Dr Marcus Pearce
Reader in Cognitive Science
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Auditory Perception, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Human-Centred Computing2024
Zioga I, Harrison PMC, Pearce M, Bhattacharya J and Di Bernardi Luft C (2024). The association between liking, learning and creativity in music. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1) 16-08-2024
Clemente A, Board F, Pearce MT and Orgs G (2024). Dynamic Complexity in Audiovisual Aesthetics. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, American Psychological Association (APA) 12-08-2024
Bonetti L, Brattico E, Carlomagno F, Cabral J, Stevner A, Deco G, Whybrow PC, Pearce M, Pantazis D, Vuust P and Kringelbach ML (2024). Spatiotemporal whole-brain activity and functional connectivity of melodies recognition. Cerebral Cortex, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 34 (8) 01-08-2024
Hamilton M, Clemente A, Hall E and Pearce M (2024). The Billboard Melodic Music Dataset (BiMMuDa). Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press vol. 7 (1), 113-128. 04-07-2024
Hamilton M and Pearce M (2024). Trajectories and revolutions in popular melody based on U.S. charts from 1950 to 2023. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1), 14749-14749. 04-07-2024
van der Weij B, Pearce MT and Honing H (2024). Computational Modeling of Rhythm Perception and the Role of Enculturation. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies 21-03-2024
Reed CN, Pearce M and McPherson A (2024). Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback. Musicae Scientiae, SAGE Publications 15-02-2024
Clemente A, Kaplan TM and Pearce MT (2024). Perceptual representations mediate effects of stimulus properties on liking for music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Wiley 06-02-2024
2023
Cheung VKM, Harrison PMC, Koelsch S, Pearce MT, Friederici AD and Meyer L (2023). Cognitive and sensory expectations independently shape musical expectancy and pleasure. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci vol. 379 (1895), 20220420-20220420. 18-12-2023
Gold BP, Pearce MT, McIntosh AR, Chang C, Dagher A and Zatorre RJ (2023). Auditory and reward structures reflect the pleasure of musical expectancies during naturalistic listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers vol. 17 19-10-2023
Kaplan T, Jamone L and Pearce M (2023). Probabilistic modelling of microtiming perception. Cognition, Elsevier vol. 239 11-07-2023
Klarlund M, Brattico E, Pearce M, Wu Y, Vuust P, Overgaard M and Du Y (2023). Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners. Cognition, Elsevier vol. 235, 105405-105405. 18-02-2023
Bianco R, Hall ETR, Pearce MT and Chait M (2023). Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: From encoding to 6-month retention. Current Research in Neurobiology, Elsevier vol. 5 01-01-2023
2022
Hansen NC, Højlund A, Møller C, Pearce M and Vuust P (2022). Musicians show more integrated neural processing of contextually relevant acoustic features. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers Media vol. 16 13-10-2022
Kaplan T, Cannon J, Jamone L and Pearce M (2022). Modeling enculturated bias in entrainment to rhythmic patterns. PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 18 (9) 29-09-2022
Agres K, Tay TY and Pearce M (2022). Comparing Musicians and Non-musicians’ Expectations in Music and Vision. AudioMostly 2022. 06-09-2022
Tenderini MS, de Leeuw E, Eilola TM and Pearce MT (2022). Reduced Cross-Modal Affective Priming in the L2 of Late Bilinguals Depends on L2 Exposure. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 48 (2), 284-303. 01-02-2022
2021
Goldman A, Harrison PMC, Jackson T and Pearce MT (2021). Reassessing Syntax-Related ERP Components Using Popular Music Chord Sequences. Music Perception vol. 39 (2), 118-144. 01-12-2021
Nadal M and Pearce M (2021). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience. Brain, Beauty, and Art 36-40. 18-11-2021
Krishnan S, Carey D, Dick F and Pearce MT (2021). Effects of statistical learning in passive and active contexts on reproduction and recognition of auditory sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, American Psychological Association 16-09-2021
de Fleurian R and Pearce MT (2021). Chills in Music: A Systematic Review. Psychological Bulletin, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 147 (9), 890-920. 01-09-2021
Quiroga‐Martinez DR, Hansen NC, Højlund A, Pearce M, Brattico E, Holmes E, Friston K and Vuust P (2021). Musicianship and melodic predictability enhance neural gain in auditory cortex during pitch deviance detection. Human Brain Mapping, Wiley vol. 42 (17), 5595-5608. 30-08-2021
Hansen NC, Kragness HE, Vuust P, Trainor L and Pearce MT (2021). Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception. Psychological Science, SAGE Publications vol. 32 (9), 1416-1425. 19-08-2021
de Fleurian R and Pearce MT (2021). The Relationship Between Valence and Chills in Music: A Corpus Analysis. i-Perception vol. 12 (4), 1-11. 27-07-2021
Hall ETR and Pearce MT (2021). A model of large-scale thematic structure. Journal of New Music Research, Informa UK Limited vol. 50 (3), 220-241. 27-05-2021
Clemente A, Pearce MT, Skov M and Nadal M (2021). Evaluative judgment across domains: Liking balance, contour, symmetry and complexity in melodies and visual designs. Brain and Cognition, Elsevier vol. 151 19-04-2021
Clemente A, Pearce MT and Nadal M (2021). Musical Aesthetic Sensitivity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, American Psychological Association 18-03-2021
2020
Politimou N, Douglass-Kirk P, Pearce M, Stewart L and Franco F (2020). Melodic expectations in 5- and 6-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Elsevier vol. 203 30-11-2020
Harrison PMC, Bianco R, Chait M and Pearce MT (2020). PPM-Decay: A computational model of auditory prediction with memory decay. PLoS Computational Biology vol. 16 (11) 04-11-2020
Zioga I, Harrison PMC, Pearce MT, Bhattacharya J and Luft CDB (2020). Auditory but not audiovisual cues lead to higher neural sensitivity to the statistical regularities of an unfamiliar musical style. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience vol. 32 (12), 2241-2259. 30-10-2020
Ycart A, Liu L, Benetos E and Pearce M (2020). Investigating the Perceptual Validity of Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Piano Music Transcription. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press vol. 3 (1), 68-81. 12-06-2020
Bianco R, Harrison PMC, Hu M, Bolger C, Picken S, Pearce MT and Chait M (2020). Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans. eLife, eLife vol. 9 18-05-2020
Ycart A, Liu L, Benetos E and Pearce MT (2020). Musical Features for Automatic Music Transcription Evaluation. 15-04-2020
Quiroga-Martinez DR, Hansen NC, Højlund A, Pearce M, Brattico E and Vuust P (2020). Decomposing neural responses to melodic surprise in musicians and non-musicians: Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions in the auditory system. NeuroImage vol. 215 08-04-2020
Clemente A, Vila-Vidal M, Pearce MT, Aguiló G, Corradi G and Nadal M (2020). A Set of 200 Musical Stimuli Varying in Balance, Contour, Symmetry, and Complexity: Behavioral and Computational Assessments. Behavioral Research Methods 12-02-2020
Harrison PMC and Pearce MT (2020). A computational cognitive model for the analysis and generation of voice leadings. Music Perception vol. 37 (3), 208-224. 01-02-2020
Quiroga-Martinez DR, Hansen NC, Højlund A, Pearce M, Brattico E and Vuust P (2020). Musical prediction error responses similarly reduced by predictive uncertainty in musicians and non-musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience, Wiley 21-01-2020
2019
Quiroga-Martinez DR, C Hansen N, Højlund A, Pearce M, Brattico E and Vuust P (2019). Musical prediction error responses similarly reduced by predictive uncertainty in musicians and non-musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience, Wiley 31-12-2019
Harrison P and Pearce M (2019). Simultaneous consonance in music perception and composition. Psychological Review, American Psychological Association 23-12-2019
Pearce M and Sauvé S (2019). Information-theoretic Modeling of Perceived Musical Complexity. Music Perception, University of California Press 10-12-2019
Cheung V, HARRISON PMC, Meyer L, Pearce M, Haynes J-D and Koelsch S (2019). Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity. Current Biology, Elsevier (Cell Press) 07-11-2019
Zioga I, Harrison P, Pearce M, Bhattacharya J and Di Bernardi Luft C (2019). From learning to creativity: Identifying the behavioural and neural correlates of learning to predict human judgements of musical creativity. NeuroImage, Elsevier 25-10-2019
Gold B, Pearce M, Mas-Herrero E, Dagher A and Zatorre RJ (2019). Predictability and uncertainty in the pleasure of music: a reward for learning? The Journal of Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience 21-10-2019
de Fleurian R, Harrison PMC, Pearce MT and Quiroga-Martinez DR (2019). Reward prediction tells us less than expected about musical pleasure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 19-09-2019
Quiroga-Martinez DR, Hansen NC, Højlund A, Pearce MT, Brattico E and Vuust P (2019). Reduced prediction error responses in high-as compared to low-uncertainty musical contexts. Cortex, Elsevier BV vol. 120, 181-200. 28-06-2019
Omigie D, Pearce M, Lehongre K, Hasboun D, Navarro V, Adam C and Samson S (2019). Intracranial Recordings and Computational Modeling of Music Reveal the Time Course of Prediction Error Signaling in Frontal and Temporal Cortices. J Cogn Neurosci vol. 31 (6), 855-873. 01-06-2019
Cameron DJ, Zioga I, Lindsen JP, Pearce MT, Wiggins GA, Potter K and Bhattacharya J (2019). Neural entrainment is associated with subjective groove and complexity for performed but not mechanical musical rhythms. Experimental Brain Research, Springer Nature vol. 237 (8), 1981-1991. 31-05-2019
2018
Sears DRW, Pearce MT, Spitzer J, Caplin WE and McAdams S (2018). Expectations for tonal cadences: Sensory and cognitive priming effects. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 1747021818814472-1747021818814472. 07-11-2018
Duffy S and Pearce M (2018). What makes rhythms hard to perform? An investigation using Steve Reich's Clapping Music. PLoS One vol. 13 (10), e0205847-e0205847. 18-10-2018
Quiroga-Martinez DR, Hansen NC, Højlund A, Pearce M, Brattico E and Vuust P (2018). Reduced prediction error responses in high- as compared to low-uncertainty musical contexts. bioRxiv, bioRxiv 21-09-2018
PEARCE MT (2018). Statistical Learning and Probabilistic Prediction in Music Cognition: Mechanisms of Stylistic Enculturation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Wiley 11-05-2018
Sauvé SA, Sayed A, Dean RT and Pearce MT (2018). Effects of Pitch and Timing Expectancy on Musical Emotion. Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 28 (1), 17-39. 01-03-2018
Harrison PMC and Pearce MT (2018). An energy-based generative sequence model for testing sensory theories of Western harmony. 01-01-2018
Rohrmeier M and Pearce M (2018). Musical Syntax I: Theoretical Perspectives. Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology 473-486. 01-01-2018
Pearce M and Rohrmeier M (2018). Musical Syntax II: Empirical Perspectives. Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology 487-505. 01-01-2018
2017
Sears DRW, PEARCE MT, Caplin WE and McAdams S (2017). Simulating melodic and harmonic expectations for tonal cadences using probabilistic models. Journal of New Music Research, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 08-09-2017
Cameron D, Potter K, Wiggins G and PEARCE MT (2017). Perception of Rhythmic Similarity is Asymmetrical, and Is Influenced by Musical Training, Expressive Performance, and Musical Context. Timing and Time Perception 01-06-2017
van der Weij B, Pearce MT and Honing H (2017). A Probabilistic Model of Meter Perception: Simulating Enculturation. Front Psychol vol. 8, 824-824. 22-05-2017
Pearce M and Müllensiefen D (2017). Compression-based Modelling of Musical Similarity Perception. Journal of New Music Research vol. 46 (2), 135-155. 30-03-2017
Agres K, Abdallah S and Pearce M (2017). Information-Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory. Cognitive Science 25-01-2017
Halpern AR, Zioga I, Shankleman M, Lindsen J, Pearce MT and Bhattacharya J (2017). That note sounds wrong! Age-related effects in processing of musical expectation. Brain Cogn vol. 113, 1-9. 05-01-2017
2016
Hansen NC, Vuust P and Pearce M (2016). If You Have to Ask, You'll Never Know: Effects of Specialised Stylistic Expertise on Predictive Processing of Music., Editors: Jaencke L. PLOS ONE vol. 11 (10), e0163584-e0163584. 12-10-2016
Bhattacharya J, Halpern A, Zioga L, Shankelman M, Lindsen J and Pearce M (2016). Brains of older adults process melodic expectancy differently from those of younger adults. Proceedings of the 18th World Congress of Psychophysiology. 01-10-2016
Dean RT and Pearce MT (2016). Algorithmically-generated Corpora that use Serial Compositional Principles Can Contribute to the Modeling of Sequential Pitch Structure in Non-tonal Music. Empirical Musicology Review vol. 11 (1), 27-27. 08-07-2016
Hansen NC, Sadakata M and Pearce M (2016). Nonlinear Changes in the Rhythm of European Art Music: Quantitative Support for Historical Musicology. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 33 (4), 414-431. 01-04-2016
Pearce MT, Zaidel DW, Vartanian O, Skov M, Leder H, Chatterjee A and Nadal M (2016). Neuroaesthetics. Perspectives on Psychological Science, SAGE Publications vol. 11 (2), 265-279. 01-03-2016
Barascud N, Pearce MT, Griffiths TD, Friston KJ and Chait M (2016). Brain responses in humans reveal ideal observer-like sensitivity to complex acoustic patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 113 (5), e616-e625. 19-01-2016
Gingras B, Pearce MT, Goodchild M, Dean RT, Wiggins G and McAdams S (2016). Linking Melodic Expectation to Expressive Performance Timing and Perceived Musical Tension. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 42 (4), 594-609. 01-01-2016
Song Y, Dixon S, Pearce MT and Halpern AR (2016). Perceived and Induced Emotion Responses to Popular Music: Categorical and Dimensional Models. Music Perception vol. 33 (4), 472-492. 01-01-2016
PEARCE MT and Schubert E (2016). A New Look at Musical Expectancy: The Veridical Versus the General in the Mental Organization of Music. Music, Mind, and Embodiment , Editors: Kronland-Martinet R, Aramaki M and Ystad S. 358-370. 01-01-2016
2015
Pearce MT and Halpern AR (2015). Age-Related Patterns in Emotions Evoked by Music. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 9 (3), 248-253. 01-08-2015
Carey D, Rosen S, Krishnan S, Pearce MT, Shepherd A, Aydelott J and Dick F (2015). Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition. Cognition, Elsevier vol. 137, 81-105. 23-01-2015
2014
Hansen NC and Pearce MT (2014). Predictive uncertainty in auditory sequence processing. Front Psychol vol. 5 01-01-2014
2013
Whorley R, Wiggins GA, Rhodes CS and Pearce MT (2013). Multiple Viewpoint Systems: Time Complexity and the Construction of Domains for Complex Musical Viewpoints. Journal of New Musical Research 31-12-2013
Omigie D, Pearce MT, Stewart L and Williamson VJ (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of melodic processing in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia 01-01-2013
Brattico E and Pearce MT (2013). The Neuroaesthetics of Music. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts vol. 7 (1), 48-61. 01-01-2013
Song C, Simpson AJR, Harte CA, Pearce MT and Sandler MB (2013). Syncopation and the score. PLoS One vol. 8 (9) 01-01-2013
Egermann H, Pearce MT, Wiggins GA and McAdams S (2013). Probabilistic models of expectation violation predict psychophysiological emotional responses to live concert music. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Springer LInk vol. 13 (3), 533-553. 01-01-2013
Agres K, Abdallah S and Pearce M (2013). An Information-Theoretic Account of Musical Expectation and Memory. 01-01-2013
Bailes F, Dean RT and Pearce MT (2013). Music Cognition as Mental Time Travel. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 3 (1) 01-01-2013
Song Y, Dixon S, Pearce M and Halpern A (2013). Do online social tags predict perceived or induced emotional responses to music? 01-01-2013
Cherla S, Weyde T, d’Avila Garcez A and Pearce M (2013). A distributed model for multiple-viewpoint melodic prediction. 01-01-2013
Whorley R, Rhodes C, Wiggins G and Pearce M (2013). Harmonising melodies: Why do we add the bass line first? 01-01-2013
Pearce M, Rohrmeier M, Loui P, Large E, Kim JC, Toiviainen P and Brattico E (2013). Music cognition: Bridging computation and insights from cognitive neuroscience. 01-01-2013
2012
Cameron DJ, Stewart L, Pearce MT, Grube M and Muggleton NG (2012). Modulation of Motor Excitability by Metricality of Tone Sequences. Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain, American Psychological Association (APA) vol. 22 (2), 122-128. 01-12-2012
Pearce M and Rohrmeier M (2012). Music Cognition and the Cognitive Sciences. Topics in Cognitive Science, Wiley vol. 4 (4), 468-484. 01-10-2012
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2012). Auditory Expectation: The Information Dynamics of Music Perception and Cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science vol. 4 (4), 625-652. 01-01-2012
Omigie D, Pearce MT and Stewart L (2012). Tracking of pitch probabilities in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, Elsevier Ltd vol. 50 (7), 1483-1493. 01-01-2012
Carrus E, Pearce MT and Bhattacharya J (2012). Melodic pitch expectation interacts with neural responses to syntactic but not semantic violations. Cortex vol. 49 (8), 2186-2200. 01-01-2012
Pearce MT and Christensen JF (2012). Conference Report: The Neurosciences and Music - IV - Learning and Memory. Psychomusicology vol. 22 (1), 70-73. 01-01-2012
Song Y, Dixon S and Pearce M (2012). Evaluation of musical features for emotion classification. 01-01-2012
2011
Pearce MT (2011). Time-series analysis of Music: Perceptual and Information Dynamics. Empirical Musicology Review, The Ohio State University Libraries vol. 6 (2), 125-130. 01-01-2011
2010
Whorley R, Wiggins GA, Rhodes C and Pearce MT (2010). Development of Techniques for the Computational Modelling of Harmony., Editors: Ventura and others . 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Herrojo Ruiz M, Kapasi S, Wiggins GA and Bhattacharya J (2010). Unsupervised Statistical Learning Underpins Computational, Behavioural and Neural Manifestations of Musical Expectation. NeuroImage vol. 50, 303-313. 01-01-2010
Wiggins GA, Müllensiefen D and Pearce MT (2010). On the non-existence of Music: Why music theory is a figment of the imagination. Musicae Scientiae vol. Discussion Forum 5, 231-255. 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D and Wiggins GA (2010). The role of expectation and probabilistic learning in auditory boundary perception: A model comparison. Perception vol. 39 (10), 1367-1391. 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D and Wiggins GA (2010). Melodic Grouping in Music Information Retrieval: New Methods and Applications. Advances in Music Information Retrieval , Editors: Ras Z and Wieczorkowska A. 364-388. 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Ruiz MH, Kapasi S, Wiggins GA and Bhattacharya J (2010). Unsupervised statistical learning underpins computational, behavioural and neural manifestations of musical expectation. NeuroImage vol. 50, 302-313. 01-01-2010
Nadal M and Pearce MT (2010). The Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics conference: Prospects and pitfalls for an emerging field. Brain and Cognition vol. 76, 172-183. 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D and Wiggins GA (2010). The role of expectation and probabilistic learning in auditory boundary perception: a model comparison. Perception vol. 39 (10), 1365-1389. 01-01-2010
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D and Wiggins GA (2010). Melodic grouping in music information retrieval: New methods and applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence vol. 274, 365-389. 01-01-2010
2009
Wiggins GA, Pearce MT and Müllensiefen D (2009). Computational Modelling of Music Cognition and Musical Creativity. Oxford Handbook of Computer Music , Editors: Dean R. 383-420. 01-01-2009
Pearce MT (2009). To beep or not to beep. Contemporary Music Review vol. 28, 125-126-125-126. 01-01-2009
Rohrmeier M, Honing H, Rebuschat P, Loui P, Wiggins G, Pearce MT and Müllensiefen D (2009). Music Cognition: Learning and Processing., Editors: Taatgen NA and Rijn HV. 01-01-2009
2008
Pearce MT and Müllensiefen D (2008). David Huron, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007, 512 pp., ISBN 0262083450, (Hardcover). Musicæ Scientiæ vol. 12 01-01-2008
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D and Wiggins GA (2008). A comparison of statistical and rule-based models of melodic segmentation., Editors: Bello JP and Chew E. 01-01-2008
2007
Potter K, Wiggins GA and Pearce MT (2007). Towards greater objectivity in music theory: Information-dynamic analysis of minimalist music. Musicæ Scientiæ vol. 11, 295-322. 01-01-2007
Whorley RP, Wiggins GA and Pearce MT (2007). Systematic Evaluation and Improvement of Statistical Models of Harmony., Editors: Cardoso A and Wiggins GA. 01-01-2007
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2007). Evaluating cognitive models of musical composition., Editors: Cardoso A and Wiggins GA. 01-01-2007
Pearce MT, Müllensiefen D, Lewis D and Rhodes CS (2007). David Temperley, Music and Probability. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-20166-7 (hardcover) $40.00. Empirical Musicology Review vol. 2, 155-163. 01-01-2007
2006
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2006). The information dynamics of melodic boundary detection., Editors: Baroni M, Addessi AR, Caterina R and Costa M. 01-01-2006
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2006). Expectation in Melody: The Influence of Context and Learning. Music Perception vol. 23, 377-405. 01-01-2006
2005
Pearce MT, Conklin D and Wiggins GA (2005). Methods for Combining Statistical Models of Music. Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval , Editors: Wiil UK. 295-312. 01-01-2005
Pearce MT (2005). The Construction and Evaluation of Statistical Models of Melodic Structure in Music Perception and Composition. 01-01-2005
2004
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2004). Improved Methods for Statistical Modelling of Monophonic Music. Journal of New Music Research vol. 33, 367-385. 01-01-2004
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2004). Rethinking Gestalt Influences on Melodic Expectancy., Editors: Lipscomb SD, Ashley R, Gjerdingen RO and Webster P. 01-01-2004
Pearce MT and Meredith D (2004). Review of the Third International Symposium on Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval. Computer Music Journal vol. 28, 91-93. 01-01-2004
2003
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2003). An empirical comparison of the performance of PPM variants on a prediction task with monphonic music. 01-01-2003
2002
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2002). Aspects of a cognitive theory of creativity in musical composition. 01-01-2002
2001
Pearce M, Wiggins GA and Meredith D (2001). Motivations and Methodologies for Automation of the Compositional Process. Musicae Scientiae vol. 6, 119-147. 01-01-2001
Pearce MT and Wiggins GA (2001). Towards a framework for the evaluation of machine compositions. 01-01-2001
Pearce MT (2001). Report on the ICCBR’01 Workshop on Creative Systems. AISB Quarterly vol. 102, 6-7. 01-01-2001