Peer-reviewed Articles
*bolding indicates lab students
Spyra, J. & Woolhouse, M. H. (forthcoming). Influence of surface features on the perception of nonadjacent musical phrases. Musicae Scientiae.
Renwick, J. & Woolhouse, M. H. (forthcoming). Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country. Psychology of Music.
Woolhouse, M. H. (forthcoming). The ‘synchrony effect’ in dance: How rhythmic scaffolding and vision facilitate social cohesion. In Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance. Eds. London, J. & Wöllner, C. Oxford University Press.
Hewston, P., Kennedy, C., Ioannidis, G., Merom, D., Hladysh, G., Marr, S., Lee, J., Sztramko, R., Trainor, L., Grenier, A., Woolhouse, M. H., C Patterson, C. & Papaioannou, A. (2022). Development of GERAS DANcing for Cognition and Exercise (DANCE): A feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 8-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/
Rosati, D. P., Woolhouse, M. H., Bolker, B. M., & Earn, D. J. (2021). Modelling song popularity as a contagious process (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477(2253), 20210457.
Flannery, M. B., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Musical preference: Role of personality and music-related acoustic features. Music & Science, 4, DOI: 20592043211014014.
Bansal, J., Flannery, M. B., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Influence of personality on music-genre exclusivity. Psychology of Music, 1-16. DOI: 10.1177/0305735620953611. (First published online September 28, 2020).
Spyra, J., Stodolak, M., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Events versus time in the perception of nonadjacent key relationships. Musicae Scientiae, 25(2), 212-225. DOI: 10.1177/1029864919867463. (First published online, August 7, 2019.)
Tang Poy, C., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2020). The attraction of synchrony: A hip-hop dance study. Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 2991. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588935.
Swarbrick, D., Bosnyak, D., Livingstone, S. R., Bansal, J., Marsh-Rollo, S., Woolhouse, M. H., & Trainor, L. J. (2019). How live music moves us: Head movement differences in audiences to live versus recorded music. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:2682.
Ponmanadiyil, R., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2018). Eye movements, attention, and expert knowledge in the observation of Bharatanatyam dance (PDF). Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11(2):11, 1-12.
Barone, M. D., Bansal, J., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2017). Acoustic features influence musical choices across multiple genres. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:931. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00931.
Woolhouse, M. H., Cross, I., & Horton, T. (2016). Perception of non-adjacent tonic-key relationships. Psychology of Music. 44/4: 802–815.
Woolhouse, M. H., Tidhar, D., & Cross, I. (2016). Effects on inter-personal memory of dancing in time with others. Frontiers in Psychology. 7/167: 1-8.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Zaranek, A. (2016). Intuitive navigation in computer applications for people with Parkinson’s (PDF). Journal of Biomusical Engineering. 4/1: 115-123. DOI:10.4172/2090-2719.1000115.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Renwick, J. (2016). Generalizing case-based analyses in the study of global music consumption. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 5/1: 1-11.
Woolhouse, M. H., Williams, S., Zheng, S., & General, A. (2015). Creating technology-based dance activities for people with Parkinson’s. International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society. 5/4: 107-121.
Woolhouse, M. H. (2015). Probability and style in the chorales of J. S. Bach (PDF). Empirical Musicology Review. 10/3: 207-214.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Lai, R. (2014). Traces across the body: Influence of music-dance synchrony on the observation of dance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8/965: 1-14.
Woolhouse, M. H., Renwick, J., & Tidhar, D. (2014). Every track you take: Analysing the dynamics of song and genre reception through music downloading. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 4/1: 1-11.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Bansal, J. (2013). Work, rest and (press) play: Music consumption as an indicator of human economic development (PDF). Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. 7/1&2: 45-71.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Cross, I. (2011). A response to Ian Quinn (PDF). Music Theory Spectrum, 33/1: 99-105.
Woolhouse, M. H. (2010). Modes on the move: Interval cycles and the emergence of major-minor tonality (PDF) Empirical Musicology Review, 5/3: 62-83.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Cross, I. (2010). Tonal implications of dyadic harmony. In J. Sloboda (Ed.), ‘Understanding musical structure and form: Papers in honour of Irene Deliege.’ Musicae Scientiae, 14 no. 2 suppl 49-70. DOI: 10.1177/10298649100140S205.
Woolhouse, M. H., & Cross, I. (2010). Using interval cycles to model Krumhansl’s tonal hierarchies (PDF). Music Theory Spectrum, 32/1: 60-78.
Woolhouse, M. H. (2009). Modelling tonal attraction between adjacent musical elements. Journal of New Music Research, 38/4: 357-379.
Cross, I., Gill, S., Knight, S., Nash, C., Rabinowitch, T., Slobodian, L., Spiro, N., Woodruff, G., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2008). Commentary on “The perception and cognition of time in Balinese music” by Andrew Clay McGraw (PDF). Empirical Musicology Review, 3/2: 55-58.
Peer-reviewed Proceedings
*bolding indicates lab students
Street, L. E., Spyra, J., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Syntactic parallelism between music and language in relation to key memorization (PDF). Proceedings of ICMPC16/ESCOM11. University of Sheffield, UK.
Swierczek, K. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Predicting the dynamic perception of key: A cognitive model (PDF). Proceedings of ICMPC16/ESCOM11. University of Sheffield, UK.
Noble, G., Spyra, J. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). The nature of artificial sounds: Musical memory for key characterized by timbre (PDF). Proceedings of ICMPC16/ESCOM11. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Flannery, M. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Music-related acoustic features predict music preference (PDF). Proceedings of ICMPC16/ESCOM11. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Spyra, J. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2021). Contribution of surface features on large-scale tonal memory(PDF). Proceedings of ICMPC16/ESCOM11. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Noble, G., Spyra, J., & Woolhouse, M.H. (2020). Memory for musical key distinguished by timbre (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Timbre (Timbre 2020), 57-60. Thessaloniki (online), Greece.
Spyra, J., & Woolhouse, M.H. (2018). Effect of melody and rhythm on the perception of nonadjacent harmonic relationships (PDF). In Parncutt, R., & Sattmann, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10, 421-425. Graz, Austria: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz.
Swierczek, K., Spyra, J., & Woolhouse, M.H. (2018). The functional nature of theoretically decorative common-tone chords (PDF). In Parncutt, R., & Sattmann, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10, 442-446. Graz, Austria: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz.
Bansal, J., Chhin, A., Zaranek, A., Balas, M., Noseworthy, M., Paulseth, J., Woolhouse, M.H. (2018). Neurophysiological effects of dance technologies on the development of Parkinson’s Disease (PDF). In Parncutt, R., & Sattmann, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10, 67-70. Graz, Austria: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz.
Barone, M. D., DaCosta, K., Vigliensoni, G. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2017). GRAIL: Database linking music metadata across artist, release, and track. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology, 1-6. Shanghai, China.
Barone, M. D., DaCosta, K., Vigliensoni, G. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2016). GRAIL: A Music Metadata Identity API (PDF). Extended Abstract for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 1-3. New York, USA.
Bansal, J. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2015). Predictive power of personality on music-genre exclusivity (PDF). Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 652-58. Málaga, Spain.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Tidhar, D. (2013). Songs from overseas: Music downloading as a marker of migration (PDF). Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science, 1-4. Victoria, Canada.
Woolhouse, M. H. (2012). Wagner in the round: Using interval cycles to model chromatic harmony (PDF). Proceedings of the 12th ICMPC – ESCOM Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 1142-1145. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Hadley, L., Tidhar, D. & Woolhouse, M. H. (2012). Effects of observed music-gesture synchronicity on gaze and memory (PDF). Proceedings of the 12th ICMPC―ESCOM Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 384-388. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Tidhar, D. (2012). Querying 1.8 million music downloads from 13 countries (PDF). Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science, 1-4. Waterloo, Canada.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Tidhar, D. (2010). Group dancing leads to increased person perception (PDF). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 605-608. Seattle, USA.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Rohrmeier, M. (2008). Is there a relationship between pitch attraction and generative grammar in Western tonal music? (PDF) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 628-637. Sapporo, Japan.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Cross, I. (2008). Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov to determine the effect of interval cycles on the formation of Krumhansl & Kessler’s (1982) tonal hierarchy (PDF). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 438-444, Sapporo, Japan.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Cross, I. (2006). An interval cycle-based model of pitch attraction (PDF). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 763-771, Bologna, Italy.
Woolhouse, M. H., Cross, I. & Horton, T. (2006). The perception of non-adjacent harmonic relations (PDF). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 1236-1244, Bologna, Italy.
Woolhouse, M. H. & Cross, I. (2004). The role of interval periodicity in hierarchical pitch perception (PDF). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 486-492, Evanston, Ill., USA.