Publications
* indicates joint first authorship; † indicates joint last authorship
Working Papers
· 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.
· Marjieh, R., P. van Rijn, I. Sucholutsky, H. Lee, T. L. Griffiths,† & N. Jacoby†. A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion.
· Van Geert, E. & N. Jacoby. Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space.
· Marjieh, R., T. L. Griffiths, & N. Jacoby. Musical pitch has multiple psychological geometries. In review.
· Sucholutsky, I., Lukas 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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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
· 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.Accepted, CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05206.
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).
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Ozaki, Y., A. Tierney, P. Q. Pfordresher, J. McBride, E. Benetos, P. Proutskova, G. Chiba, F. Liu, N. Jacoby,...P. E. Savage. Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech. Stage 2 Registered Report.
· 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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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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