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2013

McDermott, J.H., Schemitsch, M., & Simoncelli, E.P. (2013). Summary statistics in auditory perception. Nature Neuroscience, 16 (4), 493-498.  Download PDF

2012

Cousineau, M., McDermott, J.H., & Peretz, I. (2012). The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 19858-19863.  Download PDF

Fedorenko, E., McDermott, J.H., Norman-Haignere, S., & Kanwisher, N. (2012). Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 108, 3289-3300.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Ellis, D.P.W, & Kawahara, H. (2012). Inharmonic speech: A tool for the study of speech perception and separation. In Proc. SAPA-SCALE Conference 2012 (pp.114-117).  Download PDF

Schwartz, A., McDermott, J.H., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2012). Spatial cues alone produce sound segregation: The effect of interaural time differences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132 (1), 357-368.  Download PDF

2011

McDermott, J.H. (2011). Auditory preferences and aesthetics: Music, voices, and everyday sounds (ed. by Sharot and Dolan). In Neuroscience of Preference and Choice (pp.227-256). Elsevier.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H. & Simoncelli, E.P. (2011). Sound texture perception via statistics of the auditory periphery: Evidence from sound synthesis. Neuron, 71, 926-940.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Wrobleski, D., & Oxenham, A.J. (2011). Recovering sound sources from embedded repetition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (3) 1188-1193.  Download PDF

2010

McDermott, J.H. (2010). The cocktail party problem. Current Biology, 19 (22), R1024-R1027.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Keebler, M.V., Micheyl, C. & Oxenham, A.J. (2010) Musical intervals and relative pitch: Frequency resolution, not interval resolution, is special. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 1943-1951.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Lehr, A.J., & Oxenham, A.J. (2010). Individual differences reveal the basis of consonance. Current Biology, 20, 1035-1041 & additional supplementary results.  Download PDF  Download Supplementary Information

2009

McDermott, J.H. (2009). What can experiment reveal about the origins of music? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18 (3), 164-168.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Oxenham, A.J., & Simoncelli, E.P. (2009). Sound texture synthesis via filter statistics. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Mohonk, NY.  Download PDF

Micheyl, C., McDermott, J.H., & Oxenham, A.J. (2009). Sensory noise explains auditory frequency discrimination learning induced by training with identical stimuli. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 71 (1), 5-7.  Download PDF

2008

McDermott, J.H. (2008). The evolution of music. Nature, 453, 287-288.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H. (2008). Exploring music's links to language. Nature Neuroscience, 11 (4), 377.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H., Lehr, A.J., & Oxenham, A.J. (2008). Is relative pitch specific to pitch? Psychological Science, 19 (12), 1263-1271.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H. & Oxenham, A.J. (2008). Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18, 1-12.  Download PDF

McDermott, J.H. & Oxenham, A.J. (2008). Spectral completion of partially masked sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (15), 5939-5944.  Download PDF