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McPherson-McNato, M.J.,, & Brady, T. (2025). Memory performance in hearing and vision is differentially impacted by stimulus similarity and task structure. PsyArXiv Under Review.  
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McPherson-McNato, M. J., Undurraga, E. A., Dolan, S. E., Durango, A., Medina, B. J., Godoy, R. A., & McDermott, J. H. (2026). Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration. Cognition, 267, 106333.

Pijanowski, B. C., F. R. Fuenzalida, J. Kang, C. Werner, A. Francis, McPherson, M. J., 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. BioScience. biaf109.

Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J., Cameron, D., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., ... McPherson, M. J., ...& McDermott, J. H. (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.

McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H (2023). Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre. Cognition, 232:105327.  
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McPherson, M. J., Grace, R. C., & McDermott, J. H. (2022). Harmonicity aids hearing in noise. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-27.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Jacoby, N., Undurraga, E. A., McPherson, M. J., Valdés, J., Ossandón, T., & McDermott, J. H. (2019). Universal and non-universal features of musical pitch perception revealed by singing. Current Biology, 29(19), 3229-3243.  
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McPherson, M. J., & McDermott, J. H. (2018). Diversity in pitch perception revealed by task dependence. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), 52-66.  
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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.  
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McPherson, M. J., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Rankin, S. K., & Limb, C. J. (2014). The role of emotion in musical improvisation: an analysis of structural features. PLOS One, 9(8), e105144.  
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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.  
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