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Dr. Annabel Cohen received her undergraduate training at McGill University where she first became interested in music perception from an experimental psychological perspective. As an undergraduate, she worked at Queens University in the Psychology Department in the summer conducting research on memory for musical tones with Dr. Lola Cuddy. She continued at Queen's for her M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in the psychology of music (studying the effects of tonality on the ability to recognize melodies that are transposed). She has held teaching and/or research positions at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University and Acadia University, and is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she has been on Faculty since 1993. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her program of research on acquisition of music grammar is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Her program of research on the effects of music in film is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Between March 2003-2004, she served as project leader for Arts-Netlantic, supported by Canadian Heritage, and has served since 2001 as the Project Leader for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) project entitled Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition (CMTC). She has also initiated a major international research collaboration focusing in singing. She has published over 80 articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings papers and serves as an associate or consulting editor for the journals: Canadian Acoustics, Musicae Scientiae, Psychomusicology, Psychology of Music, Music Perception, and Music and the Moving Image. She has given invited presentations in Japan, Korea, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and America. She has served on grant review panels for SSHRC and CFI, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.

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Robert Drew, Research Technician

Robert Drew has been working with Dr. Annabel Cohen as a Multimedia Research Technician, and has been facilitating the technical operations of the Music Cognition Lab for about 10 years and has also been an Artist trainer/technician with the Artsnetlantic project and supports some of the technical operations of the CMTC (Centre for Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition). He has recently taken on responsibilty for the layout editing and website for Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition, having prior editorial experience with conference proceedings and also a collection original music for solo classical guitar (thanks to years of patience with Finale and Adobe Indesign).
    Robert received his BA in music from Dalhousie University and as a Classical Guitarist has worked with many ensembles across PEI (3 times nominated for Classical Musician of the Year- PEIMA). September 2003 marked the release of Roberts debut solo CD, "Ocean Suite" (nominated for "Classical Recording of the Year" at the 2005 East Coast Music Awards). Married and with 2 children, Robert has lived on PEI for 12 yrs and operates Fretworks Guitar Studio in Charlottetown

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Kelti MacMillan

Kelti MacMillan graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in Theatre.  While working within the arts community in Nova Scotia she continued to study and completed her first two years of the music program. As an ACTRA and Equity member some highlighted moments include being part of the Neptune Ensemble for “Les Miserables”,  a featured performer on Clary Crofts, “A Maritime Christmas Celebration”, weekly involvement with the Bear Theatre at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto  and a principal performer with Cellar Door's co-production Island filmed movie “Mrs. Ashboro’s Cat” last March. Kelti has been working as a research assistant part-time for several years, running experiments on the role of music, speech, and environmental sound on absorption in film.

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Marsha Lannan

Marsha is a third year psychology student who is conducting her honours thesis on the acquisition of singing and speech. Marsha is planning for graduate work in speech pathology.

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Jenna Coady

Jenna is a third year psychology student who is conducting her honours thesis on the acquisition of singing and speech. Jenna is thinking about a career in speech pathology but is considering other options. She is a trained vocalist.

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Yee-May Siau, B.A. (hon)

Yee-May is a research assistant working on two projects. One is focusing on absorption in film music using reaction time, and is following up on the previous theses in this area conducted in the lab. The other is focusing on the use of maps to help to understanding the significance of key figures in the history of psychology. She is hoping to present both of these research projects at the 2008 meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association in Halifax. She is applying to graduate schools this year in the area of social psychology. Yee-May is also completing a second major in Philosophy, and last year completed her honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Cathy Ryan, working in the area of metacognition.

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Mary Anne Welton

Mary Anne Welton is defending her honours thesis, Dec. 22, 2007. The thesis is focusing on the issue of critical periods in language acquisition. She has presented a poster on it already at the meeting entitled "Language and Music as Cognitive Systems" held in Cambridge England, in May 2007. She is currently a graduate student at Dalhousie University's School of Human Communication Disorders in Speech Pathology.

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Robert Paquet, B. A.

Robert is completing his honours thesis on the role of spatial aspects of music on enjoyment and immersion. He is planning to pursue graduate studies in Audiology next year.

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