Professor Ian Cross University positionProfessor DepartmentsFaculty of Music Home pagehttps://cms.mus.cam.ac.uk/directo... (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsI am now Emeritus Profesor of Music & Science. My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the ways in which inter-individual synchrony may impact upon the experience of social relationships, 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 have been 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 publicationsRobledo, JP, Hawkins, S, Cornejo, C, Cross, I, Party, D. & Hurtado, E (2021), “Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence” PLOSONE 16(4), e0250166. Cross, I (2013), “"Does not compute"? Music as real-time communicative interaction” AI & Society 28(4), 415-430 Hawkins S, Cross I, & Ogden, R (2013), “Communicative interaction in spontaneous music and speech” In M. Orwin M, Howes C & Kempson, R (Eds.), Language, music, and interaction. London: College Publications 285-329 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” Oxford: OUP Cross I (2001), “Music, cognition, culture and evolution” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 930:28-42 Publications2021Cao, E, Blinderman, CD & Cross, I (2021), “Reconsidering empathy: an interpersonal approach and participatory arts in the medical humanities.” 2021 doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09701-6 in pressCarlson, E, & Cross, I (in press), “Reopening the conversation between music psychology and music therapy: a survey of interdisciplinary attitudes” Music PEerception 2021Cross I (2021), “Music, attachment and uncertainty: music as communicative interaction. Commentary on Music as a coevolved system for social bonding (Savage, Loui, Tarr, Schachner, Glowacki, Mithen & Fitch); and Origins of music in credible signalling (Mehr, Krasnow, Bryant & Hagen).” Behavioral & Brain Sciences 44, e66 in pressDunbar, RIM, Robledo JP, Tamarit, I, Cross, I & Smith, (in press), “Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 2021Harris, I & Cross, I (2021), “Investigating Everyday Musical Interaction During COVID-19: An Experimental Procedure for Collaborative Playlist Engagement.” Frontiers in Psychology 12(1006) Yu, CG, Blackwell, AF, & Cross, I (2021), “Perception of Rhythmic Agency for Conversational Labelling” Human Computer Interaction doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1877541 Zhang, X & Cross, I (2021), “Analysing relationships between tone and melody in Chaozhou Songs” Journal of New Music Research Doi: 10.1080/09298215.2021.1974490 2020Cross I & Tolbert E (2020), “Epistemologies” In McAuley T, Levinson J & Nielsen N (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press 265-282 Sanfilippo, KRM, McConnell, B, Cornelius, V, Darboe, B, Huma, HB, Gaye, M, Ceesay, M, Ramchandani, P, Cross, I, Glover, V& Stewart, L (2020), “Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial” BMJ Open 10(11): e040287 2019Stenberg, A, Cross, I (2019), “White spaces, music notation and the facilitation of sight-reading” Scientific Reports 9(1): 5299 2018Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen Cross, Ian (2018), “Joint rhythmic tapping elicits distinct emotions depending on tap timing and prior musical training” Emotion doi.org/10.1037/emo0000474 2017Bravo, F., Cross, I., Hawkins, S., Gonzalez, N., Docampo, J., Bruno, C., & Stamatakis, E. (2017), “Neural Mechanisms underlying Valence Inferences to Sound: the Role of the right Angular Gyrus” Neuropsychologia 102, 144-162 Bravo, F., Cross, I., Stamatakis, E. A., & Rohrmeier, M. (2017), “Sensory cortical response to uncertainty and low salience during recognition of affective cues in musical intervals.” PLOS ONE 12(4), e0175991 Knight, S., Spiro, N., & Cross, I. (2017), “Look, listen and learn: Exploring effects of passive entrainment on social judgements of observed others” Psychology of Music 45(1), 99-115 2016Woolhouse, M., Cross, I. & Horton, T. (2016), “Perception of non-adjacent tonic key relationships” PSychology of Music 44(4), 802-815 Woolhouse, M., Tidhar, D., and Cross, I. (2016), “Effects on interpersonal memory of dancing in time with others” Frontiers in Psychology 7(167), 1-8 2015Blake E, Cross I (2015), “The acoustic and auditory contexts of human behavior” Current Anthropology 56 (1), 81-103 2014Cross I (2014), “Music and communication in music psychology” Psychology of Music 42(6), 809-819 Rohrmeier 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 |