Topical Pages

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INDEX

• Recommended Reading for Beginners
• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Project Sites
• Research Proposals
• Articles
• Abstracts
• Book Reviews
• Commentaries
• Bibliographies

• Hearing: Anatomy and Physiology. A resource for teaching the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system. Attractive, informative and scholarly. Also available in French.
  
  
• Pictorial Introduction to Fourier Analysis A tutorial site for teaching the analysis of periodic signals through Fourier Analysis. Attractive and informative.
  
  
• Tinnitus FAQ An authoritative source for frequently asked questions for tinnitus ("ringing" of the ears). The site emphasizes diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Little information about neurology and physiology.
  
  
• Perceptibility of Set-Theory Concepts Descriptions and references to perceptual research relating to concepts in set theory. Contains useful research summaries.
  
  
• Psych Web Provides general resources for teachers and students of psychology. Includes self-help and career-related information.
  
  
• Auditory Scene Analysis CD Seven audio examples for a commercial demonstration CD by A.S. Bregman and P.A. Ahad. Examples illustrate phenomena in the perception of auditory streams.
  
  
• Definitions of Timbre. Over 50 definitions or descriptions of timbre drawn from both classic and modern writings, assembled by Greg Sandell.

• Expressive Performance in Music, Dance, Speech, and Body Language. Uppsala University, Department of Psychology. Director: Alf Gabrielsson.
• Cognitive Musicology Project, The Academy of Finland. Cognitive ethnomusicology, cognitive modeling with artificial neural networks, and statistical style analysis. Director: Jukka Louhivuori. Also: Petri Toiviainen and Topi Järvinen. MuPsych Project. Music Psychology Research using Network-Based Technologies. Cambridge University, Faculty of Music. Contact: Ian Cross.

• Richards, Whitman. Memory representation and deployment in musical thinking. Dissertation proposal.

• Abel, Robert. (1996). An investigation into the operation of swing in Jazz.
• Anon. Genetically set for perfect pitch you might be, But without early training don't expect to discern C.
• Azar, Beth. Musical studies provide clues to brain functions.
• Baharloo, Siamak; Johnston, Paul A.; Service, Susan K.; Gitschier, Jane & Freimer, Nelson B. Absolute pitch: An approach for identification of genetic and nongenetic components.
• Boker, Steven. Predicting the grouping of rhythmic sequences using local estimators of information content.
• Butler, David. Tonal bootstrapping: Re-thinking the intervallic rivalry model.
• Cross, Ian. Music Analysis and Music Perception.
• Cross, Ian. Music and science: three views.
• Cross, Ian. Pitch schemata.
• Dawe, Lloyd. The Tritone Paradox and spectral-motion aftereffects.
• Desain, P. & Vos, S. Autocorrelation and the study of musical expression.
• Fox, Peter; Parsons, Lawrence & Hodges, Don. Brain activation during musical error detection.
• Fox, Peter; Parsons, Lawrence & Hodges, Don. Brain activation during piano performance.
• Gasser, Michael & Eck, Douglas. Representing rhythmic patterns in a network of oscillators.
• Gasser, Michael; Eck, Douglas & Port, Robert. Meter as mechanism: A neural network that learns metrical patterns.
• Gregory, Naomi. The perception of tone hierarchies in atonal and 12-note music; two pieces by Schoenberg and Webern.
• Hill, Jenny. (1999). "Tone-deafness": the relative significance of perception and production of sound.
• Howard, Jeffrey N. & Datteri, Darcee L. (2004). Melodic temporal pattern and rhythmic syllable pattern of song title in unfamiliar music.
• Huron, David. The melodic arch in Western folksongs.
• Janata, Petr. Probing human cognition with music and measures of brain electrical activity.
• Keller, Peter. The role of metric frameworks in the processing and representation of musical rhythm.
• Kunst, Jos. Social cognitions and musical emotions.
• Kunst, Jos. Muziek en Communicatie. [Music and Communication].
• Kunst, Jos. Making sense in music: An enquiry into the formal pragmatics of art.
• Lavy, Matthew. An Investigation of the effect of explicit and implied harmony on the perceptual processing of short melodies.
• Leman, Marc. Music, Gestalt, and Computing: Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology.
• Levitin, Daniel & Bellugi, Ursula. Musical abilities in individuals with Williams Syndrome.
• McAdams, Stephen & Bigand, Emmanuel. Introduction to Auditory Cognition.
• McCartney, Heather. (1999). The Perception of Large-Scale Tonal Closure.
• McCulloch, Ruth. (1999). Modality and children's affective responses to music.
• Nantais, Kristin & Schellenberg, Glenn. (1999). Research Report: The Mozart Effect: An Artifact of Preference. (From Psychological Science, 1999, 10.)
• Newman, Joan; Rosenbach, John; Burns, Kathryn; Latimer, Brian; Matocha, Helen & Rosenthal Vogt, Elaine (1995). An Experimental Test of "The Mozart Effect": Does Listening to his music improve spatial ability?. (From Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995, 81, 1379-1387.)
• Port, Robert; Cummins, Fred & Gasser, Michael. A dynamic approach to rhythm in langauge: Toward a temporal phonology.
• Pressing, Jeffrey. Cognitive complexity and the structure of musical patterns.
• Rauscher, Frances; Shaw, Gordon & Ky, Katherine. (1993). "Music and spatial task performance". (from Nature, 365, 661.)
• Richards, Whitman. Review and discussion of "A Generative Theory of Tonal Music".
• Sheridan, Judith & McAuley, Devin, Rhythm as a cognitive skill: Temporal processing in deficits in autism
• Simpson, Jasba. Cochlear Modeling of Sensory Dissonance and Chord Roots. (Masters Thesis).
• Simpson, Jasba. A formal analysis of note-interdependence in selected works.
• Simpson, Jasba & David Huron. Absolute pitch as a learned phenomenon: Evidence consistent with the Hick-Hyman Law..
• Smith, Nicholas A., & Cuddy, Lola. Patterns of tension/relaxation in music: A consideration of psychoacoustic and cognitive influences..
• Stevens, Catherine, McAuley, J. Devin & Humphreys, Michael. Relational information in memory for music: The interaction of melody, rhythm, text and instrument.
• Stout, Holly. (1999). Syntactic processing of tonal music: differing levels of recall for immediate- and previous-phrase information.
• Sutton, Tim. Expressive timing deviations in Chopin's ornamentation.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Absolute pitch.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Acoustic bass of pipe organ.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Affinity tones.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Basse fondamentale.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Definition of pitch.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Diplacusis binauralis (binaural diplacusis; interaural pitch difference IPD).
• Terhardt, Ernst. Dominant spectral region.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Octave equivalence.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Octave stretch.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Pitch perception.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Pitch shifts and pitch deviation.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Spectral pitch.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Stretch of the musical tone scale.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Strike note of bells.
• Terhardt, Ernst. Virtual pitch.
• Wood, Abigail. Intersensory Integration: An investigation into the effects of concurrently presented visual material on subjects' ability to memorise the rhythm of short melodies
• Woodward, Ann. (1995). Absolute pitch and tonal function in context.

• Aiello, Rita. Musicians' and nonmusicians' perception of musical elements.
• Baczewski, Philip & Killam, Rosemary N. An examination of error frequency and magnitude in the melodic dictation of professional musicians.
• Boker, Steven. The perception of simple auditory rhythmic sequences. (full downloadable text available).
• Brink, Danielle. Effects of Practice and Rate on Anticipatory Behavior in Music Performance.
• Brown, Helen; Butler, David & Jones, Mari Riess. Musical and temporal influence on key discovery.
• Browne, Richmond. Maps of maps of maps: Gerald M. Edelman's theory of neuronal group selection and what it may mean for music theory.
• Cuddy, Lola & Smith, Nicholas A. Sensitivity to key movement in a Beethoven excerpt: Theory and evidence..
• van Egmond, René & Butler, David. Diatonic connotations of pitch-class sets.
• Gabrielsson, Alf. Strong Experiences of Music.
• Gibson, Don. The effects of pitch and pitch-class content on their aural perception of dissimilarity in complementary hexachords.
• Gibson, Don. The aural perception of similarity in nontraditional chords related by octave equivalence.
• Gibson, Don. The aural perception of nontraditional chords in selected theoretical relationships: A computer-generated experiment.
• Gillespie, Jeffrey. Difficulty factors in the perception of melody by skilled listeners.
• Hill, David, Trehub, Sandra & Kamenetsky, Stuart. Mothers' and fathers' songs to infants.
• Honing, H. Music and the representation of structure: from issues to microworlds.
• Huron, David. Interval-class content in equally tempered pitch-class sets: Common scales exhibit optimum tonal consonance.
• Jones, Mari R. & Pfordresher, Peter Q. Tracking musical patterns using joint accent structure.
• Krumhansl, Carol L. An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology.
• Large, Edward; Palmer, Caroline & Pollack, J. B. Reduced memory representations for music.
• Larson, Steve. Expert expectations: professional theorists' continuations compared with a computer model of musical forces.
• London, Justin. The binary bias of metric subdivision and the relative complexity of various meters, or, why is 9/8 so rare?
• Malone, Sean. Structural and reductive voice leading analysis of BWV 878: the Urlinie as metaphysical and epistemological.
• Miller, Mina. Cognition of musical form in performance: Analysis of MIDI-data across contrasting formal conceptions.
• Miller, Mina. Piano fingerings and musical expression: Significance for interpretation and performance.
• North, Adrian C., Hargreaves, David J., & McKendrick, Jennifer. In-store music affects product choice. Nature, 390, p. 132.
• North, Adrian C., Hargreaves, David J., & McKendrick, Jennifer. Influence of in-store music on wine selections Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, p. 271-276.
• Palmer, Caroline. Music performance. (Review article in Annual Review of Psychology).
• Palmer, Caroline. On the assignment of structure in music performance.
• Palmer, Caroline. Anatomy of a performance: Sources of musical expression.
• Palmer, Caroline & Drake, Caroline. Monitoring and planning capacities in the acquisition of music performance skills.
• Palmer, Caroline & van de Sande, C. Range of planning in music performance.
• Peretz, Isabelle; Belleville, Sylvie & Fontaine, Sophie. Dissociations entre musique et langage après atteinte cérébrale: un nouveau cas d'amusie sans aphasie.
• Russo, Frank; Galembo, Alexander & Cuddy, Lola L. Evaluation of perceived tonality across the musical pitch range.
• Russo, Frank; Galembo, Alexander & Cuddy, Lola L. Perception of tonality across the tessitura of an instrument.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Motor theory of melodic expectancy.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Toward a Motor theory of melodic perception.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Using Narmour's bottom-up principles of expectancy to influence listener's perceptions of melodic cohesion and flow.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Predictive value of Narmour's principles for cohesiveness, pleasingness, and memory of Webern melodies.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. A common origin for vocal accuracy and melodic expectancy: Vocal Constraints?
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Vocal constraints as a source of melodic expectancy.
• Russo, Frank & Cuddy, Lola L. Perceptual cues to melodic organization.
• Russo, Frank; Sturdy, C.B.; Cuddy, Lola L. & Weisman, R.G. Gestalt factors in the structure of birdsong and human melody.
• Samson, Séverine; Zatorre, Robert J. & Ramsay, James O. Multidimensional scaling of synthetic musical timbre: Perception of spectral and temporal characteristics.
• Schmuckler, Mark A. Expectancy effects in memory for melodies.
• Simpson, Jasba & Huron, David. Absolute pitch as a learned phenomenon: Evidence consistent with the Hick-Hyman law.
• Skifstad, Sheryl. A new method of aural skills training based on perceptual research.
• Steinke, W.R.; Cuddy, L.L. & Holden, R.R. Dissociation of musical tonality and pitch memory from nonmusical cognitive abilities.
• Trehub, Sandra E.; Hill, David S. & Kamenetsky, Stuart B. Parents' sung performances for infants.
• Walker, Tim & Butler, David. Metrical Constraints on Implied Harmony in Music.
• Thompson, William F.; Russo, Frank & Sinclair, D. Effects of underscoring on the perception of closure in filmed events.
• Thompson, William F.; Russo, Frank & McKinnel, A. Musical influences on the perception of time.

• Barnes, Stephen H. Muzak: The Hidden Messages in Music; A Social Psychology of Culture. (1988)
• Bregman, Albert S. Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. (1990)
• Cook, Nicholas. Music, Imagination, and Culture. (1990)
• Irene Deliège & John Sloboda. Perception and Cognition of Music. (1988) French translation: Naissance et dèveloppement du sens musical. Book description. Review in French.
• Eitan, Zohar. Highpoints: A Study of Melodic Peaks. (1997)
• Gabrielsson, Alf. Action and Perception in Rhythm and Music. (1987)
• Krumhansl, Carol L. Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch. (1990)
• Parncutt, Richard. Harmony: A Psychoacoustical Approach. (1989)
• Serafine, Mary Louise Music As Cognition: The Development of Thought in Sound. (1988)
• Sloboda, John (Ed.) Generative Processes in Music: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition. (1988)

• Anon. Music and Driving Behaviors
• Gregersen, Peter K. Instant recognition: The genetics of pitch perception.

• Leigh Smith. Bibliography of Music Cognition - Rhythm. A bibliography of materials relating to rhythm, particularly perceptual, cognitive and computational approaches. In BibTeX format.
  
  
• Greg Sandell. Bibliography of Methods in Psychomusicology. A short (11-item) bibliography identifying arguments (pro and con) for the use of experimental psychological methods in addressing questions of musical relevance.
  
  
• MuSICA: Music and Science Information Computer Archive. A bibliographic database of scientific research on music related to behavior, the brain, and allied fields. Updated weekly. Supported by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and the University of California, Irvine.
  
  
• Yates Design Group. Books on Acoustics, Architectural Acoustics, and Psychoacoustics. An 86-item bibliography of books (only) pertaining to musical acoustics, architectural acoustics, and music psychology. Some annotations.
  
  
• Indiana University Rhythm and Meter: A Bibliographic Glossary. Accessible only to Indiana University people.
  
  
• UCSB Information Resources for Music.