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Refereed Journal Publications
Archived Preprint
*Korsmit, I.R., Montrey, M., Wong-Min, A. & McAdams, S. (2024, September 3). Perceived and induced affective responses to musical sounds: The influence of instrument family, pitch register, and individual differences. Retrieved from
*Huynh, E. Y., Bensoam, J. & McAdams, S. (2024, May 31).Bowed air columns and blown plates: Odd combinations of excitation mechanisms and resonant structures impact perception. Retrieved from
*Fischer, M. & McAdams, S. (2023, December 11). Instrument timbre combinations influence the relative prominence of perceptual layers in orchestral music. Retrieved from
In Press
Fischer, M. & McAdams, S. (in press, accepted 19 July 2024). Instrument timbre combinations influence the relative prominence of perceptual layers in orchestral music. Music Perception.
Online Pre-publication
*Huynh, E. & McAdams, S. (published online, 01/10/2024). Categorization of typical and atypical combinations of excitations and resonators of musical instruments: Assimilation of the unusual to the familiar. Music & Science.
*Korsmit, I. R., Montrey, M., Wong-Min, A. T. K., & McAdams, S. (published online, 22/05/2024). The acoustic properties of affective timbres: Consistencies and discrepancies in multiple datasets. Music & Science.
*Zhu, L. & McAdams, S. (published online, 06/05/2024) Comparison of perceived and imagined blend of instrumental dyads. Music & Science.
2020 - present
*Heng, L. & McAdams, S. (2024). The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions. Musicae Scientiae, 28(4), 675-702.
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McAdams, S. (2023). A tribute to Albert S. Bregman (1936-2023). Music Perception, 41(1), 74–75.
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2010 - 2019
Lembke, S.-A., Parker, K., Narmour, E. & McAdams (2019). Acoustical correlates of perceptual blend in timbre dyads and triads. Musicæ Scientiæ, 23(2), 250-274.
Sears, D.R.W., Pearce, M., Spitzer, J., Caplin, W.E. & McAdams, S. (2019). Expectations for tonal cadences: Sensory and cognitive priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1422-1438.
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Siedenburg, K. & McAdams, S. (2018). Short-term recognition of timbre sequences: Effects of musical training, pitch variability, and timbral similarity.Music Perception, 36(1), 24-39.
Taher, C., Hasegawa, R. & McAdams, S. (2018). Effects of musical context on the recognition of musical motives during listening.Music Perception,36(1), 77-97.
Sears, D. R. W.,Pearce, M. T., Caplin, W. E. & McAdams, S. (2017). Simulating melodic and harmonic expectations for tonal cadences using probabilistic models.Journal of New Music Research, 47(1), 29-52.
Upham, F. & McAdams, S. (2018). Activity analysis and coordination in continuous responses to music. Music Perception, 35(3), 253-294.
Lembke, S.-A., Levine, S. & McAdams, S. (2017). Blending between bassoon and horn players: An analysis of timbral adjustments during musical performance. Music Perception, 35(2), 144–164.
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Lembke, S.-A. & McAdams, S. (2015).The role of spectral-envelope characteristics in perceptual blending of wind-instrument sounds.Acta Acustica United with Acustica,101(5), 1039–1051.10.3813/AAA.918898
McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2015). A tribute to David Wessel (1942-2014). Music Perception, 32, 434-436. 10.1525/MP.2015.32.4.434
Soroka, S., & McAdams, S. (2015). News, politics, and negativity. Political Communication, 32,1–22. 10.1080/10584609.2014.881942
Egermann, H., Fernando, N., Chuen, L., & McAdams, S. (2014). Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: Comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1341. 0.3389/fpsyg.2014.01341
Sears, D., Caplin, W. E., & McAdams, S. (2014). Perceiving the classical cadence. Music Perception, 31(5), 397–417. 10.1525/MP.2014.31.5.397
Giordano, B.L., Egermann, H. & Bresin, R. (2014). The production and perception of emotionally expressive walking sounds: similarities between musical performance and everyday motor activity. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115587. 10.1371/journal.pone.0115587
Fischer, M., Riello, M., Giordano, B.L. & Rusconi, E (2013). Singing numbers... in cognitive space — A dual-task study of the link between pitch, space, and numbers.Topics in Cognitive Science, 5, 354–366. 10.1111/tops.12017
Giordano, B.L., McAdams, S., Zatorre, R.J., Kriegeskorte, N., & Belin, P. (2013). Abstract encoding of auditory objects in cortical activity patterns. Cerebral Cortex. 10.1093/cercor/bhs162.
Saitis, C., Giordano, B.L., Fritz, C. & Scavone, G. (2012). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A quantitative analysis of preference judgments by experienced players. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(6), 4002-4012. 10.1121/1.4765081
Peters, N., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2011). Sound spatialization across disciplines using Virtual Microphone Control (ViMiC). Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 5, 167-190. 10.4407/jims.2011.11.003.
Peeters, G., Giordano, B.L., Susini, P., Misdariis, N. & McAdams, S. (2011). The Timbre Toolbox: Extracting audio descriptors from musical signals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 2902-2916. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3642604. [The newly revisedTimbre Toolbox is available .]
Visell, Y., Giordano, B.L., Millet, G. & Cooperstock, J.R. (2011). Vibration influences haptic perception of surface compliance during walking. PLoS ONE, 6(3), e17697. 10.1371/journal.pone.0017697
Gingras, B. & McAdams, S. (2011). Improved score-performance matching using both structural and temporal information from MIDI recordings. Journal of New Music Research, 41, 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2010.545422
Giordano, B. & McAdams, S. (2010). Sound source mechanics and musical timbre perception: Evidence from previous studies. Music Perception, 28, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2010.28.2.155
Giordano, B., McDonnell, J. & McAdams, S. (2010). Hearing living symbols and nonliving icons: Category specificities in the cognitive processing of environmental sounds. Brain and Cognition, 73, 7-19. 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.01.005.
McAdams, S., Roussarie, V., Chaigne, A. & Giordano, B. (2010). The psychomechanics of simulated sound sources: Material properties of impacted plates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 1401-1413. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3466867[Supplemental Material]
Bonnel, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Berthiaume, C. Bertone, A., Ciocca, W., Burack, J. & Mottron, L. (2010). Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2465–2475. https://doi.org/:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.020
Misdariis, N., Minard, A., Susini, P., Lemaitre, G., McAdams, S. & Parizet, E. (2010). Environmental sound perception: Meta-description and modeling based on independent primary studies. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing [Special issue on Scalable Audio-Content Analysis], 2010, 362013. 10.1155/2010/362013
Suied, C., Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Patterson, R. (2010). Why are natural sounds detected faster than pips? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(3), EL105-EL110. 10.1121/1.3310196
Castiello U., Giordano B.L., Begliomini C., Ansuini C. & Grassi M. (2010). When ears drive hands: the influence of contact sound on reaching to grasp. PLoS ONE, 5(8), e12240. 10.1371/journal.pone.0012240
Giordano, B., Rochesso, D. & McAdams, S. (2010). Integration of acoustical information for the perception of impacted sound sources: The role of information accuracy and exploitability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(2), 462-476. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018388[Supplemental Material]
2000 - 2009
Visell, Y., Fontana, F., Giordano, B.L., Nordahl, R., Serafin, S. & Bresin, R. (2009). Sound design and perception in walking interactions. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67, 947–959. 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.07.007
Rusconi, E., Kwan, B., Giordano, B.L., Umilta, C. & Butterworth, B. (2006). Spatial representation of pitch height: the SMARC effect. Cognition, 99, 113–129. 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.004
Tillmann, B. & McAdams, S., (2004). Apprentissage implicite en modalité auditive: Statistique et acoustique. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 14, 147-167.
1990 - 1999
1979 - 1989
McAdams, S. (1989). Introduction: The many faces of human cognition in musical research and practice. Contemporary Music Review, 4, 1-7. (Preface by McAdams and Deliege)
McAdams, S. (1988) Perception et intuition : Calculs tacites. InHarmoniques, 3, 86-103.
McAdams, S. (1987). Music: A science of the mind? Contemporary Music Review, 2, 1-61. (Preface by McAdams, S.)
Books and Special Journal Issues
Li, Z. & McAdams, S. (2022).
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McAdams, S. & Battier, M. (Eds.). (2005). Creation and Perception of a Contemporay Musical Work: The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds. E-book, Paris: Ircam-Centre Pompidou. []
Book Chapters
Noble, J., Bonin, T., Dean, R. & McAdams, S. (2023). Evaluating the psychological reality of alternate temporalities in contemporary music: Empirical case studies of Gérard Grisey's Vortex Temporum. In J. London & C. Wöllner (Eds.), Performing time: Synchrony and temporal flow in music and dance(pp. 301-308). Oxford University Press.
Touizrar, M. & McAdams, S. (2019). Aspects perceptifs de l'orchestration dans The Angel of Death de Roger Reynolds: Timbre et groupement auditif. DansP. Lalitte (dir.), Musique et cognition : Perspectives pour l'analyse et la performance musicales, pp. 55-78, Editions universitaires de Dijon, Dijon.
[English translation: Perceptual facets of orchestration in The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds: Timbre and auditory grouping.
Ayari, M. & McAdams, S. (2002). Le schéma cognitif culturel de l'improvisation modale: Forme musicale et analyse perceptive. In F. Lévy & J.-M. Chouvel (Eds.), Observation, analyse, modèle. Peut-on parler d'art avec les outils de la science?(pp. 395-418).Paris: Harmattan.
Houix, O., McAdams, S. & Caussé, R. (1999). Auditory categorization of sound sources. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thomson (eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ., pp. 47-51.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1999). An effect of the coherence between envelopes across frequency regions on the perception of roughness. In T. Dau, V. Hohmann & B. Kollmeier (eds.), Psychophysics, Physiology and Modesl of Hearing, World Scientific, London, pp. 105-108.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1998). Phase effects in roughness perception. In A.R. Palmer, A. Rees, A.Q. Summerfield & R. Meddis (Eds.), Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing, Whurr Publishers, Londres , pp. 286-292.
McAdams, S., Smith, B.K., Maillot, M. & Frachet, B. (1997). Sélectivité fréquentielle et identification de voyelles simultanées chez des auditeurs normo-entendants et malentendants. In Y. Christen, L. Collet & M.-T. Droy-Lefaix (Eds.), Rencontres IPSEN en ORL, Editions Irvinn, Boulogne, pp. 131-145.
McAdams, S. (1997). L'organisation perceptive de l'environnement sonore. In Y. Christen, L. Collet & M.-T. Droy-Lefaix (Eds.), Rencontres IPSEN en ORL, Editions Irvinn, Boulogne, pp. 91-102.
McAdams, S. (1996). Audition: Cognitive psychology of music. In R. Llinás & P. Churchland (Eds.), The Mind-Brain Continuum(pp. 251-279), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Botte, M.C., McAdams, S. & Drake, C. (1995). La perception des sons et de la musique. In B. Lechevalier & F. Eustache (Eds.), Perception et agnosies: Séminaire Jean-Louis Signoret, De Boeck, Bruxelles, pp. 55-99.
McAdams, S. (1994). Audition: physiologie, perception et cognition. In M. Richelle, J. Requin & M. Robert (Eds.), Traité de psychologie expérimentale, PUF, Paris, pp. 283-344.
McAdams, S. & Bigand, E. (1993). Introduction to auditory cognition. In S. McAdams & E. Bigand (Eds.), Thinking in sound: The cognitive psychology of human audition, Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, pp. 1-9.
McAdams, S. (1991). Pertseptivnaya organizatsiya akusticheskoy sryedy [L'organisation perceptive du monde sonore]. In V. Nosulenko (Ed.), Problemy ekologicheskoy psykhoakustiki [Problèmes de psychoacoustique écologique], Institut de Psychologie, Moscou, pp. 28-50.
McAdams, S. (1982). Spectral fusion and the creation of auditory images. In M. Clynes (Ed.), Music, Mind and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 278-298.
Selected Conference Contributions
Daniel, A., Nicol, R. & McAdams, S. (2010). Multichannel audio coding based on minimum audible angles.Proceedings of the 40th Annual Audio Engineering Society Conference, Tokyo.
McAdams, S. & Giordano, B.L. (2010). La psychoacoutique dévoile le potentiel musical du timbre.Actes du 10eme Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lyon. Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM]. Also published inAcoustique & Techniques,60, 13-20.
Daniel, A., Guastavino, C. & McAdams, S. (2010). Effet du rapport signal-sur-bruit sur l'angle minimum audible en présence d'un son distracteur.Actes du 10eme Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lyon. Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Giordano, B. L., Guastavino, C., Murphy, E., Ogg, M., Smith, B. & McAdams, S. Common and distinctive features of similarity: Effect of behavioral method.Abstracts of the 50th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,14, 112 (A).
Giordano, B. L., Avanzini, F., Wanderley, M., & McAdams, S. (2009). Integrating nonspatial, nontemporal multisensory information in action-based perception.Proceedings of the 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, pp. 64–65.
Peters, N., Matthews, T., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2008). Spatial sound rendering in Max/MSP with ViMiC.Proceedings of ICMC2008, Belfast.
Peters, N., Giordano, B., Kim, S., Braasch, J. & McAdams, S. (2008). Predicting perceived off-center sound degradation in surround loudspeaker setups for various multichannel microphone techniques.Proceedings of the 125th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, San Francisco, USA.
Marentakis, G., Marshall, M., Malloch, J., Peters, N., Wanderley, M. & McAdams, S. (2008) Influence of performance gestures on the identification of spatial sound trajectories in a concert hall.Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris.
Marentakis, G., Corteel, E. & McAdams, S. (2008). Wave-field synthesis evaluation using the minimum audible angle in a concert hall.Proceedings of the 124th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam.
Minard, A., Susini, P., Misdariis, N., Lemaitre, G., McAdams, S. & Parizet, E. (2008). Environmental sound description: Comparison and generalization of four timbre studies. InCHI '08: Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Association for Computing Machinery, New York; pp. 65-70.
Gingras, B., McAdams, S. & Schubert, P. (2007). Effects of musical texture, performer's preparation, interpretative goals, and musical competence on error patterns in organ performance.Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2007, Porto, European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
Peters, N., McAdams, S. & Braasch, J. (2007). Evaluating off-center sound degradationin surround loudspeaker setups for various multichannel microphone techniques.Proceedings of the 123rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York.
Burgoyne, J.A. & McAdams, S. (2007). Non-linear scaling techniques for uncovering the perceptual dimensions of timbre,Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, ICMA:San Francisco.
Marentakis, G., Peters, N. & McAdams, S. (2007). DJ Spat: Spatialized interactions for DJs,Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, ICMA:San Francisco.
Giordano, B., McAdams, S. & McDonnell, J. (2007). Acoustical and conceptual information for the perception of animate and inanimate sound sources.Proceedings of ICAD-07-13th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Montréal, CA.
Giordano, B., McAdams, S. & McDonnell, J. (2007). Cognitive biases in estimating the similarity of environmental sounds.Abstracts of the 48th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,12, 4051(A).
Bézat, M-C., Roussarie, V., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. & McAdams, S. (2006). Perceptual analyses of action-related impact sounds,Euronoise 2006, Tampere, Finland.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Smith, B. (2005). Loudness asymmetries for tones with increasing and decreasing levels.Proceedings of ICAD 05-11th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
Suied, C., Susini, P. Misdariis, N., Langlois, S., Smith, B. & McAdams, S. (2005). Toward a sound design methodology: Application to electronic automotive sounds.Proceedings of ICAD 05-11th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
Dubnov, S., McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2004). Predicting human reactions to music on the basis of similarity structure and information theoretic measures of the sound signal. S. Argamon, S. Dubnov & J. Jupp (Eds.),Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Technical Report FS-04-07, pp. 37-40, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg S., & McAdams S. (2004). A method to assess the ecological validity of laboratory-recorded car horn sounds.Proceedings of the SFA/DAGA Conference, Strasbourg, Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Tardieu, J., Susini, P., Poisson, F. & McAdams, S. (2004). Soundscape design in train stations.Proceedings of the Journées du Design Sonore, Paris, Ircam-Entre Pompidou, Paris [CD-ROM].
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2004). Temporal asymmetry in loudness.Proceedings of the SFA/DAGA Conference, Strasbourg, Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg, S. & McAdams, S. (2003). Perceptively based design of new car horn sounds.Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display, Boston, MA, Boston University Publications, 47-50.
McAdams, S. (2002). Musical similarity and dynamic processing in musical contexts.Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Mexico City, ENM/UNAM, Mexico City [CD-ROM].
Caclin, A., Brattico, E., Smith, B., Ternaviemi, M., Toiviainen, P., Näätänen, R., Giard, M.-H. & McAdams, S. (2002). Musical timbre perception: A combined psychophysical and electrophysiological study,Proceedings of ICON8, Porquerolles, 70.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2002). Influence of sound-directed attentional focus on overall loudness ratings.Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Sevilla.
Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (2002). Perceptual characterisation of the timbre of car horns.Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Sevilla.
McAdams, S., Smith, B.K., Vieillard, S., Bigand, E. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Real-time perception of a contemporary musical work in a live concert setting.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Vieillard, S., Bigand, E., Madurell, F., McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Can listening to excerpts of original versions of contemporary musical materials facilitate recognition of their transformed versions?Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Bigand, E., Vieillard, S., Madurell, F., McAdams, S. & Poulin, B. (2002). Effects of instrumentation on the memorization of musical materials.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Vieillard, S., McAdams, S., Houix, O. & Reynolds, R. (2002). Perceptual and cognitive criteria used in the categorization of thematic excerpts from a contempoary musical piece.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2002) Problem-solving strategies in the composition of The Angel of Death.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Causal Productions, Adelaide [CD-ROM].
Dufournet, D., Susini, P., Slama, M. & McAdams, S. (2001). An annoyance meter for squeak-and-rattle diagnostics,17th International Congress on Acoustics Proceedings, Rome, vol. X, session 8_10, pp. 38-39 [CD-ROM].
Susini, P., Perry, I., Vieillard, S., Winsberg, S., McAdams, S. & Rodet, X. (2001) Sensory evaluation of air-conditioning noise: Sound design and psychoacoustic evaluation,17th International Congress on Acoustics Proceedings, Rome, vol. III, session 6_09, pp. 20-21 [CD-ROM].
Turgeon, M., McAdams, S., Drake, C. & Samson, Y., (2000) The relative contribution of the visual and auditory signals to the dynamic reproduction of a rhythmic pattern,8th International Workshop on Rhythm Perception and Production, Castleton, UK., pp. 38-39.
Peeters, G., McAdams, S. & Herrera, P. (2000) Instrument sound description in the context of MPEG-7.Proceedings of the 2000 International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, pp. 166-169.
Matzkin, D. & McAdams, S. (2000) Similarity perception of variations of tonal and twelve-tone melodies.Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Keele[CD-ROM].
McAdams, S. (2000) La psychoméchanique des sources sonores simples.Actes du 5ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lausanne, p. XXI.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2000). Effet de récence dans une tâche de jugement de la sonie.Actes du 5ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lausanne, pp. 430-432.
Houix, O., McAdams, S. & Caussé, R. (2000). Structures vibrantes et catégorisation auditive.Actes du 5ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lausanne, pp. 437-440.
McAdams, S. (2000). Evaluation subjective de la qualité sonore.Gêne ou agrément: Vers la qualité sonore. Actes du colloque SFA/SRGSE, Bron.
McAdams, S. & Misdariis, N. (1999). Perceptual-based retrieval in large musical sound databases.Proceedings of Human Centred Processes '99, Brest, P. Lenca (Ed.), ENST Bretagne, Brest, pp. 445-450.
Thivard, L., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Boddaert, N., Savel, S., Belin, P., Zilbovicius, M., Samson, S. & Samson, Y. (1998). The functional anatomy of sound duration change detection.Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA.
McAdams, S. & Susini, P. (1998). Caractérisation perceptive des bruits de véhicules.Actes du Congrès Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile/Société Française d'Acoustique, Courbevoie, SIA 981002.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Perception de mélodies intercalées: Implication des processus descendants dans l'organisation auditive.Actes du VIIe Colloque de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive, D. Kayser, A. Nguyen-Xuan & A. Holley (Eds.), pp. 255-260.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Implication of top-down processes in auditory streaming.Abstracts of the 39th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,Dallas, p. 25 (A).
Faure, A. & McAdams, S. (1998). Du percept au concept: Comment parle-t-on du timbre des instruments de musique?Actes du 6ème Colloque de l'Ecole Doctorale Neurobiologie et Comportement, J-F. Allilaire, D.Andler, P. Ascher, M-J. Besson, B. Calvino, F. Crepel & D. Tritsch (Eds.), p. C9 (A).
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1998). Implication des connaissances dans l'organisation auditive.Actes du 6ème Colloque de l'Ecole Doctorale Neurobiologie et Comportement, J-F. Allilaire, D.Andler, P. Ascher, M-J. Besson, B. Calvino, F. Crepel & D. Tritsch (Eds.), p. C3 (A).
McAdams, S., Susini, P., Misdariis, N. & Winsberg, S. (1998). Multidimensional characterisation of perceptual and preference judgments of vehicle and environmental noises.Euro-Noise 98, München: Designing for Silence, vol. I, pp. 561-566.
Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (1998). Global and continuous judgments of sounds with time-varying intensity: Cross-modal matching with a proprioceptive input device.Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 571-572.
Roussarie, V., McAdams, S. & Chaigne, A. (1998). Perceptual analysis of vibrating bars synthesized with a physical model.Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 2227-2228.
Misdariis, N., Smith, B., Pressnitzer, D., Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (1998). Validation of a multidimensional distance model for perceptual dissimilarities among musical timbres.Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 2213-2214.
McAdams, S., Kudo, K. & Kirchner, H. (1998). Perceptual interaction of exciter and resonator properties in percussive instrument sounds.Proceedings 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, pp. 1885-1886.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). Implication des processus descendants dans la formation des flux auditifs. La perception: Du natural à l'artificiel,Journées Internationales d'Orsay sur les Sciences Cognitives 1997, pp. 29-32.
Belin, P., Smith, B., Thivard, L., Savel, S., Samson, S., Samson, Y. & McAdams, S. (1997). The functional anatomy of sound intensity change detection.Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence of phase effects on roughness modeling and control.Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, pp. 31-34.
Paraskeva, S. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence of timbre, presence/absence of tonal hierarchy and musical training on the perception of tension/relaxation schemas of musical phrases.Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, pp. 438-441.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1997). Caractérisation perceptive des bruits de véhicules.Actes du 4e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 543-546.
Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence de la phase sur la perception de rugosité de sons complexes.Actes du 4e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 535-538.
Faure, A. & McAdams, S. (1997). Comparaison de profils sémantiques et de l'espace perceptif de timbres musicaux.Actes du 4e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 625-628.
Drake, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). The continuity illusion: Role of temporal sequence structure.Actes du 4e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 519-522.
Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (1997). Etude des processus de formation des flux auditifs par une méthode objective.Actes du 4e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Marseille, vol. 1, 531-534.
Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1997). Perceptual characterisation of vehicle noises.Proceedings of the European Acoustics Association Symposium on Psychoacoustics in Industry and Universities, Eindhoven.
McAdams, S. (1997). Basic and applied psychoacoustics in France.Proceedings of the European Acoustics Association Symposium on Psychoacoustics in Industry and Universities, Eindhoven.
Donnadieu, S. & McAdams, S. (1996). Effects of context change on dissimilarity, discrimination, and categorisation tasks on timbre perception.Fechner Day 96. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Padova, ISP, pp. 239-244.
Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S. & Fineberg, J. (1996). Roughness and musical tension of orchestral timbres.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montréal, Faculty of Music, ۲ݮƵ University, Montréal, pp. 85-90.
Faure, A., McAdams, S. & Nosulenko, V. (1996). Verbal correlates of perceptual dimensions of timbre.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montréal, Faculty of Music, ۲ݮƵ University, Montréal, pp. 79-84.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1996). Categorization, discrimination, and context effects in the perception of natural and interpolated timbres.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montréal, Faculty of Music, ۲ݮƵ University, Montréal, pp. 73-78.
Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S. & Fineberg, J. (1996). Tension musicale et rugosité psychoacoustique dans la musique non-tonale.Actes des Journées d'Informatique Musicale, Caen, pp. 147-156.
Brochard, R., Drake, C., Botte, M-C. & McAdams, S. (1995). Focusing attention on one auditory stream does not depend on the number of simultaneous streams.Fechner Day 95. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Cassis, ISP.
McAdams, S., Botte, M-C. & Drake, C. (1995). The partitioning of loudness in the auditory continuity phenomenon,Fechner Day 95: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Cassis, ISP.
McAdams, S. (1995). Listening strategies in electroacoustic music,Proceedings of the International Congress in Music and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh.
Lakatos, S. & McAdams, S. (1995). Scaling of harmonic and percussive timbres: Perceptual spaces and verbal attributes,SMPC95 Conference, p. 10, Berkeley, SMPC.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1995). Effects of context change on timbre perception,SMPC95 Conference, p. 12, Berkeley, SMPC.
Beauchamp, J., Horner, A. & McAdams, S. (1995). Musical sounds, data reduction, and perceptual control parameters,SMPC95 Conference, pp. 8-9, Berkeley, SMPC.
McAdams, S., Botte, M.-C., Banide, F., Durot, X. & Drake, C. (1994). The computation of loudness in the auditory continuity phenomenon.Proceedings of the ATR Workshop on "A Biological Framework for Speech Perception and Production", Kyoto, ATR Tech. Rep. TR-H-121, 81-86.
McAdams, S., Winsberg, S., Murail, T., Fineberg, J., Bigand, E. & Drake, C. (1994). Dissonance: Allegories of the concept and Disintegrations of the preconceptions.Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, è, pp. 317-318, è, ESCOM.
McAdams, S. (1994). Big sister Pitch's little brother Timbre comes of age.Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, è, pp. 33-34, è, ESCOM.
Fales, C. & McAdams, S. (1994). Tone/noise fusion and timbre in African musical instruments.Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, è, pp. 105-106, è, ESCOM.
Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1994). Context effects in "timbre space".Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, è, pp. 311-312, è, ESCOM.
Bigand, E., McAdams, S. & Forêt, S. (1994). Divided attention in polyphonic listening.Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, è, pp. 237-238, è, ESCOM.
McAdams, S. & Marin, C.M.H. (1990). Auditory processing of frequency modulation coherence. In F. Müller (Ed.)Fechner Day 90.Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,üܰ, pp. 175-180.
Marin, C.M.H., McAdams, S. & Liénard, J.S. (1989). The role of beats in concurrent sound segregation based on frequency modulation cues,Fechner Day 89. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Cassis, pp. 120-125.
McAdams, S. (1989). Music and psychoacoustics,Fechner Day 89. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Cassis, pp. 1-4.
McAdams, S. & Saariaho, K. (1985). Qualities and functions of musical timbre,Proceedings of the 1985 International Computer Music Conference, Vancouver, Computer Music Association, San Francisco, pp. 367-374.
McAdams, S., Gladkoff, S. & Keller, J.-P. (1985). AISE: A prototype laboratory for musical research and the development of conceptual tools,Proceedings of the 1984 International Computer Music Conference, Paris, Computer Music Association, San Francisco, pp. 143-162.
McAdams, S. (1983). Acoustic cues contributing to spectral fusion.Proceedings of the 1983 International Congress of Acoustics,3, 127-130,Paris.
McAdams, S. & Wessel, D. (1981). A general synthesis package based on principles of auditory perception.Proceedings of the 1981 International Computer Music Conference, Denton, Texas,School of Music, North Texas State University, p. 308.
Technical Reports
McAdams, S. & Soden, K. (2022). The Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects applied to Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso for orchestra. .
Vanasse, J. (2020b). Application of SVM to blend prediction.MPCL Technical Report MPCL-005.
PhD Dissertations & MA Theses
PhD Dissertations
Noble, J. (2018). Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
Siedenburg, K. (2016). Perspectives on memory for musical timbre. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
Taher, C. (2016). Motivic similarity and form in Boulez’s Anthèmes. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
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MA Theses
Henry, M. (2021). A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
Lou, L. I. (2017). Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
Douglas, C. (2015). Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.
Wood, C. (2015). Perception of timbre intervals. ۲ݮƵ University, Montreal, QC.