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Stephen McAdams

Stephen McAdams

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
60
Citations
11437
World Ranking
3582
National Ranking
229

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
58
Citations
11754
World Ranking
2513
National Ranking
104

Stephen McAdams publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 270 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Stephen McAdams D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Stephen McAdams is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research intersecting computer science and neuroscience, with a focus on music perception and audio processing. Their work spans the fields of Cognitive Neuroscience and Signal Processing, exploring the relationships between auditory perception, music technology, and sound studies.

The primary topics addressed in their research include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
  • Diverse Music Education Insights

The recent published papers by McAdams cover various aspects of auditory perception and musical timbre, demonstrating a focus on how listeners perceive and organize sound. Key papers include:

  • "Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre" (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Instrument Timbre Enhances Perceptual Segregation in Orchestral Music" (2021) published in Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Influence of Timbre on Affect Perception in Western Classical Music and Chinese Music Traditions" (2021) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception" (2022) published in Music Theory Online
  • "Sound mass, auditory perception, and 'post-tone' music" (2020) published in Journal of New Music Research

Frequent collaborators include Philippe Depalle, Marcel Montrey, Iza Ray Korsmit, Etienne Thoret, and Savvas Kazazis, illustrating ongoing partnerships within the field and interdisciplinary research approaches.

McAdams' work is frequently published in established venues such as:

  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Music & Science
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Their contributions integrate computational methods with perceptual and cognitive neuroscience perspectives, supporting a deeper understanding of how humans process complex auditory stimuli, particularly in musical contexts. The research also reaches into areas impacting hearing rehabilitation and noise management, underscoring a broad applicative significance.

Best Publications

  • Perceptual scaling of synthesized musical timbres: Common dimensions, specificities, and latent subject classes

    S. Mcadams;S. Winsberg;S. Donnadieu;G. De Soete

  • The Timbre Toolbox: extracting audio descriptors from musical signals.

    Geoffroy Peeters;Bruno L. Giordano;Patrick Susini;Nicolas Misdariis

  • News, Politics, and Negativity

    Stuart Soroka;Stephen McAdams

  • Thinking in sound : the cognitive psychology of human audition

    Stephen McAdams;Emmanuel Bigand

  • Hearing musical streams

    Stephen Mcadams;Albert S. Bregman

  • Acoustic correlates of timbre space dimensions: a confirmatory study using synthetic tones.

    Anne Caclin;Stephen McAdams;Bennett K. Smith;Suzanne Winsberg

  • Recognition of sound sources and events

    Stephen Mcadams

  • Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome.

    Anna Bonnel;Stephen McAdams;Bennett Smith;Claude Berthiaume

  • Caractérisation du timbre des sons complexes.II. Analyses acoustiques et quantification psychophysique

    J. Krimphoff;J. Krimphoff;S. McADAMS;S. McADAMS;S. Winsberg

  • Probabilistic models of expectation violation predict psychophysiological emotional responses to live concert music

    Hauke Egermann;Hauke Egermann;Marcus T. Pearce;Geraint A. Wiggins;Stephen McAdams

  • The dependency of timbre on fundamental frequency

    Jeremy Marozeau;Alain de Cheveigné;Stephen McAdams;Suzanne Winsberg

  • Material identification of real impact sounds : Effects of size variation in steel, glass, wood, and plexiglass plates

    Bruno L. Giordano;Stephen McAdams

  • The representation of auditory source characteristics: Simple geometric form

    Stephen Lakatos;Stephen McAdams;René Caussé

  • Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies

    Hauke Egermann;Hauke Egermann;Nathalie Fernando;Lorraine Chuen;Stephen McAdams

  • Feature dependence in the automatic identification of musical woodwind instruments.

    Judith C. Brown;Olivier Houix;Stephen McAdams

  • Dichotic perception and laterality in neonates

    Josiane Bertoncini;José Morais;Ranka Bijeljac-Babic;Stephen McAdams

  • Perspectives on the Contribution of Timbre to Musical Structure

    Stephen Mcadams

  • Spectral fusion, spectral parsing and the formation of auditory images

    Stephen McAdams

  • Hearing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex tone

    William Morris Hartmann;Stephen McAdams;Bennett K. Smith

  • Instrument Sound Description in the Context of MPEG-7

    Geoffroy Peeters;Stephen McAdams;Perfecto Herrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Bigand
Emmanuel Bigand University of Burgundy
Pascal Belin
Pascal Belin Aix-Marseille University
Alain de Cheveigné
Alain de Cheveigné École Normale Supérieure
Marcus T. Pearce
Marcus T. Pearce Queen Mary University of London
Marie-Hélène Giard
Marie-Hélène Giard Grenoble Alpes University
Marcelo M. Wanderley
Marcelo M. Wanderley McGill University
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Columbia University
Robert J. Zatorre
Robert J. Zatorre McGill University
William M. Hartmann
William M. Hartmann Michigan State University
Séverine Samson
Séverine Samson University of Lille

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