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Auditory Perception and Cognition Lab University of Minnesota N640 Elliott Hall 75 East River Road Minneapolis MN 55455 612-626-3297 (phone) 612-626-2079 (fax) joshmcd - AT - umn - DOT - edu |
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Auditory Perception and Cognition Lab University of Minnesota N640 Elliott Hall 75 East River Road Minneapolis MN 55455 612-626-3297 (phone) 612-626-2079 (fax) joshmcd - AT - umn - DOT - edu |
I use psychophysics and computation to understand perception. I was trained as a vision scientist and spent a long period working in mid-level vision, but have since transitioned into hearing research.
I am generally interested in mid and high level auditory processes and the way they interface with cognition. Part of my research is concerned with music perception; I view music as a useful point of entry to many interesting phenomena in audition. Other projects focus on more basic problems in hearing, including auditory scene analysis and source separation. I am particularly interested in trying to grapple with the richness and complexity of natural sounds.
Assorted
Demos and Papers
Auditory Scene Analysis:
McDermott, J. & Oxenham, A.J. (2008) Spectral completion of partially masked sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (15), 5939-5944. download pdf
McDermott, J.H., Lehr, A.J., Oxenham, A.J. (2008) Is relative pitch specific to pitch? To appear in Psychological Science. download pdf
McDermott, J. (2008) The evolution of music. Nature, 453, 287-288. download pdf
Assorted work in mid-level vision:
McDermott, J. (2004). Psychophysics with junctions in real images. Perception, 33: 1101-1127.
download pdf.
McDermott, J. & Adelson, E.H. (2004). Motion perception and mid-level vision. In The Newest Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Edition (Gazzaniga, ed.), MIT Press.
McDermott, J., & Adelson, E. H. (2004). Junctions and cost functions in motion interpretation.
Journal of Vision, 4(7), 552-563.
go to the article at journalofvision.org or download pdf or check out accompanying flash demos
McDermott, J., & Adelson, E. H. (2004). The geometry of the occluding contour and its effect on motion interpretation.
Journal of Vision, 4(10), 944-954.
go to the article at journalofvision.org or download pdf.
McDermott, J., Weiss, Y., Adelson, E.H. (2001). Beyond junctions: Nonlocal form contraints on motion interpretation.
Perception, 30: 905-923.
download pdf or Check out accompanying flash demos .
A tutorial of all my motion demos.