Professor Ian Cross University positionProfessor Professor Ian Cross is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsFaculty of Music Home pagehttp://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/~cross (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsMy research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the capacity for achievement and maintenance of inter-individual synchrony of behaviour, those underlying the experience of meaning in engagement with music, and those involved in the cognition and perception of multi-levelled structure in both music and language, particularly in interaction. This involves theoretical and experimental research using conventional cognitive-scientific methods. I am also involved in research exploring the perceptual characterisation of violin acoustics and the impact of this on performance, as well as the reconstructive archaeology of sound-producing lithic objects. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsCross, I (2013), “"Does not compute"? Music as real-time communicative interaction” AI & Society 28(4), 415-430 Rabinowitch, T-C, Cross, I, & Burnard, P (2013), “Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children” Psychology of Music 41(4), 484-498 Rohrmeier, M, Rebuschat, P & Cross, I (2011), “Incidental learning of melodic structure” Consciousness & Cognition 24 (2), 214-222 Cross I (2009), “The evolutionary nature of musical meaning” Musicae Scientiae Special Issue: 179-200 Hallam, S, Cross, I, & Thaut, M (Eds.) (2009), “ ” Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology Cross I (2001), “Music, cognition, culture and evolution” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 930:28-42 Publicationsin pressBlake E, Cross I (in press), “The acoustic and auditory contexts of human behavior” Current Anthropology Cross I (in press), “Music and communication in music psychology” Psychology of Music 2014Rohrmeier MA, Cross I (2014), “Modelling unsupervised online-learning of artificial grammars: Linking implicit and statistical learning.” Conscious Cogn 27:155-67 Details 2013Cross, I, Fitch, WT, Aboitiz, F, Iriki, A, Jarvis, ED, Lewis, J, Liebal, K, Merker, B, Stout, D & Trehub, SE (2013), “Culture and evolution ” In MA Arbib (Ed) Language, music and the brain 541-562 Rohrmeier M, Cross I (2013), “Artificial grammar learning of melody is constrained by melodic inconsistency: Narmour's principles affect melodic learning.” PLoS One 8(7):e66174 Details 2012Cross I (2012), “Cognitive science and the cultural nature of music.” Top Cogn Sci 4(4):668-77 Details Fritz C, Blackwell AF, Cross I, Woodhouse J, Moore BC (2012), “Exploring violin sound quality: investigating English timbre descriptors and correlating resynthesized acoustical modifications with perceptual properties.” J Acoust Soc Am 131(1):783-94 Details 2011Cross I (2011), “The meanings of musical meanings: Comment on "Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics" by Stefan Koelsch.” Phys Life Rev 8(2):116-9; discussion 125-8 Details 2010Fritz C, Woodhouse J, Cheng FP, Cross I, Blackwell AF, Moore BC (2010), “Perceptual studies of violin body damping and vibrato.” J Acoust Soc Am 127(1):513-24 Details 2009Cross I (2009), “Communicative development: neonate crying reflects patterns of native-language speech.” Curr Biol 19(23):R1078-9 Details 2007Fritz C, Cross I, Moore BC, Woodhouse J (2007), “Perceptual thresholds for detecting modifications applied to the acoustical properties of a violin.” J Acoust Soc Am 122(6):3640-50 Details 2005Cross I (2005), “Comments on music, ethology, and evolution.” Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:3-5 Details 2003Cross I (2003), “Music as a biocultural phenomenon.” Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:106-11 Details |