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DR NEIL MCLACHLAN

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Academic, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Neurocognitive modeling (auditory neuroscience)
Physical modeling and design optimisation (FEA, vibration and dynamics)
Machine sensing (neuro-computing)

Overview

Has subject area

For 2008 6 Digit Code
Seo 2008 6 Digit Code

Affiliation

Member of

Accoustical Society of America. Member 1999 -

Publications

Selected publications

2012
- Research Book Chapters
  - Educating amateurs: New technologies and models to enhance music participation in Western societies. Lifelong Angagement with Music. Nova Science Publishers. 73-94. 2012
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Intersecting factors lead to absolute pitch acquisition that is maintained in a “fixed do” environment. Music Perception. 29:285-296. 2012
  - Intersecting factors lead to absolute pitch that is maintained in a "fixed do"environment. Music Perception. 29:285-296. 2012
  - Pitch enumeration: failure to subitize in audition.. PLoS One. 7. 2012
  - Tuning natural modes of vibration by prestress in the design of a harmonic gong. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 131:926-934. 2012
2010
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - The Central Role of Recognition in Auditory Perception: A Neurobiological Model.. Psychological Review. 117:175-196. 2010
2009
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A computational model of human pitch strength and height judgments. Hearing Research. 249:23-35. 2009
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Interactions between visual and auditory encoding of pitch and time. 58-61. 2009
  - Pitch streaming: A behavioural investigation of pitch-matching accuracy. 50-53. 2009
  - Pitch streaming: a computational network model. 62-66. 2009
2008
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - A neurobiologically plausible schema for auditory information processing including the auditory cortex.. 776-780. 2008
  - Simultaneous Pitch Perception in Absolute and Non-Absolute Pitch Possessors. 89-93. 2008
2007
- Conference Proceedings
  - NEURAL TECHNIQUES FOR SOURCE IDENTIFICATION. 705-712. 2007
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Digital tools in the analysis of timbrally based music. 95-98. 2007
  - The application of a neurophysiological model of pitch to ambiguous stimuli. 99-102. 2007
  - The perception of simultaneous pitches in ambiguous sounds. 91-94. 2007
2006
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Fluid-structure interaction modelling of propellant combustion. The ANZIAM Journal . 47:277-292. 2006
  - Wavelet classification of indoor environmental sound sources. International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing. 4:81-96. 2006

Research

Investigator on

Contract
- IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF SHEET-METAL COMPONENTS BY PRE-STRESS awarded by ADVEA ENGINEERING PTY LTD 2010 - 2012
- HARMONIX INSTRUMENTS PTY LTD awarded by AZIMA IDEA MANAGEMENT PTY LTD 2010 -
- HARMONIX INSTRUMENTS PTY LTD awarded by GREY INNOVATION PTY LTD 2010 -
- APPLICATION OF COMPUTER-BASED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS TOOLS TO ENHANCE ACOUSTIC LOUDSPEAKER PERFORMANCE awarded by CONTINUUM AUDIO LABORATORIES P/L 2008 - 2011
- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH RECOILLESS TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CORP. LIMITED RTI awarded by RTI CORP LTD
Grant
- "A Study of Acoustical, Psycho-acoustical and Musicological Factors in Tuned Percussion Ensemble Design" (Discovery Projects) awarded by AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL 2006 - 2011
- BRAIN PLASTICITY AND TRAINING IN PITCH PERCEPTION FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANT RECIPIENTS: PILOT OF A NEW INTERVENTION AND NEUROPHSIOLOGICAL MEASURE (Research Collaboration Grants) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Awards

Education and training

PhD, Deakin University - Rusden 1989
B.Sc (hons), Deakin University - Rusden 1982

Supervision

Available for supervision

Y

Contact Details
- mcln@unimelb.edu.au
- 03-8344-6357
- fax: 03-9347-6618
- Location
  - Level: 06 Room: 10, Redmond Barry Building, Parkville
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