Tonal Space

Torus

• Lee, Y. S., Janata, P, Frost, C., Martinez, Z., & Granger, R. (in press). Melody recognition revisited: influence of melodic gestalt on the encoding of relational pitch information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Collins, T., Tillmann, B., Barrett, F. S., Delbé, C., & Janata, P. (2014). A combined model of sensory and cognitive representations underlying tonal expectations in music: From audio signals to behavior. Psychological Review, 121(1), 33-65. doi: 10.1037/a0034695
• Janata, P. (2008). Navigating tonal space. In E. Selfridge-Field (Ed.), Tonal Theory for the Digital Age (Computing in Musicology: Vol. 15, pp. 39–50).
• Lee, Y. S., Janata, P., Frost, C., Hanke, M., & Granger, R. (2011). Investigation of melodic contour processing in the brain using multivariate pattern-based fMRI. NeuroImage, 57(1)293-300. [doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.006].
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. L., & Bharucha, J. J. (2008). Tonal centers and expectancy: facilitation or inhibition of chords at the top of the harmonic hierarchy? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 34(4): 1031-1043.
• Janata, P. (2005). Brain networks that track musical structure. In The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance (Vol. 1060): New York Academy of Sciences.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing. JEP: Human Perception and Performance.29:470-482.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing. JEP: Human Perception and Performance.29:470-482.
• Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). Online detection of tonal pop-out in modulating contexts. Music Perception. 20:283-305.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., & Bharucha, J. J. (2003). Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. Cognitive Brain Research. 16:145-161.
• Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Van Horn, J.D., Leman, M., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (2002). The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science. 298:2167-2170. Abstract. Full text. Supporting information.
  See also the accompanying Perspectives article. Hear the modulating melody and see an animation of the torus here.
• Janata, P. (1995) ERP measures assay the degree of expectancy violation of harmonic contexts in music. J. Cog. Neurosci. 7(2): 153-164.
• Janata, P. & Petsche, H. (1993) Spectral analysis of the EEG as a tool for evaluating expectancy violations of musical contexts. Music Perception 10: 281-304.
• Janata, P. & Reisberg, D. (1988) Response-time measures as a means of exploring tonal hierarchies. Music Perception. 6(2): 163-174.

Pitch imagery

• Navarro Cebrian, A., & Janata, P. (2010). Electrophysiological Correlates of Accurate Mental Image Formation in Auditory Perception and Imagery Tasks. Brain Research. 1342:39–54. [doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.04.026].
• Navarro Cebrian, A., & Janata, P. (2010). Influences of multiple memory systems on auditory mental image acuity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(5) 3189-3202.
• Janata, P., & Paroo, K. (2006). Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time. Perception & Psychophysics. 68(5):829-844.
• Janata, P. (2001a) Brain electrical activity evoked by mental formation of auditory expectations and images, Brain Topography, 13(3): 169-193.
• Janata, P. (2001c). Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying auditory image formation in music. In R. I. Godøy & H. Jørgensen (Eds.), Elements of Musical Imagery . Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.