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Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J., Cameron, D., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., ... McPherson, M. J., ...& McDermott, J. H. (2024). Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behavior, 1-32.

McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H (2023). Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre. Cognition, 232:105327.  
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McPherson, M. J., Grace, R. C., & McDermott, J. H. (2022). Harmonicity aids hearing in noise. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-27.  
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McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H. (2020). Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(50), 32169-32180.  
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McPherson, M. J., Dolan, S. E., Durango, A., Ossandon, T., Valdés, J., Undurraga, E. A., Godoy, R., & McDermott, J. H. (2020). Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature communications, 11(1), 1-14.  
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Jacoby, N., Undurraga, E. A., McPherson, M. J., Valdés, J., Ossandón, T., & McDermott, J. H. (2019). Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch perception revealed by singing. Current Biology, 29(19), 3229-3243.  
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McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H. (2018). Diversity in pitch perception revealed by task dependence. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), 52-66.  
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McPherson, M. J., Barrett, F. S., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Jiradejvong, P., & Limb, C. J. (2016). Emotional intent modulates the neural substrates of creativity: an fMRI study of emotionally targeted improvisation in Jazz musicians. Scientific Reports, 6, 18460.  
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McPherson, M. J., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Rankin, S. K., & Limb, C. J. (2014). The role of emotion in musical improvisation: an analysis of structural features. PLOS One, 9(8), e105144.  
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McPherson, M.J., & Limb, C. J. (2013). Difficulties in the neuroscience of creativity: Jazz improvisation and the scientific method. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1303(1), 80-83.  
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