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Josh H. McDermott - Publications

Affiliations: 
2013- Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
Auditory Perception, Music Perception, Computational Audition, Auditory Scene Analysis, Natural Sound Statistics
Website:
http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/
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2024 McDermott JH, Agarwal V, Traer J. Physics, ecological acoustics and the auditory system. Current Biology : Cb. 34: R1006-R1013. PMID 39437718 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.056  0.643
2024 Cusimano M, Hewitt LB, McDermott JH. Listening with generative models. Cognition. 253: 105874. PMID 39216190 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105874  0.382
2024 Saddler MR, McDermott JH. Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 38712054 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.21.590435  0.326
2024 Jacoby N, Polak R, Grahn JA, Cameron DJ, Lee KM, Godoy R, Undurraga EA, Huanca T, Thalwitzer T, Doumbia N, Goldberg D, Margulis EH, Wong PCM, Jure L, Rocamora M, ... ... McDermott JH, et al. Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 38438653 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9  0.595
2023 Tuckute G, Feather J, Boebinger D, McDermott JH. Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions. Plos Biology. 21: e3002366. PMID 38091351 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002366  0.802
2022 McPherson MJ, McDermott JH. Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre. Cognition. 232: 105327. PMID 36495710 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105327  0.651
2022 Norman-Haignere SV, Feather J, Boebinger D, Brunner P, Ritaccio A, McDermott JH, Schalk G, Kanwisher N. A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex. Current Biology : Cb. 32: 1454-1455. PMID 35349804 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.016  0.757
2022 Norman-Haignere SV, Feather J, Boebinger D, Brunner P, Ritaccio A, McDermott JH, Schalk G, Kanwisher N. A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 35196507 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.069  0.781
2022 McPherson MJ, Grace RC, McDermott JH. Harmonicity aids hearing in noise. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. PMID 35102502 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02376-0  0.629
2022 Francl A, McDermott JH. Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments. Nature Human Behaviour. 6: 111-133. PMID 35087192 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01244-z  0.367
2021 Saddler MR, Gonzalez R, McDermott JH. Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception. Nature Communications. 12: 7278. PMID 34907158 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27366-6  0.339
2021 Traer J, Norman-Haignere SV, McDermott JH. Causal inference in environmental sound recognition. Cognition. 214: 104627. PMID 34044231 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104627  0.764
2021 Boebinger D, Norman-Haignere S, McDermott JH, Kanwisher N. Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training. Journal of Neurophysiology. PMID 33596723 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00588.2020  0.819
2020 McPherson MJ, McDermott JH. Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 33262275 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008956117  0.661
2020 McPherson MJ, Dolan SE, Durango A, Ossandon T, Valdés J, Undurraga EA, Jacoby N, Godoy RA, McDermott JH. Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature Communications. 11: 2786. PMID 32493923 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-16448-6  0.715
2019 Młynarski W, McDermott JH. Ecological origins of perceptual grouping principles in the auditory system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31754035 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903887116  0.426
2019 McWalter R, McDermott JH. Illusory sound texture reveals multi-second statistical completion in auditory scene analysis. Nature Communications. 10: 5096. PMID 31704913 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-12893-0  0.832
2019 Jacoby N, Undurraga EA, McPherson MJ, Valdés J, Ossandón T, McDermott JH. Universal and Non-universal Features of Musical Pitch Perception Revealed by Singing. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 31543451 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2019.08.020  0.664
2019 Weiss MW, Cirelli LK, McDermott JH, Trehub SE. Development of consonance preferences in Western listeners. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. PMID 31512903 DOI: 10.1037/xge0000680  0.406
2019 Kell AJE, McDermott JH. Invariance to background noise as a signature of non-primary auditory cortex. Nature Communications. 10: 3958. PMID 31477711 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11710-y  0.503
2019 Norman-Haignere SV, Kanwisher N, McDermott JH, Conway BR. Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones. Nature Neuroscience. PMID 31182868 DOI: 10.1038/S41593-019-0410-7  0.839
2019 Kell AJ, McDermott JH. Deep neural network models of sensory systems: windows onto the role of task constraints. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 55: 121-132. PMID 30884313 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.003  0.356
2019 Walker KMM, Gonzalez R, Kang JZ, McDermott JH, King AJ. Across-species differences in pitch perception are consistent with differences in cochlear filtering. Elife. 8. PMID 30874501 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.41626  0.467
2019 McPherson MJ, Dolan SE, Ossandon T, Valdes J, Undurraga EA, Jacoby N, Godoy R, McDermott J. Perceptual fusion of musical notes suggests universal representations of dissonance despite culture-dependent aesthetic associations The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 145: 1784-1784. DOI: 10.1121/1.5101526  0.669
2019 McPherson MJ, McDermott J. Harmonicity aids detection of speech and other sounds in noise The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 145: 1721-1721. DOI: 10.1121/1.5101318  0.67
2018 Norman-Haignere SV, McDermott JH. Neural responses to natural and model-matched stimuli reveal distinct computations in primary and nonprimary auditory cortex. Plos Biology. 16: e2005127. PMID 30507943 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.2005127  0.788
2018 McPherson MJ, McDermott JH. Diversity in pitch perception revealed by task dependence. Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 52-66. PMID 30221202 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-017-0261-8  0.679
2018 Popham S, Boebinger D, Ellis DPW, Kawahara H, McDermott JH. Inharmonic speech reveals the role of harmonicity in the cocktail party problem. Nature Communications. 9: 2122. PMID 29844313 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-04551-8  0.798
2018 Kell AJE, Yamins DLK, Shook EN, Norman-Haignere SV, McDermott JH. A Task-Optimized Neural Network Replicates Human Auditory Behavior, Predicts Brain Responses, and Reveals a Cortical Processing Hierarchy. Neuron. PMID 29681533 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuron.2018.03.044  0.771
2018 McWalter R, McDermott JH. Adaptive and Selective Time Averaging of Auditory Scenes. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 29681472 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2018.03.049  0.813
2018 Woods KJP, McDermott JH. Schema learning for the cocktail party problem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29563229 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801614115  0.382
2018 Cusimano M, Hewitt L, Tenenbaum JB, McDermott JH. Auditory scene analysis as Bayesian inference in sound source models. Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.32470/Ccn.2018.1039-0  0.494
2018 Traer J, McDermott J. Human recognition of environmental sounds is not always robust to reverberation The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143: 1816-1816. DOI: 10.1121/1.5035960  0.507
2018 Traer J, McDermott J. Human inference of force from impact sounds: Perceptual evidence for inverse physics The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143: 1750-1750. DOI: 10.1121/1.5035721  0.334
2018 McPherson MJ, McDermott J. The function of F0-based pitch The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143: 1748-1748. DOI: 10.1121/1.5035711  0.666
2018 McPherson MJ, McDermott J. Multiple mechanisms in pitch perception revealed by individual differences The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143: 1748-1748. DOI: 10.1121/1.5035710  0.647
2018 Owens A, Wu J, McDermott JH, Freeman WT, Torralba A. Learning Sight from Sound: Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning International Journal of Computer Vision. 126: 1120-1137. DOI: 10.1007/S11263-018-1083-5  0.6
2017 Młynarski W, McDermott JH. Learning Midlevel Auditory Codes from Natural Sound Statistics. Neural Computation. 1-39. PMID 29220308 DOI: 10.1162/Neco_A_01048  0.306
2017 Jacoby N, McDermott JH. Integer Ratio Priors on Musical Rhythm Revealed Cross-culturally by Iterated Reproduction. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 28065607 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.031  0.383
2017 McWalter R, McDermott J. A multi-second adaptive integration process underlies sound texture perception The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3903-3903. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988789  0.82
2017 Traer J, McDermott J. Investigating audition with a generative model of impact sounds The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3901-3901. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988777  0.421
2017 Cusimano M, Traer J, McDermott J. Auditory perception of object properties as inverse acoustics The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3898-3898. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988762  0.446
2017 Mlynarski W, McDermott J. Lossy compression of uninformative stimuli in the auditory system The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3897-3897. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988758  0.502
2017 Kell AJ, McDermott J. Robustness to real-world background noise increases between primary and non-primary human auditory cortex The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3896-3896. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988749  0.488
2017 Gonzalez R, McDermott J. Pitch-trained neural networks replicate properties of human pitch perception The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3818-3818. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988458  0.491
2017 McPherson MJ, McDermott J. Multiple pitch mechanisms revealed by effects of inharmonicity on pitch perception The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3817-3817. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988450  0.67
2017 Traer J, McDermott J. A library of real-world reverberation and a toolbox for its analysis and measurement The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141: 3631-3632. DOI: 10.1121/1.4987815  0.405
2016 Traer J, McDermott JH. Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27834730 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612524113  0.376
2016 McDermott JH, Schultz AF, Undurraga EA, Godoy RA. Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception. Nature. PMID 27409816 DOI: 10.1038/nature18635  0.411
2016 Norman-Haignere SV, Albouy P, Caclin A, McDermott JH, Kanwisher NG, Tillmann B. Pitch-Responsive Cortical Regions in Congenital Amusia. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 36: 2986-94. PMID 26961952 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.2705-15.2016  0.826
2016 Norman-Haignere S, McDermott JH. Distortion products in auditory fMRI research: Measurements and solutions. Neuroimage. PMID 26827809 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroimage.2016.01.050  0.792
2016 Traer J, McDermott JH. The perception of reverberation is constrained by environmental statistics The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139: 2210-2210. DOI: 10.1121/1.4950603  0.369
2016 Norman-Haignere SV, McDermott JH. Sound recognition depends on real-world sound level The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139: 2156-2156. DOI: 10.1121/1.4950385  0.793
2016 Woods K, McDermott J. Attentive tracking in human audition The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139: 2017-2017. DOI: 10.1121/1.4949946  0.38
2016 McDermott J, Popham S, Boebinger D. The role of harmonic spectral structure in the cocktail party problem The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139: 2017-2017. DOI: 10.1121/1.4949945  0.804
2016 McDermott J, Schultz A, Undurraga E, Godoy R. Consonance preferences are not universal: Indifference to dissonance among native Amazonians The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139: 1994-1994. DOI: 10.1121/1.4949844  0.378
2016 Owens A, Wu J, McDermott JH, Freeman WT, Torralba A. Ambient sound provides supervision for visual learning Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 9905: 801-816. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46448-0_48  0.556
2015 Norman-Haignere S, Kanwisher NG, McDermott JH. Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition. Neuron. 88: 1281-96. PMID 26687225 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuron.2015.11.035  0.858
2015 Masutomi K, Barascud N, Kashino M, McDermott JH, Chait M. Sound Segregation via Embedded Repetition Is Robust to Inattention. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance. PMID 26480248 DOI: 10.1037/Xhp0000147  0.39
2015 Kell A, Yamins D, Norman-Haignere S, Seibert D, Hong H, DiCarlo J, McDermott J. Computational similarities between visual and auditory cortex studied with convolutional neural networks, fMRI, and electrophysiology. Journal of Vision. 15: 1093. PMID 26326781 DOI: 10.1167/15.12.1093  0.779
2015 Woods KJ, McDermott JH. Attentive Tracking of Sound Sources. Current Biology : Cb. 25: 2238-46. PMID 26279234 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.043  0.456
2015 Overath T, McDermott JH, Zarate JM, Poeppel D. The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. Nature Neuroscience. 18: 903-11. PMID 25984889 DOI: 10.1038/Nn.4021  0.545
2013 Norman-Haignere S, Kanwisher N, McDermott JH. Cortical pitch regions in humans respond primarily to resolved harmonics and are located in specific tonotopic regions of anterior auditory cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 33: 19451-69. PMID 24336712 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.2880-13.2013  0.843
2013 Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia S, Cleland TA. Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 33: 17597-602. PMID 24198350 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3343-13.2013  0.428
2013 McDermott JH, Schemitsch M, Simoncelli EP. Summary statistics in auditory perception. Nature Neuroscience. 16: 493-8. PMID 23434915 DOI: 10.1038/nn.3347  0.789
2012 Cousineau M, McDermott JH, Peretz I. The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 19858-63. PMID 23150582 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207989109  0.531
2012 Fedorenko E, McDermott JH, Norman-Haignere S, Kanwisher N. Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain. Journal of Neurophysiology. 108: 3289-300. PMID 23019005 DOI: 10.1152/Jn.00209.2012  0.802
2012 Schwartz A, McDermott JH, Shinn-Cunningham B. Spatial cues alone produce inaccurate sound segregation: the effect of interaural time differences. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 132: 357-68. PMID 22779483 DOI: 10.1121/1.4718637  0.42
2012 McDermott JH. Auditory Preferences and Aesthetics: Music, Voices, and Everyday Sounds Neuroscience of Preference and Choice. 227-256. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381431-9.00020-6  0.443
2011 McDermott JH, Simoncelli EP. Sound texture perception via statistics of the auditory periphery: evidence from sound synthesis. Neuron. 71: 926-40. PMID 21903084 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.032  0.787
2011 McDermott JH, Wrobleski D, Oxenham AJ. Recovering sound sources from embedded repetition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 1188-93. PMID 21199948 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004765108  0.655
2010 McDermott JH, Keebler MV, Micheyl C, Oxenham AJ. Musical intervals and relative pitch: frequency resolution, not interval resolution, is special. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 1943-51. PMID 20968366 DOI: 10.1121/1.3478785  0.641
2010 McDermott JH, Lehr AJ, Oxenham AJ. Individual differences reveal the basis of consonance. Current Biology : Cb. 20: 1035-41. PMID 20493704 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.04.019  0.648
2009 McDermott JH. The cocktail party problem. Current Biology : Cb. 19: R1024-7. PMID 19948136 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.005  0.445
2009 Micheyl C, McDermott JH, Oxenham AJ. Sensory noise explains auditory frequency discrimination learning induced by training with identical stimuli. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71: 5-7. PMID 19304592 DOI: 10.3758/App.71.1.5  0.593
2009 McDermott JH, Lehr AJ, Oxenham AJ. Exploring the acoustic basis of consonance using individual differences. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125: 2523-2523. DOI: 10.1121/1.4783492  0.574
2009 McDermott JH, Keebler MV, Oxenham AJ. Are there specialized mechanisms for pitch interval perception? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125: 2523-2523. DOI: 10.1121/1.4783491  0.578
2009 McDermott JH. What can experiments reveal about the origins of music? Current Directions in Psychological Science. 18: 164-168. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01629.x  0.366
2009 McDermott JH, Oxenham AJ, Simoncelli EP. Sound texture synthesis via filter statistics Ieee Workshop On Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. DOI: 10.1109/ASPAA.2009.5346467  0.713
2008 McDermott JH, Lehr AJ, Oxenham AJ. Is relative pitch specific to pitch? Psychological Science. 19: 1263-71. PMID 19121136 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02235.x  0.659
2008 McDermott JH, Oxenham AJ. Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 18: 452-63. PMID 18824100 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.09.005  0.668
2008 McDermott J. The evolution of music. Nature. 453: 287-8. PMID 18480798 DOI: 10.1038/453287a  0.444
2008 McDermott JH, Oxenham AJ. Spectral completion of partially masked sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 5939-44. PMID 18391210 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711291105  0.651
2008 McDermott JH. Exploring music's links to language Nature Neuroscience. 11: 377-377. DOI: 10.1038/nn0408-377  0.301
2007 McDermott J, Hauser MD. Nonhuman primates prefer slow tempos but dislike music overall. Cognition. 104: 654-68. PMID 16935277 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.011  0.423
2006 McDermott J. Auditory repetition and dyslexia Nature Neuroscience. 9: 1465-1465. DOI: 10.1038/nn1206-1465a  0.517
2005 McDermott J, Hauser MD. Probing the evolutionary origins of music perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1060: 6-16. PMID 16597745 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1360.002  0.384
2005 McDermott J, Hauser M. The origins of music: Innateness, uniqueness, and evolution Music Perception. 23: 29-59. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2005.23.1.29  0.392
2004 McDermott J, Adelson EH. The geometry of the occluding contour and its effect on motion interpretation. Journal of Vision. 4: 944-54. PMID 15595897 DOI: 10:1167/4.10.9  0.67
2004 McDermott J, Hauser M. Are consonant intervals music to their ears? Spontaneous acoustic preferences in a nonhuman primate. Cognition. 94: B11-21. PMID 15582619 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.04.004  0.445
2004 McDermott J, Adelson EH. Junctions and cost functions in motion interpretation. Journal of Vision. 4: 552-63. PMID 15330701 DOI: 10:1167/4.7.3  0.69
2003 Hauser MD, McDermott J. The evolution of the music faculty: a comparative perspective. Nature Neuroscience. 6: 663-8. PMID 12830156 DOI: 10.1038/nn1080  0.433
2003 McDermott J, Adelson EH. Genericity and junctions in motion interpretation Journal of Vision. 3: 480a. DOI: 10.1167/3.9.480  0.659
2002 Mazer JA, Vinje WE, McDermott J, Schiller PH, Gallant JL. Spatial frequency and orientation tuning dynamics in area V1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 1645-50. PMID 11818532 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.022638499  0.353
2001 McDermott J, Weiss Y, Adelson EH. Beyond junctions: nonlocal form constraints on motion interpretation. Perception. 30: 905-23. PMID 11578077 DOI: 10.1068/p3219  0.728
1997 Kanwisher N, McDermott J, Chun MM. The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 17: 4302-11. PMID 9151747 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.17-11-04302.1997  0.642
1997 McDermott J, Weiss Y, Adelson EH. Surface perception and motion integration Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 38: S237.  0.695
1996 Kanwisher N, Chun MM, McDermott J, Ledden PJ. Functional imaging of human visual recognition. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research. 5: 55-67. PMID 9049071 DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(96)00041-9  0.621
1996 Kanwisher N, McDermott J, Chun MM. A module for the visual representation of faces Neuroimage. 3: S361. DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(96)80363-6  0.63
1996 Kanwisher N, Chun MM, McDermott J. FMRI in individual subjects reveals loci in extrastriate cortex differentially sensitive to faces and objects Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 37: S193.  0.611
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