Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is a Professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab. Her most recent book is The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). Her research approaches music from the perspective of cognitive science. She is interested in the interface between musical structure and engagement, especially in listeners without formal training, and especially as it occurs dynamically across the course of the listening experience. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (Oxford University Press) received the 2014 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the 2015 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Her cross-cultural research on narrative perceptions of music is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. She is President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.http://www.elizabethmargulis.com