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The following papers and articles are now available on the Web for your perusal. All items Copyright 1994-2008 by Daniel J. Levitin. Permission to make digital or hard part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted with or without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on services, or to redistribute to lists, requires specific permission and/or a fee.
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Bhatara, A. K., Quintin, E-M., & Levitin, D. J. (in press). Musical ability and developmental disorders. Oxford Handbook of Mental Retardation and Development, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

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



Guastavino, C., Levitin, D. J., Spackman, S., Chan-You, A., and 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., and Cooperstock, J. R. (Submitted). Quantifying the Perceptual Effects of Videoconferencing Compression. Chi 2006

2008

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

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.

Klemp, N., McDermott, R., Raley, J., Thibeault, M., Powell, K. &Levitin, D. J. (2008). Plans, Takes, and Mis-takes. Critical Social Studies, 1, 4 - 18. Listen to audio clips: 5 Spot; Misterioso; SF Holiday.

Koulis, T., Ramsay, J. O., and Levitin, D. J. (2008). From zero to sixty: Calibrating real-time responses. Psychometrika, 73(2), 321-339.

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.  (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.

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

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.

2007

Levitin, D. J. (2007). Music, Psychology of. Entry in the Darity's International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan Reference.

Levitin, D. J., Nuzzo, R. L. Vines, B. W. & Ramsay, J. O. (2007) Introduction to functional data analysis. Canadian Psychology, 48:3, 135-155.

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

2006

Langford, D. J., Crager, S. E., Shehzad, Z., Smith, S. B., Sotocinal, S. G., Levenstadt, J. S., Chanda, M. L., Levitin, D. J. and Mogil, J. S. (2006). Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice. Science, 312, (June 30, 2006), 1967- 1970.

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. (2006). This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Dutton/Penguin.

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. amazon

Mogil, J. S., Ritchie, J., Sotocinal, S. G., Smith, S. B., Croteau, S., Levitin, D. J., and Naumova, A.K. (2006). Screening for pain phenotypes: analysis of three congenic mouse strains on a battery of nine nociceptive assays. Pain, 126, 24-34.

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.

Guastavino, C., Katz, B., Polack, J-D., Levitin, D. J., and Dubois, D. (2005). Ecological validity of soundscape reproduction. Acustica (united with Acta Acustica), 91 (2), 333-341.
Winner of the 2008 European Acoustics Association (EAA) Award for Outstanding Scientific Results.


Levitin, D. J. (2005). Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: Evidence from Williams syndrome. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(27), 325-334.

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Lincoln, A., and 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. and 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. (2005).  Tutorial on fMRI methods.  Music Perception, 22(3), 566.

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

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

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., Dalca, I., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). Dimensions of emotion in expressive musical performance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(27), 462-466.

Vines, B. W., Nuzzo, R. L. and Levitin, D. J. (2005). Analyzing temporal dynamics in music: Differential calculus, physics, and functional data techniques. Music Perception 23(2), 137-152.

 

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). amazon

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

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., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A., and Bellugi, U. (2004). Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Child Neuropsychology, 10(4), 223-247.

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

Vines, B., Wanderley, 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.) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, New York: Springer-Verlag, 468-478.

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

Levitin, D. J. and 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.
Please click here to hear samples of the stimuli used in this study.

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

Levitin, D. J. and 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.
Kim, J. K. and Levitin, D. J. (2002). Configural processing in melody recognition. Canadian Acoustics, 30(3), 156-157.

Levitin, D.J., Ed. (2002). Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings. MIT Press.
MMRead a review of this book in "Essays in Philosophy", January 2004. amazon

Levitin, D. J., McAdams, S., and Adams, R. L. (2002). Control parameters for musical instruments: A foundation for new mappings of gesture to sound. Organised sound, 7(2), 171-189.

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

Luu, P., Levitin, D. J., and Kelley, J. M. (2001). Consciousness: A preparatory and comparative process. In P.G. Grossenbacher [Ed.], Finding consciousness in the brain: A neurocognitive approach. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 243-270. amazon

Parncutt, R. and Levitin, D. J. (2001). Absolute Pitch. In S. Sadie [Ed.], New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. New York: St. Martins Press. amazon
Levitin, D. J. (2000). In search of the musical mind. Cerebrum, 2(4), 1-24.

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