Josh H. McDermott

18.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Josh H. McDermott is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Signal Processing and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Josh H. McDermott has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Signal Processing and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Josh H. McDermott's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (48 papers), Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (38 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (31 papers). Josh H. McDermott is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (48 papers), Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (38 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (31 papers). Josh H. McDermott collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Chile. Josh H. McDermott's co-authors include Nancy Kanwisher, Marvin M. Chun, Sam Norman-Haignere, Andrew J. Oxenham, Eero P. Simoncelli, Michael A. Hauser, James Traer, Kevin J. P. Woods, Alexander J.E. Kell and Nori Jacoby and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Josh H. McDermott

91 papers receiving 10.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

1997 5.7k citations Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Optimized feature gains explain and predict successes and failures of human selective listening 2026 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·(unknown), (unknown), Josh H. McDermott	0
2	Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration 2025 ·Cognition ·Malinda J. McPherson, Eduardo A. Undurraga, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ricardo Godoy, Josh H. McDermott	1
3	Listening with generative models 2024 ·Cognition ·(unknown), Luke Hewitt, Josh H. McDermott	2
4	Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Josh H. McDermott	4
5	Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training 2021 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·Dana Boebinger, Sam Norman-Haignere, Josh H. McDermott, Nancy Kanwisher	28
6	Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Malinda J. McPherson, Josh H. McDermott	22
7	Ecological origins of perceptual grouping principles in the auditory system 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Josh H. McDermott	27
8	Illusory sound texture reveals multi-second statistical completion in auditory scene analysis 2019 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Josh H. McDermott	24
9	Self-Supervised Segmentation and Source Separation on Videos 2019 ·Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ·Andrew Rouditchenko, Hang Zhao, Chuang Gan, Josh H. McDermott, Antonio Torralba	2
10	Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems 2019 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Jenelle Feather, (unknown), (unknown), Josh H. McDermott	13
11	Universal and Non-universal Features of Musical Pitch Perception Revealed by Singing 2019 ·Current Biology ·Nori Jacoby, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Malinda J. McPherson, Joaquín Valdés, Tomás Ossandón, Josh H. McDermott	68
12	Deep neural network models of sensory systems: windows onto the role of task constraints 2019 ·Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·Alexander J.E. Kell, Josh H. McDermott	55
13	Neural responses to natural and model-matched stimuli reveal distinct computations in primary and nonprimary auditory cortex 2018 ·PLoS Biology ·Sam Norman-Haignere, Josh H. McDermott	59
14	Learning Midlevel Auditory Codes from Natural Sound Statistics 2017 ·Neural Computation ·(unknown), Josh H. McDermott	25
15	Sound segregation via embedded repetition is robust to inattention. 2015 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance ·(unknown), Nicolas Barascud, Makio Kashino, Josh H. McDermott, Maria Chait	17
16	Summary statistics in auditory perception 2013 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), Eero P. Simoncelli, Josh H. McDermott	1
17	Cortical Pitch Regions in Humans Respond Primarily to Resolved Harmonics and Are Located in Specific Tonotopic Regions of Anterior Auditory Cortex 2013 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Sam Norman-Haignere, Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott	110
18	Sound Texture Perception via Statistics of the Auditory Periphery: Evidence from Sound Synthesis 2011 ·Neuron ·Josh H. McDermott, Eero P. Simoncelli	235
19	Individual Differences Reveal the Basis of Consonance 2010 ·Current Biology ·Josh H. McDermott, (unknown), Andrew J. Oxenham	174
20	The cocktail party problem 2009 ·Current Biology ·Josh H. McDermott	222

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