Josh H. McDermott

Also affiliated with McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard University Press, Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Rochester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University

NeuroscienceComputer SciencePsychology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 21 papers. Top paper: “The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception”.

The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

The Journal of Neuroscience(1997)10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04302.1997

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1.3DataRank · unranked

7907 citations

Josh McDermott, Marvin M. Chun, Josh H. McDermott, Nancy Kanwisher

Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-16448-6

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105 citations

Sophia E. Dolan, Alex Durango, Tomás Ossandón, Joaquín Valdés, Eduardo A. Undurraga +4 more

Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2008956117

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44 citations

Josh H. McDermott, Malinda J. McPherson

Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.19.389999

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15 citations

Ray González, Josh H. McDermott, Mark R. Saddler

Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.01.10.902189

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8 citations

Sam Norman-Haignere, Josh H. McDermott, Nancy Kanwisher, Dana Boebinger

Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.05.07.082511

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2 citations

Josh H. McDermott, Malinda J. McPherson

Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-27366-6

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66 citations

Ray González, Josh H. McDermott, Mark R. Saddler

Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training

Journal of Neurophysiology(2021)10.1152/jn.00588.2020

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52 citations

Sam Norman-Haignere, Josh H. McDermott, Nancy Kanwisher, Dana Boebinger

Causal inference in environmental sound recognition

Cognition(2021)10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104627

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35 citations

Sam Norman-Haignere, Josh H. McDermott, James Traer

A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex

Current Biology(2022)10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.069

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139 citations

Jenelle Feather, Dana Boebinger, Peter Brunner, Anthony L. Ritaccio, Josh H. McDermott +3 more

Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments

Nature Human Behaviour(2022)10.1038/s41562-021-01244-z

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83 citations

Josh H. McDermott, Andrew Francl

Harmonicity aids hearing in noise

Attention Perception & Psychophysics(2022)10.3758/s13414-021-02376-0

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39 citations

River C. Grace, Josh H. McDermott, Malinda J. McPherson

Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre

Cognition(2022)10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105327

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21 citations

Josh H. McDermott, Malinda J. McPherson

Model metamers illuminate divergences between biological and artificial neural networks

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.05.19.492678

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6 citations

Guillaume Leclerc, Aleksander Mądry, Josh H. McDermott, Jenelle Feather

Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.09.06.506680

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6 citations

Jenelle Feather, Dana Boebinger, Josh H. McDermott, Greta Tuckute

Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions

PLoS Biology(2023)10.1371/journal.pbio.3002366

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54 citations

Jenelle Feather, Dana Boebinger, Josh H. McDermott, Greta Tuckute

Model metamers reveal divergent invariances between biological and artificial neural networks

Nature Neuroscience(2023)10.1038/s41593-023-01442-0

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45 citations

Guillaume Leclerc, Aleksander Mądry, Josh H. McDermott, Jenelle Feather

Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-54700-5

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21 citations

Josh H. McDermott, Mark R. Saddler

Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration

Cognition(2025)10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106333

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2 citations

Eduardo A. Undurraga, Sophia E. Dolan, Alexander Durango, Bryan Medina, Ricardo Godoy +2 more

Optimized feature gains explain and predict successes and failures of human selective listening

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.05.28.656682

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2 citations

Robert D. Hess, Josh H. McDermott, Ian M. Griffith

Task-optimized models of sensory uncertainty reproduce human confidence judgments

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.31.685933

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0 citations

Sagarika Alavilli, Josh H. McDermott, Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan