Timothy Justus
- Professor of Cognitive Science
- Cognitive Science Field Group
- Munroe Center for Social Inquiry Director
- Phone
- (909) 607-9198
- Office Location
Fletcher 226
- Office Hours
- Contact Professor
On Sabbatical Spring 2026
With Pitzer Since: 2012
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
The cognition of language, music, and the arts; philosophy of cognitive science; cognitive humanities
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Seminar on Cognition and the Arts
Cognitive Neuroscience (Brain and Behavior)
Language and Cognition (Psycholinguistics)
The Musical Mind (Music Cognition)
The Literate Mind (Cognitive Literary Theory)
The Aesthetic Mind (first-year seminar)
Cultivating Attention (MCSI seminar)
Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities. Cambridge University Press (2025).
“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.
“The musical mind: From mental representation to embodied and extended cognition,” seminar presented at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2021.