Professor
James McGill Professor
Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room N6/11, 398-6114
dlevitin at psych.mcgill.ca
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/levitin/
Research Area
Research Summary
Music cognition, perception and expertise; quantitative methods for analyzing acoustic (and time-series) information.
Selected References
Levitin, D. J. (2012). What does it mean
to be musical? Neuron, 73, 633-637. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.017
Levitin, D. J., Chordia, P., & Menon, V. (2012). Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (10), 3716-3720.
*Quintin, E.-M., *Bhatara, A., Poissant, H., Fombonne, E., & Levitin, D. J. (2012). Processing of musical structure by high functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Child Neuropsychology.
Rentfrow, P. J., Goldberg, L. R., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). The structure of music preferences: A five factor model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(6), 1139-1157. doi: 10.1037/a0022406
* = student authors
Updated: March 1, 2012
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