Stefan Tomic
Associate Specialist, Janata Lab
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis

Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Stefan Tomic is involved in various research projects and provides computer programming expertise in the Janata lab. Particularly, he is investigating various aspects of rhythm perception and continues to develop software utilities such as Ensemble, a suite of utilities for developing and presenting psychology experiments, and Mesh Display Tool, a utility for visualizing meshes and calculations used in EEG/MRI source estimation models. He received his M.A. in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College in 2003. His studies included electro-acoustic music composition, auditory perception, audio digital signal processing, and physical modeling of musical instruments. For several years, Stefan worked as a system administrator for the University of California at Santa Cruz and University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Projects (past and current)

• Modeling metric structure of musical audio files and MIDI tapping responses
• Ensemble - A Web based System for Survey and Experiment Management
• Mesh Display Tool - A matlab tool for visualizing meshes and dipoles for source localization boundary element models
• Physical Model of a Rebab (Master's Thesis)

Publications

Papers
• Tomic, S. T., Janata, P. (2008). Beyond the beat: Modeling metric structure in music and performance. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124(6), 4024-4041.
• Janata, P., Tomic, S.T., & Rakowski, S. K. (2007). Characterization of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Memory. 15(8), 845-860.
• Tomic, S.T., & Janata, P. (2007). Ensemble: A Web-Based System for Psychology Survey and Experiment Management. Behavior Research Methods. 39(3), 635-650.

Posters
• Janata, P., Tomic, S.T., & Haberman, J. (2007) Getting in "the groove" while tapping. Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Download size: 15.9 Mb, Format: PDF
• Janata, P. & Tomic, S.T. (2006) Brain networks underlying the retrieval and experience of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Download size: 9.25 Mb, Format: PDF
• Janata, P. & Tomic, S.T. (2005) The implications of baseline correction practices in the analysis of event-related potential (ERP) topographies. Presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Download size: 27 Mb, Format: PDF

Links

Stefan Tomic's Music Page

Contact

sttomic [at] ucdavis [dot] edu
(530) 297-4485