Musical Structure, Tonality, and Musical Grammar Acquisition

Refereed Papers

• Cohen, A. J. (2005). Music cognition: Defining constraints on musical communication. In D. Miell, R. MacDonald, & D. J. Hargreaves (Eds.) Musical Communication (pp. 61 - 84). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.



• Cohen, A. J. (2004). The cognition of basic musical structures. David Temperley. Oxford University Press. Psychology of Music, 105 - 118. (Review essay)



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (2004). Parsing of Melody: Quantification and testing of the local grouping rules of Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s (1983) A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Music Perception, 14, 55-81.



• Cohen, A. J. (2000). Development of tonality induction: Plasticity, exposure and training . Music Perception, 17, 437-459.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (1996). Using the Krumhansl and Schmuckler key-finding algorithm to quantify the effects of tonality in the interpolated-tone pitch-comparison task. Music Perception, 14, 55-81.



• Parncutt, R. & Cohen, A. J. (1995). Recognition of serial patterns in microtonal melodies. Perception and Psychophysics, 57 , 835-846.



• Cohen, A. J. (1991). Tonality and perception: Musical scales prompted by excerpts from the Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach. Psychological research . 53 , 305-314.
  
  
• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (1990). Expectancy profiles generated by major scales: Group differences in ratings and reaction time. Psychomusicology, 9 , 175-193.
  
  
• Cohen, A. J. & Frankland, B. J. (1990). Scale and serial order information in melodic perception: Independence or interdependence. Canadian Acoustics, 18 , 2-10.
  
  
• Cohen, A. J., & Baird, K. (1990). Acquisition of absolute pitch: The question of critical periods. Psychomusicology, 9 , 31-37.



• Cohen, A. J., Trehub, S. E., Thorpe, L. A. & Morrongiello, B. A. (1989). An approach to the study of melodic perception in infants and young children: Stimulus selection. Psychomusicology, 8 , 21-29.



• Cohen, A. J., Trehub, S. E., & Thorpe, L. A. (1989). Effects of uncertainty on melodic information processing. Perception and Psychophysics, 46 , 18-28.



• Cohen, A. J., Thorpe, L. A., & Trehub, S. E. (1987). Infants' perception of short transposed melodic sequences. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 4 , 33-47.



• Trehub, S. E., Cohen, A. J., Thorpe, L. A., & Morrongiello,, B. A. (1986). Development of the perception of musical relations: Semitone and diatonic structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12 , 295 - 301.
  
  
• Cohen, A.J. (1984). Analysis of melodic interval recognition data: Comments on Billingsley and Rotenberg. Psychomusicology, 4 , 59-62.
  
  
• Cohen, A.J. (1982). Exploring the sensitivity to structure in music. Canadian University Music Rev., 3 , 15-30.



• Cuddy, L.L., Cohen, A.J., & Mewhort, D.J.K. (1981). Perception of structure in short melodic sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Peformance, 7, 869-883.



• Cuddy, L.L., Cohen, A.J., & Miller, J. (1979). Melody recognition: The experimental application of musical rules. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 33 , 148-157. [Also translated (1986). Il riconoscimento di melodie: il controllo sperimentale delle regole musicali. In L. M. Lorenzetti and A. Antonietti (Eds. & Trans.). Processi cognitivi in musica. Milan: Franco Angeli. (Originally published, 1979).]
  
  
• Cuddy, L.L., & Cohen, A.J. (1976). Recognition of transposed melodic sequences . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 255-270.
  
  
• Cohen, A.J. (1976). Perception of tone sequences from the Western-European Chromatic Scale: Tonality, transposition and the pitch set. (Thesis summary). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 60 , p. 1421.

Conference Proceedings:

• Bailey, B. A., & Cohen, A. J. (2002). Acquisition of musical vernacular in children and young adults. Proc. of Ann. Meeting. Can. Acoustical Assoc., Canadian Acoustics, 30, 7-8.



• Toms, I. D., Cohen, A. J., & Lamothe, R. (2000). Identification of tonic in popular and Baroque music using a dual keyboard apparatus. Proc. Ann. Meet. Can. Acoust Assoc. (CAA), Canadian Acoustics, 28, 134-135. Won award for best student presentation.[ see image of dual keyboard apparatus ]



• Cohen, A. J., Lamoureux, M., Fleming, R., & Dunphy, D. (1998). Judged direction of pairs of octave-related complexes (Shepard tones). CAA Annual Meeting, Canadian Acoustics, 58-59.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (1996). Boundary formation in melody: Effects on memory. In B. Pennycook & E. Costa-Giomi (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, August, 1996. pp. 143-147.



• Lymburner, J. & Cohen, A. J. (1994). Accounting for musicians' superior auditory serial-order identification: Audition or notation? Proceedings of the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Canadian Acoustics, 22, 153-154.



• Cohen, A. J. (1994). Musical training and pitch schemata: Tonal influences in microtonal contexts. Invited symposium on pitch schemata. In Irene Deliege (Ed). 3rd International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Liege, Belgium. pp. 81-82.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (1989). Interference effects of tonality and contour on short-term memory for tones. In A. J. Cohen (Ed.), Proceedings of the Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting: University, Industry, Government , 117-122.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., & Thorpe, L.A. (1986). Effects of training and uncertainty on melodic information processing. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, 3, K5-2.



• Trehub, S.E., & Cohen, A.J. (1986). Development of emotional sensitivity to music. Click here for PDFProceedings of the Twelfth International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, 3, K5-4.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., Thorpe, L.A., & Morrongiello, B.A. (1984). The emergence of sensitivity to the major triad ratios (4:5:6). Proceedings of the Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Symposium, Quebec, G1, 1-2.

Conference Abstracts (not listed elsewhere, e.g., as proceedings):

• Cohen, A. J., Bailey, B. A. , MacDonald, L. & McFadden, E. D. Popular Music as a Probe for Adolescent Brian Development.
  Poster: 8 1/2 ''x 11'' print version ;
  Higher resolution version



• McFadden, E. D. & Cohen, A. J. (submitted) Age effects in recognition of native and non-native language and music. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Edmonton .Click here for PDF-51kb (right click -"save as")



• Frankland, B. W. & Cohen, A. J. (June, 1998). Empirical assessment of Lerdahl & Jackendoff (1983) group preference rules of intensification and parallelism is predictive of melodic parsing. Canadian Society for Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science. Ottawa.



• Blanchard, C. & Cohen, A. J. (October, 1996). Effects of music training on two contrasting tasks. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Calgary.



• Graham, P. & Cohen, A. J. (October, 1996). Development of memory for sequences of animal sounds: Relation to digit span and language ability. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Calgary.



• Bailey, B. A. & Cohen, A. J. (August, 1996). Children's memory for popular music as a function of decade of popularity. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, August, 1996. (abs). p. 14. (click here for sample of music used in study)



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (August, 1996). Boundary formation in melody: Effects on memory. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, August, 1996. (abs). p. 27.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (June, 1995). Boundary formation and melodic memory. Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour & Cognitive Science, Halifax Lymburner, A. J. & Cohen, A. J. (June, 1995). Effects of musical training on serial-order matching tasks. Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Science. Halifax, June, 1995.Click here for PDF-161kb (right click -"save as")



• Cohen, A. J., MacKinnon, K. & Swindale, N. (June,1994). The tritone paradox revisited. Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97.



• Cohen, A. J., Driscoll, R. & Frankland. B. (June, 1994). A test of Narmour's (1992) experimental hypothesis regarding intervallic motion and registral direction. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Vancouver.



• Parncutt, R. & Cohen, A. J. (June , 1992). Recognition of serial patterns in microtonal scales. Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Quebec City.



• Frankland, B. W. & Cohen, A. J. (June , 1992). Tonality, contour and critical tones in the interpolated pitch discrimination task. Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Quebec City. (poster)



• Cohen, A. J., Dunphy, D., Frankland, B., Parncutt, R., & Taylor, G. (Februrary, 1992). Effects of diatonic structure versus scale-step size on processing serial order. 2nd International Conference on Music Perception, Los Angeles.



• Cohen, A. J., Frankland, B., Lamoureux, M. & Dunphy, D. (November, 1990). Effects of tone sets and serial orders on melodic tracking: Dependence or independence. Acoustical Society of America. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88 , S91.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (November, 1990). Expectancies generated by tonal contoour. Acoustical Society of America. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990, 88, S91.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (October, 1990). Ratings and reaction time in a modified probe-tone task. Canadian Acoustical Association. Canadian Acoustics, 18



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (May, 1990). Effects of tonality on accuracy and reaction time in an interpolated pitch memory task.Canadian Psychological Association, Canadian Psychology, 31, 220.



• Frankland, B. & Cohen, A. J. (Oct. 1989). Interference effects of tonality and contour on pitch memory. Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting, Canadian Acoustics, 17.



• Cohen, A. .J. (May, 1989). Forced-choice discrimination of complex tones. 117th Annual meetof the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 85, S155.



• Cohen, A.J. (November, 1988). Identification of a microtonal scale of complex tones: Context effects. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Poster. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, #191.



• Cohen, A.J. (June, 1988). Context effects in the absolute judgment of a microtonal scale. Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, 1988, Montreal.



• Cohen, A.J. (October, 1987). Effects of a musical soundtrack: Visual enhancement and acoustical masking. Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting, Canadian Acoustics, 15, Calgary.



• Cohen, A.J. (July, 1987). Effects of musical soundtracks on attitudes toward and memory for information in a slide presentation. Joint Meeting of the Experimental Divisions of the Canadian and British Psychological Associations. Oxford, England. (Poster).



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., & Thorpe, L.A. (August, 1986). Effects of training and uncertainty on melodic information processing. Twelfth International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto.



• Trehub, S.E., & Cohen, A.J. (1986). Effects of pitch and rate on judged happiness of a melody. Twelfth International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto.



• Cohen, A.J.. (1986). Does musical structure influence infants' perception of within-contour changes? International Conference on Infant Studies, Los Angeles.



• Cohen, A.J. (1986). Infants' memory for sets of frequencies. International Conf. on Infant Studies. Los Angeles.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., & Thorpe, L.A. (October, 1985). Infants' perception of musical relations in short transposed tone sequences. Session on Musical Acoustics, Music Perception and Computer Applications (A.J. Cohen and L.L. Cuddy, Organizers and Chair), Canadian Acoustical Association, Ottawa.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., Thorpe, L.A., & Morrongiello, B.A. (June, 1985). Musical perceptual development in infancy and early childhood. Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax. Theory review. Canadian Psychology, 26, 82.



• MacLachlan, D., Cohen, A.J., & Trehub, S.E. (June, 1985). Effects of melody on children's memory for a poem. 46th Annual Conv., Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, (Poster). Canadian Psychology, 26, 315.



• Trehub, S.E., & Cohen, A.J. (April, 1985). Developmental perception of melodies. For A.J. Cohen and S.E. Trehub (Organizers and Chair), Symposium: Development of Musical Behaviors in Children. Society for research in Child Development. Biennial Conference, Toronto.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., Thorpe, L.A., & Morrongiello, B.A. (October, 1984). The emergence of sensitivity to the major triad ratios (4:5:6). Canadian Acoustical Association, Quebec City. Also presented at the Developmental Seminar, Department of Psychology, York University.



• Cohen, A.J. (1981). Conversation session (Organizer). Jay Rahn in honour of Mieczyslaw Kolinski (posthumous) ethnomusicologist. 42nd Annual Convention, Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto.



• Cuddy, L.L., Cohen, A.J., & Dewar, K. (1978). Judgment of musical intervals: Relations between patterns of accuracy and amount of musical training (poster). Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa.



• Cohen, A.J. (1977). Perception of tonality in the Well-tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach. The second Workshop on the Physical and Neuropsychological Foundation of Music. Austria.



• Cohen, A.J., Isaacs, P., Flores, S., Harrison, D., & Bradley, J. (1977). The computer as interdisciplinary catalyst. Third International Conference on Computing in the Humanities. Waterloo. (also, Session Chair).



• Cohen, A.J. (1977). Vocal production of tone sequences as a function of musical structure. Symposium on Musical Psychoacoustics at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris



• Cohen, A.J., Cuddy, L.L., & Mewhort, D.J.K. (1977). Recognition of transposed tone sequences. 93rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, University Park, PA.



• Cohen, A.J., & Cuddy, L. L. (1976). Recognition of tonality and the problem of transposition. 37th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto.