–Only publications since summer 2013 are listed below. For publications before summer 2013, click here. —

Journal articles

(* denotes MIND Lab trainee)

2018/in review

*Zeng, T., *Przysinda, E., *Pfeifer, C., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. White Matter Connectivity Reflects Success in Musical Improvisation. In review. bioRxiv.

*Arkin, C., *Przysinda, E., *Pfeifer, C., *Zeng, T., & Loui, P. Information Content Predicts Creativity in Musical Improvisation: A Behavioral and Voxel-Based Morphometry Study. In review.

Loui, P., Patel, A.D., Gaab, N., Wong, L.M., Hanser, S., Schlaug, G. (2018). Music, Sound and Health: A Meeting of Minds in the Neurosciences of Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 7-9. PDF

Loui, P. (2018). Rapid and Flexible Creativity in Musical Improvisation: Review and a Model. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 138-145. PDF

Hohmann, A., Loui, P., Li, C. H., & Schlaug, G. (2018). Reverse Engineering Tone-deafness: Disrupting Pitch-Matching by Creating Temporary Dysfunctions in the Auditory-Motor Network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 9. PDF

2017

*Przysinda, E., *Zeng, T., *Maves, K., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. (2017). Jazz Improvisers Reveal Role of Expectancy in Human Creativity. Brain and Cognition, 119, 45-53. PDF Demo

Loui, P., Patterson, S.*, Sachs, M.E., Leung, Y.*, Zeng, T.*, & Przysinda, E.*. (2017). White Matter Correlates of Musical Anhedonia: Implications for Evolution of Music. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1664). PDF

*Guetta, R., & Loui, P. (2017). When Music is Salty: The Crossmodal Associations Between Sound and Taste. PLOS ONE, 12(3): e0173366. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173366 Full text PDF

2016

Abel, M. K., Li, H. C., Russo, F. A., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2016). Audiovisual Interval Size Estimation is Associated with Early Musical Training. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0163589. PDF

Loui, P., *Przysinda, E., Aklaff, P., *Maves, K., *Arkin, C., *Zeng, T. (2016). Jazz Improvisation as a Model of the Creative Process: Heightened Perceptual Awareness and Sensitivity. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, 175-179. PDF

Sachs, M. E., Ellis, R. J., Schlaug, G., Loui, P. (2016). Brain Connectivity Reflects Human Aesthetic Responses to Music. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. 1-6. PDF

2015

*Jung, H., *Sontag, S., *Park, Y. S., & Loui, P. (2015). Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. PDF

*Lolli, S., *Lewenstein, A., *Basurto, J., *Winnik, S., & Loui, P. (2015). Sound Frequency Affects Speech Emotion Perception: Results from Congenital Amusia. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. PDF

Yuskaitis, C., Parviz, M., Loui, P., Wan, C., & Pearl, P. (2015). Neural Mechanisms Underlying Musical Pitch Perception and Clinical Applications Including Developmental Dyslexia. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 15(8), 1-7. PDF

Loui, P., Demorest, S. M., Pfordresher, P. Q., & *Iyer, J. (2015). Neurological and Developmental Approaches to Poor Pitch Perception and Production. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337, 263-271. PDF

Loui, P. (2015). A Dual-Stream Neuroanatomy of Singing. Music Perception, 32(3), 232-241. PDF. Recommended by Faculty of 1000

Demorest, S. M., Pfordresher, P. Q., Bella, S. D., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Methodological perspectives on singing accuracy: An introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (part 2). Music Perception, 32(3), 266-271. PDF

Pfordresher, P. Q., Demorest, S. M., Bella, S. D., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Theoretical perspectives on singing accuracy: An introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (part 1). Music Perception, 32(3), 227-231.  PDF

2014

Devaney, J., Loui, P., Hafter, E. R., & Krumhansl, C. L. (2014). David Wessel (6 October, 1942 – 13 October, 2014): Tributes and remembrances. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, 24(3), 274-278. PDF

Choi, I., Bharadwaj, H., Bressler, S., Loui, P., Lee, K., Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2014). Automatic processing of abstract musical tonality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. PDF

Loui, P., *Koplin-Green, M., *Frick, M., *Massone, M. J. L. (2014). Rapidly Learned Identification of Epileptic Seizures from Sonified EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. PDF Demo

*Harrison, L. D., & Loui, P. (2014). Thrills, Chills, Frissons, and Skin Orgasms: Toward an Integrative Model of Transcendent Psychophysiological Moments in Music. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. PDF

2013

Loui, P., Bachorik, J., Li, H. C., Schlaug, G. (2013). Effects of Voice on Emotional Arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. PDF

Zamm, A., Schlaug, G., Eagleman, D. M., Loui, P. (2013). Pathways to Seeing Music: Enhanced Structural Connectivity in Colored-Music Synesthesia. NeuroImage, 74, 359-366. PDF

Lindau, B. (2013). Symposium report: Music & Science: Practice & Convergence—An Organic Symposium. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 23(2), 123-126. PDF

Book chapters

Loui, P., & Guetta, R. Music and Attention, Executive Function, and Creativity. To appear in M. Thaut, D. Hodges (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain. Oxford University Press.

Timmers, R., & Loui, P., Music and Emotion. To appear in D. Levitin, J. Rentfrow (Eds.), Foundations of Music Psychology. MIT Press.

Loui, P., *Przysinda, E. (2017). Music and the brain: Areas and networks. In R. Ashley, R. Timmers (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. (pp. 13-24). New York, NY: Routledge. PDF

Loui, P., *O’Brien, S., *Sontag, S. Neural Connectivity of the Creative Mind. (2015). To appear in S. J. Lopez, L. M. Edwards, S. C. Marques (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology, 3rd Edition: Oxford University Press. Provisional PDF

Loui, P. (2016). Disorders of Music Cognition. In S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology: Oxford University Press. PDF

Loui, P. (2016). Absolute Pitch. In S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology: Oxford University Press. PDF

Loui, P. (2016). The Role of Brain Connectivity in Musical Experience. In J. D. Greene (Ed.), Positive Neuroscience: Oxford University Press, 191-208. PDF

Conference presentations

2018

*Belden, A., *Zeng, T., *Przysinda, E., Loui, P. (2018). Hearing Creatively: Default Network Selectively Synchronizes to Auditory Cortex in Jazz Improvising Musicians. Oral and poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, March 2018. Data Blitz award winner

Loui, P., *Sampaio, G., *Yost, K., *James, T., *Przysinda, E., Hewett, A., Morillon, B., Woods, K. (2018). Acoustic Effects on Oscillatory Markers of Sustained Attention. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, March 2018.

*Patterson, S., *Zhou, Y., Loui, P. (2018). Structural and Functional Correlates of Musical Anhedonia. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, March 2018.

*Lee, J.D., *Jung, H., *Mathew, C.J., Loui, P. (2018). Time-Frequency Effects of Syntactic Violation in Music, Language, and Rhythm. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, March 2018.

*James, T., *Bouvagnet, M., Loui, P. (2018). The Perception and Cognition of Racialized Voices. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, March 2018.

2017

Loui, P., *Przysinda, E., *Sampaio, G., *James, T., Hewett, A., Morillon, B. (2017). Musical Effects on Oscillatory Markers of Sustained Attention. Poster presentation at the International Conference on the Auditory Cortex, Banff, AB, Canada, September 2017.

Loui, P. (2017). Longitudinal and Cross Sectional Study of Jazz Improvisation as a Model of Creativity. Oral presentation at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, San Diego, CA, August 2017.

*Przysinda, E., *Sampaio, G., *James, T., Woods, K., Hewett, A., Morillon, B., Loui, P. (2017). Acoustic Effects on Oscillatory Markers of Sustained Attention. Oral presentation at the Neural Entrainment and Rhythm Dynamics meeting, Boston, MA, June 2017.

*Przysinda, E., Hewett, A., Morillon, B., Cordovez, B., Loui, P. (2017). Attentional Enhancements of Algorithmically Generated Music. Poster presentation at the Neurosciences of Music, Boston, MA, June 2017.

Loui, P. (2017). Jazz Improvisation as a Model of Creativity: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study. Oral presentation at The Neurosciences and Music VI, Boston, MA, June 2017.

*Przysinda, E., Hewitt, A., Morillon, B., Cordovez, B., Loui, P. (2017). Attentional Enhancements of Algorithmically Generated Music. Poster presentation at The Neurosciences and Music VI, Boston, MA, June 2017.

Loui, P. (2017). David Wessel: A Few Stories of an Antidisciplinarian. Oral presentation at the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA, June 2017.

*Przysinda, E., Sachs, M., *Leung, Y., *Zeng, T., Loui, P. (2017). Dissociated Perceived and Felt Emotion in Musical Anhedonia. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.

*Arkin, C., *Pfeifer, C., *Przysinda, E., Loui, P. (2017). Structural Brain Differences in Jazz Improvising Musicians. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.

*Zeng, T., *Przysinda, E., Loui, P. (2017). Increased Structural and Functional Connectivity in Jazz Improvising Musicians. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.

Loui, P. (2017). Jazz Improvisation as a Model of Creativity: Converging Evidence from Behavioral Performance and Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Oral presentation at the Society for Neuroscience of Creativity, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.

2016

Loui, P., & *Przysinda, E. (2016). Jazz Improvisation as a Model of the Creative Process: Heightened Perceptual Awareness and Sensitivity. Oral presentation at the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, July 2016.

*Przysinda, E., & Loui, P. (2016). A Psychophysical Measure of Auditory Imagination in Jazz Musicians. Poster presentation at the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, July 2016.

*Lin, W. M., *Maves, K., *Iyer, J., & Loui, P. (2016). Size matters: An ERP study of interval size judgments in audiovisual integration. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, April 2016.

*Jung, H., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. (2016). Electrophysiological correlates of rhythm and syntax in music and language. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, April 2016.

*Przysinda, E., & Loui, P. (2016). A Psychophysical Measure of Auditory Imagination in Jazz Musicians. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, April 2016.

Loui, P. (2016). Real-time EEG Sonification and Its Applications in Epilepsy. Oral presentation at the Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2016.

*Lin, W. M., *Maves, K., *Iyer, J., & Loui, P. (2016). Size matters: An ERP study of interval size judgments in audiovisual integration. Oral presentation at the Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2016.

*Jung, H., *Arkin, C., & Loui, P. (2016). Electrophysiological correlates of rhythm and syntax in music and language. Poster presentation at the Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2016.

*Przysinda, E., & Loui, P. (2016). A Psychophysical Measure of Auditory Imagination in Jazz Musicians. Oral presentation at the Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2016.

2015

Hansen, N. C., Loui, P., Vuust, P., & Pearce, M. (2015). Modelling short- and long-term statistical learning of music as a process of predictive entropy reduction. Oral presentation at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2015.

Li, H.C., Loui, P., Halwani, G.F., Guenther, F.H., & Schlaug, G. (2015) Cortical Control of Vocal Pitch Feedback. Posterpresented at Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2015.

Li, H.C., Fujii, S., Loui, P., & Schlaug, G., (2015) A voxel-based morphometry study of rhythm perception and production. Poster presented at Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2015.

Loui, P., *Lindau, B., *Pani, E., & Schlaug, G. (2015). Neural and cognitive markers of pitch perception and pitch awareness. Poster presented at Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2015.

*Jung, H., *Sontag, S., *Park, Y., & Loui, P. (2015). Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language. Oral presentation at the New England Music Cognition Group Meeting, Wesleyan University, April 2015.

*Guetta, R. & Loui, P. (2015). The Crossmodal Associations between Sound and Taste. Oral presentation at the New England Music Cognition Group Meeting, Wesleyan University, April 2015.

*Lee, M.C., *Kelly, T.D., *Daniels, C.E., & Loui, P. (2015). Investigating Voice Feedback Control and Its Possible Relationship with Empathy. Oral presentation at the New England Music Cognition Group Meeting, Wesleyan University, April 2015.

*Lolli, S., *Lewenstein, A., *Basurto, J., *Winnik, S., & Loui, P. (2015). Sound Frequency Affects Speech Emotion Perception: Results from Congenital Amusia. Oral presentation at the Northeast Music Cognition Group Meeting, Wesleyan University, April 2015.

*Jung, H., *Sontag, S., *Park, Y., & Loui, P. (2015). Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 2015.

*Koplin-Green, M., *Massone, M. J. L., *Frick, M., & Loui, P. (2015). Rapidly Learned Identification of Seizures from Sonified EEG. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 2015.

*Lolli, S., *Lewenstein, A., *Winnik, S., *Basurto, J., & Loui, P. (2015). Sound Frequency Affects Speech Emotion Perception: Results from Congenital Amusia. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 2015.

*Iyer, J. & Loui, P. (2015). Statistical Learning of Tone Sequences in Dyslexia. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 2015.

Abel, M. K. A., Li, H. C., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2015). Graph Theory and Behavioral Studies on Auditory Integration. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 2015.

2014

Hansen, N. C., Loui, P., Vuust, P., & Pearce, M. (2014). Spiking the Expectancy Profiles: Modelling short- and long-term statistical learning of music as a process of predictive entropy reduction. Poster presentation at BKN 25: Milestones in Music Cognition Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2014.

Loui, P. (2014). Neural regulation of pitch perception and production. Paper presented at The Neurosciences and Music V: Cognitive Stimulation and Rehabilitation, Dijon, France, May 2014.

Hansen, N. C., Loui, P., Vuust, P., & Pearce, M. (2014). Modelling short- and long-term statistical learning of music as a process of predictive entropy reduction. Poster presentation at The Neurosciences and Music V: Cognitive Stimulation and Rehabilitation, Dijon, France, May 2014.

Loui, P., *Frick, M., *Koplin-Green, M., *Massone, M. (2014). EEG Sonification for the Detection of Seizures. Oral presentation at the Yale Epilepsy Research Retreat, Madison, CT, April 2014.

Loui, P. (2014). Neural regulation of pitch perception and production. Paper presented at the The Neurosciences and Music V: Cognitive Stimulation and Rehabilitation, Dijon, France.

Loui, P., Pani, E., Lindau, B., & Schlaug, G. (2014). White matter correlates of pitch perception and production. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Schlaug, G., Lindau, B., Pani, E., & Loui, P. (2014). Gray matter correlates of pitch perception and production. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Abel, M. K., Li, H. C., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2014). Resting State Functional Networks in Tone-Deafness. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Li, H. C., Loui, P., Halwani, G. F., Guenther, F. H., & Schlaug, G. (2014). Cortical control of vocal pitch feedback. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Loui, P. (2014). Action and Perception in the Musical Brain. Oral presentation at Schmitt Symposium for Integrative Brain Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, March 2014.

Pani, E., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2014). Predicting Musical Ability from Structural Connectivity of Auditory-Motor Pathways. Poster presented at Schmitt Symposium for Integrative Brain Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, March 2014.

2013

Loui, P. (2013). Attention and the refinement of auditory expectations. Oral presentation at the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA. J Acoust Soc Am, 134(5), 4195. Slides here

Gallun, F. J., Stecker, G. C., Loui, P., & Sarampalis, A. (2013). The Ear Club: Ervin R. Hafter’s academic family. Poster presentation at the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA. J Acoust Soc Am, 134(5), 4016. Poster here

Pearce, M., Rohrmeier, M., Loui, P., Large, E., Kim, J. C., Toiviainen, P., & Brattico, E. (2013). Music cognition: Bridging computation and insights from cognitive neuroscience. Oral presentation at the Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany. Slides here

–Non-peer-reviewed material follows–

Computer software

West, R., & Loui, P. (2013). Absolute Pitch Test. Figshare

Loui, P. (2013). Bohlen-Pierce scale artificial grammar learning experiment. Figshare