Marcel R Zentner

Other work In 2012, alongside Lily Law, Zentner developed the Profile of Music Perception Skills (PROMS), an objective test of musical ability. The PROMS has the ability to distinguish between musical ability and musical experience. Two shortened versions, called the Short-PROMS and the Mini-PROMS, were developed in 2017. For the rapid screening of musicality, the Micro-PROMS and the Music-Mindedness Questionnaire were added in 2024 and 2025.

In 2024, Zentner and others developed the Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA), a database of music tracks rated using the GEMS in an academic setting. , the EMMA has 817 rated musical tracks in its database based on the rating of 867 participants. EMMA served as a basis for a neural network approach to automatically predict emotions evoked by music without requiring human raters.

In addition to music-emotion assessment, Zentner has also studied physiological responses to music, mechanisms underlying music-evoked emotions, and musical development in children. Along with Jerome Kagan, he found that preverbal infants prefer consonant to dissonant melodies. With Tuomas Eerola, he showed that infants have a precocious ability to move in time with music and other rhythmically regular sounds. and on gender non-conforming individuals. He has contributed research on temperament assessment by providing an integrative model of child temperament and related assessment tools.

In 2015, with Rebecca Shiner, Zentner published Handbook of Temperament, a book about the development of temperament and personality.