Lola L. Cuddy

Professor
Department of Psychology

A.M.M. (Music), Manitoba, 1958
B.A., Manitoba, 1959
M.A. (Psychology), Toronto, 1961
Ph.D. (Psychology), Toronto, 1965

(613) 533-6013
(613) 533-2499
e-mail: cuddyl@post.queensu.ca

Address

Department of Psychology,
Queen's University at Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6

Research Interests

My research interests are music perception, cognition, and performance. The science of music has a long history: scholarship across the ages has maintained that music is attuned to the structures and regularities of the external world. A new dimension is offered by contemporary research: responses to music reveal the operation of perceptual, cognitive, and affective processes through which the brain interprets the external world. In our laboratory, we study listeners' abilities to evaluate, recognize, remember, and produce music and music-like materials. The components of music that we have studied include melody, harmony, duration, rhythm, and meter. Our research addresses theoretical issues in both cognitive psychology and contemporary music theory. In addition to our research with music within the Western tonal-harmonic idiom, we are exploring the adaptability and flexibility of perceptual/cognitive systems to appreciate novel musical idioms and the idioms of other cultures.

Other Interests

We have an active research laboratory with computer facilities to run experiments, generate sound, and collect data. There are at present four graduate students, one honours undergraduate student, and two undergraduate research assistants. Collaborations include projects with Dr. W. F. Thompson of York University (music performance and production) and Dr. I. Peretz of the Universite de Montreal (neuropsychology of music).

Recent Publications

Cuddy, L.L. (in press). Tonal relations. In I. Deliège and J. Sloboda (Eds.). Perception and cognition of music. London: Erlbaum.
S. H�bert, & L.L. Cuddy. (2002). Detection of metric structure in auditory figural patterns. Perception & Psychophysics, 64 (6), 909-918.
Cuddy, L.L., & Lunney, C.A. (1995). Expectancies generated by melodic intervals: Perceptual judgments of melodic continuity. Perception and Psychophysics, 57, 451-462.
Oram, N., & Cuddy, L.L. (1995). Responsiveness of Western adults to pitch distributional information in melodic sequences. Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung, 57, 103-118.
Smith, K.C., Cuddy, L.L., & Upitis, R. (1994). Figural and metric understanding of rhythm. Psychology of Music, 22, 117-135.
Cuddy, L.L. (1993). Melody comprehension and tonal structure. In T. Tighe and W.J. Dowling (Eds.). Psychology and Music: The understanding of melody and rhythm, pp. 19-38. New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Thompson, W.F., & Cuddy, L.L. (1992). Perceived key movement in four-voice harmony and single voices. Music Perception, 9, 427-438.

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