frank russo
 

Frank A. Russo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Psychological Science Training, and

Director of SMART Laboratory

Department of Psychology

Ryerson University

350 Victoria Street

Toronto, Canada

M5B 2K3


Email: russo [at] ryerson.ca

Phone 1: 416-979-5000 x. 2647 (office)

Phone 2: 416-979-5000 x. 4989 (lab)

Fax: 416-979-5273

Office: 906 Jorgenson Hall


Recent Courses:

 
 

Selected Publications

 

Russo, F. A., & Pichora-Fuller, M. K. (2008). Tune-in or tune-out: Age-related differences in hearing speech in music. Ear and Hearing, 5, 746-760.

Thompson, W. F., Russo, F. A., & Quinto, L. (2008). Audio-visual integration of emotional cues in song. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1457-1470.

Russo, F. A., & Thompson, W. F. (2005). An interval-size illusion: The influence of timbre on the perceived size of melodic intervals. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 559-568.

Russo, F. A., & Thompson, W. F. (2005). The subjective size of melodic intervals over a two-octave range. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1068-1075.

Russo, F. A., Cuddy, L. L., Galembo, A., & Thompson, W. F. (2007). Sensitivity to tonality across the pitch range. Perception, 36, 781-790.

Thompson, W. F., & Russo, F. A., (2007). Facing the music. Psychological Science, 18, 756-757.

Russo, F. A., & Jones, J. A. (2007). Urgency is a non-monotonic function of pulse rate. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122, EL185-190.

Livingstone, S., Thompson, W.F., & Russo, F. A. (2009). Facial expressions and emotional singing: A study of perception and production with motion capture and electromyography. Music Perception, 26, 475-488.

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Applied and Translational Research Methods (8201) - Graduate
 
Psychology of Music (751) - Undergraduate
 

Music Cognition

 

Hearing Science

 

Auditory Ergonomics

 

Assistive/Rehabilitative Technology

 

Affiliated Societies:



  1. Bullet Association for Psychological Science

  2. Bullet Canadian Acoustical Association

  3. Bullet Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science

  4. Bullet International Community for Auditory Display

  5. Bullet Society for Music Perception and Cognition


Affiliated Research Groups:



  1. Bullet Academic Family

  2. Bullet Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (SSHRC MCRI)

  3. Bullet Alternative Sensory Information Display

  4. Bullet Brain, Perception, Action and Cognition Research Group

  5. Bullet Canadian Music Research Centre

  6. Bullet Centre for Interdisciplinary Human Factors Research

  7. Bullet Centre for Research on Biological Communication Systems

  8. Bullet Graphics, Animation and New Media (Network Centre of Excellence)

  9. Bullet Music, Sound and Performance Lab, Macquarie University

  10. Bullet Sick Kids Cochlear Implant Program

  11. Bullet Toronto Rehabilitation Institute




 
Research Areas:
 
Computational Methods (8527) - Graduate
 

Tierney, A. T., Russo, F. A., Patel, A. D. (2011).  The motor origins of human and avian song structure. Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 15510-15515.

McGarry, L. M., Russo, F. A., Schalles, M., & Pineda, J. A. (2012). Audio-visual facilitation of the mu wave. Experimental Brain Research, 218, 527-538

Russo, F. A., Ammirante, P. & Fels, D. I. (in press). Vibrotactile discrimination of musical timbre. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.