Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

Pearce, M. T., Müllensiefen, D., & Wiggins, G. A. (submitted). Melodic Grouping in Music Information Retrieval: New Methods and Applications. In: R. Zbigniew & A. Wieczorkowska (Eds.). Advances in Music Information Retrieval. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin: Springer (under review).
Müllensiefen, D, and Wiggins, G. (submitted). Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour. (under review)
Müllensiefen, D., Pfleiderer, M., and Frieler, K. (2009). The perception of accents in pop music melodies. Journal of New Music Research, 38(1), 19-44.[paper]
Müllensiefen, D., and Pendzich, M. (2009). Court decisions on music plagiarism and the predictive value of similarity algorithms. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 4B, 257-295. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D (in press). Statistical techniques in music psychology: An update. In: R. Bader, C. Neuhaus, C. Morgenstern (Eds.), Festschrift für Albrecht Schneider. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. [pre-final manuscript]
Wiggins, G. A., Pearce M. T., and Müllensiefen, D. (2009). Computational Modelling of Music Cognition and Musical Creativity. In R. Dean (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music (pp. 383-420). Oxford: University Press.[pre-final manuscript]
Hennig, C., Müllensiefen, D., and Bargmann, J. (in press). With-in subject comparison of changes in a pretest-posttest design. Applied Psychological Measurement. [pre-final manuscript]
Halpern, A., and Müllensiefen, D. (2008). Effects of timbre and tempo change on memory for music.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 61(9), 1371-1384. [paper]
Weihs, C., Ligges, U., Mörchen, and Müllensiefen, D. (2008).Classification in Music Research. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 1(3), 255-291. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D, Wiggins, G., and Lewis, D.(2008). High-level feature descriptors and corpus-based musicology: Techniques for modelling music cognition. In A. Schneider (Ed.), Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 24 (pp. 133-155). Frankfurt: Peter Lang. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D., & Frieler, K. (2007). Modelling experts’ notions of melodic similarity. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 4A, 183-210. [paper]
Wiggins, G. A. (2007). Models of musical similarity. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 4A, 315-338.

Papers at international conferences and events

Müllensiefen, and Wiggins, G. (2009). FANTASTIC: A Feature Analysis Toolbox for corpus-based cognitive research on the perception of popular music. 21st Annual Meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), University of Kassel, Germany. [slides]
Ewert. S, Müller, M., Müllensiefen, D., Clausen, M., and Wiggins, G. (2009). Case Study “Beatles Songs” – What can be Learned from Unreliable Music Alignments? In Proceedings of the Dagtsuhl Seminar representation of Musical Knowledge. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D. (2009). Statistical techniques in music psychology: An update. Workshop given at the IPEM Think-tank, University of Ghent, Belgium. [slides]
Müllensiefen, D., and Wiggins, G. A. (2009). Sloboda`s & Parker`s recall paradigm for melodic memory: A new computational persepctive. Talk at the Symposium Music and Cognition: Around the Contribution of John Sloboda, IRCAM, 2009. [slides]
Pearce, M. T., Müllensiefen, D., & Wiggins, G. A. (2008). A comparison of statistical and rule-based models of melodic segmentation. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, (pp. 89-94). Philadelphia, USA: Drexel University. [paper] [slides]
Halpern, A.R., Müllensiefen, D, and Wiggins, G. (2008). Modelling Memory Responses in a Memory Recognition Task. Paper given at 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Hokaido University, Sapporo, 25-30th of August 2008 [slides]
Müllensiefen, D, and Wiggins, G. (2008). Representing Melodic Contour by Polynomials. Paper given at 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Hokaido University, Sapporo, 25-30th of August 2008 [slides]
Mauch, M., Müllensiefen, D, Dixon, S. and Wiggins, G. (2008). What`s a Word in Harmony? Paper given at 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Hokaido University, Sapporo, 25-30th of August 2008. [paper] [slides]
Pearce, M., Müllensiefen, D, and Wiggins, G. (2008). Perceptual Segmentation of Melodies: Ambiguity, Rules, and Statistical Learning. Paper given at 10th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Hokaido University, Sapporo, 25-30th of August 2008 [slides]
Pearce, M. T., Wiggins, G. A. and Müllensiefen D. (2008). Statistical Models of Music Cognition. Invited talk at the symposium Around Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff`s Generative Theory of Tonal Music. IRCAM, Paris. January 2008.
Müllensiefen D. (2008). Dealing with ambiguity in empirical models of music cognition. Talk at the Music and Brain Club, Wellcome Centre, University College, London. [slides]
Wiggins, G. A., Müllensiefen, D., and Pearce, M. T. (2008). Statistical Models of Music Cognition. Talk at the Symposium Around Lerdahl`s and Jackendoff`s Generative Theory of Music, IRCAM, 2008. [slides]
Allan, H., Müllensiefen, D., & Wiggins, G. A. (2007). Methodical Considerations in Studies of Musical Similarities. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, (pp. 473-478), Vienna. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D., Lewis, D., Rhodes, C. and Wiggins, G. A. (2007). Evaluating a Chord Labeling Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, (pp. 317-318), Vienna. [paper]
Müllensiefen D., Lewis, D., and Wiggins, G. A. (2007). Feature description and corpus-based musicology: Tools for modelling music cognition. Paper at the Conference of International Musicological Society (IMS), University of Zürich. [slides]
Müllensiefen D., Lewis, D., and Wiggins, G. A. (2007). Where`s the chorus? A computational approach for the automatic segmentation of pop songs. Paper at the Conference of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Mexico City. [slides]
Müllensiefen D., Pearce, M. T., Wiggins, G. A. and Frieler, K. (2007). Segmenting pop melodies: A model comparison approach. Presented at the Conference for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. August 2007.
Rhodes, C., Lewis, D., and Müllensiefen, D. (2007). Bayesian Model Selection for Harmonic Labelling. Presented at the First International Conference of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. Berlin, May, 18-20, 2007. [paper]
Müllensiefen, D. and Frieler, K. (2006). Evaluating different approaches to measuring the similarity of melodies. In: Batagelj, V., Bock, H.-H., Ferligoj, A., Ziberna, A. (Eds.). Data Science and Classification. Berlin: Springer, pp. 299-306.
Müllensiefen, Daniel and Hennig, C. (2006). Modeling memory for melodies. In: Myra Siliopoulou, Rudolf Kruse, Christian Borgelt, Andreas Nürnberger, Wolfgang Gaul (Eds.). From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., 2005. Berlin: Springer, pp. 732-739.
Müllensiefen, D. (2006). Exact measures of musical structure for predicting memory for melodies. In M. Baroni, A. R. Addessi, R. Caterina, & M. Costa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th international conference of music perception and cognition (icmpc9) (p.782-790). [paper]
Pfleiderer, M., & Müllensiefen, D. (2006). The perception of accents in pop music melodies. In M. Baroni, A. R. Addessi, R. Caterina, & M. Costa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th international conference of music perception and cognition (icmpc9) (p.1272-1280). [paper]
Müllensiefen, D., & Frieler, K. (2006). Exploring and modeling melodic similarity. In M. Baroni, A. R. Addessi, R. Caterina, & M. Costa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th international conference of music perception and cognition (ICMPC9) (p. 1107-1108). [slides]