Dr. Nori Jacoby
Hauptforschungsgebiete
- Cross-cultural auditory cognition
- Computational audition
- Internal representations in vision and audition
- Timing and sensorimotor synchronization
- Music cognition
Vita
Ausbildung
| 2007–2014 | PhD in Computational Neuroscience (Ahissar and Tishby Lab), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2001–2003 | MSc. in Mathematics, Magna cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1998–2000 | BSc in Mathematics and Physics, Magna cum Laude, Talpiot Military Academy, The Hebrew University Jerusalem |
Werdegang
| 2016–2018 | Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University |
| 2016 | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley (Griffiths Lab) |
| 2014–2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT (McDermott Lab) |
Publikationen
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.
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
| 2014 | ELSC Brain Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship for Training Abroad. |
| 2012 | Daniel Amit Memorial Prize in Computational Neuroscience, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
| 2008 | Margalit Prize for music for Ruti Kanner’s play Go’al |
| 2004 | Israeli Defense Forces C4I Prize for Significant Creative Research |
| 2003 | Israeli Defense Forces’ Prize for Algorithmic Development |
Projekte
- Global Survey of Rhythm Representation
Over the past few years, cross-cultural comparative work has made various claims about the universality of aspects of music, aesthetic preferences, and emotion (Fritz 2009, Brown & Jordania 2013, Savage et al. 2015). However, recent work ...
- Cross-Cultural Perception
Over 90% of psychology experiments between 2003-2007 were conducted on WEIRD subjects, hailing from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies (Arnett 2008). Henrich et al. (2010) have argued that these populations ...
- Characterizing the Geometry of Internal Representations using Massive Online Experiments in Audition and Vision
Our auditory and visual memory systems encode information selectively due to limited resources, resulting in systematic distortions and biases. Understanding these biases allows us to characterize the latent geometry of our mind, namely, to better ...
- Kategoriale Rhythmuswahrnehmung
Die Wahrnehmung rhythmischer Figuren beruht auf dem Mechanismus der kategorialen Wahrnehmung: die Tendenz der menschlichen Wahrnehmung, die unendliche Vielfalt rhythmischer Nuancen in Bezug auf eine kleine Anzahl prototypischer, als ...
- PsyNet: The Online Human Behavior Lab of the Future
Please visit psynet.dev for more information ...
- Gibbs Sampling with People
As cognitive scientists, we are often interested in mapping the relationship between external stimuli (e.g., spoken sentences, musical chords, faces) and semantic features that the mind derives from these stimuli (e.g., happiness, sadness, ...
- A Robust Cross-Platform Solution for Online Sensorimotor Synchronization Experiments
Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS), the rhythmic coordination of perception and action, is a fundamental human skill that supports many behaviors, from repetitive daily routines to the highest forms of behavioural coordination, including music and ...
- Using Serial Reproduction to Reveal Spatial Priors in Navigation
Navigation poses a difficult problem for the human visual system, which must process complex and noisy scenes while keeping pace with a relentless stream of incoming information. Since not all information is equally useful, it must allocate its ...