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  • Driven behavior of a supercritical Hopf oscillator under strong forcing.
  • Preparing to record EEG.
  • EEG recording station.
  • Listening for the pulse in a complex rhythm
  • Missing pulse experiment
  • Kanzi in the greenhouse at ACCI
  • Kanzi waiting for a food reward
  • People hear the missing pulse.
  • Ed Large with Nancy Kopell at Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative on Oct 11, 2017
  • Stability regions for a canonical oscillator under sinusoidal forcing.
  • The ACCI
  • Driven behavior of a supercritical double limit cycle oscillator under intermediate forcing.
  • Kuni relative phase
  • Driven behavior of a critical Hopf oscillator.
  • EEG lab.

Our Mission

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At the Music Dynamics Laboratory we are working to uncover the general principles of neural dynamics that underlie music perception and cognition.  Music is a high-level cognitive capacity, a form of communication that relies on highly structured temporal sequences comparable in complexity to language. Music is found among all human cultures, and musical ‘languages’ vary across cultures with learning. Unlike language, however, music rarely refers to the external world. It consists of self contained patterns of sound, and certain aspects these patterns are found universally among musical cultures. We are investigating the neural processes underlying pitch, rhythm and tonality, as well as the perception of song and the experience of emotion in music.

Our research is uncovering fundamental mechanisms of hearing, communication, and auditory system development. We are identifying innate constraints that shape musical communication, with potentially important implications for language learning. Our research has implications for understanding a wide range of hearing and communication disorders, and it has applicability to improving the design of neural prostheses, enhancing the perception of music and other sounds in cochlear implant patients.

Links

Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Music Cognition U
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
Acoustical Society of America
Society for Neuroscience
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent News

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Featured Publications

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. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24528-3.

Kim, J. N., Large, E. W., Gwon, Y., & Ashley, R. (2018). The online processing of implied harmony in the perception of tonal melodies: Effects of harmonic expectations. Music Perception. 35 (5), 594-606. doi: 10.1525/mp.2018.35.5.594.

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Lab members

Back Row – Left to right: Charles Wasserman (PhD Candidate), Parker Tichko (PhD Candidate), Yi Wei (MS Candidate), Caitrin Hall (undergrad assistant), Karl Lerud (PhD Candidate), Kirsten Der (undergrad assistant), Ji Chul Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow), John Spencer (undergrad research student). Front Row – Left to right: Toni Smith (undergrad Honors Thesis), Ed Large (PI), Jonathan XIV (UConn Mascot), Lana Delasanta (MS Candidate), Danielle Lamay (undergrad Honors Thesis), Jessica Macdonald (undergrad research student). Not Pictured: Sarah Kricheff (undergrad assistant), & Dameon Harrell (PhD Student)

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