Publications

Recent and selected publications from Nori Jacoby and the CoCoCo Lab.

2026

  1. Active Inference with People: a general approach to real-time adaptive experiments
    Lucas Gautheron, Nori Jacoby, and Peter Harrison
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.29003, 2026
    DOI URL arXiv
  3. How universal is universalization? Exploring the use of universalization in norm violation across the globe
    Logan A Walls, Elif Çelen, Julien Lie-Panis, and 4 more authors
    PsyArXiv Preprints, 2026
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  4. Human-AI Synergy Supports Collective Creative Search
    Chenyi Li, Raja Marjieh, Haoyu Hu, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint 2602.10001, 2026
    DOI URL arXiv
  5. One test, many tongues: Surveying language proficiency across the globe
    Pol Rijn, Yue Sun, Harin Lee, and 5 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2026
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  6. Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets
    Lucas Gautheron, Raja Marjieh, Dalton C Conley, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09997, 2026
    DOI URL arXiv
  7. The recall and recognition of sonic logos
    Sebastian Silas, Megan Robinson, David John Baker, and 3 more authors
    2026
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  8. Why Human Guidance Matters in Collaborative Vibe Coding
    Haoyu Hu, Raja Marjieh, Katherine M. Collins, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint 2602.10473, 2026
    DOI URL arXiv

2025

  1. An Online Global Color Survey
    Pol Rijn, Elif Celen, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 4 more authors
    2025
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  2. Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures?
    Elif Celen, Pol Rijn, Harin Lee, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08744, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  3. Categorical rhythmic priors in macaques
    Ameyaltzin Castillo-Almazán, Luis Prado, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    bioRxiv, 2025
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  4. Characterizing the Interaction of Cultural Evolution Mechanisms in Experimental Social Networks
    Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Thomas L Griffiths, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12847, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  5. Characterizing the Large-Scale Structure of Multimodal Semantic Networks
    Raja Marjieh, Pol Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 3 more authors
    Cognitive Science, 2025
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  6. Does synchronised singing enhance social bonding more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report
    Patrick E Savage, Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney, Aleksandar Arabadjiev, and 8 more authors
    2025
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  7. Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences
    Ameyaltzin Castillo-Almazán, Oswaldo Pérez, Luis Prado, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Neurophysiology, 2025
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  8. GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
    Harin Lee, Elif Çelen, Peter Harrison, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09539, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  9. How constraints on editing affects cultural evolution
    Ofer Tchernichovski, Eitan Globerson, Peter Harrison, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16694, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  10. Institutional Preferences in the Laboratory
    Qiankun Zhong, Nori Jacoby, Ofer Tchernichovski, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06748, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  11. Mechanisms of cultural diversity in urban populations
    Harin Lee, Nori Jacoby, Romain Hennequin, and 1 more author
    Nature Communications, 2025
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  12. Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations
    Srishti Nayak, Enikő Ladányi, Else Eising, and 8 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2025
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  13. Neural correlates of rhythm in post-stroke aphasia
    Anna V Kasdan, Marianne Casilio, Katherine Bryan, and 7 more authors
    Neurobiology of Language, 2025
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  14. Reasoning within and between collective action problems
    Ofer Tchernichovski, Seth Frey, Dalton C Conley, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16677, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  15. Representational Alignment Supports Effective Teaching
    Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M Collins, Maya Malaviya, and 8 more authors
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  16. Revealing rhythm categorization in human brain activity
    Francesca M Barbero, Tomas Lenc, Nori Jacoby, and 3 more authors
    Science Advances, 2025
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  17. The Dynamics of Collective Creativity in Human-AI Hybrid Societies
    Shota Shiiku, Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17962, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  18. Two paths to variation in semantic judgments: How ambiguity and conceptual diversity drive individual differences in meaning
    Di Liu, Raja Marjieh, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
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  19. Unsettled Times: Music Discovery Reveals Divergent Cultural Responses to War
    Harin Lee, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Oleg Sobchuk, and 5 more authors
    PsyArXiv Preprints, 2025
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  20. Using LLMs to advance the cognitive science of collectives
    Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M Collins, Nori Jacoby, and 2 more authors
    Nature Computational Science, 2025
    DOI URL arXiv
  21. Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures
    Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Celen, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14439, 2025
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2024

  1. A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion
    Raja Marjieh, Pol Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06992, 2024
    DOI URL arXiv
  2. Capturing rhythm categorisation in the human brain across cortical and subcortical auditory signals
    Francesca Barbero, Tomas Lenc, Nori Jacoby, and 3 more authors
    In Neurosciences and Music-wiring, re-wiring, and well-being, 2024
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  3. Characterizing Similarities and Divergences in Conversational Tones in Humans and LLMs by Sampling with People
    Dun-Ming Huang, Pol Van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024
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  4. Characterizing the interrelations between order, complexity, and appreciation in multidimensional controlled stimulus spaces
    Eline Van Geert, Nori Jacoby, and Johan Wagemans
    In Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA), Date: 2024/05/08-2024/05/10, Location: Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain, 2024
  5. Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries
    Nori Jacoby, Rainer Polak, Jessica A Grahn, and 8 more authors
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2024
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  6. Does singing enhance cooperation more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report
    Patrick E Savage, Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney, Aleksandar Arabadjiev, and 8 more authors
    2024
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  7. Estimating subjective probability distributions
    TL Griffiths, Adam N Sanborn, R Marjieh, and 3 more authors
    2024
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  8. Giving Robots a Voice: Human-in-the-Loop Voice Creation and open-ended Labeling
    Pol Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Kathrin Janowski, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
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  9. Global music discoveries reveal cultural shifts during the war in Ukraine
    Harin Lee, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Oleg Sobchuk, and 5 more authors
    2024
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  10. Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report
    Yuto Ozaki, Adam Tierney, Peter Q Pfordresher, and 8 more authors
    Science Advances, 2024
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  11. Large language models predict human sensory judgments across six modalities
    Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Pol Rijn, and 2 more authors
    Scientific Reports, 2024
    DOI URL arXiv
  12. Representational Alignment Supports Effective Machine Teaching
    Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M Collins, Maya Malaviya, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04302, 2024
    DOI URL arXiv
  13. Studying the effect of globalization on color perception using multilingual online recruitment and large language models
    Jakob Pete Niedermann, Ilia Sucholutsky, Raja Marjieh, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
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  15. The Influence of Social Information and Presentation Interface on Aesthetic Evaluations
    Yoko Urano, Raja Marjieh, Tom Griffiths, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
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  16. The universal law of generalization holds for naturalistic stimuli.
    Raja Marjieh, Nori Jacoby, Joshua C Peterson, and 1 more author
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2024
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  17. Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales
    Raja Marjieh, Peter Harrison, Harin Lee, and 2 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2024
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  18. Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space
    Eline Van Geert and Nori Jacoby
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
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2023

  1. Around the world in 60 words: A generative vocabulary test for online research
    Pol Rijn, Yue Sun, Harin Lee, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01614, 2023
    DOI URL arXiv
  2. Building sustainable global collaborative networks: Recommendations from music studies and the social sciences
    Patrick E Savage, Nori Jacoby, Elizabeth H Margulis, and 8 more authors
    In The science-music borderlands: Reckoning with the past and imagining the future, 2023
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  3. Capturing categorical representation of rhythmic patterns using electroencephalography
    Francesca Barbero, Tomas Lenc, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    In Timing Research Forum TRF3, 2023
  5. Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality
    Reyna L Gordon, Daphne O Martschenko, Srishti Nayak, and 5 more authors
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2023
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  6. Conversations with Steven Feld
    Steven Feld, Nori Jacoby, Deirdre Loughridge, and 2 more authors
    In The science-music borderlands: Reckoning with the past and imagining the future, 2023
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  7. Feeling the Beat: Temporal Predictability is Associated with Ongoing Changes in Music-Induced Pleasantness
    Neomi Singer, Nori Jacoby, Talma Hendler, and 1 more author
    Journal of Cognition, 2023
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  8. Getting aligned on representational alignment
    Ilia Sucholutsky, Lukas Muttenthaler, Adrian Weller, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13018, 2023
    DOI URL arXiv
  9. Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas
    Ofer Tchernichovski, Seth Frey, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
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  10. Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution
    Manuel Anglada-Tort, Peter MC Harrison, Harin Lee, and 1 more author
    Current Biology, 2023
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  11. Musical pitch has multiple psychological geometries
    Raja Marjieh, Thomas L Griffiths, and Nori Jacoby
    bioRxiv, 2023
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  12. On the informativeness of supervision signals
    Ilia Sucholutsky, Ruairidh M Battleday, Katherine M Collins, and 7 more authors
    In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2023
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  13. Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo-keeping in adults with autism
    Keren Kasten, Nori Jacoby, and Merav Ahissar
    Autism Research, 2023
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  14. What language reveals about perception: Distilling psychophysical knowledge from large language models
    Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Pol Rijn, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
  15. Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments
    Raja Marjieh, Pol Van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 4 more authors
    In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023
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2022

  1. 3D memory priors reflect efficient compression in view naming
    Thomas Langlois, Nori Jacoby, and Tom Griffiths
    Journal of Vision, 2022
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  2. Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony
    Kelly Jakubowski, Rainer Polak, Martı́n Rocamora, and 2 more authors
    Cognition, 2022
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  3. Analyzing Diffusion as Serial Reproduction
    Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Thomas A Langlois, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14821, 2022
    DOI URL arXiv
  4. Bridging the prosody GAP: Genetic Algorithm with People to efficiently sample emotional
    Pol Rijn, Harin Lee, and Nori Jacoby
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44 (44), 2022
    DOI URL arXiv
  5. Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity
    Maria Niarchou, Daniel E Gustavson, J Fah Sathirapongsasuti, and 7 more authors
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2022
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  6. REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments
    Manuel Anglada-Tort, Peter Harrison, and Nori Jacoby
    Behavior research methods, 2022
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  7. Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Cross-Cultural Corpus Studies
    Justin London, Nori Jacoby, and Rainer Polak
    In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies, 2022
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  8. VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS
    Pol Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15379, 2022
    DOI URL arXiv
  9. WavThruVec: Latent speech representation as intermediate features for neural speech synthesis
    Hubert Siuzdak, Piotr Dura, Pol Rijn, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16930, 2022
    DOI URL arXiv

2021

  1. Cross-cultural Mood Perception in Pop Songs and its Alignment with Mood Detection Algorithms
    Harin Lee, Frank Hoeger, Marc Schoenwiesner, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.00768, 2021
    DOI URL arXiv
  2. Experimenting With Online Governance
    Ofer Tchernichovski, Seth Frey, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021
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  3. Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space
    Pol Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01891, 2021
    DOI URL arXiv
  4. Extreme precision in rhythmic interaction is enabled by role-optimized sensorimotor coupling: analysis and modelling of West African drum ensemble music
    Nori Jacoby, Rainer Polak, and Justin London
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
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  5. Passive attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity
    Thomas A Langlois, H Charles Zhao, Erin Grant, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07013, 2021
    DOI URL arXiv
  6. Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations
    Thomas A Langlois, Nori Jacoby, Jordan W Suchow, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
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  7. Slow update of internal representations impedes synchronization in autism
    Gal Vishne, Nori Jacoby, Tamar Malinovitch, and 3 more authors
    Nature communications, 2021
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  8. The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection
    Martin Clayton, Simone Tarsitani, Richard Jankowsky, and 8 more authors
    Empirical Musicology Review, 2021
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2020

  1. Aesthetic Evaluation of Timing Patterns in Music: A Comparative Experimental Study Across Three Styles and Cultures
    RAINER POLAK, KELLY JAKUBOWSKI, MARTÍN ROCAMORA, and 2 more authors
    In First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (SoMoS), 2020
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  2. Categorical rhythms are shared between songbirds and humans
    Tina C Roeske, Ofer Tchernichovski, David Poeppel, and 1 more author
    Current Biology, 2020
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  3. Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations
    Nori Jacoby, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Martin Clayton, and 8 more authors
    Music Perception, 2020
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  4. Gibbs sampling with people
    Peter Harrison, Raja Marjieh, Federico Adolfi, and 5 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020
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  5. Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals
    Malinda J McPherson, Sophia E Dolan, Alex Durango, and 6 more authors
    Nature communications, 2020
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2019

  1. Can you clap to the beat? Findings from the first large-scale genome-wide association study on rhythm
    Reyna Gordon, Maria Niarchou, J Fah Sathirapongsasuti, and 8 more authors
    In BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 2019
  2. Orthogonal multi-view three-dimensional object representations in memoryrevealed by
    Thomas A Langlois, Nori Jacoby, and Jordan Suchow
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 41 (0), 2019
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  3. Spatial memory biases reflect encoding precision and not categorical perception
    Thomas A Langlois, Nori Jacoby, Jordan W Suchow, and 1 more author
    Journal of Vision, 2019
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  4. Surprise-related activation in the nucleus accumbens interacts with music-induced pleasantness
    Ofir Shany, Neomi Singer, Benjamin Paul Gold, and 4 more authors
    Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2019
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  5. Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch perception revealed by singing
    Nori Jacoby, Eduardo A Undurraga, Malinda J McPherson, and 3 more authors
    Current Biology, 2019
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  6. Universality and diversity in human song
    Samuel A Mehr, Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, and 8 more authors
    Science, 2019
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2018

  1. Analysing Multi-person Timing in Music and Movement: Event Based Methods
    Mark T Elliott, Dominic Ward, Ryan Stables, and 3 more authors
    In Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications, 2018
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  2. Drei Analysen eines Audio-Korpus von Percussion-Ensemblemusik aus Mali
    Rainer Polak, Nori Jacoby, and Justin London
    Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2018
  3. IEMP Technical Resources
    Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Paolo Alborno, and 4 more authors
    2018
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  4. Rhythmic Prototypes Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Tapping Synchronization
    Rainer Polak, Nori Jacoby, Timo Fischinger, and 3 more authors
    Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
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2017

  1. An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects
    Anahita H Mehta, Nori Jacoby, Ifat Yasin, and 2 more authors
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017
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  2. Cross-cultural variation in sensorimotor synchronization with simple rhythms: A comparative tapping study
    Rainer Polak, Nori Jacoby, Timo Fischinger, and 3 more authors
    In 16th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop, 2017
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  3. Cross-modal’Goodness of Fit’Judgments of Auditory and Visual Meter in Musical Rhythms
    Stephen Palmer, Joshua Peterson, and Nori Jacoby
    Journal of Vision, 2017
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  5. Repetition and a Beat-Based Timing Framework: What Determines the Duration of Intervals Between Repetitions of a Tapping Pattern?
    Olivia Murton, Lauryn Zipse, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    Timing & Time Perception, 2017
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  6. Rhythm histograms and musical meter: A corpus study of Malian percussion music
    Justin London, Rainer Polak, and Nori Jacoby
    Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017
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  7. Uncovering visual priors in spatial memory using serial reproduction
    Thomas A Langlois, Nori Jacoby, Jordan Suchow, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017
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2016

  2. Common modulation of limbic network activation underlies musical emotions as they unfold
    Neomi Singer, Nori Jacoby, Tamar Lin, and 5 more authors
    NeuroImage, 2016
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  3. Cue properties change timing strategies in group movement synchronisation
    Juliane J Honisch, Mark T Elliott, Nori Jacoby, and 1 more author
    Scientific reports, 2016
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  4. Kulturelle Diversität in der empirischen Rhythmusforschung: Drei Analysen eines Audio-Korpus von Percussion-Ensemblemusik aus Mali
    Rainer Polak, Nori Jacoby, and Justin London
    Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie [Journal of the German-speaking Society of Music Theory], 2016
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  5. Motion Tracking of a Fish as a Novel Way to Control Electronic Music Performance
    Shaltiel Eloul, Gil Zissu, Yehiel H Amo, and 1 more author
    Leonardo, 2016
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2015

  1. A computational model of implicit memory captures Dyslexics’ perceptual deficits
    Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Ofri Raviv, Nori Jacoby, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Neuroscience, 2015
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  2. An Information Theoretic Approach to Chord Categorization and Functional Harmony
    Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby, and Dmitri Tymoczko
    Journal of New Music Research, 2015
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  4. Lower bound on the accuracy of parameter estimation methods for linear sensorimotor synchronization models
    Nori Jacoby, Peter E Keller, Bruno H Repp, and 2 more authors
    Timing & Time Perception, 2015
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  5. Parameter Estimation of Linear Sensorimotor Synchronization Models: Phase Correction, Period Correction, and Ensemble Synchronization
    Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby, Bruno H Repp, and 2 more authors
    Timing & Time Perception, 2015
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  6. Sensorimotor synchronization with tempo-changing auditory sequences: Modeling temporal adaptation and anticipation
    MC Marieke Steen, Nori Jacoby, Merle T Fairhurst, and 1 more author
    Brain research, 2015
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