All Stories

  1. Comparing Musicians and Non-musicians’ Expectations in Music and Vision

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Marcus Pearce, Kat Agres

  2. Effects of statistical learning in passive and active contexts on reproduction and recognition of auditory sequences.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Saloni Krishnan, Marcus Pearce

  3. Musical aesthetic sensitivity.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ana Clemente, Marcus Pearce

  4. Reduced cross-modal affective priming in the L2 of late bilinguals depends on L2 exposure.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marcus Pearce

  5. Chills in music: A systematic review.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marcus Pearce

  6. Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception

    Article • Psychological Science, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Marcus Pearce, Niels Chr. Hansen

  7. PPM-Decay: A computational model of auditory prediction with memory decay

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, November 2020, PLOS

    Marcus Pearce

  8. Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans

    Article • eLife, May 2020, eLife

    Marcus Pearce

  9. Simultaneous consonance in music perception and composition.

    Article • Psychological Review, December 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Harrison, Marcus Pearce

  10. Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity

    Article • Current Biology, December 2019, Elsevier

    Marcus Pearce

  11. Predictability and Uncertainty in the Pleasure of Music: A Reward for Learning?

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2019, Society for Neuroscience

    Marcus Pearce

  12. Expectations for tonal cadences: Sensory and cognitive priming effects

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Marcus Pearce

  13. Cultural Distance: A Computational Approach to Exploring Cultural Influences on Music Cognition

    Article • October 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marcus Pearce

  14. Statistical learning and probabilistic prediction in music cognition: mechanisms of stylistic enculturation

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Wiley

    Marcus Pearce

  15. Information-Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2017, Wiley

    Marcus Pearce

  16. Neuroaesthetics

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Marcus Pearce

  17. Brain responses in humans reveal ideal observer-like sensitivity to complex acoustic patterns

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Karl John Friston, Marcus Pearce

  18. Linking melodic expectation to expressive performance timing and perceived musical tension.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marcus Pearce

  19. Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition

    Article • Cognition, April 2015, Elsevier

    Marcus Pearce