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  1. Seidle, A., Feather, J.*, McPherson-McNato, M.J.*, (2025). Training on Ecologically Relevant Tasks Improves Alignment Between Artificial Neural Network and Human Similarity Judgments, 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. *co-senior authors
  2.  McPherson-McNato, M.J., T. Brady (2025). Memory performance in hearing and vision is differentially impacted by stimulus similarity and task structure. PsyArXiv.
  3. Pijanowski, B.C., F.R. Fuenzalida, J. Kang, C. Werner, A. Francis, M.J. McPherson, M. Heinz, S. Grimes, J. Post, O.E. Rhodes, C. E. Mediastika, T. G. Sors, T.H. Park (2025), A Sonic One Health Framework: Characterizing Health of the Environment, Animals, and Humans using a Soundscape Perspective. In Press.
  4. Jacoby, N. [and 33 others, including McPherson, M.J.], (2024), Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behavior. 1-32.
  5. McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H (2023). Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre. Cognition, 232:105327.  PDF
  6. McPherson, M. J., Grace, R. C., & McDermott, J. H. (2022). Harmonicity aids hearing in noise. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-27.  PDF
  7. McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H. (2020). Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(50), 32169-32180. PDF Video Abstract 
  8. McPherson, M. J., Dolan, S. E., Durango, A., Ossandon, T., Valdés, J., Undurraga, E. A., Godoy, R., & McDermott, J. H. (2020). Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals. Nature communications, 11(1), 1-14.  PDF Video Abstract
  9. McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H. (2018). Diversity in pitch perception revealed by task dependence. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), 52-66.  PDF Video Abstract
  10. McPherson, M. J., Barrett, F. S., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Jiradejvong, P., & Limb, C. J. (2016). Emotional intent modulates the neural substrates of creativity: an fMRI study of emotionally targeted improvisation in Jazz musicians. Scientific Reports, 6, 18460.  PDF
  11. McPherson, M.J., & Limb, C. J. (2013). Difficulties in the neuroscience of creativity: Jazz improvisation and the scientific method. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1303(1), 80-83.  PDF