Publications
Warren, R.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015). The actual vs. predicted effects of intonation accuracy on vocal performance quality. Music Perception, 33 (2), 135-146.
Curtis, M. (2014). The long-term benefits of musical training. In W. F. Thompson & J. G. Golson (Eds.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 778-780). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Curtis, M. (2014. Music for health and wellness. In W. F. Thompson & J. G. Golson (Eds.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 534-539). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Curtis, M.** & Flusberg, S.** (2013). Cognition and language. In Psychology in the fastlane. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company/Bypass Publishing.
Curtis, M. & Reaves, C. (2013). Sensation and perception. In Psychology in the fastlane. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company/Bypass Publishing.
Bharucha, J. J., Curtis, M., & Paroo, K. (2012). Musical communication as an alignment of brain states. In P. Rebuschat, M. Rohrmeier, J. A. Hawkins, & I. Cross (Eds.), Music and language as cognitive systems (pp. 139-155). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bharucha, J. J., Paroo, K., & Curtis, M. (2012). Alignment of brain states: Response to commentaries. In P. Rebuschat, M. Rohrmeier, J. A. Hawkins, & I. Cross (Eds.), Music and language as cognitive systems (pp. 195-197). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Curtis, M. (2011). Training the brain. In B. Williams, D. Gluck, & B. Thompson, Rhythms of the game: The link between musical and athletic performance (pp. 104-5). New Jersey: Hall Leonard.
Curtis, M. (2011). Jeer here! In B. Williams, D. Gluck, & B. Thompson, Rhythms of the game: The link between musical and athletic performance (pp. 191-2). New Jersey: Hall Leonard.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. J. (2010). The minor third communicates sadness in speech, mirroring its use in music. Emotion, 10, 335-348.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. J. (2009). Memory and musical expectation for tones in cultural context. Music Perception, 26, 365-375.
Bharucha, J.J. & Curtis, M. (2008). Affective spectra, synchronization, and motion: Aspects of the emotional response to music. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 579. (Commentary on Juslin & Vastfjall, 2008)
Bharucha, J.J., Curtis, M., & Paroo, K. (2006). The varieties of musical experience. Cognition, 100, 131-173.
*Undergraduate student at Purchase College
** First authorship shared equally
Manuscripts in Preparation and Under Review
Curtis, M. E., Williams, D.*, Billen-Calhoun, A.*, & Ricci, S.* (Under review). Pitch perception training results in improved recognition of vocally-expressed emotions in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Justus, T., Yates, C., Atalay, N. B., & Curtis, M. E. (Under review). Remembering melodies from another culture: Turkish and American listeners demonstrate implicit knowledge of musical scales.
Curtis, M. E. (In preparation). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection.
Curtis, M. E. (In preparation). Musicians are perceived as more intelligent than nonmusicians.
Curtis, M. E., Hegde, S., & Bharucha, J. J. (In preparation). Musical behaviors are shaped by culture: Evidence from Indian and Western singers.
Curtis, M. E., Newcorn, A.*, Hillier, K.*, & Pacheco, C.* (In preparation). The development of musical preference: Does familiarity matter?
*Undergraduate student at Purchase College
Conference Presentations
Hillier, K.*, Pacheco, C.*, & Curtis, M. (2016, April). The development of musical preference. Paper presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Cobleskill, NY.
Kurzius, A.* & Curtis, M. (2016, April). The perception of pitch and emotion in individuals with ASD. Poster presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Cobleskill, NY.
Justus, T., Atalay, N. B., Mert, N., Yates, C. M., & Curtis, M. E. (2015, November). Systematic listening exposure influences implicit knowledge of a Turkish musical scale. Poster presented at Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.
DeMaio, D.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Perception and imitation of vocally expressed emotion in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Morrison, A.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Can music be used to reduce racial bias? Poster presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Williams, D.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Pitch perception and emotional perception in college-ages individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Justus, T., Yates, C., Atalay, N. B., & Curtis, M. E. (2014, November). Memory for tones drawn from the major scale and rast makam: A cross-cultural study of North American and Turkish listeners. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Ceesay, B.** & Curtis, M. E. (2014, November). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Antonio, TX.
Charles, S.** & Curtis, M. E. (2013, November). Your brain on music: Does musical training enhance attention? Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Nashville, TN.
Curtis, M. E. (2013, August). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada.
Warren, R.* & Curtis, M. E. (2013, August). The effects of intonation accuracy on perceived vocal performance quality. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada.
Guillen, F.** & Curtis, M. E. (2012, November). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Jose, CA.
Warren, R.* & Curtis, M. (2012, April). The effects of intonation accuracy on musical performance quality. Talk presented at the 6th Annual Mid-Hudson Psychology Research Conference, Loch Sheldrake, New York.
Brown, D.** & Curtis, M. (2011, November). Human responses to sexual and emotional music. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, St. Louis, Missouri.
Curtis, M. E., Hegde, S., & Bharucha, J. J. (2011, August). Musical improvisation in Indian and Western singers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, New York.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, September). The minor third conveys sadness in speech prosody and interacts with pitch height. Paper presented at the Music and Emotion conference, Durham, England.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, August). The minor third conveys sadness in speech prosody, but interacts with pitch height. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, June). Emotional prosody uses musical intervals to communicate emotion. Poster presented at the Neuroscience of Emotion conference, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, August). The minor third communicates sadness in speech and music. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, July). Emotional perception of melodic musical intervals. Poster presented at the conference Music, Language, and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, July). The minor third communicates sadness in prosody and music. Paper presented at the conference Music, Language, and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Bharucha, J. & Curtis, M. E. (2008, July). Communication and synchronization of brain states via music and language. Paper presented at the conference Music, Language and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, August). Musical communication as aligned of neural state vectors. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.
Curtis, M. E. (2007, August). Prosody is a possible mapping source for the musical association between the minor third and sadness: Evidence from bi-syllabic speech samples. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, June). The many facets of musical communication. Paper presented at conference on Music and Evolutionary Thought, Durham University, Durham, England.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, May). Musical communication as alignment of non-propositional brain states. Paper presented at the Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E., & Paroo, K. (2006, March). Modeling the acquisition and perception of harmony. Paper presented at the Music and Mind Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2005, May). Culture-specific tonal knowledge drives judgments about an unfamiliar tonality: A probe-tone study. Poster presented at The Neurosciences and Music II Conference, Leipzig, Germany.
Curtis, M. E., Paroo, K. I., Holcomb, P. J. & Bharucha, J. (2005, April). Music influences the processing of syntax. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2004, July). Expecting the unexpected: Cross-modal priming of low-probability stimuli. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Curtis, M. (2004, January). Cultural adaptation to music. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2003, June). Tonal violations interact with lexical processing: Evidence from cross-modal priming. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Curtis, M. & Morris, J. (2000, November). Investigations of pitch contour in subjects with differing emotional states. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
*Undergraduate student at Purchase College
**Student from the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program
Kurzius, A.* & Curtis, M. (2016, April). The perception of pitch and emotion in individuals with ASD. Poster presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Cobleskill, NY.
Justus, T., Atalay, N. B., Mert, N., Yates, C. M., & Curtis, M. E. (2015, November). Systematic listening exposure influences implicit knowledge of a Turkish musical scale. Poster presented at Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.
DeMaio, D.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Perception and imitation of vocally expressed emotion in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Morrison, A.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Can music be used to reduce racial bias? Poster presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Williams, D.* & Curtis, M. E. (2015, April). Pitch perception and emotional perception in college-ages individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paper presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Brockport, NY.
Justus, T., Yates, C., Atalay, N. B., & Curtis, M. E. (2014, November). Memory for tones drawn from the major scale and rast makam: A cross-cultural study of North American and Turkish listeners. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Ceesay, B.** & Curtis, M. E. (2014, November). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Antonio, TX.
Charles, S.** & Curtis, M. E. (2013, November). Your brain on music: Does musical training enhance attention? Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Nashville, TN.
Curtis, M. E. (2013, August). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada.
Warren, R.* & Curtis, M. E. (2013, August). The effects of intonation accuracy on perceived vocal performance quality. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Canada.
- SMPC Student Award
Guillen, F.** & Curtis, M. E. (2012, November). The evolution of music: Evidence for sexual selection. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Jose, CA.
- Outstanding Poster Award
Warren, R.* & Curtis, M. (2012, April). The effects of intonation accuracy on musical performance quality. Talk presented at the 6th Annual Mid-Hudson Psychology Research Conference, Loch Sheldrake, New York.
Brown, D.** & Curtis, M. (2011, November). Human responses to sexual and emotional music. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, St. Louis, Missouri.
Curtis, M. E., Hegde, S., & Bharucha, J. J. (2011, August). Musical improvisation in Indian and Western singers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, New York.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, September). The minor third conveys sadness in speech prosody and interacts with pitch height. Paper presented at the Music and Emotion conference, Durham, England.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, August). The minor third conveys sadness in speech prosody, but interacts with pitch height. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2009, June). Emotional prosody uses musical intervals to communicate emotion. Poster presented at the Neuroscience of Emotion conference, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, August). The minor third communicates sadness in speech and music. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, July). Emotional perception of melodic musical intervals. Poster presented at the conference Music, Language, and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2008, July). The minor third communicates sadness in prosody and music. Paper presented at the conference Music, Language, and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Bharucha, J. & Curtis, M. E. (2008, July). Communication and synchronization of brain states via music and language. Paper presented at the conference Music, Language and the Mind, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, August). Musical communication as aligned of neural state vectors. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.
Curtis, M. E. (2007, August). Prosody is a possible mapping source for the musical association between the minor third and sadness: Evidence from bi-syllabic speech samples. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, June). The many facets of musical communication. Paper presented at conference on Music and Evolutionary Thought, Durham University, Durham, England.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E. & Paroo, K. (2007, May). Musical communication as alignment of non-propositional brain states. Paper presented at the Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M. E., & Paroo, K. (2006, March). Modeling the acquisition and perception of harmony. Paper presented at the Music and Mind Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2005, May). Culture-specific tonal knowledge drives judgments about an unfamiliar tonality: A probe-tone study. Poster presented at The Neurosciences and Music II Conference, Leipzig, Germany.
Curtis, M. E., Paroo, K. I., Holcomb, P. J. & Bharucha, J. (2005, April). Music influences the processing of syntax. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2004, July). Expecting the unexpected: Cross-modal priming of low-probability stimuli. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Curtis, M. (2004, January). Cultural adaptation to music. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas.
Curtis, M. E. & Bharucha, J. (2003, June). Tonal violations interact with lexical processing: Evidence from cross-modal priming. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Curtis, M. & Morris, J. (2000, November). Investigations of pitch contour in subjects with differing emotional states. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
*Undergraduate student at Purchase College
**Student from the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program