THE BALLAD OF THE TIN EARS – Dr. Pfordrehser, along with several other researchers, were interviewed by Tim Falconer on the CBC radio show “Ideas: with Paul Kennedy”.
DR. PETER PFORDRESHER AND SINGING ACCURACY – A look at how the Seattle Singing Accuracy Protocol could help music educators.
TONE DEAFNESS AND BAD SINGING MAY NOT GO HAND IN HAND – Are bad singers truly tone deaf? Scientific American summarizes recent work from our lab.
INVESTIGATING MUSIC AND THE MIND – Meet Dr. Pfordresher and learn about his interest in music psychology.
ZEIT ONLINE – Research on group singing was featured in the German magazine DIE ZEIT. You can read the English translation here.
THE TUNE WRECKERS – Science News features our work on poor pitch singing.
May 2025
- Congrats to Dr. Chihiro Honda on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, “The Effects of Perceptual Discrimination and Categorization of Pitch on Vocal Imitation.”
April 2025
- Congrats to graduate student, Sarah MacDougall, for receiving the SUNY GREAT Award and Innovative Student Leadership Award!
- Congrats to graduate student, Nicole Coleman, for receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants!
- Congrats to graduate student, Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney, for receiving an Honorable Mention in the NSF GRFP Competition!
February 2025
- Congrats to undergraduate student, Rowan Radel, for accepting an offer of Admission to a Ph.D. program in Linguistics at the University of Florida beginning this Fall!
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting a talk at the Eastman Music Cognition Symposium!
November 2024
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting a poster at the Psychonomic Society in New York, NY!
July 2024
- Congrats to graduate students, Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney and Chihiro Honda, for presenting posters at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition in Banff, AB!
- Congrats to graduate students, Logan Barrett, Nicole Coleman, and Nathan Zak, for presenting talks at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition in Banff, AB!
- Congrats to honors student, Mythili Thamilchelvam, for presenting a talk at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition in Banff, AB!
May 2024
- Elizabeth Goldstein received high honors from the Department of Psychology for her thesis entitled “Does the emotional content of a stimulus affect accuracy in pitch imitation?”
- Congrats to undergraduate honor student, Elizabeth Goldstein, for presenting a poster at the UB Academic Excellence!
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for receiving the Rosatti Award from the UB Psychology Department!
April 2024
- Congrats to undergraduate honor student, Elizabeth Goldstein, for presenting a poster at the Western Psychological Association!
- Elizabeth Goldstein performed the flute at the UB Flute Recital.
June 2023:
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for having her paper entitled The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
May 2023:
- Congrats to undergraduate research assistant, Mythili Thamilchelvam, for successfully defending her Honor’s Thesis and earning Highest Honors (the highest level of Honor awarded to a student who successfully writes and defends a Honor’s thesis)! Mythili was also the runner-up for the Feldman-Cohen Award!
April 2023:
- Congrats to graduate student, David Vollweiler, for successfully defending his Master’s Thesis entitled “Just can’t get you out of my head: Associations between involuntary musical imagery and singing accuracy”!
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for having her paper entitled An acoustic analysis and comparison between remotely collected and in-person laboratory collected data in vocal imitation of pitch for publication in the journal Auditory Perception & Cognition!
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for receiving a travel award to present a talk entitled The effects of pitch memory and imagery ability on vocal pitch imitation and a poster entitled The effect of music familiarity and expertise on neural connectivity: Retrospective analyses of a cross-cultural music comprehension study at ICMPC17-APSCOM7 this August!
March 2023:
- Congrats to graduate student, David Vollweiler, for accepting an offer of Admission to a Ph.D. program in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas beginning this Fall!
November 2022:
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for being selected as a Trainee Representative for the Society of Music Perception and Cognition beginning January 2023!
August 2022:
- Congrats to graduate students: Nicole Coleman, Chihiro Honda, and David Vollweiler for presenting their talks at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition in Portland, OR!
- Congrats to graduate student, Yan Chen, for presenting her poster at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition in Portland, OR!
April 2022
- Congrats to graduate student, Nicole Coleman, for presenting a talk at the ESM/UR/Cornell/Buffalo Music Cognition Symposium!
November 2021
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting a talk at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting!
July 2021
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting a talk at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition!
May 2021:
- Congrats to undergraduate research assistant, David Vollweiler, for successfully defending his Honor’s Thesis and earning High Honors!
April 2021
- Congrats to undergraduate student, David Vollweiler, for presenting a poster at the University at Buffalo Celebration of Student Academic Excellence
- Congrats to undergraduate student, David Vollweiler, for presenting a talk at the Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference and at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference!
March 2021
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting a talk at the ESM/UR/Cornell/Buffalo Music Cognition Symposium!
November 2019
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting her poster at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting in Montreal!
August 2019
- Congrats to graduate student, Chihiro Honda, for presenting her poster at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition!