BOOKS

Margulis, E.H., Loui, P. & Loughridge, D. (2023). The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future. MIT Press.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Translated editions in Spanish (Alianza), Japanese (Fukumura Shuppan), and Hungarian (Pallas Athene), and forthcoming in Chinese (Shanghai Music Pub.), Arabic (Kalima), and Thai (Bookscape).

Margulis, E.H. (2014). On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. Oxford University Press. Winner of the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory. Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Translated edition forthcoming in Chinese (Shanghai Music Pub.).

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REVIEWS

Loui, P., Parrish, C., Wu, X., Lee, J., & Margulis, E. H. (In press). Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity. Creativity Research Journal. 

Jakubowski, K., Margulis, E.H. & Taruffi, L. (2024). Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings. Music Perception, 42, 3-18.

Kubit, B., Deng, C., Tierney, A. & Margulis, E.H. (2024). Rapid Learning and Long-Term Memory in the Speech-to-Song Illusion. Music Perception, 41, 348-359.

Margulis, E.H. & Jakubowski, K. (2024). Music, Memory, and Imagination. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33, 108-113.

Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J.A., Cameron, D.J., Lee, K.M., Godoy, R., Undurraga, E.A., Huanca, T., Thalwitzer, T., Doumbia, N., Goldberg, D., Margulis, E.H., Wong, P.C.M., Jure, L., Rocamora, M., Fujii, S., Savage, P.E., AjimiJ., Konno, R., Oishi, S., Jakubowski, K., Holzapfel, A., Mungan, E., Kaya, E., Rao, P., Rohit, M.A., Alladi, S., Tarr, B., Anglada-Tort, M., Harrison, P.M.C., McPherson, M.J., Dolan, S., Durango, A. & McDermott, J.H. (2024). Universality and Cross-Cultural Variation in Mental Representations of Music Revealed by Global Comparison of Rhythmic Priors. Nature Human Behavior https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9.

Ma, W., Bowers, L., Margulis, E., Behrend, D., & Thompson, W.F. (2024). Child word learning in song and in speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(2), 343-362.

Loui, P., Kubit, B., Ou, Y. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Imaginings from an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement with a New Musical System. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication.

Loui, P. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Knowledge Clustering and the Acquisition of Creative Expertise. Comment on “Musical Engagement as a Duet of Tight Synchrony and Loose Interpretability” by T.-C. Rabinowitch. Physics of Life Reviews, 47, 22-24.

Thompson, W.F., Bullot, N. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). The Psychological Basis of Music Appreciation: Structure, Self, Source. Psychological Review, 130, 260-284.

Margulis, E.H. & McAuley, J.D. (2022). Mechanisms and Individual Differences in Music-Evoked Imaginings. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 116-117.

Margulis, E.H., Wong, P.C.M., Turnbull, C., Kubit, B.M., & McAuley, J.D. (2022). Narratives Imagined in Response to Instrumental Music Reveal Culture-Bounded Intersubjectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(4), e2110406119.

Margulis, E.H. & McAuley, J.D. (2022). Using Music to Probe How Perception Shapes Imagination. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26, 829-831.

Margulis, E.H., Williams, J., Simchy-Gross, R. & McAuley, D. (2022). When Did That Happen? The Dynamic Unfolding of Perceived Musical Narrative. Cognition, 226, 105180.

Margulis, E.H., Miller, N., Mitchell, N., Windholz, M.O., Williams, J. & McAuley, J.D. (2022). Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music. Music Theory Online, 28, 4.

Loui, P. & Margulis, E.H. (2022). Creativity and Tradition: Music and Bifocal Stance Theory: Commentary on “Tradition and Invention: The Bifocal Stance Theory of Cultural Evolution.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e262.

Williams, J.A., Margulis, E.H., Nastase, S.A., Chen, J., Hasson, U., Norman, K.A., & Baldassano, C. (2022). High-Order Areas and Auditory Cortex Both Represent the High-Level Event Structure of Music. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-16.

McAuley, J.D., Wong, P.C.M. Mamidipaka, A., Phillips, N. & Margulis, E.H. (2021). Do You Hear What I Hear? Perceived Narrative Constitutes a Semantic Dimension for Music. Cognition, 212, 104712.

McAuley, J.D., Wong, P.C.M., Bellaiche, L. & Margulis, E.H. (2021). What Drives Narrative Engagement with Music? Music Perception, 38, 509-521.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Pluralism Provides the Best Chance for Addressing Big Questions About Music: Commentary on “Music as a Coevolved System for Social Bonding.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 56-57.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Expectancy. In Thorau, C., Sprick, J.P., Schwab-Felisch, O., & Jessulat, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Musical Analysis. Kassel and Stuttgart, Germany: Bärenreiter & Metzer. 

Baker, D.J., Belfi, A., Creel, S., Grahn, J., Hannon, E., Loui, P, Margulis, E.H., Schachner, A., Schutz, M., Shanahan, D. & Vuvan, D.T. (2020). Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community. Music Perception, 38, 103-105.

Ma, W., Fiveash, A., Margulis, E., Behrend, D., Thompson, W.F. (2020). Song and Infant-Directed Speech Facilitate Word Learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1036-1054.

Jacoby, N.*, Margulis, E.H.,* Clayton, M., Hannon, E., Honing, H., Iversen, J. Klein, T.R., Mehr, S.A., Pearson, L., Peretz, I., Perlman, M., Polak, R., Ravignani, A., Savage, P.E., Steingo, G., Stevens, C.J., Trainor, L., Trehub, S., Veal, M. & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2020). Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition: Challenges, Insights and Recommendations. Music Perception, 37, 185-195.

Margulis, E.H., Wong. P.C.M., Simchy-Gross, R. & McAuley, J.D. (2019). What the Music Said: Narrative Listening Across Cultures. Palgrave Communications, 5, 146.

Madsen, J., Margulis, E.H., Simchy-Gross, R. & Parra, L. (2019). Music Synchronizes Brainwaves Across Listeners with Strong Effects of Repetition, Familiarity and Training. Scientific Reports, 9: 3576.

Margulis, E.H. (2019). Editorial. Eighteenth-Century Music, 16(2), 109-113.

Margulis, E.H. (2019). Review of David Huron, Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art. Journal of Music Theory, 63, 139-144.

Aydogan, G., Flaig, N., Ravi, S.N., Large, E.W., McClure, S.M. & Margulis, E.H. (2018). Overcoming Bias: Cognitive Control Reduces Susceptibility to Framing Effects in Evaluating Musical Performance. Scientific Reports, 8, 6229.

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2018). The Sound-to-Music Illusion: Repetition Can Musicalize Non-Speech Sounds. Music & Science, 1-6

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2018). Expectation, Information Processing, and Subjective Duration. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80, 275-291.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). Repetition. In A. Rehding & S. Rings (Eds.), Handbook of Concepts in Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.

de Clercq, T. & Margulis, E.H. (2018). A Psychological Perspective on Repetition in Pop Music. In C. Leveaux & O. Julien (Eds.), Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Pop Music. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). An Exploratory Study of Narrative Experiences of Music. Music Perception, 35, 235-248.

Graber, E., Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2017). Musical and Linguistic Listening Modes in the Speech-to-Song Illusion Bias Timing Perception and Absolute Pitch Memory. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, 3593.

Margulis, E.H., Levine, W.H., Simchy-Gross, R., & Kroger, C. (2017). Expressive Intent, Ambiguity, and Aesthetic Experiences of Music and Poetry. PLOS ONE12(7): e0179145.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). How Music Meshes with Mind. Review of "Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music." Nature, 546, 341.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Musical Aesthetics and Values. In R. Ashley & R. Timmers (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music Cognition (pp. 513-522). New York: Routledge.

Kroger, C. & Margulis, E.H. (2017). But They Told Me It Was Professional: Extrinsic Factors in the Evaluation of Musical Performance. Psychology of Music, 45, 49-64.

Eitan, Z., Ben-Haim, S. & Margulis, E.H. (2017). Implicit Absolute Pitch Representation Affects Basic Tonal Perception. Music Perception, 34, 569-584.

Margulis, E.H. & Simchy-Gross, R. (2016). Repetition Enhances the Musicality of Randomly Generated Tone Sequences. Music Perception, 33, 509-514.

Viskontas, I.V. & Margulis, E.H. (2016). Music on the Mind: An Introduction to this Special Issue of Neurocase. Neurocase, 22, 484-485.

Volk, A., Chew, E., Margulis, E.H. & Anagnostopoulou, C. (2016). Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition, Computation. Journal of New Music Research, 45, 207-209.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Toward a Better Understanding of Perceived Complexity in Music: A Commentary on Eerola. Empirical Musicology Review, 11, 18-19.

Campbell, S.M. & Margulis, E.H. (2015). Catching an Earworm Through Movement. Journal of New Music Research, 44, 347-358.

Margulis, E.H., Kisida, B. & Greene, J. P. (2015). A Knowing Ear: The Effect of Explicit Information on Children's Experience of a Musical Performance. Psychology of Music, 43, 596-605.

Margulis, E.H., Simchy-Gross, R. & Black, J.L. (2015). Pronunciation Difficulty, Temporal Regularity, and the Speech-to-Song Illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00048.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Repetition and Musicality. SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory, 1.1.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Expectation, Musical Topics, and the Problem of Affective Differentiation. In D. Mirka (Ed.), Handbook of Topic Theory. New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 629-641).

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Verbatim Repetition and Musical Engagement. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 24, 157-163.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Perception, Expectation, Affect, Analysis. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fuer Musiktheorie, 10.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Expectancy. In W.F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Repetition. In W.F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Silence. In W.F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

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, 4082-4093doi: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 Perception22, 663-714. 

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

INVITED TALKS

Margulis, E.H., Grahn, J.A. & Loui, P. (2024). Toward more inclusiveness and equity in SMPC. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). Memory-imagination loops in music listening. Keynote Address, International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). Imagination and memory for music. Music as Medicine, NIH Workshop, Bethesda, MD.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). Cognitive science of music. Cognitive Science Lunch-and-Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). Musical daydreams. Leading Voices Series, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Margulis, E.H., Loui, P. & Loughridge, D. (2023). The science-music borderlands. Countway Longwood Author Series, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). The Psychology of Music. Game Day Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Intersubjectivity and imaginative responses to music. Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Music listening and the imagination. Plenary address, 21st Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens, Greece.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Intersubjectivity and imaginative responses to music. Invited talk, Expression, Language, Music, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Intersubjectivity and imaginative responses to music. NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion. New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Music and repetition. Music, Memes and Digital Culture Freshman Seminar. Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Repetition and variability. Music from Earth. Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Intersubjectivity and imaginative responses to music. University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Narrative and aesthetics. Music cognition undergraduate seminar. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Music, intersubjectivity, and the narrative imagination. Department of Music Theory, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination. Distinguished Cognitive Science Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Music, intersubjectivity, and the narrative imagination. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Pluralist approaches and interdisciplinary teams: A case study from narrative. New Methods and New Challenges in Interdisciplinary Musicology, IRCAM, Paris, France.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Hearing music narratively. Keynote address: 15 SIMCAM International Symposium on Cognition and Musical Arts. Virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Music cognition between science and the humanities. Future Directions of Music Cognition Speaker Series. Virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Hearing music narratively. Georgia Tech, virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2021). Communicating across disciplines. Building Sustainable Global Collaborative Research Networks Workshop, MPIEA and Keio Unviersity, virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2020). Hearing music narratively. Music Department Research Forum, Durham University, virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2020). Interdisciplinary perspectives on cross-cultural work in music. Complexity and the Structure of Music: Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures. Santa Fe Institute, virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2020). Repetition, music and mind. CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series, McGill University, virtual.

Margulis, E.H. (2019). Repetition, music, and mind. Keynote address, Again and Again: Musical Repetition in Aesthetics, Analysis, and Experience. City University of London, London, UK.

Margulis, E.H. (2019). What is musical listening? Michael Tsan Ty Memorial Lecture, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology, Neurology Grand Rounds Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Margulis, E.H. (2019). Battles, sunrises, loneliness and mice: Narrative listening to music. Center for Language, Music, and Emotion. New York University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H., Eck D., Dagher, A. & Castro, P.S. (2019). Creativity: Perspectives from Neuroscience and AI. South by Southwest, Austin Texas.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). What is musical listening? Music, Cognition and the Brain Series, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). Music and the implicit. Music Theory and Music Cognition: A Conference in Honor of Fred Lerdahl. Columbia University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). What is musical about musical listening? Carolina Symposia in Music and Culture Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Margulis, E.H. (2018). What is musical about musical listening? Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Margulis, E.H. (2018). What is musical about musical listening? Invited keynote, Texas Society for Music Theory, Dallas, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2018). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. Distinguished Lyceum Speaker Series, Baylor University, Waco, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Using science to think about musical listening. Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Using science to think about music. Donald Hodges Lecture Series, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Using science to think about music. Dean's Speaker Series, Linfield College, McMinville, OR.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Empirical tools for thinking about musical aesthetics. Invited keynote, McGill Graduate Music Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Empirical tools for thinking about musical aesthetics. College of Music, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Hearing things in sound. Seminars in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Empirical tools for thinking about musical aesthetics. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. THEME Series Colloquium, School of Music, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. School of Music, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Music perception for neuromorphs. Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop. Telluride, CO.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. Visiting Faculty Lecture, Exploring the Mind Through Music Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Repetition and musicality. Google Music, Art, and Machine Intelligence Workshop. Google San Francisco, CA.

Koelsch, S., Margulis, E.H., Sadoff, R. & Tan, S.-L. (2016). Why movies move us: The psychology and neuroscience of film music. New York University, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Can science really tell us anything about listening to music? Southern Methodist University, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences Interdisciplinary Institute, Dallas, TX.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Empirical approaches to aesthetic listening. Music Theory Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Repetition, music, and mind. Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Public Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomingon, IN.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Adventures in empirical approaches to musical aesthetics. Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Can science really tell us anything about how we listen to music? Music Theory Colloquium, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Perceiving music narratively: Who does it, and when? Department of Music Colloquium, Washington University, St, Louis, MO.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Perceiving music narratively: Who does it, and when? Madison Music Scholar Lecture, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). What's at stake for music cognition in similarity research? Plenary session at Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition, and Computation. Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Repetition, music, and mind. Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Series, University of Cincinnati - College/Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Why does music repeat so much? Lightning Talk, Science Foo Camp, Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA.

Marguils, E.H. (2014). Is music a language? Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville, AR.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Repetition, music, and mind. Music Theory Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Panel discussion on science and the humanities with Eric Kandel. Emerson-Weir Symposium, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Using cognitive science to understand music. Honors Colloquium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Repetition, music, and mind. Music Theory Colloquium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Repetition, music, and Mind. College of Music, Music Forum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Repetition, music, and mind. Department of Psychology Cognitive Science Seminar Series, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

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. Music Theory and Cognition Colloquium, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Repetition, music, and mind. Cognitive Science Program Colloquium, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI.

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.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Thompson, W.F., Tan, S.-L., Pfordresher, P., Margulis, E.H., Russo, F. & Patel, A. (2024). Teaching music perception and cognition. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada.

Windholz, M.O., Jalon, I., Kubit, B.M., & Margulis, E.H. (2024). The role of style in perception of emotion in musical harmony. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada

Turnbull, C., Kubit, B.M., Jakubowski, K. & Margulis, E.H. (2024). Shared content in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada.

Miller, N.P. & Margulis, E.H. (2024). Immersed on TikTok: Musical repetition’s effect on viewing behavior. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada

Kushan, M. & Margulis, E.H. (2024). Exploring the effect of score type on auditory attention and coordination in ensemble singing. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Banff, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2023). Using music to probe the relationship between perception and imagination. American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Christianson, K., Simmons, G., Williams, J., Turnbull, C. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Narratives imagined during music and speech elicit shared high-level neural activity patterns. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Kushan, M. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Exploring the relationship between musical score and attention in ensemble singing. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Turnbull, C., Jakubowski, K. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Intersubjectivity in music-evoked autobiographical memories. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Hooper, G. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). The effect of music-based interventions on memory impairment in people with Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia: A meta-analysis. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Miller, N. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Music’s effects on immersion in multimedia. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Windholz, M.O. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). The role of harmonic style in the perception of musical genre. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Kubit, B., Margulis, E.H., Norman, K. & Janata, P. (2023). Earworms and neural replay of mental representations for recently heard music. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Savage, P., Nayak, S., Liu, J., Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, C., Ozaki, Y., & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Symposium on music(ality) and language. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo, Japan.

Miller, N. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). Investigating musical repetition’s impact on immersion in multimedia. Music Cognition Special Interest Group, Society for Music Theory, Denver, CO.

Windholz, M.O. & Margulis, E.H. (2023). The role of harmonic style in the perception of musical genre. Music Cognition Special Interest Group, Society for Music Theory, Denver, CO.

Margulis, E.H. (2022). Intersubjectivity and musical imaginings. International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, Philadelphia, PA.

Thompson, W.F., Bullot, N. & Margulis, E.H. (2022). The psychological basis of music appreciation: Structure, self, source. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

Kubit, B.M., Margulis, E.H., Norman, K. & Janata, P. (2022). Earworms and neural replay of mental representations for recently heard music. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

McAuley, J.D., Fairchild, J., Mamidipaka, A. & Margulis, E.H. (2022). Narrative imaginings and music’s perceived duration. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

Hannon, E., Loui, P., Margulis, E.H., Ashley, R. & Russo, F. (2022). Panel discussion: Meet the editors with Kate Stevens. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

Waddell, S., Fairchild, J., Mamidipaka, A., Margulis, E.H. & McAuley, J.D. (2022). Exploring the roles of topicality and musical contrast in narrative perceptions of music. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

Simmons, G., Williams, J., Turnbull, C., Christianson, K., & Margulis, E.H. (2022). Neural correlates of narrative imagination in music versus speech. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.

Linna, J., Kushan, M.A., Beck, J., Fink, L., & Margulis, E.H. (2022). Using puillometry to investigate the effects of meditation on music listening. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Portland, OR.Margulis, E.H. (2019). Hearing music narratively: A cross-cultural approach. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Columbus, OH.

Margulis, E.H., Wong, P.C.M., Phillips, N. Simchy-Gross, R., Kindig, G. & McAuley, D. (2019). The stories music tells: Cross-cultural narratives for wordless music. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY.

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Theory, analysis, and characterizations of the musical. Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Arlington, VA.

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2017). Does speaking rate affect singing rate? Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, San Diego, CA.

Margulis, E.H., Levine, W.H., Simchy-Gross, R. & Kroger, C. (2017). Expressive intent, ambiguity, and aesthetic responses to music and poetry. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, San Diego, CA.

Graber, E., Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2017). Speech transformed into song heightens temporal sensitivity but weakens absolute pitch sensitivity. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, San Diego, CA.

Taverno, P. & Margulis, E.H. (2016). Individual differences and suggestibility in visual imagery in visualization to music. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA.

Margulis, E.H. (2016). Narrative experiences of instrumental pop music. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA.

Flaig, N., Molfese, P., Margulis, E.H., Kroger, C. & Large, E. (2016). Real or perceived? Neural underpinnings of expectation in the enjoyment of performances. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA.

Gjerdingen, R., Huron, D., Loughridge, D., Margulis, E.H., Wallmark, Z. & Zbikowski, L. (2016). Music and the cognitive sciences: Prospects and problems. Music Cognition Special Interest Group, Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Vancouver, Canada.

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Perceiving music narratively: Who does it, and when? Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Nashville, TN.

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2015). Musical time estimation: How musical
expectancies and oddballs influence duration judgments. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Nashville, TN.

Kroger, C. & Margulis, E.H. (2015). The sound or the expectation: Psychological processes in the evaluation of musical performance. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Nashville, TN.

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2014). Attention, density, and coherence in musical time estimation. 13th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Long Beach, CA.

Black, J. & Margulis, E.H. (2014). Contextual variability in affective responses to music. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seoul, Korea.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Verbatim repetition and listening musically. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seoul, Korea.

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Interest as an emotional response to music. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seoul, Korea.

McCullough, S. (2014). The effect of motor involvement and melody truncation on involuntary musical imagery. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seoul, Korea.

Simchy-Gross, R. & Margulis, E.H. (2014). Modulating attention in multi-part Music: Is simple consonance more helpful than compound dissonance?

Margulis, E.H. (2013). Musical topics and the affective differentiation of surprise. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada.

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.

JOURNALISTIC PIECES

Margulis, E.H. (2018). What Can Psychology Tell Us About Music? https://blog.oup.com/2018/11/psychology-about-music/

Margulis, E.H. (2017). Music Is Not For Ears. Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/music-is-in-your-brain-and-your-body-and-your-life

Margulis, E.H. (2015). Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Our Heads? TED-Ed https://ed.ted.com/lessons/earworms-those-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head-elizabeth-hellmuth-margulis

Margulis, E.H. (2015). The Music in You. Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/you-are-a-remarkable-musical-expert-you-just-don-t-know-it

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Why We Love Repetition in Music. TED-Ed https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-we-love-repetition-in-music-elizabeth-hellmuth-margulis

Margulis, E.H. (2014 – present). Looking at Listening. A blog on Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/looking-listening

Margulis, E.H. (2014). One More Time. Aeon Magazine. http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/

(Translated into Hebrew and reprinted in Haaretz Magazine, http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/the-edge/.premium-1.2274063)

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head. The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/why-songs-get-stuck-in-your-head/282997/ [Adapted from On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind]

Margulis, E.H. (2014). Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore! OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2014/01/music-repetition-neuroscience/

Margulis, E.H. (2005). The Listening Mind.  A radio pilot funded by American Public Media. Recorded at WBEZ, Chicago and WGBH, Boston.