Timothy Justus, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
With Pitzer Since: 2012
Field Group: Psychology
Campus Address: Fletcher 226
Phone: 607.9198
Email: timothy_justus
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Dartmouth College
B.A., Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Cognitive science; cognitive neuroscience; psycholinguistics; music cognition; cognitive film studies
Recent Courses
Brain and Behavior (PSY101)
Psychology of Music (PSY126)
Psychology of Language (PSY127)
Selected Publications
"The role of Broca's area in regular past-tense morphology: An event-related potential study," Neuropsychologia, 49, (2011). With J. Larsen, J. Yang, P. de Mornay Davies, N. Dronkers, and D. Swick.
"Relative priming of temporal local-global levels in auditory hierarchical stimuli," Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, (2010). With A. List.
"An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming," Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, (2009). With J. Yang, J. Larsen, P. de Mornay Davies, and D. Swick.
"Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials," Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, (2008). With J. Larsen, P. de Mornay Davies, and D. Swick.
"Perception of tonal and temporal structures in chord sequences by patients with cerebellar damage," Music Perception, 25, (2008). With G. Lebrun-Guillaud and B. Tillmann.
"Cerebellar patients demonstrate preserved knowledge of association strengths in musical sequences," Brain and Cognition, 66, (2008). With B. Tillmann and E. Bigand.
"Auditory priming of frequency and temporal information: Effects of lateralised presentation," Laterality, 12, (2007). With A. List.
"A mismatch negativity study of local-global auditory processing," Brain Research, 1153, (2007). With A. List, L. Robertson, and S. Bentin.
"Reduced phonological similarity effects in patients with damage to the cerebellum," Brain and Language, 95, (2005). With S. Ravizza, J. Fiez, and R. Ivry.
"Auditory attention to frequency and time: An analogy to visual local-global stimuli," Cognition, 98, (2005). With A. List.
"Fundamental issues in the evolutionary psychology of music: Assessing innateness and domain specificity," Music Perception, 23, (2005). With J. Hutsler.
"The cerebellum and English grammatical morphology: Evidence from production, comprehension, and grammaticality judgments," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, (2004).
"Music perception and cognition," In S. Yantis (Volume Ed.) and H. Pashler (Series Ed.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Volume 1: Sensation and Perception (Third Edition). New York: Wiley (2002). With J. Bharucha.
"Modularity in musical processing: The automaticity of harmonic priming," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, (2001). With J. Bharucha.
"The cognitive neuropsychology of the cerebellum," International Review of Psychiatry, 13, (2001). With R. Ivry.
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