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College Wolfson College
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  • Music
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    Research Theme The Social Brain
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    Professor Ian Cross

    University Position
    Emeritus Professor

    Interests

    I am now Emeritus Profesor of Music & Science. My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms the human capacity for affiliative communicative interaction in music and in speech. This involves theoretical and experimental research using conventional cognitive-scientific methods. I direct a project exploring how musical notation is used, involving the visual optimisation of notation design for fluent reading.

    Key Publications

    Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250166
    Journal: PLoS One
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
    Authors: JP Robledo, S Hawkins, C Cornejo, I Cross, D Party, E Hurtado

    White spaces, music notation and the facilitation of sight-reading.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41445-1
    Journal: Sci Rep
    E-pub date: 28 Mar 2019
    Authors: A Stenberg, I Cross

    Music and communication in music psychology

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735614543968
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 26 Nov 2014
    Authors: I Cross

    Music, Cognition, Culture, and Evolution

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198525202.003.0004
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 22 Mar 2012
    Authors: I Cross

    Music, speech and affiliative communicative interaction: pitch and rhythm as interactive affordances.

    DOI:
    Journal: PsyArXiv
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Ian Crossd

    Publications

    Perception of rhythmic agency for conversational labeling

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1877541
    Journal: Human-Computer Interaction
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2023
    Authors: CG Yu, AF Blackwell, I Cross

    Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00386-y
    Journal: J Nonverbal Behav
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: RIM Dunbar, J-P Robledo, I Tamarit, I Cross, E Smith

    Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09701-6
    Journal: J Med Humanit
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2021
    Authors: EL Cao, CD Blinderman, I Cross

    Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001028
    Journal: Behav Brain Sci
    E-pub date: 30 Sep 2021
    Authors: I Cross

    Investigating Everyday Musical Interaction During COVID-19: An Experimental Procedure for Exploring Collaborative Playlist Engagement.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647967
    Journal: Front Psychol
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
    Authors: I Harris, I Cross

    Analysing the relationship between tone and melody in Chaozhou songs

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1974490
    Journal: Journal of New Music Research
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2021
    Authors: X Zhang, I Cross

    Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040287
    Journal: BMJ Open
    E-pub date: 23 Nov 2020
    Authors: KRM Sanfilippo, B McConnell, V Cornelius, B Darboe, HB Huma, M Gaye, H Ceesay, P Ramchandani, I Cross, V Glover, L Stewart

    Anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex response to systematically controlled tonal dissonance during passive music listening.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24786
    Journal: Hum Brain Mapp
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2020
    Authors: F Bravo, I Cross, C Hopkins, N Gonzalez, J Docampo, C Bruno, EA Stamatakis

    The role of oxytocin in the facial mimicry of affiliative vs. non-affiliative emotions.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104377
    Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2019
    Authors: G Pavarini, R Sun, M Mahmoud, I Cross, S Schnall, A Fischer, J Deakin, H Ziauddeen, A Kogan, L Vuillier

    Joint rhythmic tapping elicits distinct emotions depending on tap timing and prior musical training.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000474
    Journal: Emotion
    E-pub date: 31 Aug 2019
    Authors: T-C Rabinowitch, I Cross

    Testing the Feasibility of a Complex Intervention for Perinatal Mental Health in The Gambia

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0515-5
    Journal: Pilot Feasibility Stud
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2019
    Authors: KRM Sanfilippo, V Cornelius, B McConnell, P Ramchandani, I Cross, H Ceesay, B Darboe, HB Huma, M Gaye, V Glover, L Stewart

    Sensory cortical response to uncertainty and low salience during recognition of affective cues in musical intervals.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175991
    Journal: PLoS One
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2017
    Authors: F Bravo, I Cross, EA Stamatakis, M Rohrmeier

    Neural mechanisms underlying valence inferences to sound: The role of the right angular gyrus.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.029
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    E-pub date: 28 Jul 2017
    Authors: F Bravo, I Cross, S Hawkins, N Gonzalez, J Docampo, C Bruno, EA Stamatakis

    Look, listen and learn: Exploring effects of passive entrainment on social judgements of observed others

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735616648008
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2017
    Authors: S Knight, N Spiro, I Cross

    Effects on Inter-Personal Memory of Dancing in Time with Others.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00167
    Journal: Front Psychol
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2016
    Authors: MH Woolhouse, D Tidhar, I Cross

    The roles of music in social life and thought

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12333
    Journal: International Journal of Psychology
    E-pub date: 1 Jul 2016
    Authors: I Cross

    Perception of nonadjacent tonic-key relationships

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735615593409
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2015
    Authors: M Woolhouse, I Cross, T Horton

    The acoustic and auditory contexts of human behavior

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1086/679445
    Journal: Current Anthropology
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2015
    Authors: EC Blake, I Cross

    Modelling unsupervised online-learning of artificial grammars: linking implicit and statistical learning.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.03.011
    Journal: Conscious Cogn
    E-pub date: 1 Jul 2014
    Authors: MA Rohrmeier, I Cross

    “Does not compute”? Music as real-time communicative interaction

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0511-x
    Journal: AI & Society
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2013
    Authors: IRM Cross

    Artificial grammar learning of melody is constrained by melodic inconsistency: Narmour’s principles affect melodic learning.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066174
    Journal: PLoS One
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
    Authors: M Rohrmeier, I Cross

    Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735612440609
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Jul 2013
    Authors: T Rabinowitch, I Cross, PA Burnard

    Music and biocultural evolution

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.4324/9780203821015
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2013
    Authors: I Cross

    Cognitive science and the cultural nature of music.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01216.x
    Journal: Top Cogn Sci
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2012
    Authors: I Cross

    Exploring violin sound quality: investigating English timbre descriptors and correlating resynthesized acoustical modifications with perceptual properties.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.3651790
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2012
    Authors: C Fritz, AF Blackwell, I Cross, J Woodhouse, BCJ Moore

    About musical time – Effect of age, enjoyment, and practical musical experience on retrospective estimate of elapsed duration during music listening

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21478-3_11
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    E-pub date: 6 Dec 2011
    Authors: M Phillips, I Cross

    Incidental and online learning of melodic structure.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.07.004
    Journal: Conscious Cogn
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 2011
    Authors: M Rohrmeier, P Rebuschat, I Cross

    The meanings of musical meanings: Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2011.05.009
    Journal: Phys Life Rev
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 2011
    Authors: I Cross

    Incidental learning of melodic structure.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.07.004.
    Journal: Consciousness and Cognition
    E-pub date: 15 Sep 2010
    Authors: IRM Cross, M Rohrmeier, P Rebuschat

    Using Interval Cycles to Model Krumhansl’s Tonal Hierarchies

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/mts.2010.32.1.60
    Journal: MUSIC THEOR SPECTRUM
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2010
    Authors: M Woolhouse, I Cross

    Listening as covert performance

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/02690400903414848
    Journal: Journal of the Royal Musical Association
    E-pub date: 31 Mar 2010
    Authors: I Cross

    Perceptual studies of violin body damping and vibrato.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.3266684
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2010
    Authors: C Fritz, J Woodhouse, FP-H Cheng, I Cross, AF Blackwell, BCJ Moore

    Communicative development: neonate crying reflects patterns of native-language speech.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.035
    Journal: Curr Biol
    E-pub date: 15 Dec 2009
    Authors: I Cross

    THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL AND PERFORMANCE FACTORS IN THE PERCEPTION OF ANACRUSES

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2009.27.2.103
    Journal: MUSIC PERCEPT
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2009
    Authors: J London, T Himberg, I Cross

    The evolutionary nature of musical meaning

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/1029864909013002091
    Journal: Musicae Scientiae
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2009
    Authors: I Cross

    Musicality and the human capacity for culture

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/1029864908012001071
    Journal: Musicae Scientiae
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2008
    Authors: I Cross

    Perceptual thresholds for detecting modifications applied to the acoustical properties of a violin.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.2799475
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2007
    Authors: C Fritz, I Cross, BCJ Moore, J Woodhouse

    The musical human: Rethinking John Blacking’s ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2007.24.5.507
    Journal: MUSIC PERCEPT
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 2007
    Authors: I Cross

    The Origins of Music

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2006.24.1.79
    Journal: Music Perception
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2006
    Authors: I Cross

    Comments on music, ethology, and evolution.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1360.060
    Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2005
    Authors: I Cross

    Music and social being1

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2005.10415281
    Journal: Musicology Australia
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2005
    Authors: I Cross

    Music as a biocultural phenomenon.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1284.010
    Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2003
    Authors: I Cross

    Music and Evolution: Consequences and Causes

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/0749446032000150906
    Journal: Contemporary Music Review
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2003
    Authors: I Cross

    Music, cognition, culture, and evolution.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05723.x
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 2001
    Authors: I Cross

    Music, mind and evolution

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735601291007
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2001
    Authors: I Cross

    The Andean anacrusis? Rhythmic structure and perception in Easter songs of Northern Potosí, Bolivia

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/09681220008567301
    Journal: British Journal of Ethnomusicology
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2000
    Authors: H Stobart, I Cross

    Music analysis and music perception

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.2307/854368
    Journal: Music Analysis
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1998
    Authors: I Cross

    Introduction: Cognitive science and music—an overview

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/07494469300640291
    Journal: Contemporary Music Review
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1993
    Authors: I Cross, I Deliège

    A Discussion on the Relationships between Music Therapy and The Psychology of Music

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735688161006
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1988
    Authors: L Bunt, I Cross, E Clarke, S Hoskyns

    Modelling Music as Input-Output and as Process

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0305735687151003
    Journal: Psychology of Music
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1987
    Authors: R West, I Cross, P Howell

    Pitch Relations and the Formation of Scalar Structure

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.2307/40285302
    Journal: Music Perception
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1985
    Authors: I Cross, R West, P Howell

    The Detection Of Notes Incompatible With Scalar Structure

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.391615
    Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 1984
    Authors: P Howell, R West, I Cross

    Preferences for scale structure in melodic sequences.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037//0096-1523.9.3.444
    Journal: J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 1983
    Authors: I Cross, P Howell, R West

    Back to basics; a re-evaluation of the role of imprinting in the genesis of Bowlby’s attachment theory

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033746
    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Robledo, J. P , Cross, I., Boada-Bayona, L. & Demogeot, N.

    Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings

    DOI: https://doi.org/110.1177/10298649231197388
    Journal: Musicae Scientiae
    Year: 2023
    Authors: Ian Cross