Film music, Audio-visual Integration and Emotional Meaning

Video clips used in Absorbtion studies (mpg video):

• Witness (all tracks)
• Witness (music)
• Witness (dialog)
• Witness (sound FX)
• The Day of the Jackal (all tracks)
• The Rail Rodder (embedded 'X)'
  

Refereed Papers

• Video clips (mpg video) used in Absorbtion studies: Witness (all tracks), Witness (music), Witness (dialog), Witness (sound FX), The Day of the Jackal (all tracks), The Rail Rodder (embedded 'X)'
  
• Cohen, A. J. (2005). How music influences the interpretation of film and Video: Approaches from experimental psychology. In R.A. Kendall & R. W. Savage (Eds.). Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology: Perspectives in Systematic Musicology, 12, 15-36.



• Cohen, A. J. (2002). Music cognition and the cognitive psychology of film structure. Canadian Psychology, 43, 215-232.



• Cohen, A. J. (2001). Music as a source of emotion in film. In Juslin P. & Sloboda, J. (Eds.). Music and emotion. (pp.249-272). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  Associated media (mpeg video, right click and select "save as"): Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4



• Cohen, A. J. (2000). Film music: Perspectives from cognitive psychology. In J. Buhler, C. Flinn & D. Neumeyer (Eds.). Music and cinema (pp. 360-377). Hanover: Wesleyan Univ. Press.
  
  
• Cohen, A. J. (1999). Functions of music in multimedia: A cognitive approach. In S.W. Yi (Ed.). Music, mind & science (pp.40-68). Seoul: Seoul University Press [invited]



• Cohen, A. J. (1999). Musicology Alone? Review of Nicholas Cook's Analysis of Musical Multimedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press for Music Perception, 17, 247-260.



• Cohen, A. J. (1994/ publication date 1996). Psychology of Musical Soundtracks. Psychomusicology. Vol. 13 (double issue, No. 1 and 2). Introduction + 7 articles, (170 pp). (guest editor)



• Cohen, A. J. (1994). Introduction to the Special Volume on the Psychology of Film Music. Psychomus., 13 , 2-8.



• Bolivar, V., Cohen, A. J. & Fentress, J. (1994). Semantic and formal congruence and effects of film music. Psychomusicology, 13 , 28-59.
  Associated media (mpeg video, right click and select "save as"): Video 1



• Cohen, A.J. (1993). Associationism and musical soundtrack phenomena. Contemporary Music Review, 9 , 163-178.
  Associated media (mpeg video, right click and select "save as"): Video 1, Video 2, Video 3



• Cohen, A. J. (1990). Understanding musical soundtracks. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 111-124.



• Marshall, S., & Cohen, A. J. (1988). Effects of musical soundtracks on attitudes toward animated geometric figures. Music Perception, 6, 95-112.



• Cohen, A. J. & Szeto, K. (in revision). Children's auditory and visual integration in an emotional rating task.



• Cohen, A. J., Bailey, B. V., Deacon, H., & MacIntyre, J. (in revision). Identification of emotion in English and French prosody.



• Cohen, A. J. (in revision). Processing of music and film: Independence and integration. Memory & Cognition.

Conference Proceedings:

• Cohen, A. J. (2002). Institute for Interdisciplinary research in Culture, Multimedia, Technology, and Cognition (CMTC). Proc. of Ann. Meeting. Can. Acoustical Assoc., Canadian Acoustics, 30, 154-155.



• Cohen, A. J. (1999). Music serves as a vehicle in multimedia contexts. Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustical Society. (Available on CD-Rom).



• Cohen, A. J. (1998). The functions of music in multimedia: A cognitive approach. Proc. 5th International conference on music perception and cognition. 5ICMPC, Seoul, 13-20.

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

• Cohen, A. J. (Aug., 2000). How music helps us understand film experience. 6th International Conference for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Keele.



• Cohen, A. J. (June, 2000). Munsterberg's Photoplay and the psychology of film and film music. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). [co-author withdrew].



• Cohen , A. J., Bailey, B. V., Deacon, H., & MacIntyre, J. (1999). Identification of emotion in English and French prosody. Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, June. Canadian Psychologist, 40, p. 66.



• Cohen, A. J., Chipman, K. & McKenna, A. (1998). Identification of human vocal emotion. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Ottawa.



• Cohen, A. J. (Nov. 1995). Drawing connections between language and film-music. Atlantic Provinces Linguistics Association Annual Meeting. Charlottetown.



• Bolivar, V., Cohen, A. J. & Fentress, J. (August, 1993). Effects of semantic and formal congruency of film and music on film interpretation. 7th International Congress on Event Perception and Action. Vancouver.



• Cohen, A. J. (August, 1993). Film music communication. American Psychological Association. Toronto. Division 46, Media Psychology



• Cohen, A. J. & Dunphy, D. (May, 1990). Musical and visual processing in film. Canadian Psychological Association, Canadian Psychology, 31, 220.



• Finley, A. & Cohen, A. J. (Oct., 1989) Perceived urgency of auditory warnings from hospital monitors. Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting, Canadian Acoustics, 17.



• Cohen, A.J. (June, 1989). How melodies influence meaning of dynamic visual displays. In A. J. Cohen (Coordinator) Symposium on Recent developments in music cognition: Processing of internal and external relations. Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Halifax. Canadian Psychologist, 30, 343.



• Cohen, A.J., Trehub, S.E., Guerriero, L., & Marshall, S.K. (May, 1985). Music and meaning. Acoustical Society of America, Austin Texas (also presented at the Computer Systems research Institute seminar, University of Toronto). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, Suppl. 1, S90.



• Cohen, A.J. (1983). Music and metaphor. Worshop on metaphor (Organizer with John Kennedy). Scarborough College, University of Toronto.