Absolute Pitch

Levitin, D. J. (1994). Absolute memory for musical pitch: Evidence from the production of learned melodies. Perception & Psychophysics. 56, 414-423.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). Absolute Pitch: Self-Reference and Human Memory. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory System, 4, 255-266.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). Memory for musical attributes. In P.R. Cook [Ed.], Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustic. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 209-227.
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Levitin, D. J. (2000).  In search of the musical mind.  Cerebrum, 2(4), 1 - 24.

Levitin, D. J. (2003). Absolute pitch: Précis to an integrated review. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 4(1), 17-19.

Levitin, D. J. (2004). L'Oreille Absolue. L'Année Psychologique, 104, 103-120.

Levitin, D. J. (2006). Em busca da mente musical. B. S. Ilari [Ed.], Em busca da mente musical: Ensaios sobre os processos cognitivos em música - da percepção à produção, pp. 23-44. Curitaba, Brazil: Editora UFPR.

Levitin, D. J. (2008).  Absolute pitch: Both a curse and a blessing.  Music Meets Medicine, Proceedings of the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki, Finland.   

Levitin, D. J. (in press).  Absolute pitch.  In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Perception. 

Levitin, D. J., & Rogers, S. E. (2005). Absolute Pitch: Perception, coding, and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9(1), 26-33.

Levitin, D. J., & Zatorre, R. J. (2003). On the nature of early music training and absolute pitch: A reply to Brown, Sachs, Cammuso, and Folstein. Music Perception, 21(1), 105-110.

Parncutt, R. & Levitin, D. J. (2001). Absolute pitch. In S. Sadie [Ed.], New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. New York: St. Martins Press, 37-39.

Genes, Brain, Cognition and Music

Levitin, D. J. (2005). Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: Evidence from Williams syndrome. To appear in Avanzini, G.; Lopez, L; Koelsch, S; & Majno, M. [Eds], The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(27).

Levitin, D. J. (2008). Music, Psychology of. Entry in the Darity's International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. pp. 345-346. Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan Reference.

Levitin, D. J. (2008).  The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.  New York: Dutton.

Levitin, D. J. & Bellugi, U.  (2006).  Rhythm, timbre and hyperacusis in Williams-Beuren syndrome.  In C. Morris, H. Lenhoff, and P. Wang (Eds)., Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research and Clinical Perspectives.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 343-358.  

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2005). Aversion, awareness and attraction: Understanding hyperacusis in Williams Syndrome. Journal of Child Psychiatry, Psychology and Allied Disciplines, 46(5), 514-523.

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2004). Characterizing the Musical Phenotype in Individuals with Williams Syndrome. Child Neuropsychology. 10(4), 223-247

Levitin, D. J., Menon, V., Schmitt, J. E., Eliez, S., White, C., Glover, G., Korenberg, J. R., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. L. (2003). Music and noise processing in Williams syndrome: Evidence from fMRI. NeuroImage, 18, 74-82.


Music, Gesture, and Emotion

Chapados, C. and Levitin, D. J. (2008).  Cross-modal interactions in the experience of musical performances: physiological correlates.  Cognition, 108, 639-651.

Guastavino, C., Nedd-Roderique, H., & Levitin, D. J. (2004). Memory and preference for musical keys. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, Illinois, 239-240.

Levitin, D. J., & Cuddy. L. L. (2004). Editorial: Introduction to the Angel of Death project. Music Perception, 22(2), 167-170.

Levitin, D. J., MacLean, K., Chu, L. Y., & Jensen, E. R. (2000). The perception of cross-modal simultaneity. International Journal of Computing and Anticipatory Systems, 323-329.

McAdams, S., Vines, B. W., Viellard, S., Smith, B. K., & Reynolds, R. (2004). Influences of Large-Scale Form on Continuous Ratings in Response to a Contemporary Piece in a Live Concert Setting. Music Perception, 22(2), 297-350.

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., Dalca, I. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). Dimensions of emotion in expressive musical performance. Proceedings of Neurosciences & Music II, May 5-8, 2005. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2006). Cross-Modal Interactions in the Perception of Musical Performance. Cognition, 101, 80-113.

Vines, B. W., Nuzzo, R. L., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2004). Visual music: The perceptual impact of seeing a clarinetist perform. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, Illinois, 200-203.

Vines, B. W., Wanderley, M. M., Krumhansl, C., Nuzzo, R., & Levitin, D. J. (2004). Performance gestures of musicians: What structural and emotional information do they convey? In A. Camurri & G. Volpe (Eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction, Genova, Italy, 468-478.
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Wanderley, M. M., Vines, B. W., Middleton, N., McKay, C., & Hatch, W. (2005). The musical significance of clarinetists' ancillary gestures: An exploration of the field. Journal of New Music Research.



NeuroImaging

Levitin, D. J. (In press).  The neural correlates of temporal structure in music.  In: Robertson, P. & Turner, R. (Eds.) Music and the Brain: Current and Future Directions.  London: Blouin Foundation.

Levitin, D. J., & Menon, V. (2005). The neural locus of temporal structure and expectancies in music: Evidence from functional neuroimaging at 3 Tesla. Music Perception, 22(3), 563-575.

Levitin, D. J., & Menon, V. (2003). Musical structure is processed in 'language' areas of the brain: A possible role for Brodmann area 47 in temporal coherence. NeuroImage, 20, 2142-2152.
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Levitin, D. J., Menon, V., Schmitt, J. E., Eliez, S., White, C., Glover, G., Korenberg, J. R., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. L. (2003). Music and noise processing in Williams syndrome: Evidence from fMRI. NeuroImage, 18, 74-82.

Menon, V., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of themesolimbic system. NeuroImage, 28(1), 175-184.

Menon, V., Levitin. D. J., Smith, B. K., Lembke, A., Krasnow, B. D., Glazer, D., Glover, G. H., & McAdams, S. (2002). Neural correlates of timbre change in harmonic sounds. NeuroImage, 17, 1742-1754.

Sridharan, D., Levitin, D. J., Chafe, C. H., Berger, J., and Menon, V. (2007). Neural dynamics of event segmentation in music: Converging evidence for dissociable ventral and dorsal networks. Neuron 55, 1-12. View a Movie of the Results: Macintosh Mov Windows WMV

Sridharan, D., Levitin, D. J., and Menon, V. (2008).  A causal role for the right fronto-insular cortex in switching between executive-control and default-mode networks.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(34), 12569-12574. Supporting information.

Spatial Audio and Soundscapes

Dubois, D., Guastavino, C., & Raimbault, M. (2005). Les catégories cognitives du bruit urbain : des discours aux indicateurs physiques. Acoustique et techniques, 39, 49-57.

Dubois, D., Guastavino, C., & Raimbault, M. (2006). A cognitive approach to soundscape: Using verbal data to access everyday life auditory categories. Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 92(6), 865-874.

Guastavino, C. (2006).  The ideal urban soundscape: Investigating the sound quality of French cities. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 92(6), 2006, pp. 945-951

Guastavino, C. (2007). Categorization of environmental sounds. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(1), 54-63.

Guastavino, C., & Cheminée, P. (2004). A psycholinguistic approach to the ecological validity of experimental settings. The case of low frequency perception in urban context. Food Quality and Preference, 15, 884-886.

Guastavino, C., & Cheminée, P. Dubois, D., Polack, J-D., Arras, C. & Drouin. L. (2006). Basses fréquences en milieu urbain: qu'en disent les citadins? Acoustique et techniques, 40.

Guastavino, C., & Katz, B. F. G. (2004). Perceptual evaluation of multi-dimensional spatial audio reproduction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(2), 1105-1115.

Guastavino, C., Katz, B., Polack, J-D., Levitin, D. J., & Dubois, D. (2005). Ecological validity of soundscape reproduction. Acustica (united with Acta Acustica), 91(2), 333-341.

Guastavino, C., Levitin, D. J., Spackman, S., Chan-You, A., & Cooperstock, J. R. (Submitted). Quantifying the effect of videoconferencing compression on performance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Guastavino, C., Levitin, D. J., Spackman, S., Chan-You, A., & Cooperstock, J. R. (Submitted). Quantifying the perceptual effects of videoconferencing compression. Chi 2006.

Kadis, J. & Levitin, D. J.  (2008).  How recordings are made II: Digital hard-disk-based recording.  In K. Greenbaum (Ed.), Audio Anecdotes III: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio.   Natick, MA: A.K. Peters, pp. 15-30.   

Levitin, D. J. (2004). Instrument (and vocal) recording tips and tricks. In K. Greenbaum (Ed.), Audio Anecdotes. Natick, MA: A.K. Peters, (pp. 147-158).

Levitin, D. J. (2004). The Rose Mary Woods/Nixon Tapes. Essay accompanying N. Collins [Curator], A Call for Silence. [Compact disc recording]. London: Sonic Arts Network.

Levitin, D. J.  (2008).  How modern recordings are made: Analog and digital tape-based recording.  In K. Greenbaum (Ed.), Audio Anecdotes III: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio.   Natick, MA: A.K. Peters, pp. 1 - 14. 

Rogers, S. E. (2008). The Art and Craft of Sound Mixing. In K.Greenbaum and R. Barzel (Eds.), Audio Anecdotes III: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio. Natick, MA: A.K. Peters.
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