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- Van Hedger, S., Halpern, A. R., Vollweiler, D. J., Smith, E. E., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (in press). Is Hey Jude in the Right Key? Cognitive Components of Absolute Pitch Memory. Memory & Cognition.
- Honda, C., Pruitt, T. A., Greenspon, E. B., Liu, F., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
- Honda, C., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). An acoustic analysis and comparison between remotely collected and in-person laboratory collected data in vocal imitation of pitch. Auditory Perception & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2023.2210050. [online ahead of print]
- Greenspon, E. G., Gentile, A. M., Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. R., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). Subvocalization during preparatory and non-preparatory auditory imagery. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 6, 108-127.
- Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). Singing accuracy across the lifespan. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). A reversal of the song advantage in vocal pitch imitation. JASA Express Letters, 2, 034401.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., & Pruitt, T. A. (2022). Effects of intention in the imitation of sung and spoken pitch. Psychological Research.
- Berglin, J., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Demorest, S. M. (2022). The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation. Psychology of Music.
- Halpern, A. R., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). What do less accurate singers remember? Pitch matching ability and long-term memory for music. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
- Larrouy-Maestri, P., Poeppel, D., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). Pitch units in music and speech prosody. In R. Wiese & M. Scharinger (Eds). How language speaks to music: prosody from a cross-domain perspective. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Wang, L., Pfordresher, P. Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2021). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation. Autism Research, 14, 2355-2372.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., & Demorest, S. M. (2021). The prevalence and correlates of accurate singing. Journal of Research in Music Education, 69, 5-23. [Click here for the supplementary figures]
- Pfordresher, P. Q., & Demorest, S. M. (2020). Construction and validation of the Seattle Singing Accuracy Protocol (SSAP): An automated online measure of singing accuracy. In F. Russo, B. Ilari, & A. Cohen (Eds). Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing: Vol. 1 Development (pp. 322-333). London: Routledge.
- Greenspon, E. B., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Halpern. A. R. (2020). The role of long-term memory in mental transformations of pitch. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 3, 76-93.
- Greenspon, E. B., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2019). Pitch specific contributions of auditory imagery and auditory memory in vocal pitch imitation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81, 2473-2481.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., & Nolan, N. P. (2019). Testing convergence between singing and music perception accuracy. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 2, 67-81.
- Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. R., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2019). Covert singing in anticipatory auditory imagery. Psychophysiology, 56, e13297.
- Demorest, S. D., Nichols, B. E., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2018). The effect of focused instruction on young children’s singing accuracy. Psychology of Music, 46, 488-499.
- Greenspon, E. B., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Halpern, A. R. (2017). Pitch imitation ability in mental transformations of melodies. Music Perception, 35, 585-604.
- Pfordresher, P. Q. & Brown, S. (2017). Vocal mistuning reveals the origin of musical scales. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 35-52.
- Demorest, S. M., Kelley, J., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2016). Singing ability, musical self-concept and future music participation. Journal of Research in Music Education, 64, 405-420.
- Belyk, M., Pfordresher, P. Q., Liotti, M., & Brown, S. (2016). The neural basis of vocal pitch imitation in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 621-635.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2015). On drawing a line through the spectrogram: How do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 271.
- Demorest, S. M., Pfordresher, P. Q., Dalla Bella, S., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Methodological perspectives on singing accuracy: In introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (Part 2).Music Perception, 32, 266-271.
- Demorest, S. M., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2015). Singing accuracy development from K-adult: A comparative study. Music Perception, 32, 293-302.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., Demorest, S. M., Dalla Bella, S., Hutchins, S., Loui, P., Rutkowski, J., & Welch, G. F. (2015). Theoretical perspectives on singing accuracy: An introduction to the special issue on singing accuracy (Part 1).Music Perception, 32, 227-231.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., Halpern, A. R., & Greenspon, E. B. (2015). A Mechanism for Sensorimotor Translation in Singing: The Multi-Modal Imagery Association (MMIA) Model. Music Perception, 32, 242-253.
- Mercado, E., III, Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2014). Imitating sounds: A cognitive approach to understanding vocal imitation. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 9, 1-57.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., & Mantell, J. T. (2014). Singing with yourself: Evidence for an inverse modeling account of poor-pitch singing. Cognitive Psychology, 70, 31-57.
- Liu, F. Jiang, C., Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T. Xu, X., Yang, Y. & Stewart, L. (2013). Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: Implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75, 1783-1798.
- Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2013). Vocal imitation of song and speech. Cognition, 127, 177-202.
- Pfordresher, P. Q. & Halpern, A. R. (2013). Auditory imagery and the poor pitch singer. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 747-753.
- Wisniewski, M. G., Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2013). Transfer effects in the vocal imitation of speech and song. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 23, 82-99.
- Pfordresher, P. Q. (2011). Poor pitch singing as an inverse model deficit: Imitation and estimation. In A. Williamon, D. Edwards & L. Bartel (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science (pp. 539-544). Association Européenne des Conservatoires : Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- Mantell, J. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2010). Modular processing? Phonetic information facilitates speech and song imitation. In S. M. Demorest, S. J. Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (pp. 338-339). University of Washington: Seattle, Washington.
- Pfordresher, P. Q., Brown, S., Meier, K., Belyk, M., & Liotti, M. (2010). Imprecise singing is widespread. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 2182-2190.
- Pfordresher, P.Q., & Brown, S. (2009). Linguistic background influences the production and perception of musical intervals. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1385-1398.
- Pfordresher, P.Q., & Mantell, J.T. (2009). Singing as a Form of Vocal Imitation: Mechanisms and Deficits. In J. Louhivuori, T. Eerola, S. Saarikallio, T. Himberg, & P.-S. Eerola (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (pp. 425-430). Jyväskylä, Finland .
- Pfordresher, P.Q. & Brown, S. (2007). Poor-pitch singing in the absence of “tone deafness.” Music Perception, 25, 95-115.