Recent Publications

Margulis, E.H. (Forthcoming). Moved by Nothing: Listening to Musical Silence. Journal of Music Theory.

Huron, D. & Margulis, E.H. (Forthcoming). Music, expectancy, and chills. In P.N. Juslin &  J.A. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook for Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Margulis, E.H. & Beatty, A.P. (Forthcoming). Musical Style, Psychoaesthetics, and Prospects for Entropy as an Analytic Tool. Computer Music Journal. 

Margulis, E.H., Uppunda, A.K., Mlsna, L.M., Parrish, T.B., & Wong, P. C.M. (Forthcoming). Selective Neurophysiologic Responses to Timbre in Musicians with Different Listening Biographies. Human Brain Mapping. First published December 10th, 2007, DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20503.

Margulis, E.H. (2008). Neuroscience: The Food of Musical Culture? Review of General Psychology, 12, 159-169.

Margulis, E.H. (2007). Surprise and Listening Ahead: Analytic Engagements with Musical Tendencies. Music Theory Spectrum, 29, 197-217.

Margulis, E.H. (2007). Silences in Music are Musical not Silent: An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Context on Musical Pauses. Music Perception, 24, 485-506.

Margulis, E.H. & Levine, W.H. (2006).Timbre Priming Effects and Expectation in Melody. Journal of New Music Research, 35, 175-182.  

Margulis, E.H. (2005). A Model of Melodic Expectation. Music Perception, 22, 663-714. 

Margulis, E.H. (2005). Review-essay on Kevin Korsyn, Decentering Music. Psychology of Music, 33, 335-341.

Recent Presentations

Margulis, E.H. (2008). Musical discourse, musical experience. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Nashville, TN. 

Wong, P.C.M., Roy, A.K. & Margulis, E.H. (2008). The complex dynamics of repeated musical exposure. 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.

Roy, A.K., Margulis, E.H. & Wong, P.C.M. (2008). Bimusicality: A dual enculturation effect on non-musicians' musical tension and memory. 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.

Margulis, E.H. (2008). Linguistic description and musical experience. 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.

Margulis, E.H., Roy, A.K. & Wong, P.C.M. (2008). The perceptual and cognitive non-linearities underlying musical preference across multiple exposures.Acoustical Society of America, June 2008, Paris. 

Sears, D. (2008). Processing surprise in tonal melodies. Confounding Expectation: Music and the Unexpected Outcome. Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Margulis, E.H., Uppunda, A.K., Mlsna, L.M., Parrish, T.B. & Wong, P.C.M. (2007). Selective neurophysiologic responses to timbre in musicians with different listening biographies. 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL.

Margulis, E.H. (2007). Neuroscience: The food of musical culture? From the Brain to Human Culture: Intersections Between the Humanities and Neuroscience, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.

Margulis, E.H. (2006). Moved by nothing. Music Department Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.  

Margulis, E.H. (2006). Context effects on the experience of musical silence. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy.

Margulis, E.H. (2006). A cognitive perspective on piano performance. Forum Internacional de Musica, Barcelona, Spain.

Margulis, E.H. (2005). Surprise and listening ahead: Analytic engagements with musical tendencies. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Boston, MA. 

Margulis, E.H. & Levine, W.H. (2004). Melodic expectation: A priming study. 8th Internationl Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, IL.

Margulis, E.H. (2004). Toward an expectational account of music. Music Department Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2004). Toward an expectational account of music. Music Theory Department Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IL. 

Marguils, E.H. (2003). A model of melodic expectation. 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Hanover, Germany.

Margulis, E.H. (2003). Expectancy and affect in melody. International Conference on Music and Gesture, Norwich, England.

Margulis, E.H. (2003). A model of melodic expectation. 5th Annual Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts. Baden-Baden, Germany.

Margulis, E.H. (2003). Factors in melodic expectancy. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Las Vegas, NV.