Papers | Presentations

Published Papers and Book Chapters

Kraus, N., Skoe, E., Parbery-Clarka, A., & Ashley, R. (in press). Experience-induced Malleability in Neural Encoding of Pitch, Timbre and Timing: Implications for Language and Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Neurosciences and Music III. [pdf]

Ashley, R. (2009). Musical improvisation. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Timmers, R. & Ashley, R. (2007). Emotional ornamentation in performances of a Handel sonata. Music Perception, 25, 117-134. [pdf]

Ashley, R. (2002). Do[n't] Change a Hair for Me: The Art of Jazz Rubato. Music Perception, 19, 311-332. [pdf]

Chor, I. (in press). Microtiming and rhythmic structure in clave-based music: A quantitative study. In A. Danielsen (Ed.), Beyond time: Rhythm in the age of digital reproduction.

Chor, I. (2008). Review of the book Presence and pleasure: The funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament. Psychology of Music, 36(2), 262-263.

Davis, C. (in press). A Timed Blindfold Test: Identifying the Jazz Masters in Brief Excerpts. Musicae Scientiae.

Davis, C. (in press). Review of Robert Hodson's "Interaction, Improvisation and Interplay in Jazz Performance." Psychology of Music.

Strait, D., Skoe, E., Ashley, R. & Kraus, N. (in press). Musical Experience Changes Brainstem Encoding of Emotionally-Salient Vocal Sounds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Neurosciences and Music III.

Strait, D. L., Kraus, N., Skoe, E., & Ashley, R. (2009). Musical experience and neural efficiency: effects of training on subcortical processing of vocal expressions of emotion. European Journal of Neuroscience 29:661-668. [pdf]

Musacchia, G., Strait, D., & Kraus, N. (2008). Relationships between behavior, brainstem and cortical encoding of seen and heard speech in musicians and nonmusicians. Hearing Research 241:34-42. [pdf]

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Conference Presentations

Anderson, B. & Ashley, R. (2008). Revisiting local versus global processing of cadences in the solution of musical puzzles. International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Sapporo, Japan.

Ashley, R. & Anderson, B. (2009). Discourse models as applied to musical structure. Society for Text and Discourse. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ashley, R. & Lee, K. M. (2006). Dual task and psychophysiological measurement of mental workload during music processing. Poster presented at 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, 22-26 August 2006.

Ashley, R. (2004). Musical pitch space across modalities: Spatial and other mappings through language and culture. In S. D. Lipscomb, R. Ashley, R. O. Gjerdingen, & P. Webster (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Evanston, IL, 2004. [pdf]

Ashley, R. (2003). Categorical and linguistic aspects of musical pitch space. The 5th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Hanover, Germany. [pdf]

Ashley, R. (2000). The pragmatics of conducting: Analyzing and interpreting conductors' expressive gestures. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 2000, Keele, UK. [pdf]

Chor, I. (2009). The shape of musical time: An empirical investigation of microtiming. Northwestern University Cognitive Science Fest, Evanston, Illinois, 19 May 2009.

Chor, I. (2008). Representing repetition and variation in groove-based music. 15th Biennial Symposium for Research in Music Theory, Bloomington, Indiana, 15-16 February 2008.

Chor, I. (2007). Quantitative analysis of clave-based rhythms. Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Montreal, Canada, 30 July - 3 August 2007.

Chor, I. (2007). Rhythmic organization in clave-based music. Northwestern University Cognitive Science Fest, Evanston, Illinois, 17 May 2007.

Chor, I. & Ashley, R. (2006). Synchronization of perceptual onsets of performed bass notes. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, 22-26 August 2006. [pdf]

Davis, C. (2007). Mental Representations of Jazz Musicians' Influences, at the 8th conference for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal Quebec Canada.

Davis, C. (2007). Conceptual Structures of Jazz Musicians' Influences, at the 2nd Binennial Midwestern Conference for Culture, Language, and Cognition, Evanston Illinois.

Davis, C. (2006). Jazz is People, Just Like You, invited guest speaker at the Midwest Academic Talent Search Award Ceremony, Evanston IL.

Davis, C. (2006). A timed blindfold test: Identifying the jazz masters in brief excerpts. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, 22-26 August 2006.

Davis, C. (2006). Jazz as a Musical Conversation: How Do Jazz Musicians Communicate With Each Other? (revised), invited speaker at Northwestern Phonatics Colloquium, Evanston IL.

Davis, C. (2005). Jazz as a Musical Conversation: How Do Jazz Musicians Communicate With Each Other?, invited speaker at Cambridge Music Colloquium, Cambridge UK.

Davis, C. & Handelsmann, A. (2005). Music as a 'Rollercoaster Ride': The ups and downs of defining and creating improvised music in Chicago. Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds, England, 24-27 March 2006.

Davis, C. & Ashley, R. (2005). Jazz as a musical conversation: How do jazz musicians communicate with each other? Performance Matters! International Conference, Porto, Portugal, 14-17 September 2005. [pdf]

Duane, B. (2008). Heuristic-driven auditory stream segregation and a Schubert piano sonata. Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium.

Duane, B. (2007). Bass pedal points and schema-based segregation. Paper presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.

Kim, J. C. (2009). Tonality perception as auditory object perception. Poster presented at Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Indianapolis, IN. [pdf]

Kim, J. C. (2007). Temporal structure of tonality perception. Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Kim, J. C. & Gjerdingen, R. O. (2004). The music-cognition classroom: Using Todd's model for rhythm. 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, IL.

Kim, J. N. (2009). The time course of implied harmony perception: The effects of 'what' and 'when' expectations. Poster presented at Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Indianapolis, IN. [pdf]

Kim, J. N. & Kim, J. C. (2007). Cues for key modulation detection: New scale tones vs. cadence in a new key. Poster presented at Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Montreal, Canada. [pdf]

Kim, J. N. (2006). Melodic perception in multi-voice music: The perceptual role of contour. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, 22-26 August 2006. [pdf]

Lee, K. M., Skoe, E., Kraus, N., Ashley, R. (2008). The neural encoding of musical intervals in the brainstem. The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity, Montreal, Canada.

Lee, K. M., Skoe, E., Kraus, N., Ashley, R. (2008). The effect of musical training on the subcortical processing of musical intervals. International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Sapporo, Japan.

Lee, K. M. (2007). Effects of meter on timbre perception. Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, Montreal, Canada, 30 July - 3 August 2007.

Lee, K. M. (2005). Musical priming: veridical and schematic expectations. In: Proc. of the 2nd Intl. Conference of Asian Pacific Society for The Cognitive Science of Music, Seoul, Korea, 2005. pp. 192-196.

Lee, K. M. (2004). Rhythmic working memory and imagery ability. In: Proc. of the 8th Intl. Conference on Music Perception and Cognition , Evanston, IL, 2004. S.D. Lipscomb et al. (Eds.), pp. 228-230. Adelaide: Causal Productions. [pdf]

Lee, K. M. (2002). Does a separate pitch memory system exist? In: Proc. of the 7th Intl. Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Australia, 2002. C. Setvens et al. (Eds.), pp. 687-690. Adelaide: Causal Productions. [pdf]

Strait, D. L., Ashley, R., Skoe, E., Kraus, N. (2009). Cortical measures of selective auditory attention in musicians and non-musicians: effects of musical training. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Symposium, Baltimore, MD.

Strait, D., Skoe, E., Ashley, R., & Kraus, N. (2008). Musical Training Changes Brainstem Representations of Pitch, Timing and Timbre in Emotional Vocal Sounds. International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Sapporo, Japan.

Strait, D., Skoe, E., Ashley, R., & Kraus, N. (2008). Musical Experience Influences Brainstem Encoding of Emotionally-Salient Vocal Sounds. The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity, Montreal, Canada.

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