Publications

 

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Here is a listing of my published work. Whenever possible I have provided a down loadable PDF version of these papers. 
   

Refereed Publications:

Mangalindan, D. M. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). What's in a cue? The role of cue orientation in object displacement tasks. Infant Behavior and Development, 34, 407-416
Vuvan, D. T., Prince, J. B., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Probing the minor tonal hierarchy. Music Perception, 28, 461-472.
Jowkar-Baniani, G., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Picture perception in infants: Generalization from two-dimensional to three-dimensional displays. Infancy, 16, 211-226
Vuvan, D. T., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2011). Tonal hierarchy representations in auditory imagery. Memory & Cognition, 39, 477-490
Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Melodic contour similarity using folk melodies. Music Perception, 28, 169 - 193.
Prince, J. B., Schmuckler, M. A., & Thomspon, W. F. (2009). Cross-modal perception of melodic contours. Canadian Acoustics, 37, 35 - 49.
 
Prince, J. B., Schmuckler, M. A., & Thompson, W. F. (2009). The effect of task and pitch structure on pitch-time interactions in music. Memory & Cognition, 37, 369 - 381.
 
Prince, J. B., Thompson, W. F., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Pitch and time, tonality and meter: How do musical dimensions combine? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1598 - 1617.
 
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Dial A440 for absolute pitch: Absolute pitch memory by non-absolute pitch possessors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, EL77-84.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (2008). Review of Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 137-142.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., Collimore, L. M., & Dannemiller, J. L. (2007). Infants’ reactions to object collision on hit and miss trajectories. Infancy, 12, 105-118.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jewell, S. (2007). The effect of simulated self versus object movement in a non-search task. Infancy, 11, 305-320.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Jewell, D. T. (2007). Infants’ visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception with imperfect contingency information. Developmental Psychobiology, 48, 387-398.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tomovski, R. (2005). Perceptual tests of musical key-finding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1124-1149.
 
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2004). The perception of tonal structure through the differentiation and organization of pitches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 268-286.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (2003). A question of questions: Comments on Wagman and Miller. Developmental Psychobiology, 42, 342-348.
 
Marcovitch, S., Zelazo, P. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). The effects of the number of A trials on the A-not-B task. Infancy, 3, 319-329.
 
Schmuckler, M. A.  (2001) What is ecological validity?  A dimensional analysis. Infancy, 2, 419-436.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Fairhall, J. L. (2001) Infants’ visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception of point-light information. Child Development, 72, 949-962.
 
Kingsnorth, S., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000) Walking skill versus walking experience as as predictor of barrier crossing in toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 331-350.
  
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tsang-Tong, H. Y. (2000). The role of visual and body movement information in infant search. Developmental Psychology, 36, 499-510.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1999).  Testing models of melodic contour similarity. Music Perception, 16, 295-326
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Li, N. S. (1998).  Looming responses to obstacles and apertures: The role of accretion and deletion of background texture. Psychological Science, 9, 49-52 
 
Chiappe, P., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1997).  Phrasing influences the recognition of melodies.  Psychological Bulletin and Review, 4, 254-259.
 
Rosenblum, L. D., Schmuckler, M. A., & Johnson, J. A. (1997).  The McGurk effect in young infants.  Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 347-357.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Children’s postural sway in response to low and high frequency visual information for oscillation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 528-545.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997).  Expectancy effects in memory for melodies. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 292-306.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1997). Musical perception and cognition: An introduction. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 265-267.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Bosman, E. L. (1997).  Interkey timing in piano performance.  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 99-111.
 

Grant, S. C., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). Alternative origins of motor images. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 759-760.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1996).  The development of visually-guided locomotion: Barrier crossing by toddlers.  Ecological Psychology, 8, 209-236.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1996). Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 221-232.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Boltz, M. G. (1994). Harmonic and rhythmic influences on musical expectancy. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 313-325.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Proffitt, D. R. (1994). Infants’ perceptions of kinetic depth and stereokinetic displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 122-130.
 
Gilden, D. L., Schmuckler, M. A., & Clayton, K. (1993). The perception of natural contour. Psychological Review, 100, 460-478.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gilden, D. L. (1993). Auditory perception of fractal contours. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 641-660.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1990). The performance of global expectations. Psychomusicology, 9, 122-147.
 
Gibson, E. J., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Going somewhere: An ecological and experimental approach to development of mobility. Ecological Psychology, 1, 3-25.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1989). Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes. Music Perception, 7, 109-150.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1989). The effect of imposed optical flow on guided locomotion in young walkers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 193-206.
 
Gibson, E. J., Riccio, G., Schmuckler, M. A., Stoffregen, T. A., Rosenburg, D., & Taormina, J. (1987). Detection of traversability of surfaces by crawling and walking infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 533-544.
 
Stoffregen, T. A., Schmuckler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1987). Use of central and peripheral optical flow in stance and locomotion in young walkers. Perception, 16, 113-119.
 
Krumhansl, C. L., & Schmuckler, M. A. (1986). The Petroushka chord: A perceptual investigation.  Music Perception, 4, 153-184.
 
Pastore, R. E., Schmuckler, M. A., Rosenblum, L., & Szczesiul, R. (1983). Duplex perception with musical stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 33, 469-474.
 

Books and Book Chapters:

  Schmuckler, M. A. (in press). Perceptual-motor relations in obvious and non-obvious domains: A history and review. In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Handbook of Developmental Psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  Parke, R. D., Gauvain, M. & Schmuckler, M. A. (2010). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (Third Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
Schmuckler, M. A. (2009). Components of melodic processing. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, and M. Thaut (Eds.), Handbook of music psychology (pp. 93-106).  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
 
  Hetherington, E. M., Parke, R. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2005). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (Second Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (2004). Pitch and pitch structures. In J. Neuhoff (Ed.), Ecological psychoacoustics (pp. 271-315). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Science
 
   Hetherington, E. M., Parke, R. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). Child psychology: A contemporary viewpoint (First Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill.
 
  Schmuckler, M. A., Trehub, S. E., & Kosarev, V. F. (2002). Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (CD-ROM), Toronto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
 
Smith, N. A., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2000). Pitch-distributional effects on the perception of tonality. In C. Woods, B. B. Luck, R. Brochard, S. A. O’Neil, & J. A. Sloboda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Keele, Staffordshire, UK: Department of Psychology. CD-ROM
 
  Schmuckler, M. A., & Kennedy, J. M. (1997).  Studies in Perception and Action IV: Ninth International Conference on Perception and Action.  Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
 
Schmuckler, M. A., & Tsang, H. (1997).  Visual-movement interaction in infant search.  In M. A. Schmuckler & J. M. Kennedy (Eds.), Studies in perception and action IV: Ninth international conference on perception and action (pp. 233-236).  Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1995). Self-knowledge of body position: Integration of perceptual and action system information.  In P. Rochat (Ed.), The self in infancy: Theory and research (pp. 221-241). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1993). Perception-action coupling. In G. J. P. Savelsbergh (Ed.), The development of coordination in infancy (pp. 137-173). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
 
Schmuckler, M. A. (1990). Issues in the development of postural control. In H. Bloch & B. I. Bennett (Eds.), Sensory motor organization and development in infancy and early childhood (pp. 231-236). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.