Nori Jacoby
Nori Jacoby studies how different cultures use music and sound to make sense of the world around them. Through his research, Nori attempts to create new paradigms for scientific analysis that incorporate techniques from neuroscience, anthropology, and ethnomusicology, particularly in the study of rhythm perception. He earned a PhD in computational neuroscience from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did postdoctoral research in computational audition at MIT. Dr. Jacoby currently leads the Research Group in Computational Auditory Perception at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany.
Project Title
The Cultural Foundations of Auditory Processing
Ana Maria Ochoa
Professor of Music, Columbia University
Sarah Woolley
Professor of Psychology, Columbia University; Principal Investigator, Zuckerman Institute
Jacoby, N., & McDermott, J. H. (2017). Integer ratio priors on musical rhythm revealed cross-culturally by iterated reproduction. Current Biology, 27(3), 359-370.
Langlois, T., Jacoby, N., Suchow, J., & Griffiths, T. (2017). Uncovering visual priors in spatial memory using serial reproduction. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Mehta, A. H., Jacoby, N., Yasin, I., Oxenham, A. J., & Shamma, S. A. (2017). An auditory illusion reveals the role of streaming in the temporal misallocation of rerceptual objects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1714), 20160114.
Talk: 2021 SysMus Conference
February 2021
Announcement: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
November 2018