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Tsai, Chen-Gia Associate
professor Graduate
Institute of Musicology National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
Research Interests
Biomusicology, neuroesthetics, arts and medicine, affective
science, music acoustics, Xiqu
Books
Tsai,
C.G.*, & Chen, R.S. (2017). Structures and Emotions in Chinese Sentimental
Ballads: A Perspective of Cognitive Psychology (in Chinese). Taipei: Faces Publishing LTD. Tsai,
C.G. (2013). The Cognitive
Psychology of Music (in Chinese). Taipei: NTU Press. Tsai,
C.G. (2011). Alternative Watching/Listening: Brain Diseases and Voice Disorders in
Performing Arts (in Chinese). Taipei: NTU Press. |
Journal Articles
Tsai, C.G.* The influence of Xiqu’s percussion music on audience psychology: from cognitive schemas to ‘addiction.’ Taipei Theatre Journal (accepted) Tsai, C.G.* (2024).
Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective
memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening. Musicae Scientiae. (accepted) [SSCI, IF=2.725] Li, C.W., & Tsai, C.G.* (2024). Motivated cognitive control
during cued anticipation and receipt of unfamiliar musical themes: an fMRI
study. Neuropsychologia, 194, 108778. [SCI/SSCI, IF=3.054] Tsai, C.G.* (2023). The structure and function of mind-wandering in Chinese regulated
verse (律詩). Humanities, 12(4):
87. [IF=0.3] Tsai, C.G., Fu, Y.F. &, Li, C.W.* (2023). Prediction errors arising from switches between major and minor modes in music: An fMRI study. Brain and Cognition, 169, 105987. [SCI & SSCI, IF=2.682] Tsai, C.G.* (2023). On the relationship
between Chinese lyrical tradition and the brain’s default mode network (in
Chinese). Sun Yat Sen Journal of Humanities, 54,
91-120. Li, C.W., & Tsai, C.G.* (2022). Attention control and audiomotor processes underlying anticipation of musical themes while listening to familiar sonata-form pieces. Brain Sciences, 12(2), 261. [SCI, IF=3.333] Tsai, C.G.* (2021). Cognitive control
in agents: on the importance of supplementary motor area in the brain for
music activities (in Chinese).
Journal
of Music Research, 34, 1-28. Li, C.W., Guo, F.Y., Tsai, C.G.* (2021). Predictive processing, cognitive control, and tonality stability of
music: an fMRI study of chromatic harmony. Brain and Cognition, 151,
105751. [SCI & SSCI, IF=2.821] Tsai, C.G., & Li, C.W.* (2019). Is it speech or song? Effect of melody priming on pitch perception of modified Mandarin speech. Brain Sciences, 9(10), 286. [SCI, IF=3.332] Li, C.W., Cheng, T.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2019). Music enhances activity in the hypothalamus, brainstem, and anterior
cerebellum during script-driven imagery of affective scenes. Neuropsychologia,
133, 107073. [SCI/SSCI, IF=2.889] Tsai, C.G.* (2019). From inner imitation to information integration: revisiting
the mechanisms underlying emotion induction via music (in Chinese).
Arts Review, 37, 1-49. Tsai, C.G., & Li, C.W.* (2019). Increased activation in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and temporal pole during tonality changes in music. Neuroscience Letters, 696: 162-167. [SCI, IF=2.159] Tsai, C.G. (2018). The psychology of musical creativity: the self, executive
control, and generation of creative ideas (in Chinese). Guandu Music Journal, 27, 33-52. Tsai, C.G., Chou T.L., & Li, C.W.* (2018). Roles of posterior parietal and dorsal premotor cortices in relative pitch processing: comparing musical intervals to lexical tones. Neuropsychologia, 119, 118-127. [SCI, IF=2.888] Tsai, C.G., Du, W., & Chen, C.L.* (2017). Influence of literature music on
the museum visitor experience: a case study of the Laiho
Memorial Museum (in Chinese). Museology
Quarterly, 31(3), 5-29. Tsai, C.G., Li, C.W., Yeh, C.H., Chen, R.S., & Lin, Y.S.* (2017). Why do
mandarin popular songs usually deal with break-ups? The therapeutic potential
of sentimental ballads (in Chinese). Indigenous
Psychological Research in Chinese Societies, 47, 371-420. [TSSCI] Wu, M.T., & Tsai, C.G.* (2017). Emotional effects of
Teresa Teng’s songs in Taiwanese healthy and disabled older adults (in
Chinese). Journal of Humanities, Social
Sciences and Medicine, 4, 119-138. Tsai, C.G.*, & Hsia, L.T. (2107). Musical features and theatrical uses of Jin-La-Man-Chang rhythmic mode in Xiqu
(in Chinese). Taipei Theatre Journal,
25, 105-128. Wen, Y.C., & Tsai, C.G.* (2017). The effect of harmonization on cortical magnetic responses evoked by
music of rapidly changing tonalities. Psychology of Music, 45(1), 22-35. [SSCI, IF=2.173] Cheng, T.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2016). Female listeners’ autonomic responses to dramatic shifts between loud
and soft music/sound passages: a study of heavy metal songs. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 182. [SSCI, IF=2.560] Tsai, Y.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2016). Emotional effects of the
chorus scenes in musicals on audience: a study on Les Misérables and Chicago
(in Chinese). Collected Papers on Arts
Research, 25, 147-166. Li, C.W., Chen, J.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2015). Listening to music in a risk-reward context: the roles of the
temporoparietal junction and the orbitofrontal/insular cortices in
reward-anticipation, reward-gain, and reward-loss. Brain Research, 1629,
160-170. [SCI, IF=2.988] Chen, C.L., & Tsai, C.G.* (2015). The influence of background music on the visitor museum experience: a
case study of the Laiho Memorial Museum. Visitor Studies, 18(2),
183-195. Tsai, C.G.*, & Chen, C.P. (2015). Musical tension over time: listeners’ physiological responses to the
‘retransition’ in classical sonata form. Journal of New Music Research,
44(3), 271-286. [SSCI, IF=0.771] Tsai, C.G.*, Yang, C.M., Chen, C.C., Chen, I.P., & Liang, K.C.
(2015). Relaxation and executive control processes in listeners: an exploratory
study of music-induced transient suppression of skin conductance responses. Empirical Studies of the Arts,
33(2), 125-143. [SSCI, IF=0.370] Chang, Y.H., Lee, Y.Y., Liang, K.C., Chen, I. P., Tsai, C.G.*,
& Hsieh, S.* (2015). Experiencing affective music in eyes-closed and eyes-open states: an
electroencephalography study. Frontiers in Psychology,
6, 1160. [SSCI, IF=2.560] Tsai, C.G., Chen, C.C., Wen, Y.C., & Chou T.L.* (2015). Neuromagnetic brain activities associated with perceptual
categorization and sound-content incongruency: a comparison of music and
speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9,
455. [SCI, IF=3.626] Tzeng, N.S., & Tsai, C.G.* (2015). Dutuo and salvation in Beijing Opera Peng-Bei (Tragic Monument in
Yang’s Saga) and Nan-Tien-Men (South Heavenly Gate): a study from the
perspectives of psychiatry and audience psychology (in Chinese). Taipei Theatre
Journal, 22, 25-50. Tsai, C.G., & Tzeng. N.S.* (2015). Music therapy for the elderly: perspectives from cognitive
neuroscience (in
Chinese). Journal of Humanities, Social
Sciences and Medicine, 2, 87-106. Tsai, C.G.*, Chen, R.S., & Yu, S.P. (2014). Analyzing the
verse-chorus form: schema shifts and musical rewards in lyrical-slow songs (in Chinese). Research in
Applied Psychology, 61, 239-286. Tsai, C.G.*, Chen, R.S., & Tsai, T.S. (2014). The arousing and cathartic
effects of popular heartbreak songs
as revealed in the physiological responses of listeners. Musicae Scientiae, 18(4),
410-422. [SSCI, IF=1.537] Tan, W.H., Tsai, C.G., Lin, C., & Lin,
Y.K.* (2014). Urban canyon effect: storm drains enhance call characteristics of the
Mientien tree frog. Journal of Zoology,
294(2), 77-84. [SCI, IF=1.545] [reports: Nature, bioforum.tw] Yang, I.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2014). Plucking positions on the guzheng strings:
timbral analysis and performance practice (in Chinese). Yin Yue Yan Jiu, 19, 1-30. Tsai,
C.G.* (2014). The
emotional expressions and structure in Beijing opera Pong-Yin: combining performance analysis with audience’s
physiological measures (in Chinese). Journal of Traditional Chinese Theater, 11, 125-161. Chen, I.P.*, Lin, Z.X., & Tsai,
C.G. (2013). A felt-emotion-based corpora of music
emotions (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Psychology, 55(4), 571-599. [TSSCI] Tsai, C.G.* (2013). Relationships
between musical emotions and music cognition: dialogues between aesthetics
and psychology (in Chinese).
Journal of Xinghai
Conservatory of Music, 2013.2, 120-127. Tsai, C.G.*, & Chen, R.S. (2012). Desire, resolution, and reward
system: listeners’ emotional responses to musical cadences (in Chinese). Journal of National Taiwan University of
Arts, 90, 325-345. Tsai, C.G., Fan, L.Y., Lee, S.H., Chen,
J.H., & Chou, T.L.* (2012). Specialization of the posterior
temporal lobes for audio-motor processing - evidence from a functional
magnetic resonance imaging study of skilled drummers. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(4), 634–643. [SCI, IF=3.658] Yang, W.C., & Tsai, C.G.*
(2011). Telling the red myth with
western music: the function and practice of musical schema shifts in model
Beijing operas (in Chinese). Taipei Theatre Journal, 13, 131-157. Tsai, C.G.*, Chen, C.C., Chou, T.L., &
Chen, J.H. (2010). Neural mechanisms involved in the oral
representation of percussion music: an fMRI study. Brain and Cognition, 74(2), 123-131. [SCI & SSCI, IF=2.547] Tsai,
C.G.* (2010). The
song forms in cultures of humpback whales and songbirds: interdisciplinary
perspectives of biomusicology (in Chinese). Huangzhong-Journal of Wuhan Music Conservatory, 2010.4, 129-134. |
Tsai,
C.G., Chen, C.L.*, & Lee, J.W. (2010). Literature soundscape in
the museum: on the roles and functions of sound elements in literature
exhibitions (in Chinese). Museology Quarterly,
24(1), 93-115. |
Tsai, C.G.*, Wang, L.C., Wang, S.F., Shau, Y.W., Hsiao, T.Y., & Auhagen,
W. (2010). Aggressiveness
of the growl-like timbre: acoustic characteristics, musical implications, and
biomechanical mechanisms. Music Perception, 27(3), 209-221. [SSCI, IF=1.068] |
Tsai, C.G.* (2009). The Taiwanese horned fiddle: an example
of exaptation of musical instruments (in Chinese).
Huangzhong-Journal of Wuhan Music Conservatory, 2009.4, 129-134. |
Tsai, C.G., Chen, J.H., Shau,
Y.W., & Hsiao, T.Y.* (2009). Dynamic
B-mode ultrasound imaging of vocal fold vibration during phonation. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 35(11), 1812-1818.
[SCI, IF=2.395] |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2009). Impure
musical sounds: auditory model and harmonic-to-noise ratio (in Chinese). Guandu Music Journal, 10, 113-125. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2009). From
propaganda to dramatic ornaments: arias and divertissements in modern Beijing
operas in 1958-1976 (in Chinese).
Taipei Theatre Journal, 10, 113-147. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2008). String vibration with
nonlinear boundary condition: an acoustical study of “blossoming tones”
produced by the junhu (in Chinese). Huangzhong-Journal of Wuhan Music Conservatory, 2008.4, 168-173. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2008). Madness by romantic
identification: Brain diseases in Xiqu (in Chinese). Journal of
Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore, 161, 83-133. [TSSCI] |
Tsai, C.G.,
Shau, Y.W., Liu, H.M., & Hsiao, T.Y.* (2008). Laryngeal
mechanisms during human 4 kHz vocalization studied with CT, videostroboscopy,
and color Doppler imaging. Journal
of Voice, 22(3), 275-282. [SCI, IF=0.953] |
Tsai, C.G.*,
& Lin, Y.Y. (2008). Contributions of
epilepsy research to the psychology of music (in Chinese). Journal of
Xinghai Conservatory of Music, 2008.1, 31-37. |
Tsai, C.G.* (2007). When Beijing Opera
actors meet Beiguan Opera: an impartation project for Beiguan Opera by
Xiao-Yiao Theater (in
Chinese). Journal of Culture Resources,
3, 75-94. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2006). Disease and composing:
syphilis in Smetana, Wolf, and Schubert (in Chinese). Formosan
Journal of Music Research, 3, 91-106. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2006). Towards
the cognitive psychology of Xiqu music: examples from Xi-Mei-Fong-Yun and
Da-Tzei-Men (in
Chinese). Performing Arts Journal, 12, 159-172. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2005). Chaotic behavior of performers’
vocalizations: an interdisciplinary study of growl voices (in Chinese). Taipei Theatre Journal, 2, 39-62. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2004). Absolute pitch: studies in
cognitive psychology (in
Chinese). Guandu Music Journal, 1, 77-92. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(2000). Fu-Lu Sheng-Qiang
of Taiwanese Luan-Tan-Xi belongs to Luan-Tan-Qiang
system: evidence from tunes and repertory (in Chinese). Journal of
Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore, 123, 43-88. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(1997). A comparison of Chinese Nan-Xi
and opera comique: the structure of He-To and
vaudeville final (in
Chinese). Arts Review, 8, 163-185. |
Tsai, C.G.*
(1997). A preliminary study on music of
Luan-Tan Xiao-Xi (in
Chinese). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore, 106, 1-29. |
Book Chapters
Tsai,
C.G.* (2015). Contemporary interaction
between music and sciences: from fundamental research to clinical
applications. In Rawnsley, M.Y.T., Wang, C.M.,
& Tang, K.P. (Eds.), Framing Trans-disciplinarity: Bridging Sciences and Humanities (pp.
307-342). Taipei: Ministry
of Education. Tsai,
C.G.* (2022). The physics of musical
instruments and voice. In Yu, H.T. (Eds.), Good Vibes: STEAM Talks on the Science of Sounds (pp. 1-24).
Taipei: San Min Book. |
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