Prof. Stephen McAdams, PhD

Education

• Habilitation à diriger des recherches (D.Sc.), Cognitive Psychology, Université René Descartes (Paris V), June 1996
• Ph.D., Hearing and Speech Sciences, Stanford University, June 1984
• B.Sc. (First-class honours), Experimental Psychology, McGill University, June 1977

Professional distinctions

• Bronze medal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), 1991
• Philips Prize, Société Française d'Acoustique, 1992
• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1999
• Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition, McGill University, 2004-present
• Chaire Alphonse Dupront, Visiting Professor in Musicology, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), May 2008
• Distinguished Lectures "Bilan et tendences des musicologies" (4 lectures), Faculté de Musique, Université de Montréal, January-February 2009
• Foreign Medal, Société Française d'Acoustique, 2009

Work experience

• Professor, Department of Music Research, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 10/2004 – present.

• Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 11/2004 – 07/2009.

• Senior Research Scientist, CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Paris V, 10/97 - 919/99 ; IRCAM, 10/1999 – 9/2004 ; on leave at McGill University, 10/2004 - present.

• Team head "Auditory Perception ", Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale (CNRS URA 316), Université Paris V, 11/1994 - 9/1999.

• Research Scientist, CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale , Université Paris V, 10/1989 - 9/1997.*

• Team head "Music Perception and Cognition", IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, 1/1986-3/2003.

• Senior Research Scientist, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, 1/1986 - 9/1989.

• Project head "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes ", IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, 9/1984 - 12/1985.

• Research Scientist, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, 6/1981 - 12/1985.

Publications

Journal articles

Tardieu, D. & McAdams, S. (in press, accepted 30/01/2012). Perception of dyads of impulsive and sustained instrument sounds. Music Perception.

Gingras, B., Lagrandeur-Ponce, T., Giordano, B. & McAdams, S. (2011). Perceiving musical identity: Performer identification is dependent on performer expertise and expressiveness, but not on listener expertise. Perception, 40, 1206-1220.

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. [The Timbre Toolbox is available here.]

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.

Peters, N., Marentakis, G. & McAdams, S. (2011). Current technologies and compositional practices for spatialization: A qualitative and quantitative analysis. Computer Music Journal, 35, 10-27.

Giordano, B. & McAdams, S. (2010). Sound source mechanics and musical timbre perception: Evidence from previous studies. Music Perception, 28, 155-168.

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. [DOI: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.

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.

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], vol. 2010, Article ID 362013, 26 pp. [online journal DOI: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 [online journal DOI: 10.1121/1.3310196].

Giordano, B., McAdams, S. & Rochesso, D. (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.

Tardieu, J., Susini, P., Poisson, F., Kawakami, H. & McAdams, S. (2009). The design and evaluation of an auditory way-finding system in a train station. Applied Acoustics, 70, 1183-1193.

Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg, S., Letinturier, B. & McAdams, S. (2009). The sound quality of car horns: Designing new representative sounds. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 95, 356-372.

Vallières, M., Tan, D., Caplin, W. & McAdams, S. (2009). Perception of intrinsic formal functionality: An empirical investigation of Mozart's materials. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 3(1-2), 17-43.

Tardieu, J., Susini, P., Poisson, F., Lazareff, P. & McAdams, S. (2008). Perceptual study of soundscapes in train stations. Applied Acoustics, 69, 1224-1239.

Suied, C., Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2008) Evaluating warning sound urgency with reaction times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 201-212.

Caclin, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B. & Giard, M.-H. (2008). Interactive processing of timbre dimensions: An exploration with event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(1), 49-64.

Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Smith, B. (2007). Loudness asymmetries for tones with increasing and decreasing levels using continuous and global ratings. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 93, 623-631.

Lemaitre, G., Susini, P., Winsberg, S. & McAdams, S. (2007). The sound quality of car horns: A psychoacoustical study of timbre. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 93, 457-468.

Caclin, A., Giard, M.-H., Smith, B. & McAdams, S. (2007). Interactive processing of timbre dimensions: A Garner interference study. Brain Research, 1138, 159-170.

Caclin, A., Brattico, E., Tervaniemi, M., Näätenen, R. Morlet, D., Giard, M-H. & McAdams, S. (2006) Separate neural processing of timbre dimensions in auditory sensory memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(12), 1959-1972.

Dubnov, S., McAdams, S. & Reynolds, R. (2006). Structural and affective aspects of music from statistical audio signal analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57, 1526-1536.

Giordano, B. & McAdams, S. (2006). Material identification of real impact sounds: Effects of size variation in steel, glass, wood and plexiglas plates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1171-1181.

Caclin, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B. K. & Winsberg, S. (2005). Acoustic correlates of timbre space dimensions: A confirmatory study using synthetic tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 471-482.

McAdams, S., Vines, B. , Vieillard, S., Smith, B. & Reynolds, R. (2004). Influences of large-scale form on continuous ratings in response to a contemporary piece in a live concert setting. Music Perception, 22, 297-350.

Lalitte, P., Bigand, E., Poulin-Charronnat, B., McAdams, S., Delbé, C. & D'Adamo, D. (2004). The perceptual structure of thematic materials in The Angel of Death. Music Perception, 22, 265-296.

Poulin-Charronnat, B., Bigand, E., Lalitte, P. , Madurell, F., Vieillard, S. & McAdams, S. (2004). Effects of a change in instrumentation on the recognition of musical materials. Music Perception, 22, 239-263.

McAdams, S., Vieillard, S., Houix, O. & Reynolds, R. (2004). Perception of musical similarity among contemporary thematic materials in two instrumentations. Music Perception, 22, 207-237.

Tillmann, B. & McAdams, S., (2004). Implicit learning of musical timbre sequences: Statistical regularities confronted with acoustical (dis)similarities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30, 1131-1142.

Tillmann, B. & McAdams, S., (2004). Apprentissage implicite en modalité auditive: Statistique et acoustique. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 14, 147-167.

Susini, P., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S., Perry, I., Vieillard, S. & Rodet, X. (2004). Characterizing the sound quality of air-conditiong noise. Applied Acoustics, 65, 763-790.

McAdams, S. (2004). Problem-solving strategies in music composition: A case study. Music Perception, 21, 391-430.

McAdams, S.,  Chaigne, A. & Roussarie, V. (2004). The psychomechanics of simple sound sources: Material properties of impacted bars. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 1306-1320.

Marozeau, J., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (2003). The dependency of timbre on fundamental frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 2946-2957.

Ayari, M. &  McAdams, S. (2003). Aural analysis of Arab improvised music (taqsîm). Music Perception, 21, 159-216.

Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (2003). Post-recognition of interleaved melodies as an indirect measure of auditory stream formation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 267–279.

Menon, V., Levitin, D., Smith, B., Lembke, A. Kraznow, B., Glazer, D., Glover, G. & McAdams, S. (2002). Neural correlates of timbre change in harmonic sounds. Neuroimage, 17, 1742-1754.

Levitin, D., McAdams, S. & Adams, R. (2002). Control parameters for musical instruments: A foundation for new mappings of gesture to sound. Organised Sound, 7, 171-189.

Belin, P., McAdams, S., Thivard, L., Smith, B., Savel, S., Zilbovicius, M., Samson, S. & Samson, Y. (2002). The neuroanatomical substrate of sound duration discrimination. Neuropsychologia, 40, 1956-1964.

Bey, C. & McAdams, S. (2002). Schema-based processing in auditory scene analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 844-854.

Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Smith, B. K. (2002). Global and continuous estimation of time-varying levels. Acta Acustica, 88, 536-548.

McAdams, S. & Matzkin, D. (2001). Similarity, invariance and musical variation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930, 62-76.

Brown, J., Houix, O. & McAdams, S. (2001). Feature dependence in the automatic identification of musical woodwind instruments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 1064-1072.

Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (2000). Acoustics, psychoacoustics, and spectral music. Contemporary Music Review, 19(2), 33-59, 139-143.

Bigand, E., McAdams, S. & Forêt, S. (2000). Divided attention in music. International Journal of Psychology. 35, 270-278.

Susini, P. & McAdams, S. (2000). Psychophysical validation of a proprioceptive device by cross-modal matching of loudness. Acta Acustica, 86, 515-525.

Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., Winsberg, S. & Fineberg, J. (2000). Perception of musical tension for nontonal orchestral timbres and its relation to psychoacoustic roughness. Perception & Psychophysics., 62, 66-80.

Brochard, R., Drake, C., Botte, M.-C. & McAdams, S. (2000). Perceptual organization of complex auditory sequences: Effect of number of simultaneous subsequences and frequency separation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1742-1759.

Susini, P., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1999). A multidimensional technique for sound quality assessment. Acta Acustica, 85, 650-656.

McAdams, S. (1999). Perspectives on the contribution of timbre to musical structure. Computer Music Journal , 23(2), 96-113.

Drake, C. & McAdams, S. (1999). The continuity illusion: Role of temporal sequence structure. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 3529-3538.

Pressnitzer, D. & McAdams, S. (1999) Two phase effects in roughness perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, 2773-2782.

McAdams, S., Beauchamp, J. & Meneguzzi, S. (1999). Discrimination of musical instrument sounds resynthesized with simplified spectrotemporal parameters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105, 882-897.

Belin, P., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Savel, S., Thivard, L., Samson, S. & Samson, Y. (1998). The functional anatomy of sound intensity discrimination. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 6388-6394.

McAdams, S., Botte, M.-C. & Drake, C. (1998). Auditory continuity and loudness computation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 103, 1580-1591.

McAdams, S. & Bertoncini, J. (1997). Organization and discrimination of repeating sound sequences by newborn infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 2945-2953.

Lakatos, S., McAdams, S. & Caussé, R. (1997). The representation of auditory source characteristics: Simple geometric form. Perception and Psychophysics, 59, 1180-1190.

Botte, M.-C., Drake, C., Brochard, R. & McAdams, S. (1997). Perceptual attenuation of non-focused auditory streams. Perception and Psychophysics, 59, 419-425.

de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S. & Marin, C.M.H. (1997). Concurrent vowel identification. II: Effects of phase, harmonicity, and task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 2848-2856.

Samoylenko, E.S., McAdams, S. & Nosulenko, V.N. (1996) Systematic analysis of verbalizations produced in comparing musical timbres. International Journal of Psychology, 31, 255-278.

Marin, C. & McAdams, S. (1996) The role of frequency modulation, polyperiodicity, and auditory beats in the recognition of spectrally embedded complex target sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 1736-1753.

McAdams, S., Winsberg, S., Donnadieu, S., De Soete, G. & Krimphoff, J. (1995). Perceptual scaling of synthesized musical timbres: Common dimensions, specificities, and latent subject classes. Psychological Research, 58, 177-192.

de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Laroche, J. & Rosenberg, M. (1995) Identification of concurrent harmonic and inharmonic vowels: A test of the theory of harmonic cancellation and enhancement. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 3736-3748.

Fales, C. & McAdams, S. (1994) The fusion and layering of noise and tone: Implications for timbre in African instruments. Leonardo Music Journal, 4 , 69-77

McAdams, S. & Cunibile, J.C. (1992) Perception of timbral analogies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, series B, 336, 383-389.

Marin, C. & McAdams, S. (1991) Segregation of concurrent sounds. II: Effects of spectral envelope tracing, frequency modulation coherence, and frequency modulation width, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 89, 341-351.

Hartmann, W.M., McAdams, S., & Smith, B.K. (1990) Hearing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex tone, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88, 1712-1724.

McAdams, S. (1989) Psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music, Contemporary Music Review, 4,  181-198.

McAdams, S. (1989) Introduction: The many faces of human cognition in musical research and practice, Contemporary Music Review, 4, 1-7.

McAdams, S. (1989) Segregation of concurrent sounds. I: Effects of frequency modulation coherence, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 86, 2148-2159.

Bertoncini, J., Morais, J., Bijeljac-Babic, R., McAdams, S., Peretz, I. & Mehler, J.  (1989) Dichotic perception and laterality in neonates, Brain and Langauge, 37, 591-605.

McAdams, S. (1987) Music: A science of the mind? Contemporary Music Review, 2, 1-61.

Hartmann, W.M., McAdams, S., Gerzso, A. & Boulez, P. (1986) The discrimination of spectral density, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 79, 1915-1925.

McAdams, S. & Bregman, A. (1979) Hearing musical streams, Computer Music Journal, 3(4), 26-43, republished in C. Roads & J. Strawn (eds.) The Foundations of Computer Music, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 658-698, (1985).

Books and special journal issues

McAdams, S. & Battier, M. (Eds.) (2005). Creation and perception of a contemporay musical work: The Angel of Death by Roger Reynolds. E-book, Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Collet, L. (Eds.) (2004) Auditory Signal Processing: Psychophysics, Physiology and Modeling. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Reynolds, R. (2002) Form and Method: Composing Music (The Rothschild Essays). Routledge, New York (S. McAdams, Ed.).

McAdams, S. & Bigand, E. (Eds.) (1994) Penser les sons: La psychologie cognitive de l’audition humaine, PUF, Paris; version française de McAdams & Bigand (1993).

McAdams, S. & Bigand, E. (Eds.) (1993) Thinking in sound: The cognitive psychology of human audition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

McAdams, S. & Deliège, I. (Eds.) (1990), special issue of Psychology of Music, 18(1).

McAdams, S. & Deliège, I. (Eds.) (1989)  La musique et les sciences cognitives, Editions Pierre Mardaga, Bruxelles; version française de McAdams & Deliège (1989).

McAdams, S.  & Deliège,  I. (Eds.)  (1989) "Music and the Cognitive Sciences", special issue of Contemporary Music Review, 4(1).

McAdams, S. (Ed.) (1987) "Music and Psychology: A Mutual Regard", special issue of Contemporary Music Review, 2(1).

Book chapters

Susini, P., Lemaitre, G. & McAdams, S. (2011). Psychological measurement for sound description and evaluation. In B. Berglund, G. B. Rossi, J. T. Townsend & L. R. Pendrill (Eds.), Measurements with Persons: Theory, Methods and Implementation Areas, Psychology Press, New York, pp. 227-253.

Gingras, B., McAdams, S., & Schubert, P. (2010). The performer as analyst: A case study of J.S. Bach's “Dorian” fugue BWV 538. In C. Utz (Ed.), Music Theory and Interdisciplinarity. Musik Theorien der Gegenwart, vol. 4. Pfau: Saarbrücken, pp. 1-14.

McAdams, S. & Giordano, B. (2009). The perception of musical timbre. In S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 72-80.

Frey, A., Tijus, C. & McAdams. S. (2008). Etude de la perception d'une œuvre musicale contemporaine: le découpage en unités signifiantes. In E. Rix & M. Formosa (Eds.), Vers une sémiotique générale du temps dans les arts, Editions Delatour-France/IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, pp. 59-78.

Visell, Y., Cooperstock, J., Giordano, B., Franinovic, K., Law, A., McAdams, S., Jathal, K. & Fontana, F. (2008). A vibrotactile device for display of virtual ground materials in walking. In M. Ferre (Ed.), EuroHaptics 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5024, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 420–426.

Burgoyne, J.A. & McAdams, S. (2008). A meta-analysis of timbre perception using nonlinear extensions to CLASCAL. In R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad & K. Jensen (Eds.) Sense of Sounds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4969, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 181-202.

Grimault, N., McAdams, S. & Allen, J.B. (2007). Auditory scene analysis: A prerequisite for loudness perception. In B. Kollmeier, G. Klump, V. Hohmann, U. Langemann, M. Mauermann, S. Uppenkamp & J. Verhey (Eds.), Hearing: From Sensory Processing to Perception, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 295-302.

Ayari, M. & McAdams, S. (2005) Polysémie et multidimensionnalité du phénomène de l'improvisation instrumentale arabe. In F. Madurell (Ed.), Les pratiques d'écoute individuelles, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.

Vieillard, S., McAdams, S., Bigand, E. & Reynolds, R. (2005) Création et perception d'une œuvre de musique contemporaine: The Angel of Death de Roger Reynolds. In M. Borillo  (Ed.), Approches cognitives de la création artistique, pp. 129-153, Pierre Mardaga,  Bruxelles.

McAdams, S., Depalle, P. & Clarke, E. (2004). Analyzing musical sound. In E. Clarke & N. Cook (Eds.), Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 157-196.

McAdams, S. & Matzkin, D. (2003). The roots of musical variation in perceptual similarity and invariance. In I. Peretz & R. Zatorre (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 79-94.

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 ? Harmattan, Paris, pp. 395-418.

McAdams, S. & Drake, C. (2002). Auditory perception and cognition. In H. Pashler (Series Ed.) & S. Yantis (Vol. Ed.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology: Vol. 1. Sensation and Perception, 3rd. ed., pp. 397-452, Wiley, New York.

McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (2000) Psychophysical quantification of individual differences in timbre perception. In A. Schick, M. Meis & C. Reckhardt (eds.), Contributions to Psychological Acoustics: Results of the 8th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics, Bis, Oldenburg, pp. 165-182.

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. (1994a) 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. (1993a) 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. (1993a) Recognition of auditory sources and events. In S. McAdams & E. Bigand (Eds.), Thinking in sound: The cognitive psychology of human audition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 146-198.

McAdams, S. (1991a) 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. & Rodet, X. (1988) The role of FM-induced AM in dynamic spectral profile analysis. In H. Duifhuis, J.W. Horst & H.P. Wit (Eds.) Basic Issues in Hearing, Academic Press, Londres, pp. 359-369.

McAdams, S. (1984a) The auditory image: A metaphor for musical and psychological research on auditory organization. In W.R. Crozier & A.J. Chapman (eds.), Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 289-323.

McAdams, S. (1982a) 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.

Congress 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 in Acoustique & Techniques, 60, 13-20.

Giordano, B.K., Avanzini, F., Wanderley, M. & McAdams, S. (2010). Multisensory integration in percussion performance. Actes du 10eme Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Lyon. Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris [CD-ROM].

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.

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. In CHI '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.

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, McGill 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, McGill 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, McGill 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, Liège , pp. 317-318, Liège, 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, Liège , pp. 33-34, Liège, 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, Liège, pp. 105-106, Liège, ESCOM.

Donnadieu, S., McAdams, S. & Winsberg, S. (1994). Context effects in "timbre space". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Liège , pp. 311-312, Liège, ESCOM.

Bigand, E., McAdams, S. & Forêt, S. (1994). Divided attention in polyphonic listening. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Liège, pp. 237-238, Liège, ESCOM.

McAdams, S. & Marin, C.M.H. (1990a) 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, Würzburg, 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. (1989d) 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.  (1983a) Acoustic cues contributing to spectral fusion, Proceedings of the 1983 International Congress of Acoustics, Paris, 3, 127-130.

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.