Nori Jacoby | Centre for Music and Science

Nori Jacoby is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and principal investigator of the Cornell Computational Cognition (CoCoCo) Lab. His research uses machine learning, large-scale online experiments, and global fieldwork to study how culture and experience shape perception, with a particular focus on music cognition.

Selected Publications

Silas, S., Robinson, M., Baker, D., Harrison, P. M. C., Jacoby, N., & Müllensiefen, D. The recall and recognition of sonic logos Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2026)
Lee, H., Çelen, E., Harrison, P. M. C., Anglada-Tort, M., van Rijn, P., Park, M., Schönwiesner, M., & Jacoby, N. GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (2025)
Tchernichovski, O., Globerson, E., Harrison, P. M. C., & Jacoby, N. How constraints on editing affects cultural evolution arXiv (2025)
Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J. A., Cameron, D. J., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., Undurraga, E. A., Huanca, T., Thalwitzer, T., Doumbia, N., Goldberg, D., Margulis, E. H., Wong, P. C. M., Jure, L., Rocamora, M., Fujii, S., Savage, P. E., Ajimi, J., Konno, R., … McDermott, J. H. Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries Nature Human Behaviour (2024)
Marjieh, R.^*, Harrison, P. M. C.^*, Lee, H., Deligiannaki, F., & Jacoby, N. (Equal contribution) Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales Nature Communications (2024)
Anglada-Tort, M., Harrison, P. M. C., Lee, H., & Jacoby, N. Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution Current Biology (2023)
Anglada-Tort, M., Harrison, P. M. C., & Jacoby, N. REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments Behavior Research Methods (2022)
van Rijn, P., Mertes, S., Schiller, D., Dura, P., Siuzdak, H., Harrison, P. M. C., André, E., & Jacoby, N. VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS Interspeech 2022 (2022)
Rijn, P. van ., Mertes, S., Schiller, D., Harrison, P. M. C., Larrouy-Maestri, P., André, E., & Jacoby, N. Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space Interspeech 2021 (2021)
Harrison, P. M. C.^*, Marjieh, R.^*, Adolfi, F., van Rijn, P., Anglada-Tort, M., Tchernichovski, O., Larrouy-Maestri, P., & Jacoby, N. (Equal contribution) Gibbs Sampling with People Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2020)