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Alumni

Research Associate

Bruno L. Giordano, 2004-2011

Currently Research Scientist in the French CNRS, , Marseille, France

Sound source perception, identification and categorization

Project Coordinator, ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration)

Juanita Marchand Knight, DMA, 2018-2020ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Currently PhD student in Psychology at Concordia University.

Project Manager, Orchestration and Perception Project

Hannah Darroch, 2017-2018

Currently Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Meghan Goodchild‎, 2013-2017

Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON

PhD in Music Theory.


Post-doctoral Fellows

Félix Frédéric Baril

Félix Frédéric Baril, 2020-2023

Director of Research, OrchPlayMusic, Inc.

Composition; Orchestral simulations

Kit Soden

Kit Soden, 2021-2022

Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal

Composition; Opera Orchestration

Lindsey Reymore, 2020-2022

Associate Professor of Music Theory, Arizona State University

Timbre Semantics; Linguistics; Cross-modal Correspondences

Matthew Zeller, 2020-2022

Curator for Europe at Musical Instrument Museum

Timbre's role in musical logic; Music segmentation

Marcelo Caetano

Marcelo Caetano, 2020-2022

Marie-Curie global fellow with CNRS-PRISM

Sound morphing; Timbre Perception

Aurélien Antoine, 2018-2021

Computational Modeling; Auditory Scene Analysis; Orchestral Effects

Julie Delisle, 2018-2020

Researcher at Audiokinetic in Montreal

Acoustics and musicology of musical instruments

Jason Noble, 2018-2020

Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal.

Composition; orchestration pedagogy; timbral semantics

Etienne Thoret‎, 2015-2018

Currently Post-doctoral researcher in France.

Auditory Modeling; Multimodal Perception

Konstantinos Trochidis, 2011-2012

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Siemens Mindsphere Application Center, Dubai, UAE

Music Emotion Recognition;ÌýPsychophysiology of Emotion;ÌýMusic and Expectancy;ÌýTempo estimation of audio signals

Hauke Egermann, 2009-2011

Currently Lecturer at Department of Music, University of York, UK

Music and Emotion;ÌýPsychophysiology of Emotion;ÌýSocial Psychology;ÌýNeuronal Basis of Music Perception;ÌýMusic and Media

Georgios Marentakis, 2006-2008

Currently Associate Professor of Informatics, Østfold University College, Norway

Gestural control of spatialization;ÌýPsychoacoustics of sound localization in virtual spatial audio systems


Graduate Students

PhD

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Erica Ying Huynh, PhD, 2017-2023

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.

Dissertation: "Categorization, Differentiation, and Learning of Atypically Combined Mechanical Components of Musical Instruments,"ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2023.

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Behrad Madahi, 2017-

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Iza Ray Korsmit

Iza Ray Korsmit, PhD, 2018-2023

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.

Dissertation: "An investigation of affective timbres: Considering affect locus, experimental context, and individual differences,"ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2023.

Lena Heng

Lena Heng, PhD, 2018-2023

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.

Dissertation: "Perception of affective intentions in music: Timbre cues and differences in musical cultures,"ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2023.

Kit Soden, PhD, 2014-2020

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.

Dissertation: "Orchestrational combinations and transformations in operatic and symphonic music,"ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2020.

Eddy Kazazis, PhD, 2014-2020

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Dissertation: "Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors,"ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2020.

Moe Touizrar

Moe Touizrar, PhD, 2014-2019

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Composition.

Dissertation: "From ekphrasis to apperception: The sunlight topic in orchestral music.", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2019.

Tanor Bonin, PhD, 2016-2019

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Dissertation: "On the perception of musical form and the shouga of traditional Japanese music.", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2019.

Jason Noble, PhD, 2013-2018

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Composition.

Dissertation: "Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass.", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2018.

Meghan Goodchild‎, PhD, 2009-2017

Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON


PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory.
Dissertation: "Orchestral gestures: Music-theoretical perspectives and emotional responses.", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2016.

Cecilia Taher, PhD, 2012-2016

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory. Ceci is currently the flute and recorder teacher at the Suzuki Charter School in Edmonton, AB.

Dissertation: "Motivic similarity and form in Boulez'sÌý´¡²Ô³Ù³óè³¾±ð²õ", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2016.

Kai Siedenburg, PhD, 2012-2016

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology. Kai is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Signal Processing Group) in the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Dissertation: "Perspectives on memory for musical timbre", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2016.

David Sears, PhD, 2009-2016

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory. David is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in theÌýDepartment of Computational PerceptionÌýatÌýJohannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

Dissertation: "The classical cadence as a closing schema: Learning, memory & perception", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2016.

Sven-Amin Lembke

Sven-Amin Lembke, PhD, 2009-2014

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PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology. Sven is currently a lecturer atÌýDe Montfort UniversityÌý- Leicester, UK.

Dissertation: "When timbre blends musically: Perception and acoustics underlying orchestration and performance", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2014.

Song Hui Chon, PhD, 2008-2013

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology. Song Hui is currently a visiting professor atÌýthe Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Department at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dissertation: "Timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2013.Ìý

Michel Vallières, PhD, 2007-2011

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory. Michel is currently a speech therapist for the Yukon Territory in Whitehorse, YK.

Dissertation: "Beginnings, middles, and ends: Perception of intrinsic formal functionality in the piano sonatas of W. A. Mozart", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2011.

Adrien Daniel

Adrien Daniel, PhD, 2008-2011

PhD at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Brain, Cognition and Behavior. Adrien currently works for NXP Software.

Dissertation: "Spatial auditory blurring and applications to multichannel audio coding", UPMC, 2011.

Susan Rogers

Susan Rogers, PhD, 2007-2010

Currently Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐÌýin Experimental Psychology

Dissertation: "The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/dissonance on musical signal processing", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2010.

Nils Peters, PhD, 2006-2010

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology. Nils is currently a research scientist with QualComm in San Diego, CA.

Dissertation:Ìý"Sweet [re]production: Developing sound spatialization tools for musical applications with emphasis on sweet spot and off-center perception", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2010.

Bruno Gingras, PhD, 2005-2008

Currently University Assistant, Department of Psychology, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

PhD at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory

Dissertation: "Expressive strategies and performer-listener communication in organ performance", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2008.

MA

Corinne Darche

Corinne Darche, MA, 2021-2023

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Analysis of timbral augmentation in the Orchestration Analysis & Research Database (OrchARD)", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2023.

Yin Huang

Yifan Huang, MA, 2021-2023

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2023.

Linglan Zhu

Linglan Zhu, MA, 2020-2022

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2022.

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Max Henry, MA, 2019-2021

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2021.

Julian Vanasse, MA, 2019-2020

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

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Erica Huynh, MA, 2017-2019

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Bowed plates and blown strings: Odd combinations of excitation methods and resonance structures impact perception", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2019.

Rachel Hottle, MA, 2018-2019

Currently pursuing an MA in Music Theory at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ under the supervision of Robert Hasegawa.

Lena Heng, MA, 2016-2018

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Musicology.

Thesis: "Timbre in the communication of emotion among performers and listeners from Western art music and Chinese music traditions", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2018.

Rachel Kim

Rachel Kim, MA, 2015-2017

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis. "The effects of timbre on harmonic interval tuning and perception", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2017.

Ian Lou, MA, 2015-2017

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.Ìý

Thesis: "Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2017.

Sarah Gates

Sarah Gates, MA, 2014-2015

MAÌýat ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory. Sarah is pursuing a PhD degree in Music Theory atÌýNorthwestern University.

Thesis: "Perceptual interactions of pitch and timbre: An experimental study on pitch-interval recognition with analytical applications",ÌýƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2015.

Christopher Wood, MA, 2014-2015

MAÌýat ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Perception of timbre intervals", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐÌýUniversity, 2015.

Chelsea Douglas

Chelsea Douglas, MA, 2012-2014

MAÌýat ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.

Thesis: "Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2015.

Yinan Tsao (Cao), MA, 2011-2014

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology. Yinan is pursuing a PhD degree in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.

Thesis: "The dominance of haptics over audition in stabilizing wrist kinematics during striking movements", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2015.
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Finn Upham

Finn Upham, MA, 2010-2011

MA at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Technology.ÌýFinn Upham obtained a PhD degree in Music Technology at NYU in 2018.

Thesis:Ìý"Quantifying Audience Responses to Music: methods for analyzing collections of emotional experience time series", ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, 2011.


Visiting Graduate Research Trainees

Amit Gur

Amit Gur, 2020-2021, visiting graduate research trainee

PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Rasmus Høll Nielsen

Rasmus Høll Nielsen, 2014, visiting graduate research trainee

PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark

Eddy Kazazis, 2013, visiting graduate research trainee

MA, The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands

Philippe Esling

Philippe Esling, 2012, visiting graduate research trainee

PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France

Indiana Wollman, 2011, visiting graduate research trainee

PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France

Undergraduate Students

Bryana Liberta

Bryana-Alexa Liberta, 2022-2023

Undergraduate student in Psychology.

Claire Wei

Zijiao Claire Wei, 2021-2022

Undergraduate student in Psychology.

Alix Wong

Alix Yok Tin Wong-Min, 2021-2022

Undergraduate student in Psychology.

Emmanuelle Beauvais-Lacasse

Emmanuelle Beauvais-Lacasse, 2020-2021

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Science and Linguistics.

Michelle Nadon Bélanger, 05/2020-09/2020

Undergraduate student in Jazz and Anthropology.

Navin Kumar, 05/2020-09/2020

Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
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Beatrice Lopez, 06/2018-12/2019

Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
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Manda Fischer, 2016-2018

Undergraduate honours student in Psychology.

Manda is pursuing a PhD degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto.

Alistair Russell, 2016-2017

Full-stack Software Developer for the Orchestration and Perception Project.

Henri Rabalais

Henri Rabalais, 2015 & 2017

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences, summer undergrad Research Assistant.

I completed my B.A.&Sc. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Psychology and Neuroscience at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in 2015. I recently returned to my alma mater to begin a Master’s Thesis in Music Technology. Presently, I am in the process of concluding a research project with Stephen McAdams concerning the effect of room acoustics on timbral blend.

Grace Wang, 2015-2016

Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

Grace is continuing her BSc/BA studies at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ.

Sophia Metcalf, 2015-2016

Undergraduate student in Psychology and Music.

I worked with Stephen McAdams building a database of articles about timbre from journals outside Music Psychology (Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Music Theory, Popular Music).

Jordana Saks, 2015-2016

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.

I worked with Stephen McAdams on timbre and emotions.

Ayla Tse

Ayla Tse, 2015

Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee.

I worked on the role of information accumulation in learning to identify musical instruments.

Charlene Zhang

Charlene Zhang, 2015

Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience program.

I worked on timbre salience in auditory stream segregation.

Jack Tokarz

Jack Tokarz, 2014-2015

Undergraduate student in Psychology, summer undergrad Research Assistant.

I worked with Stephen McAdams on the effect of timbral salience on the auditory pop-out effect and with Yinan Cao on the learning of sensory correlations in timbre.

Tudor Vrinceanu

Tudor Vrinceanu, 2014

Undergraduate student in Psychology.

I worked with Stephen McAdams on the orchestration and perception project and on timbre perception.

Shinkhala Dawadi

Shrinkhala Dawadi, 2014

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.

I worked with Kai Siedenburg on effects of short-term memory for timbre.

Jake SpitzerÌýÌý

Jacob Spitzer, 2013-2014

Undergraduate honours student student in Psychology and Computer Science. I worked with David Sears studying the perception of closure in music as it relates to listener expectations. I wish I could play drums.Ìý

Kiray Jones-Mollerup

Kiray Jones-Mollerup, 2013-2014

Undergraduate student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ
I worked with Kai Siedenburg to study the perception of transformed and natural instrument timbres.Ìý

Dominique Beauregard Cazabon

Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, 2013-2014

Undergraduate student in Neuroscience
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I worked with Meghan Goodchild; we looked at the effect of timbre on the psychophysiological responses of orchestral music listeners.

Dominique is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.

Jocelyn Micallef

Jocelyn Micallef, 2013-2014

Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

I worked with Prof. Stephen McAdams. Our project involved the study of the auditory associative learning between Indian spoken syllables and strokes on the Indian tabla.

Béatrice Copps, 2012-2013

Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

Béatrice is now a medical student at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ.

Emily Wilson, 2012-2013

Auditory entrainment

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

Jamie Webber, 2012-2013

Psychological foundations of orchestration

Undergraduate student in Neuroscience and Composition
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Kyra Parker, 2012-2013

Timbre blending

Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

Lorraine Chuen, 2011-2013

Music and emotion/cultural aspects

Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ

Lorraine is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.

Graduate Research Assistant, 2/2008 — 7/2008
Measuring emotional response to music
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Kevin Schwartzbach
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ
Timbre saliency
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Tamara Lagrandeur-Ponce
Undergraduate Researcher
Perception of performer similarity
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Max Hartshorn
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 5/2007 — 7/2007
Auditory spatial resolution in auditory virtual environments
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Gabe Nespoli
Undergraduate Researcher, 9/2006 — 4/2007
Physiological correlates of musical emotion
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Rachel Busby
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 6/2007 — 9/2007
Measuring emotional response to music
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Undergraduate Researcher, 9/2006 — 4/2007
Acoustic and semantic categorization of sound sources
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Corey Kereliuk
Graduate Research Assistant, 5/2007 — 8/2007
Acoustical correlates of timbre space
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Graduate Research Assistant, 1/2006 — 4/2006
Music perception and cognition
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Daphne Tan
Graduate Researcher 1/2006 — 4/2006,
Graduate Research Assistant 9/2006 — 7/2007
Perception of formal functions in music
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Nick Shortway
Master's student, 9/2005 — 2/2007
A methodological study of the recording and evaluation of emotional response to music
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Caitlin Martinkus
M.A at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ in Music Theory
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Indiana Wollman
Visiting doctoral research trainee
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
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Mikaela Miller
Master's Student in Music Theory, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ
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Dieu-Ly Tran
Undergraduate Researcher
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Myles Gaulin
Undergraduate Researcher
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Jonathan Crellin
Undergraduate Researcher
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Sabrina Lytton
Undergraduate Researcher
Memory for consonance and dissonance
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Jake Shenker
Undergraduate Researcher
Perception of formal functions in music

Previous Visiting Scholars:

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Jina Xin Wang, Communication University of China
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 9/2018-7/2019
Information Engineering and Audio Technology
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,ÌýMichigan State University
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 9/2015-5/2016
Cognitive music theory
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Joseph Plazak, Illinois Wesleyan University
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 5/2014-12/2014
Perception of auditory size
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Fred Rees, IUPUI
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 11/2012-12/2012
Music technology
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, University of Hartford
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 9/2012 — 12/2012
Cognitive music theory
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Lawrence Zbikowski, University of Chicago
Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, 1/2011-4/2011
Cogntive music theory
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Richard Pastore, SUNY Binghamton
CIRMMT Visiting Scholar, 4/2008
Auditory psychophysics
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Edward Large, Florida Atlantic University
Fulbright Visiting Professor, 9/2006 — 4/2007
Auditory modeling
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