Recent Publications

Margulis, E.H. (Under contract). On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Margulis, E.H. (Under contract). Musical Topics and the Phenomenology of Surprise. In D. Mirka (Ed.), Handbook of Topic Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Repetition and Emotive Communication in Music Versus Speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 167. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00167

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Review of Steve Larson, Musical Forces: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music. Music Perception, 30, 4.

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Aesthetic Responses to Repetition in Unfamiliar Music. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 31, 45-57.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Review of David Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Music Theory Spectrum, 34, 145-148.

Wong, P.C.M., Chan, A.H.D., & Margulis, E.H. (2012). Effects of Mono- and Bi-Cultural Experiences on Auditory Perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252, 158-162.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Musical Repetition Detection Across Multiple Exposures. Music Perception, 29, 377-385.

Wong, P.C.M., Chan, A.H.D., Roy, A., & Margulis, E.H. (2011). The Bimusical Brain is not Two Monomusical Brains in One: Evidence from Musical Affective Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 4082-4093. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00105

Ettlinger, M., Margulis, E.H., & Wong, P.C.M. (2011). Implicit Memory in Music and Language. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 211. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00211

Margulis, E.H. (2010). When Program Notes Don't Help: Music Descriptions and Enjoyment. Psychology of Music, 38, 285-302.

Huron, D. & Margulis, E.H. (2010). Music, Expectancy, and Thrills. In P.N. Juslin &  J.A. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications (pp. 575-604). New York: Oxford University Press.

Wong, P.C.M., Roy, A.K., & Margulis, E.H. (2009). Bimusicalism: The Implicit Dual Enculturation of Cognitive and Affective Systems. Music Perception, 27, 81-88.

Wong, P.C.M., Perrachione, T.K., & Margulis, E.H. (2009). Effects of Asymmetric Cultural Experiences on the Auditory Pathway: Evidence from Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 157-163.

Margulis, E.H. (2009). Review of Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. American Journal of Bioethics, 9(9), 70-71 .

Margulis, E.H., Uppunda, A.K., Mlsna, L.M., Parrish, T.B., & Wong, P. C.M. (2009). Selective Neurophysiologic Responses to Timbre in Musicians with Different Listening Biographies. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 267-275. 

Margulis, E.H. & Beatty, A.P. (2008). Musical Style, Psychoaesthetics, and Prospects for Entropy as an Analytic Tool. Computer Music Journal, 32(4), 64-78. 

Margulis, E.H. (2008). Neuroscience: The Food of Musical Culture? Review of General Psychology, 28, 159-169.

Margulis, E.H. (2007). Moved by Nothing: Listening to Musical Silence. Journal of Music Theory, 51, 245-276.

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 Invited Talks

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Repetition, music, and mind. Department of Music Visiting Committee Colloquium Series, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Repetition, music, and mind. Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester/Cornell University/University of Buffalo Music Cognition Symposium, Rochester, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Department of Music Colloquium, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Department of Music Colloquium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Margulis, EH. (2012). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Department of Music Colloquium, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Department of Music and Performing Arts Colloquium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Invited talk on the Eminent Speakers Series, Music, Mind and Brain Program, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.

Margulis, E.H., Lerdahl, F. & LeDoux, J. (2011). Modeling expectation and tension in music and how they shape listeners' emotional response. Invited Panel, Fourth Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2011). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Invited Talk, New York University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2011). Empiricism, performance, theory: Interdisciplinarity and the Liszt B Minor Sonata. Invited two-week seminar at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Margulis, E.H. (2010). Some theoretical and empirical approaches to repetition in music. Invited Talk, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2010). Cognitive science and musical expressivity. Internationale Sommerakademie, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria.

Margulis, E.H. (2010). Freshman seminar workshop on empirical methods in music research. Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Margulis, E.H. (2010). Confronting the problem of repetition in music. Invited Talk, 2010 Symposium of Research in Music Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Margulis, E.H. (2009). Music again: Perspectives on repetition in music. CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture in the Science and Technology of Music. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2009). Some approaches to repetition in music. Music Cognition Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

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

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

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.

Recent Conference Presentations

Margulis, E.H. (2012). Musical Topics and the Phenomenology of Surprise. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, LA.

Margulis, E.H. & Eitan, Z. (2012). Tonality and affective experience: What the probe tone method reveals. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Margulis, E.H. (2011). Empirical approaches to musical repetition. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, MN.

Cramer, A., Margulis, E.H., Tymoczko, D., Gopinath, S. & Everett, W. (2011). Special session: Reaching beyond the field. Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, MN.

Margulis, E.H. (2011). Repetition as a factor in aesthetic preference. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, NY.

Taher, C. (2011). The Ineffability of Modern Art Music. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, NY.

Wong, P.C.M., Chan, A.H.D. & Margulis, E.H. (2011). The bimusical brain. The Neuroscience and Music IV, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Margulis, E.H. (2010). Repetition detection across multiple exposures. 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, WA.

Chan, A.D., Wong, P.C.M., Roy, A.K., & Margulis, E.H.M. (2009). Neural mechanisms of music listening by mono- and bi-cultural everyday music listeners. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA.

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

Margulis, E.H. (2008). Linguistic description and musical experience. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.