Timothy Justus
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science
With Pitzer Since: 2012
Field Group: Psychology, Cognitive Science
Campus Address: Fletcher 226
Phone: 607.9198
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: See Faculty Directory
Educational Background
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
The cognition of language, music, and the arts; philosophy of cognitive science
Recent Courses
Introduction to Cognitive Science (COGS011)
The Literate Mind (first-year seminar)
The Musical Mind (first-year seminar)
Brain and Behavior (PSYC101)
Music Cognition (PSYC126)
Language and Cognition (PSYC127)
Cognitive Film Studies (PSYC128)
Seminar in Psychology of Art (PSYC182)
Selected Publications
“Constructing film emotions: The theory of constructed emotion as a biocultural framework for cognitive film theory,” Projections, 16 (2022).
“Toward a naturalized aesthetics of film music: An interdisciplinary exploration of intramusical and extramusical meaning,” Projections, 13 (2019).
“Remembering melodies from another culture: Turkish and American listeners demonstrate implicit knowledge of musical scales,” Analytical Approaches to World Music, 7 (2019). With C. M. Yates, N. B. Atalay, N. Mert, and M. E. Curtis.
“Form and meaning in music: Revisiting the affective character of the major and minor modes,” Auditory Perception & Cognition, 1 (2018). With L. Gabriel and A. Pfaff.
“Effects of musical training and culture on meter perception,” Psychology of Music, 45 (2017). With C. M. Yates, N. B. Atalay, N. Mert, and S. E. Trehub.
Recent Conferences and Invited Talks
“The musical mind: From mental representation to embodied and extended cognition,” seminar presented at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2021.
