Demorest, S.M,  Berglin, J., and Pfordresher, P.Q.  The Effect of Feedback on Singing Accuracy
This experimental study compares the effect of auditory only versus auditory and visual feedback on the remediation of inaccurate singing in adult participants.

Demorest, S.M. and McClintock, A.  Factors in the Development of Exceptionally Accurate Young Singers
This mixed methods study explores exceptionally accurate kindergarten singers. It takes an in-depth look at their home musical life, interactions with parents, siblings and peers and their attitudes toward music.

Ashley, R.A.  Music analysis as reading for comprehension:  Two empirical studies
Musicians spend a great deal of time reading music, but most of what we know empirically about music reading is about sight-reading for performance.  This project uses protocol analysis  and eye tracking data of musicians analyzing scores to understand the time course of understanding the form of musical works.

Ashley,R. A. Musical topics and meaning:  An empirical investigation of musical categories
Musical “topics”—musical and sound patterns which evoke association such as “heroic,” “military,” or “pastoral”—are an important area in music theory. In two experimental paradigms, this project investigates how listeners make use of such topics when listening to Classical music.

Hosken, F. The Perceptibility of Microtimings
A psychometric study into the threshold of microtiming perception that will inform and contextualize studies into expressive timing and groove.

Ashley, R. A. Perception and memory for musical form:  Schematic and veridical aspects
Whether or not listeners perceive and comprehend musical form is a debated issue in music cognition, unlike music theory where its status is assumed and of central importance. This project uses four experimental paradigms to investigate how listeners make sense of music beyond the perceptual present.


Hosken, F.  The ‘Pocket’ in Drum Grooves
A computational analysis of a corpus of drum grooves by professional drummers to investigate the idea of beats being temporal pockets and to ascertain what makes individual drummers have their own personal groove.

Demorest, S.M., Schmidt, C., and White, A.  The Relationship of Mindset, Musical Self-Concept, and Music Participation
This line of research seeks to explore relationships between musical mindset, musical self-concept, and  musical experience or musical participation in different populations depending on age and experience.

Demorest S.M. and Pfordresher, P.Q.   Singing Accuracy in the General Population
This study examines the results of over 600 volunteers worldwide who took the Seattle Singing Accuracy Profile. It seeks to determine norms for singing accuracy of the general population and their relationship to age, experience, perceptual ability, self concept, and musical training.

Morrison, S.J. and Demorest, S.M.  Testing A Computational Model of Music Enculturation: Evidence from A Free Sorting Task
The cultural distance hypothesis predicts that the statistical properties of a cultures’ music will determine how difficult is for someone from another culture to process that music. This hypothesis is being tested initially through a free sorting task and eventually through a musical memory task.

Demorest, S.M. and White, A,   Tracking a Singer’s Gaze When Following a Conductor
This study is using eye tracking methodology to explore where a singer looks when they are following a conductor and whether are not their gaze is affected by performance variables.