Department of Psychology

Recent Publications

Krumhansl, C. L., & Cuddy, L. L. (in press).  A theory of tonal hierarchies in music.  In A. N. Popper, R. R. Fay, & M. R. Jones (Eds.), Music Perception:   Springer Handbook of Auditory Research.

Vanstone, A. D., Cuddy, L. L., Duffin, J. M., &  Alexander, E.  (2009).  Exceptional preservation of memory for tunes and lyrics.  Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1169, 291-294. 

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Vanstone, A. D., & Cuddy, L. L. (2009).  Musical memory and Alzheimer disease.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

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Trimmer, C. G., & Cuddy, L. L. (2008).  Emotional intelligence, not music training, predicts recognition of emotional speech prosody.  Emotion, 8, 838-849. 

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Hébert, S., Béland, R., Beckett, C., Cuddy, L. L., Peretz, I. & Wolforth, J. (2008).  A case study of music and text dyslexia.   Music Perception, 25, 369-381.

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Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Tillmann, B., Cuddy, L. L., Gagnon, B., Trimmer, C. G., Paquette, S., & Bouchard, B.  (2008).  On-line identification of congenital amusia.  Music Perception, 25,331-343.

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Cuddy, L. L., Russo, F.A., & Galembo, A. (2007).  Tonality of low-frequency synthesized piano tones.  Archives of Acoustics,32, 541-550.

Russo, F. A., Cuddy, L. L., Galembo, A., & Thompson, W. F.(2007).  Sensitivity to tonality across the pitch range.  Perception, 36, 781-790.

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Hébert, S., & Cuddy, L.L. (2006).  Music-reading deficiencies and the brain.  Advances in Cognitive Psychology (Special Issue on Music Performance).

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Cuddy, L. L., Balkwill, L-L., Peretz. I, & Holden, R. R. (2005).  Musical difficulties are rare:  A study of "tone deafness" among university students.  Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1060, 311-324. 

Cuddy, L.L., & Duffin, J. M. (2005).  Music, memory, and Alzheimer's Disease: Is music recognition spared in dementia, and how can it be assessed?  Medical Hypotheses, 64, 229-235.

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Krumhansl, C. L., & Cuddy, L. L. (2005).  Musikalische Bezugssysteme: Strukturelle Bezeihungen bei der Wahrenhmung von Tonhöhen.  [Musical frames of reference:Tonal hierarchies].  In T. Stoffer & R. Oerter (Eds.), Allgemeine Musikpsychologie: Allgemeinpsychologische Grundlagen musikalischen Handelns, Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Vol. E/VII/1, 267-305.

Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A., Cuddy, L. L., & Russo, F. A. (2004).  Perceptual relevance of inharmonicity and spectral envelope in the piano bass range.  Acta Acustica, 90, 528-536.