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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. (2026). The Musical-Poetic Mind: A Journey Through the Cognitive Science of Popular Songs. Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing.
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.* Exploring the relationship between music,
lexical tones, and intonations of southern min and mandarin Chinese from a
cognitive neuroscience perspective (in Chinese). Research in Applied Psychology. (accepted)
Tsai, C.G.,* Chien, L.Y., & Goh, J.O.S. Temporal dynamics of
intraparietal sulcus activation in response to tonal uncertainty: an fMRI study
of the diminished seventh chord. Psychology
of Music (accepted) [SSCI, IF=1.6]
Tsai, C.G.* (2026). Music-induced emotion as
controlled hallucination: an active interoceptive inference account. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1759699. [SSCI, IF=2.9]
Chu, T.H., & Tsai, C.G.* (2025). Music’s context-dependent influence on oxytocin, social bonding, and
emotion regulation: A systematic review. Frontiers in Cognition,
4, 1678665.
Tsai, C.G.* (2025). Heterogeneity of vocal tunes in
Chinese Peking opera from the late Qing dynasty to the 1950s: an
interdisciplinary exploration (in Chinese). Journal of Traditional Chinese Theater, 33, 45-75.
Li, C.W., & Tsai, C.G.* (2025). Neural correlates of aesthetic
tragedy: evidence for enhanced semantic processing and cognitive control in
response to tragic versus joyful music. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1689581. [SSCI, IF=2.9]
Tsai, C.G.* (2024). Polyphony, uncertainty, and exploration in sonata form: Commentary
on De Souza, Dvorsky, and Oyon. Empirical Musicology Review,
19(2), 111-113. [ESCI, IF=0.6]
Li, C.W., & Tsai, C.G.* (2024). The presence of drum and bass
modulates responses in the auditory dorsal pathway and mirror-related regions
to pop songs. Neuroscience,
562, 24-32. [SCI, IF=2.9]
Tsai, C.G.* (2024). Predictive processing within music form: Analysis of uncertainty and surprise in different sections of sonata form. Music & Science, 7.
Tsai, C.G.* (2024). The influence of Xiqu’s percussion music on audience psychology: from cognitive schemas to ‘addiction’ (in Chinese). Taipei Theatre Journal, 40, 75-100.
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.* (2024). Anticipating the main theme: A model for understanding prospective
memory and reward learning in sonata-form listening. Musicae Scientiae, 28(3), 436-450. [SSCI,
IF=2.2]
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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