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Selected Publications

Working Papers

• Jacoby, N., R. Polak, J. Grahn, D. Cameron, K. M. Lee, R. Godoy, E. A. Undurraga, T. Huanca, T. Thalwitzer, N. Doumbia, D. Goldberg, E. Margulis, P. C. M. Wong, L. Jure, M. Rocamora, S. Fujii, P. E. Savage, J. Ajimi, R. Konno, S. Oishi, K. Jakubowski, A. Holzapfel, E. Mungan, E. Kaya, P. Rao, R. M. Ananthanarayana, S. Alladi, B. Tarr, M. Anglada-Tort, P. Harrison, M. J. McPherson, S. Dolan, A. Durango & J. H. McDermott (in review). Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by global comparison of rhythm priors.
• Marjieh, R.*, P. M. C. Harrison*, H. Lee, F. Deligiannaki & N. Jacoby. Reshaping musical consonance with timbral manipulations and massive online experiments. BioArXiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.14.496070.
• Sucholutsky, I., R. Marjieh, N. Jacoby, & T. L. Griffiths. On the informativeness of supervision signals. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01407.
• Nave, K., Carrillo, C., Jacoby, N., Trainor, L., & Hannon, E. The Development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task. PsyArXiv: psyarxiv.com/wvb9k/

2023

• Marjieh, R., I. Sucholutsky, T. A. Langlois, N. Jacoby, & T. L. Griffiths. Analyzing diffusion as serial reproduction. arXiv:2209.14821. Accepted, The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.
• van Rijn, P., Y. Sun, H. Lee, R. Marjieh, I. Sucholutsky, F. Lanzarini, E. André, & N. Jacoby. Around the world in 60 words: A generative vocabulary test for online research. arXiv:2302.01614. Accepted, CogSci 2023.
• Marjieh, R., I. Sucholutsky, P. van Rijn, N. Jacoby, & T. L. Griffiths. What language reveals about perception: Distilling psychophysical knowledge from large language models. arXiv:2302.01308. Accepted, CogSci 2023.
• Anglada-Tort, M., P. M. C. Harrison, H. Lee, & N. Jacoby. Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution. Current Biology 33.8, 1472-1486.e12.
• Marjieh, R*., P. van Rijn*, I. Sucholutsky*, T. R. Sumers, H. Lee, T. L. Griffiths† & N. Jacoby†. Words are all you need? Capturing human sensory similarity with textual descriptors. ArXiv: 2206.04105. Accepted, The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023. ArXiv: 2206.04105.
• Kasten, K., N. Jacoby, & M. Ahissar. Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo-keeping in adults with autism. Autism Research doi.org/10.1002/aur.2926 
• Gordon, R. L., D. Martschenko, S. Nayak, M. Niarchou, M. D. Morrison, E. Bell, N. Jacoby & L. Davis. Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14972. 
• Feld, S., N. Jacoby, D. Loughridge, P. Loui, & E. H. Margulis, (2023). Conversations with Steve Feld. In E. H. Margulis, D. Loughridge, & P. Loui (Eds.), The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past, Imagining the Future, pp. 367-383. MIT Press.
• Savage, P.E., N. Jacoby*, E. H. Margulis*, H. Daikoku, M. Anglada-Tort, S. El-Sawan Castelo-Branco, F. Ewomazino Nweke, S. Fujii, S. Hegde, H. Chuan-Peng, J. Jabbour, C. Lew-Williams, D. Mangalagiu, R. McNamara, D. Müllensiefen, P. Opondo, A. D. Patel & H. Schippers. Building sustainable global collaborative networks: Recommendations from music studies and the social sciences. In E. H. Margulis, D. Loughridge, & P. Loui (Eds.), The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past, Imagining the Future, pp. 347-365. MIT Press.

2022

• Anglada-Tort, M., P. M. C. Harrison, & N. Jacoby. Studying the effect of oral transmission on melodic structure using online iterated singing experiments. Forthcoming, CogSci 2022. bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.10.491366.
• Marjieh, R.*, I. Sucholutsky*, T. R. Sumers, N. Jacoby & T. L. Griffiths. Predicting human similarity judgments using large language models. Forthcoming, CogSci 2022. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04728.
• van Rijn, P.*, H. Lee* & N. Jacoby. Bridging the prosody GAP: Genetic Algorithm with People to efficiently sample emotional prosody. Forthcoming, CogSci 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04820.
• Siuzdak, H., P. Dura, P. van Rijn & N. Jacoby. WavThruVec: Latent speech representation as intermediate features for neural speech synthesis. Forthcoming, INTERSPEECH 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16930.
• van Rijn, P., S Mertes, D Schiller, P Dura, H Siuzdak, P Harrison, E André & N. Jacoby. VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTSP. Forthcoming, INTERSPEECH 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15379.
• Jakubowski, K.*, R. Polak*, M. Rocamora, L. Jure, & N. Jacoby. Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony. Cognition vol. 227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105205
• Niarchou, M., D. E. Gustavson, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, M. Anglada-Tort, E. Eising, E. Bell, E. McArthur, P. Straub, The 23andMe Research Team, J. D. McAuley, J. A. Capra, F. Ullén, N. Creanza, M. A. Mosing, D. Hinds, L. K. Davis†, N. Jacoby† & R. L. Gordon†. Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity. Nature Human Behaviour
• Anglada-Tort, M., P. M. C. Harrison & N. Jacoby. REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments. Behavior Research Methods. 

2021

• Langlois, T. A.*, H. C. Zhao*, E. Grant, I. Dasgupta, T. L. Griffiths† & N. Jacoby†. Passive attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity. Oral presentation, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 35.
• Vishne, G.*, N. Jacoby*, T. Malinovitch, T. Epstein, O. Frenkel & M. Ahissar. Slow update of internal representations impedes synchronization in autism. Nature Communications 12: 5439. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25740-y.
• Lee, H. F. Hoeger, M. Schoenwiesner, M. Park & N. Jacoby. Cross-cultural mood perception in pop songs and its alignment with mood detection algorithms. Oral presentation, ISMIR 2021.
• Van Rijn, P., S. Mertes, D. Schiller, P. M. C. Harrison, P. Larrouy-Maestri, E. André & N. Jacoby. Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space. INTERSPEECH 2021.
• Jacoby, N.*, R. Polak* & J. London*. Extreme precision in rhythmic interaction is enabled by role-optimized sensorimotor coupling: Analysis and modeling of West African drum ensemble music. Philosophical Transactions B 376(1835), p.20200331.
• Tchernichovski, O., S. Frey, N. Jacoby & D. Conley. Experimenting with online governance.  Frontiers in Human Dynamics, section Social Networks.
• Clayton, M., Tarsitani, S., Jankowsky, R., Jure, L., Leante, L., Polak, R., Poole, A., Rocamora, M., Alborno, P., Camurri, A., Eerola, T., Jacoby, N., & Jakubowski, K. The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection. Empirical Musicology Review, 16 (1), 65 84.
• Langlois, T. A.,* N. Jacoby,* J. Suchow & T. L. Griffiths. Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118 (13) e2012938118.

2020

• Harrison, P. M. C., R. Marjieh, F. Adolfi, P. van Rijn, M. Anglada-Tort, O. Tchernichovski, P. Larrouy-Maestri & N. Jacoby. Gibbs sampling with people. Oral presentation, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 34.
• Roeske,* T. C., O. Tchernichovski,* D. Poeppel & N. Jacoby. Categorical rhythms shared between songbirds and humans. Current Biology 30.18 3544-3555.e6.
• McPherson, M. J., S. E. Dolan, A. Durango, T. Ossandon, J. Valdes, E. A. Undurraga, N. Jacoby, R. A. Godoy & J. H. McDermott. Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature Communications 11: 2786.

2019

• Jacoby, N., E. A. Undurraga, M. J. McPherson, J. Valdes, T. Ossandon & J. H. McDermott. Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch perception revealed by sung reproduction. Current Biology 29, 1–15.
• Langlois, T., Jacoby, N., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. Orthogonal multi-view three-dimensional object representations in memory revealed by serial reproduction. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert & C. Freksa, Eds. 2078-2083.
• Mehr, S. A., M. Singh, D. Knox, D. M. Ketter, D. Pickens-Jones, S. Atwood, C. Lucas, A. Egner, N. Jacoby, E. J. Hopkins, R. M. Howard, S. Pinker, T. J. O’Donnell, M. M. Krasnow & L. Glowacki. Universality and diversity in human song. Science vol. 366.6468, eaax0868.
• Jacoby, N.,* E. H.  Margulis*, M. Clayton, E. Hannon, H. Honing, J. Iversen, T. R. Klein, S. A. Mehr, L. Pearson, I. Peretz, M. Perlman, R. Polak, A. Ravignani, P. E. Savage, G. Steingo, C. J. Stevens, L. Trainor, S. Trehub, M. Veal & M. Wald-Fuhrmann. Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights and recommendations. Music Perception 37.3, 185-195.
• Shany, O., N. Singer, B. P. Gold, N. Jacoby, R. Tarrasch, T. Hendler & R, Granot. Surprise-related activation in the nucleus accumbens interacts with music-induced pleasantness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz019.

2018

• Polak, R.*, N. Jacoby,* T. Fischinger, D. Goldberg, A. Holzapfel  & J. London. Rhythmic prototypes across cultures. A comparative study of tapping synchronization. Music Perception, 36.1 (2018): 1–23. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2018.36.1.1.
• Elliott, M.T., D. Ward, R. Stables, D. Fraser, N. Jacoby & A. M. Wing. Analysing multi-person timing in music and movement: Event based methods. Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications (Leiden, Brill: 2018), 177-215.

2017

• Jacoby, N. & J. H. McDermott. Integer ratio priors on musical rhythm revealed cross-culturally by iterated reproduction. Current Biology 27.3 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.031.
•  Langlois,* T. A., N. Jacoby,* J. Suchow  & T. L. Griffiths. Uncovering visual priors in spatial memory using serial reproduction. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Mehta, A H., N. Jacoby, I. Yasin, A. J. Oxenham & S. Shamma. An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects. Philosophical Transactions B 372: 20160114. doi: 10.1098/rstb/372/1714.
• Polak, R., N. Jacoby & J. London. Afrikanistische Rhythmusforschung und die politische Dimension von Daten. Drei Analysen eines Mehrspur-Audio-Korpus von Percussion-Ensemblemusik aus Mali. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 13.2, 2016.
• Murton, O., L. Zipse, N. Jacoby & S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. Repetition and a beat-based timing framework: what determines the duration of intervals between repetitions of a tapping pattern? Timing and Time Perception 5.3-4, 244-259.

2016

• Singer, N., N. Jacoby, T. Lin, G. Raz, L. Shpigelman, G. Gilam, R. Y. Granot & T. Hendler. Common modulation of limbic network activation underlies the unfolding of musical emotions and its temporal attributes. Neuroimage 141, 517–29.
•  London, J., R. Polak & N. Jacoby. Rhythm histograms and musical meter: a corpus study of Malian percussion music. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1093-7.  
• Polak, R.*, N. Jacoby* & J. London*. Both isochronous and non-isochronous metrical subdivision afford precise and stable ensemble entrainment: A corpus study of Malian jembe drumming. Frontiers in Auditory Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00285. 
• Eloul, S., G. Zissu, Y.H. Amo & N. Jacoby. Motion tracking of a fish as a novel way to control electronic music performance. Leonardo 49.3, 203-10.
• Honisch, J. J., M. E. Elliott, N. Jacoby & A. M. Wing.  Cue properties change timing strategies in group movement synchronization. Scientific Reports 6: 19439. Doi:10.1038/srep19439.

2015

• Jacoby, N. & M. Ahissar. Assessing the applied benefits of perceptual training: lessons from studies of working-memory training. Journal of Vision 15.6. 
• Jaffe-Dax, S., O. Raviv, N. Jacoby, Y. Loewenstein & M. Ahissar. Towards a computational model of dyslexia. The Journal of Neuroscience 35.35: 12116-26. 
• Jacoby, N., B. H. Repp, M. Ahissar, N. Tishby & P. Keller. Parameter estimation of linear sensorimotor synchronization models: Phase correction, period correction and ensemble synchronization. Timing & Time Perception, Doi: 10.1163/22134468-00002048.
• Jacoby, N., N. Tishby & D. Tymoczko. Information bottleneck and functional harmony. Journal of New Music Research, Doi: 10.1080/09298215.2015.1036888.
• Jacoby, N., P. E. Keller, B. H. Repp, M. Ahissar & N. Tishby. Lower bound on the accuracy of parameter estimation methods for linear sensorimotor synchronization models. Timing & Time Perception, Doi: 10.1163/22134468-00002047.
• Van der Steen, M., N. Jacoby, M. T. Fairhurst & P. E. Keller. Sensorimotor synchronization with tempo changing auditory sequences: modeling temporal adaptation and anticipation. Brain Research, Doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.01.053.

2013

• Lipkind, D., G. F. Marcus, D. K. Bemis, K. Sasahara, K., N. Jacoby, M. Takahasi, K. Suzuki, O. Feher, P. Ravbar, K. Okanoya & O. Tchernichovski. Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants. Nature 498, 104–8.
• Jacoby, N. & M. Ahissar. What does It take to Show that a Cognitive Training Procedure is Useful?: A Critical Evaluation. In Progress in Brain Research: Changing Brains - Applying Brain Plasticity to Advance and Recover Human Ability. Michael Merzenich, Mor Nahum and Tom Van Vleet, eds. Elsevier, 2013.
• Gurion, T. & N. Jacoby. Audio-only augmented reality system for social interaction. HCI International 2013-Posters’ Extended Abstracts. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 322-6. PDF

2012

• Jacoby, N. & B. H. Repp. A General linear framework for the comparison and evaluation of models of sensorimotor synchronization. Biological Cybernetics, vol. 106/3, 135-154. doi: 10.1007/s00422-012-0482-x.
• Bohannon, P., N. Dalvi, Y. Filmus, N. Jacoby, S. Keerthi & A. Kirpal. Automatic web-scale information extraction. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 609-612.

2011

• Repp, B. H., P. E. Keller & N. Jacoby. Quantifying phase correction in sensorimotor synchronization: empirical comparison of three paradigms. Acta Psychologica 139, no. 2: 281–90. 
• Granot, R. Y. & N. Jacoby. Musically puzzling II: Sensitivity to overall structure in a Haydn e-minor sonata? Musica Scientiae 16.1, 67–80.
• Granot, R. Y. & N. Jacoby. Musically puzzling I: Sensitivity to overall structure in sonata form? Musica Scientiae 15. 3: 365–86. 

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