Associate Professor Neil McLachlan
B.Sc. (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor
Contact details:
| email: mcln AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 83446290 | website: https://sites.google.com/site/mclachlansound/home |
The design of our musical and acoustical experiences can only be improved by a multi-disciplinary understanding of the physics and cognition of music and sound. To this end I have extensive professional experience ranging from music, environmental and engineering design, and music and auditory neurocognition. Prominent examples of my acoustic design work include: The Federation Bell Project (1999-2002), Continuum Audio Labs (2004-2006), and Harmonix Instruments (2010-present). Since commencing in Psychological Sciences I have published a new neurocognitive account of hearing (The Object-Attribute Model) with A/Prof Sarah Wilson which has been supported by a series of experimental psychological studies. I have also published a series of computational models of pitch and recognition mechanisms. This work was supported by an ARC Discovery Project (DP0665494) and our ongoing research on measuring neurophysiological correlates of the mechanisms proposed in the Object-Attribute Model has been supported by ARC Discovery (DP120103039) and NHMRC project (APP1032042) funding commencing in 2012.
Research Interests:
- Music and auditory neuroscience
- Music and acoustic design
- Information processing systems
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
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Memberships
- Treasurer of the Australian Music Psychology Society
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Associations
Selected Publications: |
N. M. McLachlan, R. Adams and C. Burvill (2012). Tuning natural modes of vibration by prestress in the design of a harmonic gong, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 926-934.
N. M. McLachlan (2011). A neurocognitive model of recognition and pitch segregation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 2845-2854.
N. M. McLachlan, L. Greco, E. Toner and S. J. Wilson (2011). Using spatial manipulation to examine interactions between visual and auditory encoding of pitch and time. Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 233.
N. M. McLachlan and S. Wilson (2010). The central role of recognition in auditory perception: A neurobiological model. Psychological Review, 117, 175-196.
N. M. McLachlan (2009). A computational model of human pitch strength and height judgments. Hearing Research, 249, 23-35.
N. M. McLachlan, D. K. Kumar and J. Becker, (2006). Wavelet Classification of Indoor Environmental Sound Sources. International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, 4, 81-96.
N. M. McLachlan, B. Keramati Nigjeh and A. Hasell, (2003). The Design of Bells with Harmonic Overtones, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 505-511.
N. M. McLachlan, (2000). A Spatial Theory of Rhythmic Resolution, Leonardo Music Journal, 10, 61-67.