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Levitin, D. J., Chordia, P. and Menon, V. (in press). Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition, 1-5. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113828109

Levitin, D. J. (2012). What does it mean to be musical? Neuron, 73, 633-637. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.017

Abrams, D., Bhatara, A. K., Ryali, S., Balaban, E., Levitin, D. J., & Menon, V. (2011). Decoding temporal structure in music and speech relies on shared brain resources but elicits different fine-scale spatial patterns. Cerebral Cortex, 21(7), 1507-1518. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq198

Bhatara, A. K., Quintin, E.-M., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Musical ability and developmental disorders. In J.A. Burack, R. M. Hodapp, G. Iarocci, & E. Zigler (Eds.), Oxford handbook of intellectual abilities, 2nd edition. (pp. 138-148). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Bhatara, A. K., Tirovolas, A. K., Duan, L. M., Levy, B., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Perception of emotional expression in musical performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(3), 921-934. doi:10.1037/a0021922

LaCroix-Fralish, M. L., Austin, J.-S., Zheng, F. Y., Levitin, D. J., & Mogil, J. S. (2011). Patterns of pain: Meta-analysis of microarray studies of pain. Pain, 152, 1888-1898. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.04.014

Quintin, E.-M., Bhatara, A. K., Poissant, H., Fombonne, E., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(9), 1240-1255. doi:10.1007/s10803-010-1146-0

Rentfrow, P. J., Goldberg, L. R., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). The structure of musical preferences: A five-factor model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(6), 1139-1157. doi:10.1037/a0022406

Tirovolas, A. K. and Levitin, D. J. (2011). Music perception and cognition research from 1983 to 2010: A categorical and bibliometric analysis of empirical articles in Music Perception. Music Perception, 29(1), 23-36. doi:10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.23

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., Dalca, I. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Music to my eyes: Cross-modal interactions in the perception of emotions in musical performance. Cognition, 118, 157-170. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.010

Levitin, D.J. (2010). Vacation reading. Nature, 466, 563-566.

Bhatara, A. K., Quintin, E.-M., Levy, B., Bellugi, U., Fombonne, E., & Levitin, D. J. (2010). Perception of emotion in musical performance in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism Research, 3, 214-225. doi:10.1002/aur.147

Levitin, D. J. (2010). My first science fair. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(6), 628-631. doi:10.1177/1745691610388756

Levitin, D. J. (2010). Why music moves us. Nature, 464, 834-835.

Levitin, D. J. and Tirovolas, A. K. (2010). Music cognition and perception. In Sage Encyclopedia of Perception. (pp. 599-606). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Levitin, D.J. (2009). Rebels with a Cause: Music in the 60's. SuperConsciousness Magazine.

Bhatara, A. K., Quintin, E.-M., Heaton, P., Fombonne, E., & Levitin, D. J. (2009). The effects of music on social attribution in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Child Neuropsychology, 15(4), 375-396. doi:10.1080/0929704080260365

Levitin, D. J. (2009). The neural correlates of temporal structure in music. Music and Medicine, 1(1), 9-13. doi:10.1177/1943862109338604

Levitin, D. J. and Tirovolas, A. K. (2009). Current advances in the cognitive neuroscience of music. The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience 2009: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1156, 211-231. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04417.x

Marshal, M. T., Hartshorn, M., Wanderley, M. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2009). Sensor choice for parameter modulations in digital musical instruments: Empirical evidence from pitch modulation. Journal of New Music Research, 38(3), 241-253. doi:10.1080/09298210903085865

Levitin, D.J. (2008). Do You Hear What I Hear? [Op-Ed]. The Wall Street Journal.

Levitin, D.J. (2008). We have music on our minds. Montreal Gazette.

Levitin, D.J. (2008). Brain Candy [Review of the book Human: The science behind what makes us unique, by Michael Gazzaniga]. The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 5.

Levitin, D.J. (2008). Notes from the underground: A newspaper columnist recounts his unlikely friendship with a homeless musician [A review of The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music, by Steve Lopez]. The Washington Post Sunday Book Review.

Chapados, C. and Levitin, D. J. (2008). Cross-modal interactions in the experience of musical performances: Physiological correlates. Cognition, 108, 639-651. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.008

Kadis, J. and Levitin, D. J. (2008). How recordings are made II: Digital hard-disk-based recording. In K. Greenbaum & R. Barzel (Eds.), Audio anecdotes III: Tools, tips, and techniques for digital audio (pp. 15-28). Natick, MA: A.K. Peters..

Klemp, N., McDermott, R., Raley, J., Thibeault, M., Powell, K., & Levitin, D. J. (2008). Plans, takes, and mis-takes. Critical Social Studies, 1, 4-21.

Support Files: 5 Spot, Misterioso, SF Holiday

Koulis, T., Ramsay, J. O., & Levitin, D. J. (2008). From zero to sixty: Calibrating real-time responses. Psychometrika, 73(2), 321-339. doi:10.1007/S11336-007-9032-1

Levitin, D. J. (2008). Absolute pitch: Both a curse and a blessing. In Music meets medicine, Proceedings of the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation. (pp. 124-132). Helsinki, Finland: Gyllenberg Foundation.

Levitin, D. J. (2008). How recordings are made I: Analog and digital tape-based recording. In Audio anecdotes III: Tools, tips, and techniques for digital audio. (pp. 3-14). Natick, MA: A.K. Peters.

Levitin, D. J. (2008). The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. New York, NY: Dutton/Penguin.

Levitin, D. J. (2008). The music illusion. New Scientist.

Sridharan, D., Levitin, D. J., & Menon, V. (2008). A critical role for the right fronto-insular cortex in switching between central-executive and default-mode networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(34), 12569-12574. doi:10.1073/pnas.0800005105

Levitin, D.J. (2007). The Seed Salon: The singer/songwriter and the neuroscientist meet up to discuss music. Seed.

Levitin, D.J. (2007). It was 40 years ago today [Op Ed]. The Washington Post.

Levitin, D. J. (2007). My favorite thing: Why do we like the music we like? In Jossey-Bass Publishers (Ed.), The Jossey-Bass Reader on the brain and learning. (pp. 345-346). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wylie.

Levitin, D. L. (2007). Music, Psychology of. In Darity, W. A. (Ed.), International encycolpedia of social sciences. (pp. 345-346). Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan Library Reference.

Levitin, D. L., Nuzzo, R. L., Vines, B. W., & Ramsay, J. O. (2007). Introduction to functional data analysis. Canadian Psychology, 48(3), 135-155. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.07.003

Sridharan, D., Levitin, D. J., Chafe, C. H., Berger, J., & Menon, V. (2007). Neural dynamics of event segmentation in music: Converging evidence for dissociable ventral and dorsal networks. Neuron, 55, 521-532. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.07.003

(Cover article): Brain2.mov, Brain2.wmv

Levitin, D.J. (2006). The music of my mind: A neuroscientist examines the recipe for listening ecstasy. Paste Magazine.

Langford, D. J., Crager, S. E., Shehzad, Z., Smith, S. B., Sotocinal, S. G., Levenstadt, J. S., Chanda, M. L., Levitin, D. J., & Mogil, J. S. (2006). Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice. Science, 312, 1967-1970.

Levitin, D. J. (2006). This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Dutton/Penguin.

Levitin, D. J. and Bellugi, U. (2006). Rhythm, timbre and hyperacusis in Williams-Beuren Syndrome. In C.A. Morris, H.M. Lenhoff, & P.P. Wang (Eds.), Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research, evaluation, and treatment. (pp. 343-358). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

A chapter from the Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research and Clinical Perspectives. Amazon Link

Mogil, J.S., Ritchie, J., Sotocinal, S. G., Smith, S. B., Croteau, S., Levitin, D. J., & Naumova, A. K. (2006). Screening for pain phenotypes: Analysis of three congenic mouse strains on a battery of nine nociceptive assays. Pain, 126, 24-34. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.06.004

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2006). Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performance. Cognition, 101, 80-113. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.09.003

Guastavino, C., Katz, B.F.G., Polack, J-D., Levitin, D. J., & Dubois, D. (2005). Ecological validity of soundscape reproduction. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 91(2), 333-341.

Levitin, D. J. (2005). Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: Evidence from Williams Syndrome. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 1-10. doi:10.1196/annals.1360.027

Levitin, D. J. and Menon, V. (2005). The neural locus of temporal structure and expectancies in music: Evidence from functional neuroimaging at 3 Tesla. Music Perception, 22(3), 563-575.

Levitin, D. J. and Menon, V. (2005). Tutorial on fMRI methods. Music Perception, 22(3), 566.

Levitin, D. J. and Rogers, S. E. (2005). Absolute pitch: Perception, coding, and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(1), 26-33. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.11.007

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2005). Aversion, awareness and attraction: Investigating claims of hyperacusis in the Williams Syndrome phenotype. Journal of Child Psychiatry, Psychology and Allied Disciplines, 46(5), 514-523. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00376.x

Menon, V. and Levitin, D. J. (2005). The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system. NeuroImage, 28(1), 175-184. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.05.053

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., Dalca, I., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). Dimensions of emotion in expressive musical performance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 1-5. doi:10.1196/annals.1360.052

Vines, B. W., Nuzzo, R. L., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). Analyzing temporal dynamics in music: Differential calculus, physics, and functional data techniques. Music Perception, 23(2), 137-152.

Levitin, D. J. (2004). Instrument (and vocal) recording tips and tricks. In Greenbaum, K. & Barzel, R. (Eds.), Audio anecdotes. (pp. 147-158). Natick, MA: A.K. Peters.

This chapter appears in the book Audio Anecdotes: Amazon Link

Levitin, D. J. (2004). L'oreille absolue: autoréférencement et mémoire. L'Année Psychologique, 104, 103-120.

Levitin, D. J. and Cuddy, L. L. (2004). Editorial: Introduction to the Angel of Death project. Music Perception, 22(2), 167-170.

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2004). Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Child Neuropsychology, 22(2), 167-170. doi:10.1080/09297040490909288

Vines, B. W., Nuzzo, R. L., & Levitin, D. J. (2004). Functional data analysis: Techniques for exploring temporal processes in music. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. (pp. 553-554). Evanston, IL: International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

Vines, B., Wanderley, M., Krumhansl, C., Nuzzo, R., & Levtin, D. J. (2004). Performance gestures of musicians: What structural and emotional information do they convey? In Camurri, A . & Volpe, G. (Eds.), Gesture-Based communication in human-computer interaction. (pp. 468-478). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.

See the video clips used in this experiment: Here

Levitin, D. J. (2003). Absolute pitch: Précis to an integrated review. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 4(1), 17-19.

Levitin, D. J. and Zatorre, R. J. (2003). On the nature of early music training and absolute pitch: A reply to Brown, Sachs, Cammuso, and Folstein. Music Perception, 21(1), 105-110.

Levitin, D. J., Menon, V., Schmitt, J. E., Eliez, S., White, C., Glover, G., Kadis, J., Korenberg, J. R., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. L. (2003). Neural correlates of auditory perception in Williams Syndrome: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 18, 74-82. doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1297

Levitin, D. J. (2002). Configural processing in melody recognition. Canadian Acoustics, 30(3), 156-157.

Levitin, D. J., McAdams, S. and Adams, R. L. (2002). Control parameters for musical instruments: A foundation for new mappings of gesture to sound. Organised Sound, 7(2), 171-189. doi:10.1017/S135577180200208X

Menon, V., Levitin, D. J., Smith, B. K., Lembke, A., Krasnow, B. D., Glazer, D., Glover, G. H., & McAdams, S. (2002). Neural correlates of timbre change in harmonic sounds. NeuroImage, 17, 1742-1754. doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1295

Levitin, D.J. (2001). The Grammy interview: Paul Simon. Grammy magazine.

Luu, P., Kelley, J. M. and Levitin, D. J. (2001). Consciousness: A preparatory and comparative process. In P. G. Grossenbacher (Ed.), Finding consciousness in the brain: A neurocognitive approach. (pp. 247-275). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.

A chapter from the book Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A Neurocognitive Approach: Amazon Link

Parncutt, R. and Levitin, D. J. (2001). Absolute Pitch. In Sadie, S. & Tyrrell, J. (Eds.), New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. (pp. 37-39). New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.

A detailed definition of absolute pitch. It appears in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Levitin, D. J. (2000). In search of the musical mind. Cerebrum, 2(4), 31-49.

Levitin, D. J., MacLean, K., Mathews, M. V., & Chu, L. Y. (2000). The perception of cross-modal simultaneity. International Journal of Computing and Anticipatory Systems, 5, 323-329.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). Absolute pitch: Self-reference and human memory. International Journal of Computing and Anticipatory Systems, 4, 255-266.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). Experimental design in psychoacoustic research. In Cook, P. R. (Ed.), Music, cognition and computerized sound: An introduction to psychoacoustics. (pp. 299-328). Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.

A chapter from: Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics

Levitin, D. J. (1999). [Review of the book The psychology of music, second edition, Diana Deutsch, Ed]. Music Perception, 16(4), 495-506.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). [Review of the book Music, the brain, and ecstasy, by R. Jourdain]. Musicae Scientiae, 3(1), 122-126.

Levitin, D. J. (1999). Tone deafness: Failures of musical anticipation and self-reference. International Journal of Computing and Anticipatory Systems, 4, 243-254.

Levitin, D. J. and Russell, G. S. (1999). Circular data, Rao's spacing test of. In Kotz,S., Read,C. B., & Banks, D. L. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of statisitcal sciences update Vol.3. (pp. 87-89). New York, NY: Wiley.

Olsen, E., Wolff, C. and Verna, P. (Eds.), & Levitin D. J. (Assoc. Ed.). (1999). The encyclopedia of record producers. New York, NY: Billboard Books.

Levitin, D.J. (1998). Blue Moon Rising: The John Fogerty Interview. Audio Magazine.

Hintzman, D. L., Caulton, D. A. and Levitin, D. J. (1998). Retrieval dynamics in recognition and list discrimination: Further evidence of separate processes of familiarity and recall. Memory & Cognition, 26(3), 449-462.

Levitin, D. J. and Bellugi, U. (1998). Musical abilities in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Music Perception, 15(4), 357-389.

Levitin, D.J. (1997). Still Creative After All These Years: A Conversation with Paul Simon. Grammy Magazine, 15(4).

Levitin, D.J. (1997). Richard Carpenter: Still On Top of The World. Grammy Magazine, 15(3).

Posner, M. I. and Levitin, D. J. (1997). Imaging the Future. In Solso, R. L. (Ed.), Mind and brain sciences in the 21st century. (pp. 91-109). Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.

A chapter from the book: Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century

Levitin, D.J. (1996). Conversation in the key of life: Stevie Wonder. Grammy Magazine, 14(3), 14-25.

Levitin, D.J. (1996). A conversation with Joni Mitchell. Grammy Magazine, 14(2), 26-32.

Levitin, D. J. (1996). Do absolute pitch possessers have categorical perception? International Journal of Psychology, 31, 10.

Levitin, D. J. and Cook, P. R. (1996). Memory for musical tempo: Additional evidence that auditory memory is absolute. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(6), 927-935.

Levitin, D.J. (1995). Pop Charts: How Richard Carpenter's lush arrangements turned hit songs into pop classics. Electronic Musician, 11(5), 26-32.

Russell, G. S. and Levitin, D. J. (1995). An expanded table of probability values for Rao's Spacing Test. Communications in statistics: Simulation and computation, 24(4), 879-888.

Levitin, D.J. (1994). Pop star talks about her creative process: Tori Amos. Eugene Register-Guard, p. 7D.

Levitin, D. J. (1994). Absolute memory for musical pitch: Evidence from the production of learned melodies. Perception & Psychophysics, 56(4), 414-423.

Levitin, D.J. (1992). K.D. Lang: Constant Creating. Grammy Magazine, 10(3), 22-25.

Levitin, D.J. (1992). Lindsey Buckingham. Recording - Engineering - Production, 22(8), 16-21.

Levitin, D.J. (1992). George Massenburg's Feel for Sculpting Sound. Billboard, p. 40.

Levitin, D.J. (1992). The REP Interview: George Massenburg. Recording - Engineering - Production, 23(9), 18-22.

Levitin, D.J. (1992). Engineer George Massenburg (Lyle Lovett). Recording - Engineering - Production, 23(7).

Levitin, D.J. (1992). Engineer/Producer Bruce Swedien (Michael Jackson). Recording - Engineering - Production, 23(2).

Levitin, D.J. (1992). Phil Ramone: A legend continues to grow. Mix , 15(7), 87-91.

Levitin, D.J. (1991). Guy Clark: The Songwriter's Songwriter. Grammy Magazine.

Levitin, D.J. (1991). The REP Interview: Jack Renner. Recording - Engineering - Production, 22(1), 28-32.

Levitin, D.J. (1990). The REP Interview: Orrin Keepnews. Recording - Engineering - Production, 21(11), 34-38.

Levitin, D.J. (1990). Bruce Swedien: Master of the Microphone. Recording - Engineering - Production, 21(11), 52-56.

Levitin, D.J. (1990). Basic Repertoire: Top Producers and Engineers Talk About Important Albums. Mix, 14(10).