CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark A. Schmuckler
Biographical Information
WORK ADDRESS:
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario M1C 1A4
(416) 287-7417
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Date of Birth: October 5, 1961
Place of Birth: Syracuse, N.Y.
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Permanent Resident: Canada
EDUCATION:
B.A. with high honors. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983. Majors in psychology and music.
Ph.D. Cornell University, January, 1988.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate, University of Toronto Scarborough, July 2013 – June, 2020
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate (Acting), University of Toronto Scarborough, July 2010 – December 2010
Vice-Principal, Research (Interim), University of Toronto Scarborough, February 2009 – July 2009
Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough, July 2000 – present
Associate professor, University of Toronto Scarborough, July 1994 – June 2000
Assistant professor, University of Toronto Scarborough, July 1989 – June 1994
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Virginia. Training grant in neurobiology and behavioral development. August 1987 – July 1989.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- International Congress for Infant Studies
- Society for Music Perception and Cognition
- Society for Research in Child Development
RECOGNITIONS:
- Association for Psychological Society, Fellow
- Adjuct Professor, Walter Murdoch Distinguished Collaborator Program, School of Psychology, Murdoch University
- Member, Music and History Research Collaboratory, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
- Member, Collaborative Program in Neurosciences, University of Toronto
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Editor, Psychomusicology, January 2018 – December 2023
Incoming Editor, Psychomusicology, January 2017 – December 2017
Associate Editor, Music Perception, July 1998 – January 2018
Editorial Board, Journal of Cognition and Development, January 2017 – December 2020
Conference Organization:
- Member of review panel, ICMPC 14, the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, 2016
- Invited to review for Panel 1, Infancy: Neurodevelopmental, Cognitive, Motor, and Perceptual Processes, The 2011 Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (declined).
- Member of review panel 8, Motor and Sensorimotor. The International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, 2010
- Member of review panel 15, Perceptual, Motor, and Psychobiological Processes. The 2007 Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, March, Boston, MA.
- Co-organizer (with Dr. S. Trehub), International Conference on Infant Studies, April 2002, Toronto, ON (attendance » 1100).
- Local Arrangements Co-Organizer, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, November 2000
- Panel chair, Motor and Sensori-Motor Behavior, International Conference on Infant Studies, July 2000, Brighton, England (estimated attendance, 750-1000).
- Co-organizer (with Dr. J. Kennedy), International Conference on Perception and Action IV, July 1997, Toronto, ON (attendance » 200).
- Organizer, Scarborough Psychology Symposium, 1993-1994
Grant Committees:
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Evaluation Group member, Discovery Grants Program 1502 – Biological Systems and Functions, 2015 – 2018.
- National Science Foundation, Developmental Systems Panel, Fall 2016.
- National Institutes of Health, Motor Function, Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section member, Summer 2008
Grant Reviewer for:
- Alzheimer’s Society of Canada
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Israeli Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Journal Reviewer for:
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Child Development
- Cognition
- Cognitive Brain Research
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Science
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Developmental Psychobiology
- Developmental Psychology
- Developmental Science
- Experimental Brain Research
- History of Psychology
- Human Movement Science
- Infancy
- Infant Behavior and Development
- Journal of Cognition and Development
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Journal of Theory and Philosophical Psychology
- Memory and Cognition
- Musicae Scientiae
- Music Perception
- Music Theory Spectrum
- Perception & Psychophysics
- Psychological Reports
- Psychological Science
- Psychology of Music
- Psychomusicology
- Society for Research in Child Development Monographs
Academic History
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Infant perceptual-motor development, including postural control and the development of locomotion, and visual perception of objects, surfaces, and events.
Human perception and cognition, including cognitive processes during auditory and musical perception.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Multisensory integration in the development of mobility / Pitch organization in music cognition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/19 – 3/31/24, $165,000.00 ($33,000.00 / yr).
Play and learning across the year (Co-Investigator). National Institutes of Health. Total funding: $6,341,419.00. Portion of funding received: $8,867.00. K. E. Adolph, R. Gilmore, C. Tamis-LaMonda, Principal Investigators
Perceptual motor coupling in obvious and non-obvious domains / Tonality and contour in music cognition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/11 – 3/31/19. $192,000.00 ($24,000.00 / yr).
Adjunct Professor, Walter Murdoch Distinguished Collaborator Program, School of Psychology, Murdoch University. May 2012 – May 2014. $10,000.00/yr
Perception-action coupling in context: Developmental processes / Pitch structures in music cognition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/06 – 3/31/11. $165,000.00 ($33,000.00 / yr).
Academic Initiatives Fund for enhancing research in the Centre for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (co-authored with S. Joordens & G. Cree, with support from J. Kennedy and M. Niemeier), University of Toronto at Scarborough, 3/31/05. $135,000.00
Cognition and action in development of mobility / Organization processes in music. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/01 – 3/31/06. $185,000.00
Studies in musical perception and performance. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Equipment award, 4/1/98 – 3/31/00. $8,000.00
The development of perception-action coupling / Organizational principles in music cognition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/97 – 3/31/01. $127,890.00
The development of perceptual-motor integration. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/93 – 3/31/97. $116,000.00 ($29,000.00 / yr).
Video editing and analysis and optic flow generation and presentation equipment. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Equipment award, 4/1/93 – 3/31/95, $8,737.00
Development of mobility: Investigation of component processes. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 4/1/90 – 3/31/93. $90,000.00
University of Toronto grant, 9/89 – 9/91. $10,000.00
National Research Service Award, Post-doctoral fellowship, National Institutes of Mental Health. Training Grant in Neurobiology and Behavioral Development. 8/87 – 7/89.
Research in Music Perception. National Research Service Award, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Mental Health, 1/1/85 – 12/31/86.
Scholarly and Professional Work
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
Schmuckler, M. A., Vuvan, D. T., & Lewandowska, O. P. (in press). Aggregate context effects in music processing. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
Prince, J. B., Tan, S. E. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). Listeners perceive complex pitch-temporal structure in melodies. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00987-5
Lewandowska, O. P., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). Tonal and textural influences on musical sight-reading. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01187-1
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tang, A. (2019). Multisensory factors in postural control: Varieties of visual and haptic effects. Gait & Posture, 71, 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2019.04.018
Lewkowicz, D. J., Schmuckler, M. A., & Mangalindan, D. M. J. (2018). Learning of hierarchical serial patterns emerges in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.21614
Jowkar-Baniani, G., Paolozza, A., Greene, A., Cheng, C. K., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). Infants’ perceptions of constraints on object motion as a function of object shape. Cognition, 167, 126-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.04.011.
Mangalindan, D. M. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). To cue or not to cue: Toddlers’ use of beacons and associative cues in object-displacement tasks. Infancy, 22, 713-731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12178.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). Postural response to predictable and nonpredictable visual flow in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 163, 32-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.005
Zakzanis, K. K., Grimes, K. M., Uzzaman, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2016). Prospection and its relationship to instrumental activities of daily living in patients with mild traumatic brain injury with cognitive impairment. Brain Injury. Published Online: April 25, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699052.2016.1147077.
Prince, J. B., Vuvan, D. T., Schmuckler, M. A., & Scott-Clark, T. T. (2015). Tonal priming is resistant to changes in pitch. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 2011-2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-015-0904-7
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). The role of stimulus novelty on children’s inflexible dimensional switching. Child Development, 85, 1373-1384. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12212
Mangalindan, D. M. J., Schmuckler, M. A., & Li, S.-A. (2014). The impact of object carriage on independent locomotion. Infant Behavior and Development, 37, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.12.008
Vuvan, D. T., Podolak, O. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). Memory for musical tones: The impact of tonality and the creation of false memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00582
Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). The tonal-metric hierarchy: A corpus analysis. Music Perception, 31, 254-270. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1525/mp.2014.31.3.254
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). The role of perceptual similarity of the task environments in children’s perseverative responding. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 640-658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.07.006
Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). Perseveration in barrier crossing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1100-1123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031119
Mangalindan, D. M. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). What’s in a cue? The role of cue orientation in object displacement tasks. Infant Behavior and Development, 34, 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.03.002
Vuvan, D. T., Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Probing the minor tonal hierarchy. Music Perception, 28, 461-472. https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.28.5.46
Vuvan, D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Tonal hierarchy representations in auditory imagery. Memory & Cognition, 39, 477-490. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-010-0032-5
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Picture perception in infants: Generalization from two-dimensional to three-dimensional displays. Infancy, 16, 211-226. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00038.x
Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Melodic contour similarity using folk melodies. Music Perception, 28, 169-193. https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2010.28.2.169
Prince, J. B., Schmuckler, M. A., & Thomspon, W. F. (2009). Cross-modal perception of melodic contours. Canadian Acoustics, 37, 35-49.
Prince, J. B., Schmuckler, M. A., & Thompson, W. F. (2009). The effect of task and pitch structure on pitch-time interactions in music. Memory & Cognition, 37, 368-381. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/MC.37.3.368
Prince, J. B., Thompson, W. F., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Pitch and time, tonality and meter: How do musical dimensions combine? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1598-1617. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016456
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Dial A440 for absolute pitch: Absolute pitch memory by non-absolute pitch possessors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, EL77-84. https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2896106
Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Review of Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 137-142.
Schmuckler, M. A., Collimore, L. M., & Dannemiller, J. L. (2007). Infants’ reactions to object collision on hit and miss trajectories. Infancy, 12, 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/15250000701298899
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jewell, S. (2007). The effect of simulated self versus object movement in a non-search task. Infancy, 11, 305-320.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jewell, D. T. (2007). Infants’ visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception with imperfect contingency information. Developmental Psychobiology, 48, 387-398.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tomovski, R. (2005). Perceptual tests of musical key-finding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1124-1149.
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2004). The perception of tonal structure through the differentiation and organization of pitches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 268-286.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2003). A question of questions: Comments on Wagman and Miller. Developmental Psychobiology, 42, 342-348.
Marcovitch, S., Zelazo, P. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002) The effect of number of A trials on performance on the A-not-B task. Infancy, 3, 319-329.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2001). What is ecological validity? A dimensional analysis. Infancy, 2, 419-436.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Fairhall, J. L. (2001). Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception using point light displays. Child Development, 72, 949-962.
Kingsnorth, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Walking skill versus walking experience as a predictor of barrier crossing in toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 331-350.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tsang-Tong, H. Y. (2000). The role of visual and body movement information in infant search. Developmental Psychology, 36, 499-510.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1999). Testing models of melodic contour similarity. Music Perception, 16, 295-326.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Li, N. S. (1998). Looming responses to obstacles and apertures: The role of accretion and deletion of background texture. Psychological Science, 9, 49-52
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Musical perception and cognition: An introduction. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 265-267.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Expectancy effects in memory for melodies. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 292-306.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Bosman, E. L. (1997). Interkey timing in piano performance. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 99-111.
Chiappe, P., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Phrasing influences the recognition of melodies. Psychological Bulletin and Review, 7, 254-259.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Children’s postural sway in response to low and high frequency visual information for oscillation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 528-545.
Rosenblum, L. D., Schmuckler, M. A., & Johnson, J. A. (1997). The McGurk effect in young infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 347-357.
Grant, S. C., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). Alternative origins of motor images. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 759-760.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). The development of visually-guided locomotion: Barrier crossing by toddlers. Ecological Psychology, 8, 209-236.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 221-232.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Boltz, M. G. (1994). Harmonic and rhythmic influences on musical expectancy. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 313-325.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Proffitt, D. R. (1994). Infants’ perceptions of kinetic depth and stereokinetic displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 122-130.
Gilden, D. L., Schmuckler, M. A., & Clayton, K. (1993). The perception of natural contour. Psychological Review, 100, 460-478.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gilden, D. L. (1993). Auditory perception of fractal contours. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 641-660.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1990). The performance of global expectations. Psychomusicology, 9, 122-147.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes. Music Perception, 7, 109-150.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1989). The effect of imposed optical flow on guided locomotion in young walkers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 193-206.
Gibson, E. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Going somewhere: An ecological and experimental approach to development of mobility. Ecological Psychology, 1, 3-25.
Gibson, E. J., Riccio, G., Schmuckler, M. A., Stoffregen, T. A., Rosenburg, D., & Taormina, J. (1987). Detection of traversability of surfaces by crawling and walking infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 533-544.
Stoffregen, T. A., Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1987). Use of central and peripheral optical flow in stance and locomotion in young walkers. Perception, 16, 113-119.
Krumhansl, C. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1987). The Petroushka chord: A perceptual investigation. Music Perception, 4, 153-184.
Pastore, R. E., Schmuckler, M. A., Rosenblum, L., & Szczesiul, R. (1983). Duplex perception with musical stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 33, 469-474.
BOOKS & EDITORSHIPS:
Parke, R. D., Gauvain, M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (Third Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
Hetherington, E. M., Parke, R. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2005). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (Second Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
Hetherington, E. M., Parke, R. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (First Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
Schmuckler, M. A., Trehub, S. E., & Kosarev, V. F. (2002). Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Kennedy, J. M. (1997). Studies in Perception and Action IV: Ninth International Conference on Perception and Action. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schmuckler, M. A. Music Cognition. Guest editor for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, December, 1997.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Schmuckler, M. A. (2016). Tonality and contour in melodic processing. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, and M. Thaut (Eds.), The oxford handbook of music psychology, 2e (pp. 143-165). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). Perceptual-motor relations in obvious and non-obvious domains: A history and review. In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Volume 1: Body and Mind (pp. 237-270). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Components of melodic processing. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, and M. Thaut (Eds.), Handbook of music psychology (pp. 93-106). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2004). Pitch and pitch structures. In J. Neuhoff (Ed.), Ecological psychoacoustics (pp. 271-315). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Science
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Pitch-distributional effects on the perception of tonality. In C. Woods, B. B. Luck, R. Brochard, S. A. O’Neil, & J. A. Sloboda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (CD-ROM), Keele, Staffordshire, UK: Department of Psychology.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tsang, H. (1997). Visual-movement interaction in infant search. In M. A. Schmuckler & J. M. Kennedy (Eds.), Studies in perception and action IV: Ninth international conference on perception and action (pp. 233-236). Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1995). Self-knowledge of body position: Integration of perceptual and action system information. In P. Rochat (Ed.), The self in infancy: Theory and research (pp. 221-241). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Perception-action coupling. In G. J. P. Savelsbergh (Ed.), The development of coordination in infancy (pp. 137-173). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1990). Issues in the development of postural control. In H. Bloch & B. I. Bennett (Eds.), Sensory motor organization and development in infancy and early childhood (pp. 231-236). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
Catanzaro, A. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Response perseveration in barrier crossing. In M.A. Schmuckler, S. E. Trehub, & V. F. Kosarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jewell, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception from degraded featural and contingency information. In M.A. Schmuckler, S. E. Trehub, & V. F. Kosarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kingsnorth, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Infants’ sensitivity to violations in the temporal directionality of irreversible events. In M.A. Schmuckler, S. E. Trehub, & V. F. Kosarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schmuckler, M. A., Bhagoutie, V., & Dzinas, K. (2002). The influence of environmental and social factors on locomotor development. In M.A. Schmuckler, S. E. Trehub, & V. F. Kosarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Johnson, J. A., Rosenblum, L. D., & Schmuckler, M A. (1995). The McGurk effect in infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 3286.
Hetherington, C. R., Creelman, C. D., Stuss, D. T., Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Detection of regular and irregular repeated tones in noise: Rhythm helps only if rhythm is detected. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93, 2363-2364.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gilden, D. L. (1989). Perceiving fractal noises in pitch, loudness, and duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Suppl. 1, 85, S144.
Gibson, E. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1988). Going somewhere: Development of mobility in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 11, 106.
Pastore, R. E., Szczesiul, R., Rosenblum, L. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1983). Does silence play a role in the perception of stops? Journal of the Acoustical society of America, Suppl. 1, 73, S52.
Pastore, R. E., Szczsiul, R., Rosenblum, L. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1982). When is a [p] a [t] and when is it not? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Suppl. 1, 72, S16.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
Schmuckler, M. A., Vuvan, D. T., & Lewandowska, O. P. (2019). Implicit tonal effects in music processing. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY. August 4 – 6, 2019.
Prince, J. B., Tan, J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2018). Misaligning the tonal and metric hierarchies in normal melodies decreases goodness and beat clarity. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and 10th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Montreal, PQ, Canada, Sydney, Australia, La Plaza, Argentina, Graz, Austria, July 27, 2018.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2018). Quantifying the weights of multisensory influences across development. Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, ON, June 16, 2018.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). Multisensory information in posture and locomotion. Paper presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX, April 8, 2017.
Podolak, O. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). The influence of tonality on sight-reading accuracy. Talk presented at the 13th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, August 7, 2014.
Podolak, O. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). The influence of tonality on sight-reading. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Toronto, ON, November 14, 2013.
Podolak, O. M., Vuvan, D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). The influence of various tonal contexts of memory for single notes. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, ON, August 11, 2013.
Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). The tonal and metric hierarchies are correlated, but variable. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, ON, August 11, 2013.
Vuvan, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Linking perception to cognition in the statistical learning of tonal hierarchies. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, NY, August 13, 2011.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). The impact of perceptual similarity on chidlren’s search behavior. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. Berkeley, CA, June 7, 2011.
Prince, J. B., Thompson, W. F., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). The effect of task and pitch structure on pitch-time interactions in music. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, IN. August
Prince, J. B., Schmuckler, M. A., & Thompson, W. F. (2007). Interaction or independence of musical dimension: Pitch and rhythm, tonality and meter. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, PQ, July.
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2003). Dial A440 for absolute pitch. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, & Cognitive Science. Hamilton, ON. June
Schmuckler, M. A. (2001). The role of theory in research on musical development. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tomovski, R. (2000). Tonal hierarchies and intervallic rivalries in musical key-finding. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, ON. November.
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Pitch-distributional effects on the perception of tonality. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Keele, Staffordshire, UK, July
Schmuckler, M. A. (1999). What is ecological validity, anyways?. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April.
Gilden, D. L., Schmuckler, M. A., & Ahissar, M. (1998). Fluctuations in simple motor acts. Paper presented at the 39th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX. November.
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1998). Pitch duration and the perception of tonality. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Sciences, Ottawa, ON, June.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tomovski, R. (1997). Perceptual tests of an algorithm for musical key-finding. Paper presented at the 38th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA. November.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Children’s postural response to visual information for oscillation: Evidence of perception-action coupling. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1994). Perceiving melodic contour: Similarity as a function of time-series information. Paper presented at the 35th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Inter- and intra-hand timing in piano performance and typing. Paper presented at the 34th meetings of the Psychonomic Society. Washington, DC, November.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Expectancy effects in memory for melodies. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Philadelphia, PA, July.
Hetherington, C. R., Creelman, C. R., Stuss, D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Detection of regular and irregular repeated tones in noise: Rhythm helps only if rhythm is detected. Paper presented at the 125th meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, ON, May.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Issues in the development of postural control. Paper presented at the NATO conference “Sensory-motor organizations and development in infancy”, Rouen, France, July.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gilden, D. L. (1989). Perceiving fractal noises in pitch, loudness, and duration. Paper presented at the 117th meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, Syracuse, NY, May.
Gilden, D. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). The perception of fractal contour. Paper presented at the 30th meetings of Psychonomic Society, Atlanta, GA, November.
Proffitt, D. R., Rock, I., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Visual bases of the stereokinetic effect. Paper presented at the Fifth Internation Conference on Event Perception and Action: Coupling Perception and Action. Oxford, OH.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1987). The effect of imposed optical flow on guided locomotion in young walkers. Paper presented at the 3rd annual East Coast Clinical Gait Conferences, Washington, DC. November.
Krumhansl, C. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1986). Key-finding in music: An algorithm based on pattern matching to tonal hierarchies. Paper presented at the 19th annual Mathematical Psychology Meeeting, Cambridge, MA.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Krumhansl, C. L. (1986). Representational momentum in twentieth-century music. Paper presented at the 94th annual American Psychological Association meeting, Washington, DC, August.
Krumhansl, C. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1984). Bitonality: A naturalistic test of divided attention in music. Paper presented at the 25th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, TX, November.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Johanis, T. C., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). The root of harmonic expectancy: A priming study. Poster presented at the 18th annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Montreal, PQ, November 14.
Bhati, P., Cheung, T. C. K., Sithamparanathan, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019) Striking a balance between having more sports or more time on sport: Effect of extracurricular sports on postural stability among different standing postures in children. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Waterloo, ON, June 7 – 9.
McPhee, A. M., Cheung, T. C. K., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). Dual-task interference as a function of task load. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Waterloo, ON, June 7 – 9.
Singh, A. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). The role of external limb perturbation in visually-guided locomotion. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Waterloo, ON, June 7 – 9.
Cheung, T. C. K., Bhati, P., Sithamparanathan, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). Interplay of visual, haptic, and proprioceptive information in postural control changes from childhood to adulthood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, March 21 – 23.
McPhee, A. M., Paolozza, A., Ahmed, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2019). Eye-tracking and problem-solving ability in toddlers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, March 21 – 23.
Cheung, T. C. K., Bhati, P., Jenish, C., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2018). Differential importance of visual and haptic information in postural control among different standing postures. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, ON, June 16, 2018.
Schmuckler, M. A., Paolozza, A., & Singh, A. D. (2018) Multisensory influences in locomotor development. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, ON, June 16, 2018.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Paolozza, A. (2018). The influence of object carriage on barrier crossing in young toddlers. Poster presented at the XXI International Conference on Infant Studies Biennial Congress, Philadelphia, PA. June 30 – July 3.
Singh, A. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2018). The role of external limb perturbation in visually-guided locomotion. Poster presented at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, QC, June 26 – 30.
Podolak, O. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). The impact of (a)tonal modulation on harmonic priming. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, San Diego, CA, July-August, 2017.
Paolozza, A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2017). Toddlers’ walking to the beat. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX, April 6, 2017.
Podolak, O. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2016). Understanding modulations through harmonic priming. Poster presented at the 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, July 7, 2016.
Thompson, K., Schmuckler, M. A., & Zakzanis, K. (2016). Examining the cognitive and perceptual differences between musicans and non-musicians: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, July 5, 2016.
Mangalindan, D. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2015). Beacons in object displacement tasks: Role of spatial relation between cue and target location. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, ON, June 4, 2015.
Schmuckler, M. A., and Tang, A. (2015). The development of multisensory postural control: Varieties of somatosensory input. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, ON, June 5, 2015.
Podolak, O. M. & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). The influence of tonality on sight-reading accuracy. Poster presented at BKN25 – Milestones in Music Cognition. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada, July, 8 2014.
Prince, J. B., Vuvan D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2014). Does pitch height affect tonal priming? Poster presented at the meeting, Neurosciences and Music – V: Cognitive Stimulation and Rehabilitation, Dijon, France, May 29, 2013.
Jaffer, S., Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). Children’s perception of other’s religious dedication. Poster presented at the Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 18, 2013.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). Degree of stimulus realism influences children’s inflexible dimensional shift. Poster presented at the Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 20, 2013.
Mangalindan, D. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2013). The role of direct connection between cue and object for cue use in object displacement tasks. Poster presented at the Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 18, 2013.
Jaffer, S., Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). Children’s perception of religiosity. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, ON, May 31, 2012.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). The role of stimulus novelty in children’s inflexible dimensional shift. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, ON, May 31, 2012.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). Children’s ability to update mental representations via verbal and pictorial cues. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 7, 2012.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). The role of stimulus novelty in children’s inflexible dimensional shift. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 8, 2012.
Mangalindan, D. M., Lewkowicz, D. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). Infants’ apprehension of higher-order hierarchical structure in audiovisual events. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 8, 2012.
Mangalindan, D. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2012). Landmarks in object displacement tasks. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 7, 2012.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., Leis, A., Cheng, C. K., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Infants’ understanding of object movement based on shape. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, PQ, April 1, 2011.
Mangalindan, D. M. J., Li, S.-A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). The impact of hand occupancy on walking skill. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, PQ, April 1, 2011.
Tang, C. A., Cheng, C. K., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Children’s ability to manipulate objects to fit through apertures of different size. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, PQ, April 1, 2011.
Vuvan, D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). The effect of tonal context in melodies on memory for single tones. Poster presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, WA, August 11, 2010.
Cheng, C. K., Tang, C. A., Nguyen, P. H. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Tool-use development: Perceptual discrimination of proper versus improper tool-uses. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, March.
Collimore, L. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). A look into the hand-use preference of 8- and 16-month olds. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, March.
Collimore, L. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Where objects are hidden on the A-not-B task makes a difference: A look at hiding side preferences. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, March.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Representational insight or inhibitory control: Influences on children’s symbolic comprehension. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, March.
Vuvan, D., Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Probing the minor tonal hierarchy. Poster presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, IN. August.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Picture perception in infancy: Generalizing from two-dimensional to three-dimensional displays. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Representational insight or inhibitory control: Influences on children’s pictorial competence. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April.
Collimore, L. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). The influence of a barrier on A-not-B search. Poster presented at the 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC, March.
Mangalindan, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Children’s detection and use of cues to infer object displacement. Poster presented at the 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC, March.
Cheng, C. K., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Action-perception progress in tool use development. Poster presented at the 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC, March.
Vuvan, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2007). Tonal influences on auditory stream segregation. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, PQ, July.
Vuvan, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2007). Investigating the psychological representation of tonality in imagined contexts. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November.
Collimore, L. M., Schmuckler, M. A., & Dannemiller, J. L. (2007). Infants’ perceptions of hits and misses: The role of path of approach and type of contact. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March-April.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jowkar-Baniani, G. (2007). Picture perception in infancy: Generalizing from two-dimensional to three-dimensionsal displays. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March-April.
Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2005). Cross-modal perception of contour: The role of surface contour and Fourier analysis similarity. Poster presented at the 46th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, November.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Vres, M. (2004). The role of hiding location-object type correlation in infant search. Poster presented at the 14th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL, May.
Catanzaro, A. M., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Response perseveration in barrier crossing. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.
Jewell, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception from degraded featural and contingency information. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.
Kingsnorth, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Infants’ sensitivity to violations in the temporal directionality of irreversible events. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.
Schmuckler, M. A., Bhagoutie, V., & Dzinas, K. (2002). The influence of environmental and social factors on locomotor development. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jewell, S. (2001). The effect of self vs. object movement in a nonsearch task. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April.
Jewell, D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Active versus passive movement in infant search. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July.
Kingsnorth, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Walking skill versus walking experience as a predictor of barrier crossing in 13- to 14-month-old toddlers. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July.
Schmuckler, M. A., Joordens, S., & Yuen, Y. (1999). Is there more to negative priming than meets the eye? Explorations in audition. Poster presented at the 40th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November.
Marcovitch, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1999). The effect of number of “A” trials on infants’ perseverative search. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April.
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1998). Hierarchical organizations of duration information and the perception of tonality. Poster presented at the 39th meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX. November.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tsang, H. (1998). Visual-movement interaction in infant search. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA, April.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Fairhall, J. (1996). Infants’ visual-proprioceptive intermodal recognition using point-light displays. Poster presented at the 10th International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, RI, April.
Li, N., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). The influence of background texture on infants’ perceptions of accretion and deletion. Poster presented at the 10th International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, RI, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1995). The influence of spatial extent and transparency on toddler’s crossing of barriers. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1995). Children’s postural sway in response to high and low frequency visual oscillation. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1994). Infants’ visual-proprioceptive intermodal recognition. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France, June.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Knees up Mother Brown: Toddlers’ stepping over barriers. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, April.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Boltz, M. (1992). Rhythmic influences on harmonic expectancy. Poster presented at the 33rd annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gilden, D. L. (1991). Discrimination of auditory fractal contours. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meetings of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA, November.
Schmuckler, M. A., & Proffitt, D. R. (1991). Infants’ perception of kinetic depth and stereokinetic displays. Poster presented at the meetings of the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Analysis of children’s gait during free, controlled, and guided locomotion. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, April.
Bruno, N., Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1989). Surface perception through sight and touch: Cross-modal influences on preferential looking in infancy. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, April.
Gibson, E. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1987). Detection of change in a surface of support by prelocomotor and locomotor infants. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, April.
Schmuckler, M. A. (1987). The effect of imposed optical flow on guided locomotion in young walkers. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, April.
INVITED COLLOQUIA & TALKS:
“Abstraction as a fundamental psychological process in musical behavior,” Music and Health Research Collaboratory, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 12 November, 2019.
“Seeing, Hearing, and Moving: Multisensory Integration in Development of Mobility,” Colby College, April 20, 2018.
“Perceptual-motor integration and the development of locomotion: Contributions of undergraduate student research,” Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Toronto Scarborough, 17 March, 2018.
“Seeing, Hearing, and Moving: Multisensory Integration and Perception-Action Coupling in Development of Mobility,” Developmental Interest Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, November 30, 2017.
“Movement and thought in development and Montessori Education”, Maria Montessori School, Toronto, ON, February 15, 2013
“Pitch perception and pitch organization”, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, July 12, 2012.
“Pitch organization in perceiving music”. Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, September 28, 2007.
“Development of mobility: A context for investigating perception-action coupling”, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, September 28, 2007.
“Perception-action coupling in development of mobility”, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, February 2005.
“Mobility and the development of self-knowledge in infancy”, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, November 2000.
“Mobility and the development of self-knowledge in infancy”, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, April 2000.
“The development of mobility and self-knowledge in infancy”, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA, March, 2000.
“Explorations of melodic contour similarity”, Eastman/UR/Cornell Music Cognition Symposium, Rochester, NY, October 1999.
“Key-finding in music: Tests of pattern matching to tonal hierarchies”, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, October 1999.
“Self-knowledge of body position: Integrating perception and action system information”, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1996.
“Self-knowledge of body position: Integration of visual and action system information”, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1995.
“Visual control of posture in young children”, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1994.
“Expectation in music: Expectancy formation and processing effects”, School of Music, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1993.
“The development of visually-guided locomotion”, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 1992.
“Perception of auditory fractal contours”, Department of Psychology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1992.
“Perceiving fractal contours in pitch, loudness, and duration”, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1991.
“Going somewhere: The acquisition of early locomotor skill”, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, 1989.
“The ontogeny of motor skills in infancy”, Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1989.
“Mobility development in children”, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 1989.
“The Petroushka chord: A perceptual investigation”, Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 1989.
“Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes”, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1988.
“Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes”, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1988.
“Going somewhere: The acquisition of early locomotor skill”, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 1987.
“The Petroushka chord: A naturalistic test of divided attention”, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1987.
Teaching and Student Supervision
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Developmental Psychology
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
Laboratory in Human Movement
Current Topics in Developmental Psychology
Current Topics in Memory and Cognition
Perceptual and Motor Development
Music Cognition
Undergraduate Thesis in Psychology
GRADUATE CLASSES:
Proseminar in Developmental Psychology
Proseminar in Applied Developmental Psychology
Proseminar in Perception and Cognition
Perceptual Development
Music Cognition
STUDENT SUPERVISION:
Masters Students:
| Name | Date | Title of Thesis |
| ShaunaKingsnorth | 1997 – 1998 | Walking skill versus walking experience as a predictor of barrier crossing in toddlers |
| Nicholas Smith | 1997 – 1998 | The effects of manipulation of pitch distributional properties on listeners’ perceptions of tonality |
| Derryn Jewell | 1998 – 1999 | The importance of active versus passive body movement cues in infant search |
| Lisa Collimore | 2003 – 2004 | Infant responses to symmetrical and asymmetrical looming pathways |
| Jonathan Prince | 2004 – 2005 | Mental representations of contour |
| Anishka Leis | 2005 – 2006 | Infants’ understanding of object movement based on shape |
| Diane Mangalindan | 2006 – 2007 | Cue detection in infant spatial development |
| Dominique Vuvan | 2007 – 2008 | Musical imagery and tonality |
| Cho Kin Cheng | 2007 – 2008 | Tool use in infancy |
| Gelareh Jowkar-Baniani | 2007 – 2008 | Representational insight or inhibitory control: Influences on children’s pictorial competence |
| Olivia Podolak | 2012 – 2013 | The influence of tonality on sight-reading accuracy |
| Swetha Chinta | 2013 – 2014 | Path constraints on movement of objects |
| Katherine Thompson | 2015 – 2016 | The influence of musical training on musical and cognitive performance: A meta-analysis |
| Trenton Coleman Johanis | 2018 – 2019 | The root of harmonic expectation: A priming study |
Ph.D Students:
| Name | Date | Title of Thesis |
| Nicholas Smith | 1998 – 2004 | The perceptual restoration of music |
| Derryn Jewell | 1999 – 2004 | Attentional influences on motor control: A possible link to momentary clumsiness |
| Shauna Kingsnorth | 1998 – 2005 | Infant preattentive perception of shape from shading and simple two-dimensional features. |
| Jonathan Prince | 2005 – 2009 | The integration of pitch and time in music perception |
| Lisa Collimore | 2004 – 2010 | The effects of motor constraints on infant search behaviour |
| Dominique Vuvan | 2008 – 2012 | The statistical learning of musical expectancy |
| Diane Mangalindan | 2007 – 2013 | To cue of not to cue: Beacons and landmarks in object displacement tasks |
| Gelareh Jowkar-Baniani | 2008 – 2013 | The role of perceptual task parameters in children’s inflexible dimensional shifting |
| Olivia Podolak | 2013 – 2018 | Measuring the retention of tonal information after modulations through harmonic priming |
| Michelle McPhee | 2017 – | |
| Ching Kong (Teddy) Cheung | 2017 – | |
| Trenton Coleman Johanis | 2019 – | |
| Lauren Vomberg | 2019 – |
PSY3000H Students (outside projects):
| Name | Dates | Title of Thesis |
| Penny Collins | 1993 | The perception of musical phrases |
| Bruce Morton | 1996 | Further test of the perceptual independence of melody and harmony |
| Martin Niewiadomski | 2005 | The mirror effect in music |
SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES – Masters:
| Name | Dates | Position | Title of Thesis (Supervisor) |
| Tonya Bergeson | 1996-1996 | Thesis committee member, MA | Mother’s singing to infants and preschool children. (Supervisor: Dr. S. Trehub). |
| Igor Juricevic | 1997-1998 | Thesis committee member, MA | The effects of angular separation and binocular viewing on apparent visual angles (Supervisor: Dr. J. Kennedy). |
| Donovon Ceasar | 2007 | Thesis committee member, M.A. | Communication of musical closure in performance: An investigation of non-pitch cues (Supervisor: W. F. Thompson). |
| Matthew H. Dubins | 2008 | Outside reader, M.A. | An investigation of early phonetic processing in monolingual and bilingual infants using new functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) (Supervisor: L.-A. Petitto). |
| Jonathan Diamond | 2009 | Thesis Committee member, M.Sc | (Supervisor: L. Tremblay, U of T, Department of Exercise Science) |
| Jennifer Cordick | 2009 | Outside reader, M.A. | The relation of stress and parental sensitivity to deferred imitation in infants (Supervisor: D. Haley) |
| Danielle Labine | 2009- | Practicum supervisor, Ryerson University | Methodology in infant perception and perceptual-motor behavior (Supervisor: J. P. Boudreau) |
| Ada Le | 2009-2010 | Thesis committee member, M.A. | Neural mechanisms underlying bimanual grasping (Supervisor: M. Niemeier). |
| Marissa Malkowski | 2010-2011 | Thesis committee member, M.A. | Neural correlates of bilingual reading development (Supervisor: L. A. Petitto) |
| Jiaqing Chen | 2011-2012 | Thesis committee member, M.A. | Do proprioceptive head-on-trunk signals modulate spatial cognition? – Probing influences of body schema on working memory and spatial attention (Supervisor: M. Niemeier) |
| Adam Frost | 2012 – 2013 | Thesis examining member, M.A. | Perisaccadic suppression of motion: Temporal and directional properties (Supervisor: M. Niemeier). |
| Emma Yoxon | 2015 | Thesis examining member, M.A. | The relationship between action execution, imagination, and perception in children (Supervisor: T. Welsh) |
| Tsz Man Chan | 2015 | Thesis examining member, M.A. | Auditory perception and executive functions in simultaneous interpreters. (Supervisor: C. Alain) |
| Lawrence Guo | 2014 – 2015 | Thesis committee member, M.A. | How does the brain represent co-operative actions: Investigating the embodiment of a two-person grasping task. (Supervisor: M. Niemeier) |
| Simar Moussaoui | 2019 – | Thesis committee member, M.A. |
SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES – Ph.D:
| Name | Dates | Position | Title of Thesis (Supervisor) |
| Laurel Trainor | 1989-1991 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | The origins of musical pattern perception: A comparison of infants’ and adults’ processing of melody. (Supervisor: Dr. S. E. Trehub). |
| C. Ross Hetherington | 1991-1994 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | Effects of temporal structure on attention. (Supervisor: Dr. D. Stuss). |
| Rick McLaren | 1993 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | Children’s understanding of minds in a story. (Supervisor: D.R. Olson). |
| Stuart Grant | 1992-1994 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | An evaluation of TODAM as a model of memory for procedural tasks. (Supervisor: Dr. C. M. MacLeod). |
| Guiseppe Mirabella | 2001-2003 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | Development of contrast sensitivity in infants with prenatal and neonatal thyroid hormone insufficiencies (Supervisor: Dr. J. Rovet) |
| Sophie Jacques | 2001 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | The roles of labeling and abstraction in the development of cognitive flexibility. (Supervisor: P. Zelazo) |
| Tonya Bergeson | 1997-2002 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | Perspectives of music and music listening in infancy. (Supervisor: Dr. S. Trehub). |
| Juan Bai | 2005 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | Bordering a shadow, a line’s negative contour diminishes shape-from-shadow perception (Supervisor: Dr. J. Kennedy) |
| Igor Juricevic | 2006 | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | Looking at perspective pictures from too far, too close, and just right (Supervisor: J. Kennedy). |
| Gizelle Anzures | 2008-2011 | Thesis Committee member, Ph.D | The role of differential experience in facial age processing (Supervisor: K. Lee, OISE) |
| Benjamin Rich Zendel | 2011 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | The effect of lifelong musicianship on age-related changes in auditory processing (Supervisor: C. Alain) |
| Ada Le | 2010 – 2015 | Thesis committee, member, Ph.D | Bimanual grasping: An in-depth examination of the visual, neural, and motor mechanisms (Supervisor: M. Niemeier) |
| Kaja Jasinski | 2010 – 2013 | Thesis committee, member, Ph.D | Untangling the temporal dynamics of bilateral neural activation in the bilingual brain (Supervisor: L.A. Petitto) |
| Marieke van Heugten | 2012 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | Speech perception in early childhood: Contending with speaker and accent variation (Supervisor: E. Johnson) |
| Hermien Diepstra | 2015 | Thesis committee, examining member, Ph.D | Motor aspects of the emergence of oral gestures for speech: A dynamic approach (Supervisor: P. Van Lieshout) |
| Adam Frost | 2013 – | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | Trans-sacadic eye movements and working memory (Supervisor: M. Niemeier) |
| Michael Weiss | 2016 | Thesis committee, Examining member, Ph.D. | Exploring the memory advantage for vocal melodies. (Supervisor: S. Trehub) |
| Lawrence Guo | 2015 – | Thesis committee member, Ph.D | |
| Michael Richards | 2017 | Thesis committee, Examining member, Ph.D | Audiovisual processing and integration in amblyopia (Supervisors: A. Wong & H. Goltz) |
| Melissa Paquette-Smith | 2018 | Thesis committee, Examining member, Ph.D | The effect of accent exposure on social cognition and language acquisition in early childhood (Supervisor: E. Johnson) |
SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES – External:
| Name | Dates | Position | Title of Thesis (Supervisor) |
| Laura Telford | 1990 | External examiner | Queen’s University. (Supervisor: Dr. B. Frost). |
Kimberly Fenwick | 1995 | External examiner | Infant’s use of spatial co-location in a cross-modal perception task. The University of Western Ontario (Supervisor: Dr. B. Morrongiello). |
| Michael E. Lantz | 2002 | External Examiner | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. Queen’s University (Supervisor: Dr. L. Cuddy). |
| Karen Menard | 2004 | External examiner | Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5 Month-Old Infants: Examination of an Experimental Limitation Hypothesis. University of Waterloo (Supervisor: D. O’Neill) |
| Audrey M. B. Wong-Kee-You | 2018 | External examiner, Ph.D | Spatial attention-modulated surround suppression across development: A psychophysical study (Supervisor: S. Adler, York University) |
Service
Administrative Positions
Member, Quality Appraisal Committee Member, Ontario Universities, Council on Quality Assurance, September 2019 – June 2022
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate, UTSC, July 2013 – present
Investigating Officer, Student Code of Conduct, March 2013 – January 2017
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate (Acting), UTSC, July 2010 – December 2010.
Vice-Principal, Research (Interim), UTSC, February 2009 – July 2009
Acting Chair, Executive Committee, UTSC, 2009
Acting Chair, College Council, UTSC, 2009
Acting Chair, Planning and Budget Committee, UTSC, 2009
Chair, Academic Committee, UTSC, 2007-2010
Member, Executive Committee, UTSC, 2007-2010
Member, Planning and Budget Committee, UTSC, 2007-20109
Supervisor of Studies, Cognitive Science, UTSC, 2002-2004
Associate Chair, Division of Life Sciences, UTSC, July 1996 – 1999
Supervisor of Studies, Psychology, UTSC, 1993-1995
Search Committees
Search Committee, Indigenous Clinical Psychology, UTSC, 2017-2018
Search Committee, Developmental Psychology, UTSC, 2016-2017
Search Committee, Co-Chair, Psycholinguistics, UTSC, 2015-2016
Search Committee, Developmental Neuroscience, UTSC, 2013-2014, 2014-2015
Search Committee, Graduate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 2012-2013
Search Committee, Undergraduate Chair, Centre for French and Linguistics, UTSC, 2012-2013
Search Committee, Undergraduate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, St. George, 2012-2013
Search Committee, Developmental Neuroscience, UTSC, 2012-2013
Search Committee, Dean’s Representative, Psycholinguistics, 2012-2013
Search Committee, Dean’s Representative, Organizational Behavior, 2009-2010
Search Committee, Developmental Psychology, UTSC, 2005-2006
Search Committee, Dean’s Representative, Musicology, UTSC, 2005-2006
Search Committee, Clinical Psychology, UTSC, 2004-2005
Search Committee, Clinical Psychology, UTSC, 2003-2004
Search Committee, Dean’s Representative, Mathematical and Computing Sciences, UTSC, 2003-2004
Search Committee, Cognitive Psychology, UTSC, 2002-2003
Search Committee, Social Psychology, UTSC, 2002-2003
Search Committee, Dean’s Representative, Political Science, UTSC, 2003-2004
Search Committee, Cross-Cultural Psychology, UTCS, 2001-2002
Search Committee, Clinical Psychology, UTCS, 1999-2000
Search Committee, Child Development, UTM, 1997-1998
Search Committee, Chair of the Division of Social Science, UTSC, 1996-1997
Search Committee, Cognitive Psychology, UTSC, 1994-1995
Search Committee, Chair of the Division of Life Science, UTSC, 1993-1994
Visiting Professor Search Committee, UTSC, 1992-1993
Tenure and Promotions Committees
Tenure Committee, UTSC, Andrea Charise, 2019-2020
Tenure Committee, UTSC, Steven Farber, 2019-2020
Tenure Committee, UTSC, Amanda Uliaszek, 2019-2020
Promotion Review (Tenure), External Research Evauation, The Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, E. D. Bradley, 2019
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTSC, J. Cant 2017-2018
Promotion Review (Tenure), External Research Evaluation, Georgia Southern University, T. Boyer, 2016-2017.
Promotion Review (Full Professor), External Research Evaluation, College of Staten Island, CUNY, S. E. Berger, 2016-2017.
Tenure Committee, UTSC, Andrew Lee, 2016-2017
Tenure Committee, UTSC, Rutsuko Ito, 2016-2017
Chair, Promotions Committee, UTSC, 2012 – 2013; 2013 – 2014; 2014 – 2015, 2018 –
Chair, Tenure Review Committee, E. Page-Gould, 2014
Promotion Review, External Research Evaluation, Whitman College, M. W. Clearfield, 2012-2013
Tenure Review, External Research Evaluation, Yale University, I. Quinn, 2011-2012
Tenure Committee, Research Evaluation, UTSC, D. Haley, 2010-2011
Tenure Committee, UTSC, M. Inzlicht, 2009-2010
Tenure Committee, UTSC, D. Nussbaum, 2009-2010
Promotions Committee, UTSC, S. Joordens, 2008-2009
Tenure Committee, UTSC, G. Cree, 2007-2008
Tenure Committee, UTSC, M. Neimeier, 2007-2008
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTSC, M. Fourier, 2007-2008
Tenure Review, External Research Evaluation, Dalhousie University, B. W. Frankland, 2007-2008.
Third Year Review Committee, UTSC, M. Inzlicht, 2007-2008.
Tenure Review, External Research Evaluation, University at Buffalo, P. Q. Pfordresher, 2006-2007
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTSC, A. Mason, 2005-2006
Tenure Review, External Research Evaluation, Dalhousie University, B. W. Frankland, 2005-2006
Third Year Review, Research Evaluation, UTSC, G. Cree, 2005-2006
Third Year Review, Chair, Teaching Evaluation, UTSC, M. Fournier, 2005-2006
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTSC, K. Zakzanis, 2003-2004
Promotions Review, Research Evaluation, UTM, E. G. Schellenberg, 2003-2004
Tenure Review, Teaching Evaluation, UTSC, R. Bobocel, 2002-2003
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTM, W. Thompson, 2002-2003
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTM, K Pichora-Fuller, 2002-2003
Tenure Review, Research Evaluation, UTM, E. G. Schellenberg, 1999-2000
Miscellaneous:
Internal Ethics Review Committee, Department of Psychology, UTSC, 2010-2013
Chair, Task Force on the Experimental Participation System, UTSC, 2008-2009
Balcony Renovation Steering Committee, UTSC, 2006-2008
PTR committee, UTSC, 2006-2007
Departmental Separation Co-ordinator, UTSC, 2006-2007
Departmental Separation Steering Committee, UTSC, 2005-2006
Science Renovation Task Force, UTSC, 2003-2004
Science Building Committee, UTSC, 2002-2003
Planning and Budget Committee, 1997-1999
Psychology Graduate Committee, 1995-2003
Divisional Governance Committee, 1994-1995
Steering Committee, Centre for Instructional Teaching Development, 1993
Library Steering Committee, 1990-1995
General Policy Committee, 1990-1991
Faculty Advisor, Psychology Club, 1989-1991
Research Policy Statement, N’Sheemaehn, the Scarborough College Child Care Center, 1989