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Refereed Journal Publications
Archived Preprint
*Korsmit, I.R., Montrey, M., Wong-Min, A. & McAdams, S. (2024, September 3). Perceived and induced affective responses to musical sounds: The influence of instrument family, pitch register, and individual differences. Retrieved from
*Huynh, E. Y., Bensoam, J. & McAdams, S. (2024, May 31).听Bowed air columns and blown plates: Odd combinations of excitation mechanisms and resonant structures impact perception. Retrieved from听
*Fischer, M. & McAdams, S. (2023, December 11). Instrument timbre combinations influence the relative prominence of perceptual layers in orchestral music. Retrieved from
In Press
Fischer, M. & McAdams, S. (in press, accepted 19 July 2024). Instrument timbre combinations influence the relative prominence of perceptual layers in orchestral music. Music Perception.
Online Pre-publication
*Huynh, E. & McAdams, S. (published online, 01/10/2024). Categorization of typical and atypical combinations of excitations and resonators of musical instruments: Assimilation of the unusual to the familiar. Music & Science.
*Korsmit, I. R., Montrey, M., Wong-Min, A. T. K., & McAdams, S. (published online, 22/05/2024). The acoustic properties of affective timbres: Consistencies and discrepancies in multiple datasets. Music & Science.
*Zhu, L. & McAdams, S. (published online, 06/05/2024) Comparison of perceived and imagined blend of instrumental dyads. Music & Science.听
*Heng, L. & McAdams, S. (published online, 18/03/2024). The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions. Musicae Scientiae.
2020 - present
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McAdams, S. (2023). A tribute to Albert S. Bregman (1936-2023). Music Perception, 41(1), 74鈥75.听
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2010 - 2019
Lembke, S.-A., Parker, K., Narmour, E. & McAdams (2019). Acoustical correlates of perceptual blend in timbre dyads and triads. Music忙 Scienti忙, 23(2), 250-274.
Sears, D.R.W., Pearce, M., Spitzer, J., Caplin, W.E. & McAdams, S. (2019). Expectations for tonal cadences: Sensory and cognitive priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1422-1438.
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Siedenburg, K. & McAdams, S. (2018). Short-term recognition of timbre sequences: Effects of musical training, pitch variability, and timbral similarity.听Music Perception, 36(1), 24-39.听
Taher, C., Hasegawa, R. & McAdams, S. (2018). Effects of musical context on the recognition of musical motives during listening.听Music Perception,听36(1), 77-97.听
Sears, D. R. W.,听Pearce, M. T., Caplin, W. E. & McAdams, S. (2017). Simulating melodic and harmonic expectations for tonal cadences using probabilistic models.听Journal of New Music Research, 47(1), 29-52.
Upham, F. & McAdams, S. (2018). Activity analysis and coordination in continuous responses to music. Music Perception, 35(3), 253-294.
Lembke, S.-A., Levine, S. & McAdams, S. (2017). Blending between bassoon and horn players: An analysis of timbral adjustments during musical performance. Music Perception, 35(2), 144鈥164.听
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Lembke, S.-A. & McAdams, S. (2015).听The role of spectral-envelope characteristics in perceptual blending of wind-instrument sounds.听Acta Acustica United with Acustica,听101(5), 1039鈥1051.听听10.3813/AAA.918898
McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2015). A tribute to David Wessel (1942-2014). Music Perception, 32, 434-436. 10.1525/MP.2015.32.4.434
Soroka, S., & McAdams, S. (2015). News, politics, and negativity. Political Communication, 32,听1鈥22. 10.1080/10584609.2014.881942
Egermann, H., Fernando, N., Chuen, L., & McAdams, S. (2014). Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: Comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1341. 0.3389/fpsyg.2014.01341
Sears, D., Caplin, W. E., & McAdams, S. (2014). Perceiving the classical cadence. Music Perception, 31(5), 397鈥417. 10.1525/MP.2014.31.5.397
Giordano, B.L., Egermann, H. & Bresin, R. (2014). The production and perception of emotionally expressive walking sounds: similarities between musical performance and everyday motor activity. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115587. 10.1371/journal.pone.0115587
Fischer, M., Riello, M., Giordano, B.L. & Rusconi, E (2013). Singing numbers... in cognitive space 鈥 A dual-task study of the link between pitch, space, and numbers.听Topics in Cognitive Science, 5, 354鈥366. 10.1111/tops.12017
Giordano, B.L., McAdams, S., Zatorre, R.J., Kriegeskorte, N., & Belin, P. (2013). Abstract encoding of auditory objects in cortical activity patterns. Cerebral Cortex. 10.1093/cercor/bhs162.
Saitis, C., Giordano, B.L., Fritz, C. & Scavone, G. (2012). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A quantitative analysis of preference judgments by experienced players. 听Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(6), 4002-4012. 10.1121/1.4765081
Peters, N., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2011). Sound spatialization across disciplines using Virtual Microphone Control (ViMiC). Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 5, 167-190. 10.4407/jims.2011.11.003.
Peeters, G., Giordano, B.L., Susini, P., Misdariis, N. & McAdams, S. (2011). The Timbre Toolbox: Extracting audio descriptors from musical signals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 2902-2916. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3642604. [The newly revised听Timbre Toolbox is available .]
Visell, Y., Giordano, B.L., Millet, G. & Cooperstock, J.R. (2011). Vibration influences haptic perception of surface compliance during walking. PLoS ONE, 6(3), e17697. 10.1371/journal.pone.0017697
Gingras, B. & McAdams, S. (2011). Improved score-performance matching using both structural and temporal information from MIDI recordings. Journal of New Music Research, 41, 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2010.545422
Giordano, B. & McAdams, S. (2010). Sound source mechanics and musical timbre perception: Evidence from previous studies. Music Perception, 28, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2010.28.2.155
Giordano, B., McDonnell, J. & McAdams, S. (2010). Hearing living symbols and nonliving icons: Category specificities in the cognitive processing of environmental sounds. Brain and Cognition, 73, 7-19. 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.01.005.
McAdams, S., Roussarie, V., Chaigne, A. & Giordano, B. (2010). The psychomechanics of simulated sound sources: Material properties of impacted plates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 1401-1413. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3466867听[Supplemental Material]
Bonnel, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Berthiaume, C. Bertone, A., Ciocca, W., Burack, J. & Mottron, L. (2010). Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2465鈥2475. https://doi.org/:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.020
Misdariis, N., Minard, A., Susini, P., Lemaitre, G., McAdams, S. & Parizet, E. (2010). Environmental sound perception: Meta-description and modeling based on independent primary studies. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing [Special issue on Scalable Audio-Content Analysis], 2010, 362013. 10.1155/2010/362013
Suied, C., Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Patterson, R. (2010). Why are natural sounds detected faster than pips? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(3), EL105-EL110. 10.1121/1.3310196
Castiello U., Giordano B.L., Begliomini C., Ansuini C. & Grassi M. (2010). When ears drive hands: the influence of contact sound on reaching to grasp. PLoS ONE, 5(8), e12240. 10.1371/journal.pone.0012240
Giordano, B., Rochesso, D. & McAdams, S. (2010). Integration of acoustical information for the perception of impacted sound sources: The role of information accuracy and exploitability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(2), 462-476. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018388听[Supplemental Material]
2000 - 2009
Visell, Y., Fontana, F., Giordano, B.L., Nordahl, R., Serafin, S. & Bresin, R. (2009). Sound design and perception in walking interactions. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67, 947鈥959. 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.07.007
Rusconi, E., Kwan, B., Giordano, B.L., Umilta, C. & Butterworth, B. (2006). Spatial representation of pitch height: the SMARC effect. Cognition, 99, 113鈥129. 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.004
Tillmann, B. & McAdams, S., (2004). Apprentissage implicite en modalit茅 auditive: Statistique et acoustique. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 14, 147-167.
1990 - 1999
1979 - 1989
McAdams, S. (1989). Introduction: The many faces of human cognition in musical research and practice. Contemporary Music Review, 4, 1-7. (Preface by McAdams and Deliege)
McAdams, S. (1988) Perception et intuition : Calculs tacites. InHarmoniques, 3, 86-103.
McAdams, S. (1987). Music: A science of the mind? Contemporary Music Review, 2, 1-61. (Preface by McAdams, S.)
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Books and Special Journal Issues
Li, Z. & McAdams, S. (2022).
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McAdams, S. & Battier, M. (Eds.). (2005). Creation and Perception of a Contemporay Musical Work: The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds. E-book, Paris: Ircam-Centre Pompidou. []
Book Chapters
Noble, J., Bonin, T., Dean, R. & McAdams, S. (2023). Evaluating the psychological reality of alternate temporalities in contemporary music: Empirical case studies of G茅rard Grisey's Vortex Temporum. In J. London & C. W枚llner (Eds.), Performing time: Synchrony and temporal flow in music and dance听(pp. 301-308). Oxford University Press.
Touizrar, M. & McAdams, S. (2019). Aspects perceptifs de l'orchestration dans The Angel of Death de Roger Reynolds: Timbre et groupement auditif. Dans听P. Lalitte (dir.), Musique et cognition : Perspectives pour l'analyse et la performance musicales, pp. 55-78, Editions universitaires de Dijon, Dijon.
[English translation: Perceptual facets of orchestration in The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds: Timbre and auditory grouping.听
Ayari, M. & McAdams, S. (2002). Le sch茅ma cognitif culturel de l'improvisation modale: Forme musicale et analyse perceptive. In F. L茅vy & J.-M. Chouvel (Eds.), Observation, analyse, mod猫le. Peut-on parler d'art avec les outils de la science?听(pp. 395-418).听Paris: Harmattan.听
Houix, O., McAdams, S. & Causs茅, R. (1999). Auditory categorization of sound sources. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thomson (eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ., pp. 47-51.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1999). An effect of the coherence between envelopes across frequency regions on the perception of roughness. In T. Dau, V. Hohmann & B. Kollmeier (eds.), Psychophysics, Physiology and Modesl of Hearing, World Scientific, London, pp. 105-108.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1998). Phase effects in roughness perception. In A.R. Palmer, A. Rees, A.Q. Summerfield & R. Meddis (Eds.), Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing, Whurr Publishers, Londres , pp. 286-292.
McAdams, S., Smith, B.K., Maillot, M. & Frachet, B. (1997). S茅lectivit茅 fr茅quentielle et identification de voyelles simultan茅es chez des auditeurs normo-entendants et malentendants. In Y. Christen, L. Collet & 听M.-T. Droy-Lefaix (Eds.), Rencontres IPSEN en ORL, Editions Irvinn, Boulogne, pp. 131-145.
McAdams, S. (1997). L'organisation perceptive de l'environnement sonore. In Y. Christen, L. Collet & 听M.-T. Droy-Lefaix (Eds.), Rencontres IPSEN en ORL, Editions Irvinn, Boulogne, pp. 91-102.
McAdams, S. (1996). Audition: Cognitive psychology of music. In R. Llin谩s & P. Churchland (Eds.), The Mind-Brain Continuum听(pp. 251-279), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Botte, M.C., McAdams, S. & Drake, C. (1995). La perception des sons et de la musique. In B. Lechevalier & F. Eustache (Eds.), Perception et agnosies: S茅minaire Jean-Louis Signoret, De Boeck, Bruxelles, pp. 55-99.
McAdams, S. (1994). Audition: physiologie, perception et cognition. In M. Richelle, J. Requin & M. Robert (Eds.), Trait茅 de psychologie exp茅rimentale, PUF, Paris, pp. 283-344.
McAdams, S. & Bigand, E. (1993). Introduction to auditory cognition. In S. McAdams & E. Bigand (Eds.), Thinking in sound: The cognitive psychology of human audition, Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, pp. 1-9.
McAdams, S. (1991). Pertseptivnaya organizatsiya akusticheskoy sryedy [L'organisation perceptive du monde sonore]. In V. Nosulenko (Ed.), Problemy ekologicheskoy psykhoakustiki [Probl猫mes de psychoacoustique 茅cologique], Institut de Psychologie, Moscou, pp. 28-50.
McAdams, S. (1982). Spectral fusion and the creation of auditory images. In M. Clynes (Ed.), Music, Mind and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music, 听Plenum Press, New York, pp. 278-298.
Selected Conference Contributions
Daniel, A., Nicol, R. & McAdams, S. (2010). Multichannel audio coding based on minimum audible angles.听Proceedings of the 40th Annual Audio Engineering Society Conference, Tokyo.
McAdams, S. & Giordano, B.L. (2010). La psychoacoutique d茅voile le potentiel musical du timbre.听Actes du 10eme Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Lyon. Soci茅t茅 Fran莽aise d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM]. Also published in听Acoustique & Techniques,听60, 13-20.
Daniel, A., Guastavino, C. & McAdams, S. (2010). Effet du rapport signal-sur-bruit sur l'angle minimum audible en pr茅sence d'un son distracteur.听Actes du 10eme Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Lyon. Soci茅t茅 Fran莽aise d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Giordano, B. L., Guastavino, C., Murphy, E., Ogg, M., Smith, B. & McAdams, S. Common and distinctive features of similarity: Effect of behavioral method.听Abstracts of the 50th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,听14, 112 (A).
Giordano, B. L., Avanzini, F., Wanderley, M., & McAdams, S. (2009). Integrating nonspatial, nontemporal multisensory information in action-based perception.听Proceedings of the 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, pp. 64鈥65.
Peters, N., Matthews, T., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2008). Spatial sound rendering in Max/MSP with ViMiC.听Proceedings of ICMC2008, Belfast.
Peters, N., Giordano, B., Kim, S., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2008). Predicting perceived off-center sound degradation in surround loudspeaker setups for various multichannel microphone techniques.听Proceedings of the 125th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, San Francisco, USA.
Marentakis, G., Marshall, M., Malloch, J., Peters, N., Wanderley, M. & McAdams, S. (2008) Influence of performance gestures on the identification of spatial sound trajectories in a concert hall.听Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris.
Marentakis, G., Corteel, E. & McAdams, S. (2008). Wave-field synthesis evaluation using the minimum audible angle in a concert hall.听Proceedings of the 124th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam.
Minard, A., Susini, P., Misdariis, N., Lemaitre, G., McAdams, S. & Parizet, E. (2008). Environmental sound description: Comparison and generalization of four timbre studies. In听CHI '08: Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Association for Computing Machinery, New York; pp. 65-70.
Gingras, B., McAdams, S. & Schubert, P. (2007). Effects of musical texture, performer's preparation, interpretative goals, and musical competence on error patterns in organ performance.听Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2007, Porto, European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
Peters, N., McAdams, S. & Braasch, J. (2007). Evaluating off-center sound degradationin surround loudspeaker setups for various multichannel microphone techniques.听Proceedings of the 123rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York.
Burgoyne, J.A. & McAdams, S. (2007). Non-linear scaling techniques for uncovering the perceptual dimensions of timbre,听Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, ICMA:San Francisco.
Marentakis, G., Peters, N. & McAdams, S. (2007). DJ Spat: Spatialized interactions for DJs,听Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, ICMA:San Francisco.
Giordano, B., McAdams, S. & McDonnell, J. (2007). Acoustical and conceptual information for the perception of animate and inanimate sound sources.听Proceedings of ICAD-07-13th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Montr茅al, CA.
Giordano, B., McAdams, S. & McDonnell, J. (2007). Cognitive biases in estimating the similarity of environmental sounds.听Abstracts of the 48th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,听12, 4051(A).
B茅zat, M-C., Roussarie, V., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. & McAdams, S. (2006). Perceptual analyses of action-related impact sounds,听Euronoise 2006, Tampere, Finland.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Smith, B. (2005). Loudness asymmetries for tones with increasing and decreasing levels.听Proceedings of ICAD 05-11th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
Suied, C., Susini, P. Misdariis, N., Langlois, S., Smith, B. & McAdams, S. (2005). Toward a sound design methodology: Application to electronic automotive sounds.听Proceedings of ICAD 05-11th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
Dubnov, S., McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2004). Predicting human reactions to music on the basis of similarity structure and information theoretic measures of the sound signal. S. Argamon, S. Dubnov & J. Jupp (Eds.),听Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Technical Report FS-04-07, pp. 37-40, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg S., & McAdams S. (2004). A method to assess the ecological validity of laboratory-recorded car horn sounds.Proceedings of the SFA/DAGA Conference, Strasbourg, Soci茅t茅 Fran莽aise d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Tardieu, J., Susini, P., Poisson, F. & McAdams, S. (2004). Soundscape design in train stations.听Proceedings of the Journ茅es du Design Sonore, Paris, Ircam-Entre Pompidou, Paris [CD-ROM].
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2004). Temporal asymmetry in loudness.听Proceedings of the SFA/DAGA Conference, Strasbourg, Soci茅t茅 Fran莽aise d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg, S. & McAdams, S. (2003). Perceptively based design of new car horn sounds.听Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA, Boston University Publications, 47-50.
McAdams, S. (2002). Musical similarity and dynamic processing in musical contexts.听Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Mexico City, ENM/UNAM, Mexico City [CD-ROM].
Caclin, A., Brattico, E., Smith, B., Ternaviemi, M., Toiviainen, P., N盲盲t盲nen, R., Giard, M.-H. & McAdams, S. (2002). Musical timbre perception: A combined psychophysical and electrophysiological study,听Proceedings of ICON8, Porquerolles, 70.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2002). Influence of sound-directed attentional focus on overall loudness ratings.听Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Sevilla.
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (2002). Perceptual characterisation of the timbre of car horns.听Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Sevilla.
McAdams, S., Smith, B.K., Vieillard, S., Bigand, E. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Real-time perception of a contemporary musical work in a live concert setting.听Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Vieillard, S., Bigand, E., Madurell, F., McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Can listening to excerpts of original versions of contemporary musical materials facilitate recognition of their transformed versions?听Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Bigand, E., Vieillard, S., Madurell, F., McAdams, S. & Poulin, B. (2002). Effects of instrumentation on the memorization of musical materials.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Vieillard, S., McAdams, S., Houix, O. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Perceptual and cognitive criteria used in the categorization of thematic excerpts from a contempoary musical piece.听Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2002) Problem-solving strategies in the composition of The Angel of Death.听Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Dufournet, D., Susini, P., Slama, M. & McAdams, S. (2001). An annoyance meter for squeak-and-rattle diagnostics,听17th International Congress on Acoustics Proceedings, Rome, vol. X, session 8_10, pp. 38-39 [CD-ROM].
Susini, P., Perry, I., Vieillard, S., Winsberg, S., McAdams, S. & Rodet, X. (2001) Sensory evaluation of air-conditioning noise: Sound design and psychoacoustic evaluation,听17th International Congress on Acoustics Proceedings, Rome, vol. III, session 6_09, pp. 20-21 [CD-ROM].
Turgeon, M., McAdams, S., Drake, C. & Samson, Y., (2000) The relative contribution of the visual and auditory signals to the dynamic reproduction of a rhythmic pattern,听8th International Workshop on Rhythm Perception and Production, Castleton, UK., pp. 38-39.
Peeters, G., McAdams, S. & Herrera, P. (2000) Instrument sound description in the context of MPEG-7.听Proceedings of the 2000 International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, pp. 166-169.
Matzkin, D. & McAdams, S. (2000) Similarity perception of variations of tonal and twelve-tone melodies.听Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Keele听[CD-ROM].
McAdams, S. (2000) La psychom茅chanique des sources sonores simples.听Actes du 5猫me Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Lausanne, p. XXI.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2000). Effet de r茅cence dans une t芒che de jugement de la sonie.听Actes du 5猫me Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Lausanne, pp. 430-432.
Houix, O., McAdams, S. & Causs茅, R. (2000). Structures vibrantes et cat茅gorisation auditive.听Actes du 5猫me Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Lausanne, pp. 437-440.
McAdams, S. (2000). Evaluation subjective de la qualit茅 sonore.听G锚ne ou agr茅ment: Vers la qualit茅 sonore. Actes du colloque SFA/SRGSE, Bron.
McAdams, S. & Misdariis, N. (1999). Perceptual-based retrieval in large musical sound databases.听Proceedings of Human Centred Processes '99, Brest, P. Lenca (Ed.), ENST Bretagne, Brest, pp. 445-450.
Thivard, L., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Boddaert, N., Savel, S., Belin, P., Zilbovicius, M., Samson, S. & Samson, Y. (1998). The functional anatomy of sound duration change detection.听Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA.
McAdams, S. & Susini, P. (1998). Caract茅risation perceptive des bruits de v茅hicules.听Actes du Congr猫s Soci茅t茅 des Ing茅nieurs de l'Automobile/Soci茅t茅 Fran莽aise d'Acoustique, Courbevoie, SIA 981002.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Perception de m茅lodies intercal茅es: Implication des processus descendants dans l'organisation auditive.听Actes du VIIe Colloque de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive, D. Kayser, A. Nguyen-Xuan & A. Holley (Eds.), pp. 255-260.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Implication of top-down processes in auditory streaming.听Abstracts of the 39th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,听Dallas, p. 25 (A).
Faure, A. & McAdams, S. (1998). Du percept au concept: Comment parle-t-on du timbre des instruments de musique听?Actes du 6猫me Colloque de l'Ecole Doctorale Neurobiologie et Comportement, J-F. Allilaire, D.Andler, P. Ascher, M-J. Besson, B. Calvino, F. Crepel & D. Tritsch (Eds.), p. C9 (A).
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Implication des connaissances dans l'organisation auditive.听Actes du 6猫me Colloque de l'Ecole Doctorale Neurobiologie et Comportement, J-F. Allilaire, D.Andler, P. Ascher, M-J. Besson, B. Calvino, F. Crepel & D. Tritsch (Eds.), p. C3 (A).
McAdams, S., Susini, P., Misdariis, N. & Winsberg, S. (1998). Multidimensional characterisation of perceptual and preference judgments of vehicle and environmental noises.听Euro-Noise 98, M眉nchen: Designing for Silence, vol. I, pp. 561-566.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (1998). Global and continuous judgments of sounds with time-varying intensity: Cross-modal matching with a proprioceptive input device.听Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 571-572.
Roussarie, V., McAdams, S. & Chaigne, A. (1998). Perceptual analysis of vibrating bars synthesized with a physical model.听Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 2227-2228.
Misdariis, N., Smith, B., Pressnitzer, D., Susini, P. &听 McAdams, S. (1998). Validation of a multidimensional distance model for perceptual dissimilarities among musical timbres.听Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 2213-2214.
McAdams, S., Kudo, K. & Kirchner, H. (1998). Perceptual interaction of exciter and resonator properties in percussive instrument sounds.听Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 1885-1886.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). Implication des processus descendants dans la formation des flux auditifs. La perception: Du natural 脿 l'artificiel,听Journ茅es Internationales d'Orsay sur les Sciences Cognitives 1997, pp. 29-32.
Belin, P., Smith, B., Thivard, L., Savel, S., Samson, S., Samson, Y. & McAdams, S. (1997). The functional anatomy of sound intensity change detection.Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence of phase effects on roughness modeling and control.听Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, pp. 31-34.
Paraskeva, S. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence of timbre, presence/absence of tonal hierarchy and musical training on the perception of tension/relaxation schemas of musical phrases.听Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, pp. 438-441.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1997). Caract茅risation perceptive des bruits de v茅hicules.听Actes du 4e Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 543-546.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence de la phase sur la perception de rugosit茅 de sons complexes.听Actes du 4e Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 535-538.
Faure, A. & McAdams, S. (1997). Comparaison de profils s茅mantiques et de l'espace perceptif de timbres musicaux.听Actes du 4e Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 625-628.
Drake, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). The continuity illusion: Role of temporal sequence structure.听Actes du 4e Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 519-522.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). Etude des processus de formation des flux auditifs par une m茅thode objective.听Actes du 4e Congr猫s Fran莽ais d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 531-534.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1997). Perceptual characterisation of vehicle noises.听Proceedings of the European Acoustics Association Symposium on Psychoacoustics in Industry and Universities, Eindhoven.
McAdams, S. (1997). Basic and applied psychoacoustics in France.听Proceedings of the European Acoustics Association Symposium on Psychoacoustics in Industry and Universities, Eindhoven.
Donnadieu, S. & McAdams, S. (1996). Effects of context change on dissimilarity, discrimination, and categorisation tasks on timbre perception.听Fechner Day 96. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听Padova, ISP, pp. 239-244.
Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S. & Fineberg, J. (1996). Roughness and musical tension of orchestral timbres.听Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montr茅al, Faculty of Music, 平特五不中, Montr茅al, pp. 85-90.
Faure, A., McAdams, S. & Nosulenko, V. (1996). Verbal correlates of perceptual dimensions of timbre.听Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montr茅al, Faculty of Music, 平特五不中, Montr茅al, pp. 79-84.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1996). Categorization, discrimination, and context effects in the perception of natural and interpolated timbres.听Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montr茅al, Faculty of Music, 平特五不中, Montr茅al, pp. 73-78.
Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S. & Fineberg, J. (1996). Tension musicale et rugosit茅 psychoacoustique dans la musique non-tonale.听Actes des Journ茅es d'Informatique Musicale, Caen, pp. 147-156.
Brochard, R., Drake, C., Botte, M-C. & McAdams, S. (1995). Focusing attention on one auditory stream does not depend on the number of simultaneous streams.听听Fechner Day 95. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听Cassis, ISP.
McAdams, S., Botte, M-C. & Drake, C. (1995). The partitioning of loudness in the auditory continuity phenomenon,听Fechner Day 95: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听Cassis, ISP.
McAdams, S. (1995). Listening strategies in electroacoustic music,听Proceedings of the International Congress in Music and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh.
Lakatos, S. & McAdams, S. (1995). Scaling of harmonic and percussive timbres: Perceptual spaces and verbal attributes,听SMPC95 Conference, p. 10, Berkeley, SMPC.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1995). Effects of context change on timbre perception,听SMPC95 Conference, p. 12, Berkeley, SMPC.
Beauchamp, J., Horner, A. & McAdams, S. (1995). Musical sounds, data reduction, and perceptual control parameters,听SMPC95 Conference, pp. 8-9, Berkeley, SMPC.
McAdams, S., Botte, M.-C., Banide, F., Durot, X. & Drake, C. (1994). The computation of loudness in the auditory continuity phenomenon.Proceedings of the ATR Workshop on "A Biological Framework for Speech Perception and Production", Kyoto听, ATR Tech. Rep. TR-H-121, 81-86.
McAdams, S., Winsberg, S., Murail, T., Fineberg, J., Bigand, E. & Drake, C. (1994). Dissonance: Allegories of the concept and Disintegrations of the preconceptions.听Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 尝颈猫驳别, pp. 317-318, 尝颈猫驳别, ESCOM.
McAdams, S. (1994). Big sister Pitch's little brother Timbre comes of age.听Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 尝颈猫驳别, pp. 33-34, 尝颈猫驳别, ESCOM.
Fales, C. & McAdams, S. (1994). Tone/noise fusion and timbre in African musical instruments.听Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 尝颈猫驳别, pp. 105-106, 尝颈猫驳别, ESCOM.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1994). Context effects in "timbre space".听Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 尝颈猫驳别听, pp. 311-312, 尝颈猫驳别, ESCOM.
Bigand, E., McAdams, S. & For锚t, S. (1994). Divided attention in polyphonic listening.听Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 尝颈猫驳别, pp. 237-238, 尝颈猫驳别, ESCOM.
McAdams, S. & Marin, C.M.H. (1990). Auditory processing of frequency modulation coherence. In F. M眉ller (Ed.)听Fechner Day 90.听Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听奥眉谤锄产耻谤驳, pp. 175-180.
Marin, C.M.H., McAdams, S. & Li茅nard, J.S. (1989). The role of beats in concurrent sound segregation based on frequency modulation cues,听Fechner Day 89. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听Cassis, pp. 120-125.
McAdams, S. (1989). Music and psychoacoustics,听Fechner Day 89. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,听Cassis, pp. 1-4.
McAdams, S. & Saariaho, K. (1985). Qualities and functions of musical timbre,听Proceedings of the 1985 International Computer Music Conference, Vancouver, Computer Music Association, San Francisco, pp. 367-374.
McAdams, S., Gladkoff, S. & Keller, J.-P. (1985). AISE: A prototype laboratory for musical research and the development of conceptual tools,Proceedings of the 1984 International Computer Music Conference, Paris, Computer Music Association, San Francisco, pp. 143-162.
McAdams, S.听 (1983). Acoustic cues contributing to spectral fusion.听Proceedings of the 1983 International Congress of Acoustics,听3, 127-130,听Paris.
McAdams, S. & Wessel, D. (1981). A general synthesis package based on principles of auditory perception.听Proceedings of the 1981 International Computer Music Conference, Denton, Texas,听School of Music, North Texas State University, p. 308.
Technical Reports
McAdams, S. & Soden, K. (2022). The Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects applied to Ravel鈥檚 Alborada del gracioso for orchestra. .
Vanasse, J. (2020b). Application of SVM to blend prediction.听MPCL Technical Report MPCL-005.
PhD Dissertations & MA Theses
PhD Dissertations
Kazazis, S. (2020).听Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Noble, J. (2018). Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Siedenburg, K. (2016). Perspectives on memory for musical timbre. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Taher, C. (2016). Motivic similarity and form in Boulez鈥檚 Anth猫mes. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Chon, S. H. (2013). Timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
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MA Theses
Huang, Y. (2023). Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Zhu, L. (2022). Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Henry, M. (2021). A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Lou, L. I. (2017). Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Douglas, C. (2015). Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.
Wood, C. (2015). Perception of timbre intervals. 平特五不中, Montreal, QC.