is impaired in congenital amusia. Frontiers in Psychology. 1: 1-8.
 

Roy, S., Gosselin, N., Gosselin, F., & Peretz, I. (2009). On the neural mechanism of fear recognition. Journal of Vision. 9(8): 1.
 

Gosselin N, Jolicoeur P, Peretz I. (2009). Impaired memory for pitch in congenital amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1169(1): 270-272.

Roy M , Mailhot JP , Gosselin N , Paquette S , Peretz I. (2009). Modulation of the startle reflex by pleasant and unpleasant music. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 71(1)

Nguyen S, Tillmann B, Gosselin N, Peretz I. (2009). Tonal language processing in congenital amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1169(1): 490-493.

Peretz I, Gosselin N, Belin P, Zatorre RJ, Plailly J, Tillmann B  Contribution équivalente des deux premiers auteurs. (2009). Music lexical networks: the cortical organization of music recognition. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1169(1): 256-265.

Fritz T , Jentschke S , Gosselin N , Sammler D , Peretz I , Turner R , Friederici AD , Koelsch S. (2009). Universal recognition of three basic emotions in music. Current Biology. 19(7): 573-576.

Drapeau J, Gosselin N, Gagnon L, Peretz I, Lorrain D. (2009). Emotional recognition from face, voice, and music in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1169(1): 342-345.
 

Vieillard S, Peretz I, Gosselin N et al. (2008). Happy, sad, scary and peaceful musical excerpts for research on emotions. Cognition & Emotion. 22: 720-752.

Peretz I, Gosselin N et al. (2008). On-line identification of congenital amusia. Music Perception. 25: 311-343.

Tillman B, Peretz I, Bigand E & Gosselin N. (2007). Harmonic priming in an amusic patient: The power of implicit tasks. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 24: 603-622.

Gosselin N , Peretz I , Johnsen E , Adolphs R. (2007). Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognition from music. Neuropsychologia. 45(2): 236-244.
 

Gosselin N, Samson S , Adolphs R , Noulhiane M , Roy M , Hasboun D , Baulac M , Peretz I. (2006). Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlate with damage to the parahippocampal cortex. Brain. 129: 2585-2592.
 

Gosselin N, Peretz I, Noulhiane M, Hasboun D, Beckett C, Baulac M, Samson S. (2005). Impaired recognition of scary music following unilateral temporal lobe excision. Brain. 128: 628-640.
 

Everett J. Lavoie K, Gagnon, JF & Gosselin N (2001). Performance of patients with schizophrenia on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience. 26(2): 123-130.
 

Dalla Bella S, Peretz I , Rousseau L , Gosselin N. (2001). A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music. Cognition. 80(3): 1-10.
 

Dalla Bella S, Peretz I, Rousseau L, Gosselin N et al. (2001). A developmental study of the happy- sad distinction in music appreciation: Does tempo emerge earlier than mode? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930: 436-438.