Publications
* indicates joint first authorship; † indicates joint last authorship
Working Papers
· Lee, H., M. Anglada-Tort, O. Sobchuk, P. van Rijn, M Schönwiesner, O. Tchernichovski, M. Park, & N. Jacoby. Global music discoveries reveal cultural shifts during the war in Ukraine. In review.
· Lee, H., N. Jacoby, R. Hennequin, & M. Moussallam. Tracing the mechanisms of cultural diversity through 2.5 million individuals’ music listening patterns. In review.
· Marjieh, R., T. L. Griffiths, & N. Jacoby. Musical pitch has multiple psychological geometries. In review.
· Sucholutsky,* I., K. M. Collins,* M. Malaviya, N. Jacoby, W. Liu, T. R. Sumers, M. Korakakis, U. Bhatt, M. Ho, J. B. Tenenbaum, B. Love, Z. A. Pardos, A. Weller, & T. L. Griffiths.. Representational Alignment Supports Effective Machine Teaching. In review.
· Sucholutsky, I., L. Muttenthaler, A. Weller, A. Peng, A. Bobu, B. Kim, B. C. Love, E. Grant, I. Groen, J. Achterberg, J. B. Tenenbaum, K. M. Collins, K. L. Hermann, K. Oktar, K. Greff, M. N. Hebart, N. Jacoby, Q. Zhang, R. Marjieh, R. Geirhos, S. Chen, S. Kornblith, S. Rane, T. Konkle, T. P. O'Connell, T. Unterthiner, A. K. Lampinen, K.-R. Müller, M. Toneva, & T. L. Griffiths. Getting aligned on representational alignment.
· Nayak, S., E. Ladanyi, E. Eising, Y. Nozha Mekki, R. Nitin, C. T. Bush, D. E. Gustavson, M. Anglada-Tort, H. S. Lancaster, M. A. Mosing, F. Ullén, C. L. Magne, S. Fisher, N. Jacoby, & R L. Gordon. Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations.
2024
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Marjieh, R., I. Sucholutsky, van Rijn, Pol, N. Jacoby†, & T. L. Griffiths†. Large language models predict human sensory judgments across six modalities. Nature Scientific Reports. 14, Article number: 21445 (2024).
· Huang, D.-M., P. Van Rijn, I. Sucholutsky, R. Marjieh, & N. Jacoby. Characterizing Similarities and Divergences in Conversational Tones in Humans and LLMs by Sampling with People. ACL 2024.
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Jacoby, N., R. Polak, J. Grahn, D. Cameron, K. M. Lee, R. Godoy, E. A. Undurraga,
T. Huanca, T. Thalwitzer, N. Doumbia, D. Goldberg, E. Margulis, P. C. M. Wong,
L. Jure, M. Rocamora, S. Fujii, P. E. Savage, J. Ajimi, R. Konno, S. Oishi, K. Jakubowski,
A. Holzapfel, E. Mungan, E. Kaya, P. Rao, R. M. Ananthanarayana, S. Alladi, B.
Tarr, M. Anglada-Tort, P. Harrison, M. J. McPherson, S. Dolan, A. Durango &
J. H. McDermott. Cross-cultural commonalities and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a large-scale comparison of rhythm priors from around the world.
Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9
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Ozaki, Y., A. Tierney, P. Q. Pfordresher, J. M. McBride, E. Benetos, P. Proutskouva, G. Chiba, F. Liu, N. Jacoby ... & P. E. Savage. Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech. Science Advances 10.20 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9797.
· Marjieh, R., N. Jacoby, J. Peterson, & T. L. Griffiths. The universal law of generalization holds for naturalistic stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 573.zz.
· Marjieh, R.*, P. M. C. Harrison*, H. Lee, F. Deligiannaki & N. Jacoby. Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales. Nature Communications vol. 15: 1482.
· Nave, K., Carrillo, C., Jacoby, N., Trainor, L., & Hannon, E. The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task. Cognition, 242, p.105634.
· T. L. Griffiths, A. N. Sanborn, R. Marjieh, T. Langlois, Jing Xu, & N. Jacoby. Estimating subjective probability distributions. In T. L. Griffiths, N. Chater, & J. B. Tenenbaum (Eds.) Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse-Engineering the Mind. MIT Press.
· van Rijn, P., S. Mertes, K. Janowski, K. Weitz, N. Jacoby† & E. André.† Giving Robots a Voice: Human-in-the-Loop Voice Creation and Open-Ended Labeling. CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems B31B1B. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05206.
· Niedermann, J., I. Sucholutsky, R. Marjieh, E. Celen, T. L. Griffiths, N. Jacoby,† & P. van Rijn.† Studying the Effect of Globalization on Color Perception using Multilingual Online Recruitment and Large Language Models. CogSci 2024.
· Marjieh, R., P. van Rijn, I. Sucholutsky, H. Lee, T. L. Griffiths,† & N. Jacoby†. A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion. CogSci 2024.
· Van Geert, E. & N. Jacoby. Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space. oral presentation, CogSci 2024.
· Urano, Y. & R. Marjieh, T. Griffiths, & N. Jacoby. The Influence of Social Information and Presentation Interface on Aesthetic Evaluations. CogSci 2024.
2023 · Tchernichovski, O., S. Frey, N. Jacoby†, D. Conley†. Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120.46, p. e2311497120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2311497120.
· Sucholutsky, I., R. Battleday, K. Collins, R. Marjieh, J. C.Peterson, P. Singh, U. Bhatt, N. Jacoby, A. Weller, & T. L. Griffiths. On the informativeness of supervision signals. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR).
· Marjieh, R., I. Sucholutsky, T. A. Langlois, N. Jacoby, & T. L. Griffiths. Analyzing diffusion as serial reproduction. arXiv:2209.14821. The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.
· van Rijn, P., Y. Sun, H. Lee, R. Marjieh, I. Sucholutsky, F. Lanzarini, E. André, & N. Jacoby. Around the world in 60 words: A generative vocabulary test for online research. arXiv:2302.01614. CogSci 2023.
· Marjieh, R., I. Sucholutsky, P. van Rijn, N. Jacoby, & T. L. Griffiths. What language reveals about perception: Distilling psychophysical knowledge from large language models. arXiv:2302.01308, CogSci 2023.
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Anglada-Tort, M., P. M. C. Harrison, H. Lee, & N. Jacoby. Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution. Current Biology 33.8, 1472-1486.e12.
· Singer, N., N. Jacoby, T. Hendler, & R. Granot. Feeling the beat: Temporal bredictability is associated with ongoing changes in music-induced pleasantness. Journal of Cognition 6.1, p.34. doi.org/10.5334/joc.286 2023.
· Marjieh, R*., P. van Rijn*, I. Sucholutsky*, T. R. Sumers, H. Lee, T. L. Griffiths† & N. Jacoby†. Words are all you need? Capturing human sensory similarity with textual descriptors. The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023. ArXiv: 2206.04105.
· Kasten, K., N. Jacoby, & M. Ahissar. Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo-keeping in adults with autism. Autism Research doi.org/10.1002/aur.2926
· Gordon, R. L., D. Martschenko, S. Nayak, M. Niarchou, M. D. Morrison, E. Bell, N. Jacoby & L. Davis. Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14972.
· Feld, S., N. Jacoby, D. Loughridge, P. Loui, & E. H. Margulis. Conversations with Steve Feld. In E. H. Margulis, D. Loughridge, & P. Loui (Eds.), The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past, Imagining the Future, pp. 367-383. MIT Press.
· Savage, P.E., N. Jacoby*, E. H. Margulis*, H. Daikoku, M. Anglada-Tort, S. El-Sawan Castelo-Branco, F. Ewomazino Nweke, S. Fujii, S. Hegde, H. Chuan-Peng, J. Jabbour, C. Lew-Williams, D. Mangalagiu, R. McNamara, D. Müllensiefen, P. Opondo, A. D. Patel & H. Schippers. Building sustainable global collaborative networks: Recommendations from music studies and the social sciences. In E. H. Margulis, D. Loughridge, & P. Loui (Eds.), The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past, Imagining the Future, pp. 347-365. MIT Press.
2022 ·
Anglada-Tort, M., P. M. C. Harrison, & N. Jacoby. Studying the effect of oral transmission on melodic structure using online iterated singing experiments. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 810–818. 2. bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.10.491366.
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Marjieh, R.*, I. Sucholutsky*, T. R. Sumers, N. Jacoby & T. L. Griffiths. Predicting human similarity judgments using large language models. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2598–2604. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04728.
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van Rijn, P.*, H. Lee* & N. Jacoby. Bridging the prosody GAP: Genetic Algorithm with People to efficiently sample emotional prosody. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2470–2476 arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04820.
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London, J., Jacoby, N., & Polak, R. (2022). . Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Cross-Cultural Corpus Studies: Two Case Studies from Mali. In D. Shanahan, J. A. Burgoyne, & I. Quinn (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. Oxford University Press.
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Siuzdak, H., P. Dura, P. van Rijn & N. Jacoby. WavThruVec: Latent speech representation as intermediate features for neural speech synthesis. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16930.
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van Rijn, P., S Mertes, D Schiller, P Dura, H Siuzdak, P Harrison, E André & N. Jacoby. VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTSP. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15379.
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Jakubowski, K.*, R. Polak*, M. Rocamora, L. Jure, & N. Jacoby. Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony. Cognition vol. 227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105205
· Niarchou, M., D. E.
Gustavson, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, M. Anglada-Tort, E. Eising, E. Bell, E.
McArthur, P. Straub, The 23andMe Research Team, J. D. McAuley, J. A. Capra, F.
Ullén, N. Creanza, M. A. Mosing, D. Hinds, L. K. Davis†, N. Jacoby† &
R. L. Gordon†. Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity. Nature Human Behaviour
· Anglada-Tort, M.,
P. M. C. Harrison & N. Jacoby. REPP:
A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization
experiments. Behavior Research Methods 54, 2271–2285. doi: 10.3758/s13428-021-01722-2.
2021 ·
Langlois, T. A.*, H. C. Zhao*, E. Grant, I.
Dasgupta, T. L. Griffiths† & N. Jacoby†. Passive
attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity. Oral presentation, Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems (NeurIPS), 35.
· Vishne, G.*, N. Jacoby*, T. Malinovitch, T. Epstein, O. Frenkel
& M. Ahissar. Slow update of internal representations impedes synchronization
in autism. Nature Communications 12: 5439. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25740-y.
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Lee, H. F. Hoeger, M. Schoenwiesner, M. Park
& N. Jacoby. Cross-cultural mood perception in pop songs and its
alignment with mood detection algorithms. Oral presentation, ISMIR 2021.
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Van Rijn, P., S. Mertes, D. Schiller, P. M. C.
Harrison, P. Larrouy-Maestri, E. André & N. Jacoby. Exploring
emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space.
INTERSPEECH 2021.
· Jacoby, N.*, R. Polak* &
J. London*. Extreme precision in rhythmic interaction is enabled
by role-optimized sensorimotor coupling: Analysis and modeling of West African
drum ensemble music. Philosophical Transactions B 376(1835),
p.20200331.
· Tchernichovski, O., S. Frey, N.
Jacoby & D. Conley. Experimenting
with online governance. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, section Social Networks.
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Clayton, M., Tarsitani, S., Jankowsky, R., Jure, L., Leante, L., Polak, R., Poole, A., Rocamora, M., Alborno, P., Camurri, A., Eerola, T., Jacoby, N., & Jakubowski, K. The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection. Empirical Musicology Review, 16 (1), 65 84.
· Langlois, T. A.,* N.
Jacoby,* J. Suchow & T. L. Griffiths. Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial
representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(PNAS) 118 (13) e2012938118.
2020 · Harrison, P. M. C., R.
Marjieh, F. Adolfi, P. van Rijn, M. Anglada-Tort, O. Tchernichovski, P.
Larrouy-Maestri & N. Jacoby. Gibbs
sampling with people. Oral presentation, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 34.
· Roeske,* T. C., O.
Tchernichovski,* D. Poeppel & N. Jacoby. Categorical
rhythms shared between songbirds and humans. Current Biology
30.18 3544-3555.e6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.072.
· McPherson, M. J., S. E.
Dolan, A. Durango, T. Ossandon, J. Valdes, E. A. Undurraga, N. Jacoby,
R. A. Godoy & J. H. McDermott. Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native
Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature
Communications 11: 2786.
2019 · Jacoby, N., E. A. Undurraga,
M. J. McPherson, J. Valdes, T. Ossandon & J. H. McDermott. Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch
perception revealed by sung reproduction. Current Biology 29,
1–15.
· Langlois, T., Jacoby, N., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. Orthogonal multi-view three-dimensional object representations in memory revealed by serial reproduction. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert & C. Freksa, Eds. 2078-2083.
· Mehr, S. A., M. Singh,
D. Knox, D. M. Ketter, D. Pickens-Jones, S. Atwood, C. Lucas, A. Egner, N.
Jacoby, E. J. Hopkins, R. M. Howard, S. Pinker, T. J. O’Donnell, M. M. Krasnow
& L. Glowacki. Universality and diversity in human song. Science
vol. 366.6468, eaax0868 · Jacoby, N.,* E. H.
Margulis*, M. Clayton, E. Hannon, H. Honing, J. Iversen, T. R. Klein, S. A.
Mehr, L. Pearson, I. Peretz, M. Perlman, R. Polak, A. Ravignani, P. E. Savage,
G. Steingo, C. J. Stevens, L. Trainor, S. Trehub, M. Veal & M.
Wald-Fuhrmann. Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges,
insights and recommendations. Music Perception 37.3, 185-195.
· Shany, O., N. Singer, B.
P. Gold, N. Jacoby, R. Tarrasch, T. Hendler & R,
Granot. Surprise-related activation in the nucleus accumbens
interacts with music-induced pleasantness. Social Cognitive and
Affective Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz019.
2018 · Polak, R.*, N.
Jacoby,* T. Fischinger, D. Goldberg, A. Holzapfel & J. London. Rhythmic prototypes across cultures. A comparative study of tapping
synchronization. Music Perception, 36.1 (2018): 1–23. DOI:
10.1525/mp.2018.36.1.1.
· Elliott,
M.T., D. Ward, R. Stables, D. Fraser, N. Jacoby & A. M. Wing. Analysing multi-person timing in music and movement:
Event based methods. Timing and Time Perception: Procedures,
Measures, and Applications (Leiden, Brill: 2018), 177-215.
2017 · Jacoby, N. & J. H. McDermott.
Integer ratio priors on musical rhythm revealed
cross-culturally by iterated reproduction. Current Biology 27.3
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.031.
· Langlois,* T.
A., N. Jacoby,* J. Suchow & T. L. Griffiths. Uncovering visual priors in spatial memory using
serial reproduction. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society.
· Mehta, A H., N.
Jacoby, I. Yasin, A. J. Oxenham & S. Shamma. An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in
the temporal misallocation of perceptual objects. Philosophical
Transactions
B 372: 20160114. doi: 10.1098/rstb/372/1714.
· Polak, R., N.
Jacoby & J. London. Afrikanistische Rhythmusforschung und die politische Dimension von
Daten. Drei Analysen eines Mehrspur-Audio-Korpus von Percussion-Ensemblemusik
aus Mali. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 13.2, 2016.
· Murton, O., L.
Zipse, N. Jacoby & S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. Repetition and a beat-based timing framework: what
determines the duration of intervals between repetitions of a tapping pattern?
Timing and Time Perception 5.3-4, 244-259.
2016 · Singer, N., N.
Jacoby, T. Lin, G. Raz, L. Shpigelman, G. Gilam, R. Y. Granot & T.
Hendler. Common modulation of limbic network activation
underlies the unfolding of musical emotions and its temporal attributes.
Neuroimage 141, 517–29. · London, J., R.
Polak & N. Jacoby. Rhythm histograms and musical meter: a corpus study of
Malian percussion music. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review,
doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1093-7. · Polak, R.*, N.
Jacoby* & J. London*. Both isochronous and non-isochronous metrical
subdivision afford precise and stable ensemble entrainment: A corpus study of
Malian jembe drumming. Frontiers in Auditory Neuroscience,
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00285. · Eloul, S., G.
Zissu, Y.H. Amo & N. Jacoby. Motion tracking of a fish as a novel way to control
electronic music performance. Leonardo 49.3, 203-10.
· Honisch, J.
J., M. E. Elliott, N. Jacoby & A. M. Wing. Cue
properties change timing strategies in group movement synchronization.
Scientific Reports 6: 19439. Doi:10.1038/srep19439. 2015 ·
Jacoby,
N. & M.
Ahissar. Assessing the applied benefits of perceptual training:
lessons from studies of working-memory training. Journal of
Vision 15.6.
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Jaffe-Dax, S., O. Raviv, N. Jacoby, Y. Loewenstein & M.
Ahissar. Towards a computational model of dyslexia. The
Journal of Neuroscience 35.35: 12116-26.
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Jacoby,
N., B.
H. Repp, M. Ahissar, N. Tishby & P. Keller. Parameter estimation of linear sensorimotor
synchronization models: Phase correction, period correction and ensemble
synchronization. Timing & Time Perception, Doi: 10.1163/22134468-00002048.
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Jacoby, N., N. Tishby & D. Tymoczko. Information bottleneck and functional harmony.
Journal of New Music Research, Doi: 10.1080/09298215.2015.1036888.
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Jacoby, N., P. E. Keller, B. H. Repp, M. Ahissar
& N. Tishby. Lower bound on the accuracy of parameter estimation
methods for linear sensorimotor synchronization models. Timing
& Time Perception, Doi: 10.1163/22134468-00002047.
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Van der Steen, M., N. Jacoby, M. T. Fairhurst & P. E.
Keller. Sensorimotor synchronization with tempo changing
auditory sequences: modeling temporal adaptation and anticipation. Brain
Research, Doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.01.053. 2013 · Lipkind, D.,
G. F. Marcus, D. K. Bemis, K. Sasahara, K., N. Jacoby, M. Takahasi, K.
Suzuki, O. Feher, P. Ravbar, K. Okanoya & O. Tchernichovski. Stepwise
acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants. Nature
498, 104–8. · Jacoby, N. & M. Ahissar. What does It take to Show that a Cognitive Training
Procedure is Useful?: A Critical Evaluation. In Progress in Brain
Research: Changing Brains - Applying Brain Plasticity to Advance and Recover
Human Ability. Michael Merzenich, Mor Nahum and Tom Van Vleet, eds.
Elsevier, 2013. · Gurion, T. & N. Jacoby. Audio-only augmented reality system for social
interaction. HCI International 2013-Posters’ Extended
Abstracts. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 322-6.
2012 · Jacoby, N. & B. H.
Repp. A General linear framework for the comparison and
evaluation of models of sensorimotor synchronization. Biological
Cybernetics, vol. 106/3, 135-154. doi: 10.1007/s00422-012-0482-x.
· Bohannon, P.,
N. Dalvi, Y. Filmus, N. Jacoby, S. Keerthi & A. Kirpal. Automatic web-scale information extraction. Proceedings
of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
609-612.
2011 · Repp, B. H.,
P. E. Keller & N. Jacoby. Quantifying
phase correction in sensorimotor synchronization: empirical comparison of three
paradigms. Acta Psychologica 139, no. 2: 281–90.
· Granot, R. Y.
& N. Jacoby. Musically puzzling II: Sensitivity to overall
structure in a Haydn e-minor sonata? Musica Scientiae 16.1,
67–80.
· Granot, R. Y.
& N. Jacoby. Musically puzzling I: Sensitivity to overall structure
in sonata form? Musica Scientiae 15. 3: 365–86.
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