David Sears, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Computational Perception
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
Science Park 3, 4th Floor
Room 402
Tel:
+43 732 2468 4720
Fax: +43 732 2468 4705
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David Sears, PhD Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Computational Perception Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Science Park 3, 4th Floor Room 402 Tel:
+43 732 2468 4720
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Articles
Chuen, Lorraine, David Sears, and Stephen McAdams. 2016. “Psychophysiological Responses to Auditory Change.” Psychophysiology 53 (6): 891–904. pdf
Sears, David, William E. Caplin, and Stephen McAdams. 2014. “Perceiving the Classical Cadence.” Music Perception 31 (5): 397–417. pdf
Sears, David. 2011. “What is a Cadence? Theoretical and Analytical Perspectives on Cadences in the Classical Repertoire.” Conference Report. Eighteenth Century Music 8 (2): 361–4. pdf
Sears, David. 2008. “Processing Surprise Tension in Tonal Melodies.” Inquiry Research Journal 9: 16–23.
Book Chapters
Sears, David. 2015. “The Perception of Cadential Closure.” In What is a Cadence? Theoretical and Analytical Perspectives on Cadences in the Classical Repertoire, edited by Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé, 251–83. Leuven:Leuven University Press. pdf
Trochidis, Kostas, David Sears, Diêu-Ly Trân, and Stephen McAdams. 2013. “Psychophysiological Measures of Emotional Response to Romantic Orchestral Music and their Musical and Acoustic Correlates.” In From Sounds to Music and Emotions, edited by Mitsuko Aramaki, Mathieu Barthet, Richard Kronland-Martinet, and Sølvi Ystad, 44–57. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pdf
Abstracts
Sears, David, Mattson Ogg, Mitchel Benovoy, Diêu-Ly Trân, and Stephen McAdams. 2011. “Predicting the Psychophysiological Responses of Listeners with Musical Features.” Psychophysiology. Special Issue: Society for Psychophysiological Research Abstracts for the Fifty-First Annual Meeting 48: S106. pdf
Sears, David, Mattson Ogg, Mitchel Benovoy, Gilbert Zilberstein, and Stephen McAdams. 2010. “Are Bodily Responses Pre-Musical? Psychophysiological Applications to Music Analysis.” In Proceedings of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition 11, 46. Peer-reviewed abstract, Seattle, University of Washington.
Conference Presentations (selected)
Sears, David and Claire Arthur. 2016. “Beneath (or Beyond) the Surface: Corpus Studies of Tonal Harmony.” Symposium presented at the 14ᵗʰ International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, California, July 5-9.
Sears, David and Stephen McAdams. 2016. “A Corpus Study of Tonal Harmony: Pattern Discovery Using Noncontiguous N -grams.” Paper presented at the 14ᵗʰ International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, California, July 5-9.
Sears, David, Marcus Pearce, William E. Caplin, and Stephen McAdams. 2015. “Statistical Learning and the Perception of Closure: How IDyOM Models Cadences.” Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Nashville, Tennessee, August 1-5.
Sears, David. 2014. “The Classical Cadence in Context: A Corpus Study of Haydn’s String Quartets.” Paper presented at the 8ᵗʰ European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC), Leuven, Belgium, September 17-21.
Sears, David, William E. Caplin, and Stephen McAdams. 2014. “Expecting the Classical Cadence: Priming Effects.” Paper presented at the 13ᵗʰ International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seoul, South Korea, August 4-8.
Fujinaga, Ichiro, David Sears, and Andrew Hankinson. 2014. “Big Data for the Music Perception and Cognition Community.” Paper presented at the 13ᵗʰ International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seoul, South Korea, August 4-8.
Chuen, Lorraine, David Sears, and Stephen McAdams. 2013. “Psychophysiological Responses to Auditory Change.” Poster presented at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM), Toronto, Ontario, November 14.
Sears, David. 2013. “Modeling Cadential Strength: Perception, Context, and Hierarchy.” Poster presented at the 36ᵗʰ annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT), Charlotte, North Carolina, October 31-November 3.
Sears, David, William E. Caplin, and Stephen McAdams. 2013. “Hierarchies of Cadential Closure: Effects of Training and Context.” Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Toronto, Ontario, August 8-11.
Weigl, David M., David Sears, Jason A. Hockman, Stephen McAdams, and Catherine Guastavino. 2013. “Investigating the Effects of Beat Salience on Beat Synchronization Judgements During Music Listening.” Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Toronto, Ontario, August 8-11.
Chuen, Lorraine, David Sears, and Stephen McAdams. 2013. “Psychophysiological Responses to Auditory Change.” Poster presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Toronto, Ontario, August 8-11.
Weigl, David M., David Sears, and Catherine Guastavino. 2013. “Examining the Reliability and Predictive Validity of Beat Salience Judgements.” Poster presented at the Cognitively Based Music Informatics Research Conference (CogMIR), Toronto, Ontario, August 7.
Sears, David. 2013. “Transcribing the Sound-box: Perceptual Principles and Compositional Choices.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music (popMac), Liverpool, United Kingdom, July 2-4.
Trochidis, Kostas, David Sears, Diêu-Ly Trân, and Stephen McAdams. 2012. “Psychophysiological Measures of Emotional Response to Romantic Orchestral Music and their Musical and Acoustic Correlates.” Paper presented at the 9ᵗʰ International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, London, United Kingdom, June 19-22.
Sears, David, Mattson Ogg, Mitchel Benovoy, Diêu-Ly Trân, and Stephen McAdams. 2011. “Predicting the Psychophysiological Responses of Listeners with Musical Features.” Poster presented at the 51ˢᵗ annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Boston, Massachusetts, September 14-18.
Sears, David, William E. Caplin, and Stephen McAdams. 2011. “The Perception of Cadential Closure in Mozart’s Keyboard Sonatas.” Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Rochester, New York, August 11-14.
Sears, David. 2010. “The Effect of Performance Features and Formal Repetition on Measures of Physiological Arousal.” Paper presented at the 3ʳᵈ meeting of the Northeastern Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG), Boston, Massachusetts, October 23.
Sears, David, Mattson Ogg, Mitchel Benovoy, Gilbert Zilberstein, and Stephen McAdams. 2010. “Are Bodily Responses Pre-musical? Psychophysiological Applications to Music Analysis.” Paper presented at the 11ᵗʰ International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seattle, Washington, August 23-27.
Sears, David, Mattson Ogg, Mitchel Benovoy, and Stephen McAdams. 2010. “The Effect of Performance Features on the Psychophysiological Responses of Listeners.” Poster presented at the BRAMS Annual Scientific Day, Montreal, QC, April 16.
Associate Lecturer
| 2014 | MUMT 250 Music Perception and Cognition | McGill University |
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| 2013 | MUTH 250 Tonal Theory and Analysis III | McGill University |
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Teaching Assistant
| 2011 | MUMT 250 Music Perception and Cognition | McGill University |
| 2010 | MUTH 250 Tonal Theory and Analysis II | McGill University |
| 2009 | MUTH 210 Tonal Theory and Analysis I | McGill University |
| 2009 | MUTH 111 Elementary Harmony | McGill University |
| 2008 | MUTH 110 Melody and Counterpoint | McGill University |