Josh H. McDermott
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
46-4065
Cambridge MA 02139

617-253-7437
jhm - at - mit - dot - edu

Education and Work Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018-present. Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
2013-2018. Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Oxford University
2012. Visiting Researcher, Auditory Neurocience Lab, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.

New York University
2009-2012. Research Associate, Center for Neural Science & Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Advised by Eero Simoncelli.

University of Minnesota
2007-2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology. Advised by Andrew Oxenham.

Nature Neuroscience
2006. Assistant Editor.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001-2006. PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Advised by Edward Adelson.

Nature Neuroscience
2001. Assistant Editor.

University College London
1998-2000. MPhil in Computational Neuroscience. Advised by Geoff Hinton.

Harvard University
1994-1998. B.A. in Brain and Cognitive Science, summa cum laude. Advised by Nancy Kanwisher.

H-B Woodlawn Alternative Program, Arlington,VA
1991-1994.

Awards and Honors

2018 - BCS Award For Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
2018 - Troland Research Award
2017 - APAN Young Investigator Award
2015 - NSF CAREER Award
2015 - Fred & Carole Middleton Career Development Professorship
2014 - BCS Award For Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
2012 - McDonnell Scholar Award
2011 - Wellcome-Beit Prize (declined)
2011 - Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship (declined)
2008 - University of Minnesota Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award
2005 - Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching
2004 - Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching
2003 - Walle Nauta Award for Continued Dedication to Teaching
2002 - Angus McDonald Award for Undergraduate Teaching
2000 - NDSEG Graduate Fellowship
1998 - Marshall Scholarship
1998 - McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
1998 - HHMI Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (declined)
1998 - NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
1998 - Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Harvard
1997 - Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard
1997 - Barry Goldwater Science Scholarship
1995 - McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
1995 - Detur Book Prize

Research Interests

• auditory perception and cognition - behavior, computation, neuroscience
  
• sound recognition and scene analysis; the cocktail party problem
• natural sound statistics
• signal processing, sound representation, machine hearing
• similarities/differences between sensory modalities
• music perception and cognition

Papers

* denotes equal contribution

McPherson, M.J., McDermott, J.H. (2020) Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

McPherson, M.J, Dolan, S.E., Durango, A., Ossandon, T., Valdes, J., Undurraga, E.A., Jacoby, N., Godoy, R.A., McDermott, J.H. (2020) Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature Communications, 11, 2786. download pdf

Mlynarski, W., McDermott, J.H. (2019) Ecological origins of perceptual grouping principles in the auditory system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 25355-25364. download pdf

McWalter, R., McDermott, J.H. (2019) llusory sound texture reveals multi-second statistical completion in auditory scene analysis. Nature Communications, 10, 5096. download pdf

Feather, J., Durango, A., Gonzalez, R., McDermott, J.H. (2019) Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). download pdf

Stephenson, C., Feather, J., Padhy, S., Elibol, O. Tang, H., McDermott, J.H., Chung, S. (2019) Untangling in invariant speech recognition. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). download pdf

Jacoby, N., Undurraga, E.A., McPherson, M.J., Valdes, J., Ossandan, T., McDermott, J.H. (2019) Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch perception revealed by singing. Current Biology, 29, 3229-3243. download pdf

Traer, J.A., Cusimano, M., McDermott, J.H. (2019) A perceptually inspired generative model of rigid-body contact sounds. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19). download pdf

Kell, A.J.E., McDermott, J.H. (2019) Invariance to background noise as a signature of non-primary auditory cortex. Nature Communications, 10, 3958. download pdf

Norman-Haignere, S.V., Kanwisher, N.G., McDermott, J.H. , Conway, B.R. (2019) Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones. Nature Neuroscience, 22, 1057-1060. download pdf

Walker, K.M.M., Gonzalez, R., Kang, J.Z., *McDermott, J.H., *King, A.J. (2019) Across-species differences in pitch perception are consistent with differences in cochlear filtering. eLife, 8, e41626. download pdf

Kell, A.J.E., McDermott, J.H. (2019) Deep neural network models of sensory systems: windows onto the role of task constraints. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 55, 121-132. download pdf

Norman-Haignere, S.V., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Neural responses to natural and model-matched stimuli reveal distinct computations in primary and nonprimary auditory cortex. PLoS Biology, 16, e2005127. download pdf

Zhao, H., Gan, C., Rouditchenko, A., Vondrick, C., McDermott, J.H., Torralba, A. (2018) The sound of pixels. Proceedings of the 2018 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). download pdf

Popham, S., Boebinger, D., Ellis, D.P.W., Kawahara, H., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Inharmonic speech reveals the role of harmonicity in the cocktail party problem. Nature Communications, 9, 2122. download pdf

Kell, A.J.E., Yamins, D.L.K., Shook, E.N., Norman-Haignere, S.V., McDermott, J.H. (2018) A task-optimized neural network replicates human auditory behavior, predicts brain responses, and reveals a cortical processing hierarchy. Neuron, 98, 630-644. download pdf

McWalter, R., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Adaptive and selective time-averaging of auditory scenes. Current Biology, 28, 1405-1418. download pdf

Woods, K.J.P., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Schema learning for the cocktail party problem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, E3313-E3322. download pdf

McPherson, M.J., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Diversity in pitch perception revealed by task dependence. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 52-66. download pdf

Mlynarski, W., McDermott, J.H. (2018) Learning mid-level auditory codes from natural sound statistics. Neural Computation, 30, 631-669. download pdf

Zhang, Z., Wu, J., Li, Q., Huang, Z., Traer, J., McDermott, J.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., Freeman, W.T. (2017) Generative modeling of audible shapes for object perception. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. download pdf

Woods, K.J.P., Siegel, M., Traer, J., McDermott, J.H. (2017) Headphone screening to facilitate web-based auditory experiments. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 2064-2072. download pdf

Jacoby, N., McDermott, J.H. (2017) Integer ratio priors on musical rhythm revealed cross-culturally by iterated reproduction. Current Biology, 27, 359-370. download pdf

Traer, J., McDermott, J.H. (2016) Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E7856-E7865. download pdf

Owens, A., Wu, J., McDermott, J.H., Freeman, W.T., Torralba, A. (2016) Ambient sound provides supervision for visual learning. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Schultz, A.F., Unduragga, E.A., Godoy, R.A. (2016) Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception. Nature, 535, 547–550. download pdf

Owens, A., Isola, P., McDermott, J.H., Torralba, A., Adelson, E.H., Freeman, W.T. (2016) Visually indicated sounds. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. download pdf

Norman-Haignere,S., Albouy, P., Caclin, A., McDermott, J.H., Kanwisher, N.G., Tillmann, B. (2016) Pitch-Responsive Cortical Regions in Congenital Amusia.  Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 2986-2994. download pdf

Norman-Haignere, S., McDermott, J.H. (2016) Distortion Products in Auditory fMRI Research: Measurements and Solutions. Neuroimage, 129, 401-413. download pdf

Norman-Haignere, S., *Kanwisher, N.G., *McDermott, J.H. (2015) Distinct cortical pathways for music and speech revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition. Neuron, 88, 1281-1296. download pdf

Masutomi, K., Barascud, N., Kashino, M., *McDermott, J.H. *Chait, M. (2015) Sound segregation via embedded repetition is robust to inattention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 386-400. download pdf

Woods, K.J.P., McDermott, J.H. (2015) Attentive tracking of sound sources. Current Biology, 25, 2238-2246. download pdf

*Overath, T., *McDermott, J.H., Zarate, J.M., Poeppel, D. (2015) The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 903-911. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2014) Harmonicity. In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (ed. by W. F. Thompson). Sage.

McDermott, J.H. (2014) Consonance and Dissonance. In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (ed. by W. F. Thompson). Sage.

Norman-Haignere, S., Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J.H. (2013) Cortical pitch regions in humans respond primarily to resolved harmonics and are located in specific tonotopic regions of anterior auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 19451-19469. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2013) Audition. In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (ed. by Ochsner and Kosslyn). Oxford University Press.

McDermott, J.H., Schemitsch, M., Simoncelli, E.P. (2013) Summary statistics in auditory perception. Nature Neuroscience, 16, 493-498. download pdf

Fedorenko, E., McDermott, J.H., Norman-Haignere, S.V., Kanwisher, N.G. (2012) Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 108, 3289-3300. download pdf

Cousineau, M., McDermott, J.H., Peretz, I. (2012) The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 19858-19863. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Ellis, D.W.P., Kawahara, H. (2012) Inharmonic speech: A tool for the study of speech perception and separation. Proc. SAPA-SCALE, Portland, September 2012. download pdf

Schwartz, A., McDermott, J.H., Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2012) Spatial cues alone produce inaccurate sound segregation: The effect of interaural time differences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 357-368. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Simoncelli, E.P. (2011) Sound texture perception via statistics of the auditory periphery: Evidence from sound synthesis. Neuron, 71, 926-940. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2011) Auditory preferences and aesthetics: Music, voices, and everyday sounds. In The Neuroscience of Preference and Choice (ed. by Sharot and Dolan). Elsevier. download pdf

Ellis, D., Zheng, X., McDermott, J. (2011) Classifying soundtracks with audio texture features. Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 5880-5883, Prague, May 2011.

McDermott, J.H., Wrobleski, D., Oxenham, A.J. (2011) Recovering sound sources from embedded repetition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 1188-1193. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Keebler, M.V., Micheyl, C., Oxenham, A.J. (2010) Musical intervals and relative pitch: Frequency resolution, not interval resolution, is special. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 1943-1951. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Lehr, A.J., Oxenham, A.J. (2010) Individual differences reveal the basis of consonance. Current Biology, 20, 1035-1041. download pdf   download additional Supplementary Information

McDermott, J.H. (2009) The cocktail party problem. Current Biology, 19, R1024-R1027. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Oxenham, A.J., Simoncelli, E. (2009) Sound texture synthesis via filter statistics. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Mohonk NY. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2009) What can experiments reveal about the origins of music? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 164-168. download pdf

Micheyl, C., McDermott, J.H. Oxenham, A.J. (2009) Sensory noise explains auditory frequency discrimination learning induced by training with identical stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 5-7. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Oxenham, A.J. (2008) Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18, 452-463. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Lehr, A.J., Oxenham, A.J. (2008) Is relative pitch specific to pitch? Psychological Science, 19 (12), 1263-1271. download pdf

McDermott, J.H., Oxenham, A.J. (2008). Spectral completion of partially masked sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (15), 5939-5944. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711291105. download pdf

McDermott, J., Hauser, M.D. (2007). Nonhuman primates prefer slow tempos but dislike music overall. Cognition, 104, 654-668. download pdf

McDermott, J., Hauser, M.D. (2005). The origins of music: Innateness, uniqueness, and evolution. Music Perception, 23, 29-59. download pdf

McDermott, J. (2004). Psychophysics with junctions in real images. Perception, 33: 1101-1127. download pdf

McDermott, J., Adelson, E.H. (2004). Motion perception and mid-level vision. In The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd edition (ed. by Gazzaniga). MIT Press. download pdf

McDermott, J., Adelson, E. H. (2004). The geometry of the occluding contour and its effect on motion interpretation. Journal of Vision, 4(10), 944-954, http://journalofvision.org/4/10/9/, doi:10.1167/4.10.9. download pdf

McDermott, J., Adelson, E. H. (2004). Junctions and cost functions in motion interpretation. Journal of Vision, 4(7), 552-563, http://journalofvision.org/4/7/3/ , doi:10.1167/4.7.3. download pdf

McDermott, J., Hauser, M.D. (2004). Are consonant intervals music to their ears? Spontaneous acoustic preferences in a nonhuman primate. Cognition, 94, B11-B21. download pdf 

Hauser, M.D., McDermott, J. (2003). The evolution of the music faculty: a comparative perspective. Nature Neuroscience, 6: 663-668. download pdf

Mazer, J. A., Vinje, W. E., McDermott, J., Schiller, P. H., Gallant, J. L. (2002). Spatial frequency and orientation tuning dynamics in area V1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 1645-1650. download pdf

McDermott, J., Weiss, Y., Adelson, E.H. (2001). Beyond junctions: Nonlocal form contraints on motion interpretation. Perception, 30: 905-923. download pdf

Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., Chun, M. (1997). The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for the Perception of Faces. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 4302-4311. download pdf

Kanwisher, N., Chun, M., McDermott, J., Ledden, P. (1996). Functional Imaging of Human Visual Recognition. Cognitive Brain Research. 5: 55-67.

Commentaries and Book Reviews

McDermott, J.H. (2009). Why are we annoyed by the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard? Scientific American Mind, September 2009. 

McDermott, J.H. (2008). The evolution of music. Nature, 453, 287-288. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2008). Review of "Music, Language, and the Brain" by A.D. Patel, Oxford University Press. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 377. download pdf

McDermott, J.H. (2008). Meeting Report - Fourth Meeting of Neurosciences and Music, Montreal, 2008. Empirical Musicology Review, 3, 3, 173-174. 

McDermott, J., Hauser, M.D. (2006). Thoughts on an empirical approach to the evolutionary origins of music. Music Perception, 24, 111-116. download pdf

McDermott, J. (2002) Review of "Probabilistic models of the brain" (Eds. R. Rao, B Olshausen, and M. Lewicki), MIT Press. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 829.

Teaching

9.295/SHBT205, Neural Coding and Perception of Sound, Spring 2017-2019
Organized course with D. Polley. Lectured on human auditory cortex, pitch perception, and auditory scene analysis.

9.35, Perceptual Systems, Spring 2014-2019
The senses, taught from the perspectives of psychophysics, neuroscience, and computation.

9.295/SHBT205, Neural Coding and Perception of Sound, Spring 2014, 2015, 2016
Co-taught course with other SHBT faculty. Lectured on pitch and auditory scene analysis.

9.35, Sensation and Perception, Spring 2006
Co-taught course with E. Adelson. Lectured on early and mid-level vision, attention, audition.

9.35, Sensation and Perception, Spring 2005
Co-taught course with E. Adelson and R. Rosenholtz. Lectured on early and mid-level vision, attention, audition.

9.35, Sensation and Perception, Spring 2004
Co-taught course with E. Adelson. Lectured on early and mid-level vision, attention, audition, touch.

9.35, Sensation and Perception, Spring 2003
Co-taught course with E. Adelson and B. Anderson. Lectured on early and mid-level vision, attention, audition.

9.35, Sensation and Perception, Spring 2002
TA'd and gave lectures on audition.

Invited Talks

2020
Department of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Brown University Perceptual Science Seminar
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar Series
IBM Speech Research Group, Yorktown, NY
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School
MIT School of Science Lunch Series
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

2019
Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Marseille, France
MIT Partners Program – Frontiers in Virtuality
University of Rochester Music Cognition Seminar
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School, Woods Hole
Bose Corporation
Biology of the Inner Ear Summer School, Woods Hole
Workshop on Limitations of Deep Learning, Sestri Levante, Italy
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach
McGovern Institute for Brain Science Retreat, Falmouth
Workshop on Auditory Scene Analysis, Delmenhorst, Germany
Speech and Hearing Department, University of Washington
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

2018
Champalimaud Research Symposium, Lisbon
Hearing Neuroscience Symposium, University of Southern California
McGovern Institute for Brain Science, Faculty Lunch, MIT
Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, Madison
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School, Woods Hole
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, MidWinter Meeting, San Diego

2017
SNAP Workshop, Lubeck, Germany
Keynote Address, DCASE Workshop, Munich
APAN Young Investigator Spotlight Talk, Washington DC
Perceptual Science Seminar, UT Austin
International Conference on Computer Vision, Venice, Italy
Computational Neuroscience Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School, Woods Hole
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Cambridge Science Festival, MIT
Hearing Research Seminar, Boston University
Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar, University of Connecticutt
Workshop on Cognitive Universals, MIT
CBMM Speech Workshop, MIT

2016
UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology
Starkey Hearing Research Center
University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Seminar
Speech and Audio in the Northeast Annual Meeting, MIT
Japan Neuroscience Society, Yokohama, Japan
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Workshop on Intelligence, Sestre Levante, Italy
Google Music, Art & Machine Intelligence Workshop, San Francisco
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Retreat, MIT
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London

2015
Yale University, Department of Psychology
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Communications Sciences Research Center
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School, Woods Hole
National Science Foundation Workshop on Speech Technology
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cognitive Science

2014
Science Cafe at Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Chicago, Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series
Society for Neuroscience, Annual Meeting, Washington DC
ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
CAST Symposium on Seeing, Sounding, Sensing, MIT
Cognitive Theory and the Arts Seminar Series, Harvard University
Gordon Conference on The Auditory System, Bates College, Maine
Center for Hearing Research, UC Irvine
Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ohio State University

2013
Workshop on Signal and Noise along the Auditory Pathway, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Microsoft Research, Cambridge MA
Society for Neuroscience, Annual Meeting, San Diego
Audio Engineering Society Annual Meeting, New York
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Hearing Research Center, Boston University
Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Center for Brain Sciences, Harvard
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annual Meeting, Baltimore
Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School

2012
Speech and Audio in the Northeast, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA
International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Porto
Schlumberger Workshop on Mathematical Models of Sound Analysis, Paris
Department of Psychology, UCSD
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annual Meeting, San Diego

2011
Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London
Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Workshop, DAFX, IRCAM, Paris
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences, UCL, London
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Psychology Department, Princeton University
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annual Meeting, Baltimore
Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal
Psychology Department, New York University
CCRMA Hearing Seminar, Stanford University
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

2010
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
Psychology Department, Goldsmiths University of London
Computational Audition Workshop, Gatsby Unit, UCL, London
Acoustical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Music Department, Hebrew University
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute

2009
Computer Science Department, Hebrew University
Music Technology Group, NYU
Hearing Research Group, Johns Hopkins University
Hearing Research Center, Boston University
Psychology Department, NYU
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Philoctes Center, New York (invited panelist) listen to the recording
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2008
Music Department, University of Minnesota
Cafe Scientifique, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gordon Conference on Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, Lucca, Italy
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London

2007
McMaster Insitute for Music and Mind Annual Workshop, Hamilton, Ontario
Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Long Beach
International Workshop on the Biology and Genetics of Music, Bologna, Italy

2006
University of Minnesota Psychology Department
UC Berkeley Psychology Department
Knight Journalism Fellows, MIT
Stanford Psychology Department
Music and Mind Symposium, Harvard
Sconfinata Mente, Rome, Italy

2005
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch
Neurosciences and Music Conference, Leipzig, Germany

2003
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Lake Tahoe

2002
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota
MGH NMR Center, Brain Mapping Seminar

2001
Stanford Psychology Department
Harvard Vision Sciences Seminar
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch
European Conference on Visual Perception, Kusadasi, Turkey

2000
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale

1999
NYU Center for Neural Science
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale

1998
European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford, UK
Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale
Harvard Psychology Department Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Proseminar

1997
Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale
Harvard Psychology Department Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Proseminar

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