Research

Perfect Pitch / Absolute Pitch / Pitch Circularity

Deutsch, D., Edelstein, M., Dooley, K., and Henthorn, T., and Lapidis, R. Absolute pitch is disrupted by a memory illusion, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021, 149 (4), 2829, [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., and Lapidis, R. Illusory transformation from speech to song (Chinese translation from Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011, 129, 2245-2252). Journal of Shenghai Conservatory of Music, 2016, 4, 133-145, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D, Jiang, C., Henthorn, T., and Zhou, S. The tritone paradox among Chinese children aged 12 and 13. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2014, August, [PDF Document]

Peng, G., Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., Su, D., and Wang, W. S-Y. Language experience influences nonlinguistic pitch perception. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2013, 41, 447-467,  [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., and Lapidis, R. Illusory transformation from speech to song. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011, 129, 2245-2252, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., Henthorn, T. and Head, B. Absolute pitch among students in an American music conservatory: Association with tone language fluency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009, 125, 2398-2403, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., Henthorn, T. and Head, B. Absolute pitch among students in an American music conservatory: Association with tone language fluency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009, April, 125, 2683, Portland. [Web Link] [Laylanguage version]

Diana Deutsch, Kevin Dooley, Trevor Henthorn and Brian Head. Perfect Pitch: Language Wins Out Over Genetics. Media Release, Acoustical Society of America, 2009, May, [Laylanguage version]

Deutsch, D., Le, J., Shen, J., and Henthorn, T. The pitch levels of female speech in two Chinese villages.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009, April, 125, EL208, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Le, J., Dooley, K., Henthorn, T., Shen, J. and Head, B. Absolute Pitch and Tone Language: Two New Studies. Proceedings of the 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Finland, 2009, 69-73, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., and Henthorn, T. Pitch circularity from tones comprising full harmonic series. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008, 124, 589-597, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Diana Deutsch, Rachael Lapidis, and Trevor Henthorn, Media Release. The Speech-to-Song Illusion.Acoustical Society of America, 2008, November, [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Lapidis, R., and Henthorn, T. The Speech-to-Song Illusion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008, November, 124, 2471, [Web Link] [Laylanguage version]

Henthorn, T. & Deutsch, D. Ethnicity versus Early Environment: Comment on ‘Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment’ by Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky, Nina Kohn, and Elizabeth West Marvin (2000). American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 2007, 143A, 102-103, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Hamaoui, K., and Henthorn, T. The Glissando Illusion and Handedness. Neuropsychologia, 2007, 45, 2981-2988, [PDF Document] [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., and Henthorn, T. A new pitch circularity illusion. Paper presented at the meeting of the. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, 2007, Aug 1

Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., and Henthorn, T. A new pitch circularity illusion. Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Long Beach, 2007, November, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., Marvin, E., & Xu H-S. Absolute pitch among American and Chinese conservatory students: Prevalence differences, and evidence for a speech-related critical period. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006, 119, 719-722, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D. & Henthorn, T. Two issues at the interface between speech and music. (invited presentation).Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006, 120, 3167, [Web Link]

Deutsch, D. Dooley, K. Dubnov S. Henthorn, T. & Wurden, A. Pitch circularity produced by varying the amplitudes of odd and even harmonics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005, 118, 1949,[Web Link]

Deutsch, D. Hamaoui, K. Henthorn, T. The Glissando Illusion: A spatial illusory contour in hearing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005, 117, 2476, [Web Link] [Laylanguage version]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn T. and Dolson, M. Speech patterns heard early in life influence later perception of the tritone paradox. Music Perception, 2004, 21, 357-372, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn T. and Dolson, M. Absolute pitch, speech, and tone language: Some experiments and a proposed framework. Music Perception, 2004, 21, 339-356, [PDF Document]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T., Marvin, E. and Xu H-S. Tone language and absolute pitch: Prevalence among American and Chinese conservatory students. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 2004, 116, 2580,[Web Link] [Laylanguage version]

Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, Elizabeth Marvin, and HongShuai Xu, Media Release. ‘Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music’. Acoustical Society of America, 2004, November, [Web Link][Laylanguage version]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T. & Dolson, M. Bilingual speakers perceive a musical illusion in accordance with their first language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2000, 108, 2591, [Web Link]

Deutsch, D., Henthorn, T. and Dolson, M. Absolute pitch is demonstrated in speakers of tone languages.Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 1999, 106, 2267, [Web Link] [Laylanguage version]

Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, and Mark Dolson, Media Release. ‘Tone Language Speakers Possess Absolute Pitch’. Acoustical Society of America, 1999, [Web Link]

Computing Collaborations

Cummins K, Brumback T, Chung T, Moore R, Henthorn T, Eberson S, Lopez A, Sarkissyan T, Nooner K, Brown S, Tapert S. Acceptability, Validity, and Engagement With a Mobile App for Frequent, Continuous Multiyear Assessment of Youth Health Behaviors (mNCANDA): Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2021;9(2):e24472. [Web Link] DOI: 10.2196/24472

Rohlfing, T., Cummins, K., Henthorn, T., Chu, W., and Nichols, N.,N-CANDA data integration: anatomy of an asynchronous infrastructure for multi-site, multi-instrument longitudinal data capture, Journal of the American Medical Infomatics Association, July, 2014, 758-762. [Web Link]

Smarr, L., A. D. Thomas, et al. (2006). “Editorial: special section: iGrid 2005: The global lambda integrated facility.” Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 22(8): 849-851.

Otto, Henthorn, Brock, Margolis & Dessen. CalREN-XD/HPR WORKSHOP 2008. “CineGrid Testbed for Advanced Networked Digital Audio Post Production” [Web Link]

Invited Presentations

Career Design, University of San Diego, April 2016

Digital Audio Composition, University of San Diego, April 2016

Workshops and Training

Musical Organics symposium, STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2016

Old Documentation

from the pre-2009 website