Dr Marcus Pearce
Senior Lecturer
Email: marcus.pearce@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 20 7882 6207Room Number: Peter Landin, CS 406Website: http://webprojects.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/marcusp/Office Hours: Wednesday 08:30-11:30
Research
Research Interests:
- Music Cognition
- Empirical Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics
- Emotion and Music
- Auditory Perception
- Statistical Learning
- Expectation and Prediction
Publications
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Sears DRW, Pearce MT, Spitzer J et al. (2018). Expectations for tonal cadences: Sensory and cognitive priming effects.. nameOfConference
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Duffy S, Pearce M (2018). What makes rhythms hard to perform? An investigation using Steve Reich's Clapping Music.. nameOfConference
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PEARCE MT (2018). Statistical Learning and Probabilistic Prediction in Music Cognition: Mechanisms of Stylistic Enculturation. nameOfConference
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Sears DRW, PEARCE MT, Caplin WE et al. (2017). Simulating melodic and harmonic expectations for tonal cadences using probabilistic models. nameOfConference
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Cameron D, Potter K, Wiggins G et al. (2017). Perception of Rhythmic Similarity is Asymmetrical, and Is Influenced by Musical Training, Expressive Performance, and Musical Context. nameOfConference
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van der Weij B, Pearce MT, Honing H (2017). A Probabilistic Model of Meter Perception: Simulating Enculturation.. nameOfConference
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Pearce M, Müllensiefen D (2017). Compression-based Modelling of Musical Similarity Perception. nameOfConference
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Agres K, Abdallah S, Pearce M (2017). Information-Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory. nameOfConference
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Halpern AR, Zioga I, Shankleman M et al. (2017). That note sounds wrong! Age-related effects in processing of musical expectation.. nameOfConference
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Hansen NC, Vuust P, Pearce M (2016). "If You Have to Ask, You'll Never Know": Effects of Specialised Stylistic Expertise on Predictive Processing of Music. nameOfConference
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Dean RT, Pearce MT (2016). Algorithmically-generated Corpora that use Serial Compositional Principles Can Contribute to the Modeling of Sequential Pitch Structure in Non-tonal Music. nameOfConference
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Gingras B, Pearce MT, Goodchild M et al. (2016). Linking melodic expectation to expressive performance timing and perceived musical tension.. nameOfConference
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Hansen NC, Sadakata M, Pearce M (2016). Nonlinear Changes in the Rhythm of European Art Music: Quantitative Support for Historical Musicology. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Zaidel DW, Vartanian O et al. (2016). Neuroaesthetics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience.. nameOfConference
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Barascud N, Pearce MT, Griffiths TD et al. (2016). Brain responses in humans reveal ideal observer-like sensitivity to complex acoustic patterns.. nameOfConference
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PEARCE MT, Schubert E (2016). A New Look at Musical Expectancy: The Veridical Versus the General in the Mental Organization of Music. nameOfConference
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Song Y, Dixon S, Pearce MT et al. (2016). Perceived and Induced Emotion Responses to Popular Music: Categorical and Dimensional Models. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Halpern AR (2015). Age-Related Patterns in Emotions Evoked by Music. nameOfConference
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Carey D, Rosen S, Krishnan S et al. (2015). Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition.. nameOfConference
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Hansen NC, Pearce MT (2014). Predictive uncertainty in auditory sequence processing.. nameOfConference
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Whorley R, Wiggins GA, Rhodes CS et al. (2013). Multiple Viewpoint Systems: Time Complexity and the Construction of Domains for Complex Musical Viewpoints. nameOfConference
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Omigie D, Pearce MT, Williamson VJ et al. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of melodic processing in congenital amusia. nameOfConference
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Omigie D, Pearce MT, Stewart L et al. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of melodic processing in congenital amusia. nameOfConference
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Egermann H, Pearce MT, Wiggins GA et al. (2013). Probabilistic models of expectation violation predict psychophysiological emotional responses to live concert music.. nameOfConference
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Song C, Simpson AJR, Harte CA et al. (2013). Syncopation and the score.. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Wiggins GA (2012). Auditory Expectation: The Information Dynamics of Music Perception and Cognition. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Christensen JF (2012). Conference Report: The Neurosciences and Music - IV - Learning and Memory. nameOfConference
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Carrus E, Pearce MT, Bhattacharya J (2012). Melodic pitch expectation interacts with neural responses to syntactic but not semantic violations. nameOfConference
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Omigie D, Pearce MT, Stewart L (2012). Tracking of pitch probabilities in congenital amusia. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D, Wiggins GA (2010). Melodic grouping in music information retrieval: New methods and applications. nameOfConference
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Wiggins GA, Müllensiefen D, Pearce MT (2010). On the non-existence of Music: Why music theory is a figment of the imagination. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D, Wiggins GA (2010). The role of expectation and probabilistic learning in auditory boundary perception: A model comparison. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D, Wiggins GA (2010). The role of expectation and probabilistic learning in auditory boundary perception: a model comparison.. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Herrojo Ruiz M, Kapasi S et al. (2010). Unsupervised Statistical Learning Underpins Computational, Behavioural and Neural Manifestations of Musical Expectation. nameOfConference
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Wiggins GA, Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D (2009). Computational Modelling of Music Cognition and Musical Creativity. nameOfConference
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Potter K, Wiggins GA, Pearce MT (2007). Towards greater objectivity in music theory: Information-dynamic analysis of minimalist music. nameOfConference
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Pearce MT, Wiggins GA (2006). Expectation in Melody: The Influence of Context and Learning. nameOfConference
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Pearce M, Wiggins GA, Meredith D (2001). Motivations and Methodologies for Automation of the Compositional Process.. nameOfConference