Secretary:
Tonya Bergeson (2010-2012)

Tonya R. Bergeson, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Philip F. Holton Investigator in the Department of Otolaryngology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana. Bergeson also serves as Director of the DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory and Co-Director of the Babytalk Research Laboratory. She is currently pursuing two areas of research within the larger fields of language acquisition and development of auditory perception. The first is speech and music perception in hearing-impaired infants and children with cochlear implants. The second area of research is mothers' speech and singing to hearing-impaired infants with hearing aids and cochlear implants. She is particularly interested in the effects of early experience on developing language and auditory perception.

President:
Andrea Halpern (2012-2013)

Andrea Halpern has been involved with Music Psychology for her entire professional life. She entered the field early in its development, and in those earlier years contributed fundamental behavioral work on memory and perception of musical structure. One of her major research interests is auditory imagery for music, both behaviorally and more recently using methods of cognitive neuroscience. She is also interested interested in the relationship between aging and music cognition and in implicit memory for music. In addition to serving on the SMPC Board, she is an Associate Editor of the journal Music Perception. She teaches and conducts research (mostly with undergraduates) at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, where she offers courses in Music Perception, Cognitive Aging, Cognition, and course on professional issues in behavioral research.

At-Large Board Member:
Petr Janata (2011-2013)

Petr Janata is on the faculty in the Psychology Department and Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis.  He received his B.A. from Reed College and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. After investigating song perception and song learning in songbirds as a post-doc at the University of Chicago, he went to Dartmouth College and incorporated functional neuroimaging methods into his music perception research. His projects have examined expectation, imagery, sensorimotor coupling, memory, and emotion in relation to tonal, rhythmic, and timbral information.  In 2010 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to do research at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and in the same year he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to further his investigation of what music-evoked autobiographical memories can tell us about the functional organization of the brain.

At-Large Board Member:
Nina Kraus (2011-2013)

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., Hugh Knowles Professor, (Communication Sciences; Neurobiology & Physiology; Otolaryngology) at Northwestern University, directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Kraus investigates biological bases of speech and music. She investigates learning-associated brain plasticity throughout the lifetime in normal, expert (musicians), clinical populations (dyslexia; autism; hearing loss) and animal models. In addition to being a pioneering thinker who bridges multiple disciplines (aging, development, literacy, music, and learning), Dr. Kraus is a technological innovator who roots her research in translational science.

See:  http://www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu

Treasurer:
Devin McAuley (2012-14)

Devin McAuley is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University (MSU) and Director of the MSU Cognitive Science Program. Devin completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University and went on to post-doctoral training in psychology at the University of Queensland and the Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Devin was at Bowling Green State University from 1999 – 2009, where he served for four years as Director of the Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior. Research interests include tempo and rhythm perception, auditory cognition, cross-modal processing, and music-language relationships. His work has received support from funding sources that include NSF, NIH, and the GRAMMY Foundation. Devin is currently Associate Editor for the journal Music Perception and serves as a Consulting Editor for Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.

At-Large Board Member:
Lisa Margulis (2010-2012)

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is Associate Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas. She is interested in the interface between musical structure and engagement, especially in listeners without formal training. Her areas of research have included musical expectation, musical pauses / rests, and musical repetition. Her work has appeared in diverse journals including Music Perception, Psychology of Music, Journal of New Music Research, Music Theory Spectrum, Computer Music Journal, Review of General Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, American Journal of Bioethics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Music Theory, as well as in the recently published Handbook of Music and Emotion. She has a B.M. in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Before coming to Arkansas, she was on the music cognition faculty at Northwestern University.

At-Large Board Member:
Peter Pfordresher (2012-2014)

Peter Q. Pfordresher is associate professor of psychology and head of the cognitive area at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MSc from University College London and a PhD from the Ohio State University, all in psychology. His research focuses on the relationship between perception and action in the context of music and has appeared in journals such as Music Perception, Psychological Review, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Specific lines of research include the role of auditory feedback in music performance, sensorimotor bases of poor-pitch singing, cognitive mechanisms for retrieval of music during performance, and the interplay between melody and rhythm during perception and production. He is co-author (with Siu-Lan Tan and Rom Harré) of the recent textbook Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (Psychology Press, 2010). His service to the field includes serving as associate editor for two journals: Music Perception and Psychological Research, and as a consulting editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.

At-Large Board Member:
Frank Russo (2010-2012)

Frank Russo is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Psychological Science Training at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. After earning his Ph.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, he completed Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Music Cognition and Hearing Science. In 2006, he founded the Science of Music, Auditory Research and Technology (SMART) lab at Ryerson University. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles. Current work includes visual and vibro-tactile influences on perception of music, the development of singing, psychoacoustics of tonality, and cognitively based music information retrieval. Other notable work includes consultation with U.S. and Canadian Departments of Transportation on the design of train horns, and invention of a sensory-substitution technology supporting perception of music by deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

Student Member:
Finn Upham (2011-2012)

Finn Upham is a Masters student in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music within McGill University, and a member of Music Perception and Cognition Lab under Stephen McAdams. Her current research is focused on the analysis of listeners' continuous responses to music via self report and physiological measures. By exploring existing and novel numerical techniques for evaluating sets of concurrent responses, she is working towards setting standards of analysis more firmly on mathematical, cognitive and musical ground. Besides temporal dynamics of music listening, she is also interested in the relationship between music and dance, the origins of music, rhythm, and the organizational challenges of interdisciplinary research.  Life and academia have trained Finn in such things as bassoon, choral singing, bicycle mechanics, university governance, and sustainability advocacy, mostly under the guise of a B. Mus. (Music Theory) and a B. Sc. (Mathematics) from McGill University.