Claire Arthur
Assistant Professor, School of Music
Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology
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Claire Arthur
Assistant Professor, School of Music
Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology
Office: Couch 203B
Website: Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab
Areas of Research or Creative Practice: Music Perception & Cognition, Computational Musicology, Music Information Retrieval
Claire Arthur is an Assistant Professor at the School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and holds an Adjunct Professor position in the School of Psychology. She is a teacher, musician, and foremost a scholar working in the fields of Music Perception and Cognition, Computational Musicology, and Music Information Retrieval. She received her PhD in Music Theory and Cognition from Ohio State working under David Huron. She completed her MA in Music Theory from the University of British Columbia, and her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Toronto. Claire is originally from Ontario, Canada.
Arthur’s research focuses on understanding how structural features of music such as melodic, harmonic, or formal organization influence cognitive processes such as memory, emotional responses, and aesthetic and neurological reward. Arthur leads the Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab (CCML), co-led with Dr. Nat Condit-Schultz. Work in the CCML focuses on building novel datasets and corpora, as well as the coordinated analysis of both musical and human-generated data to gain insights to questions such as: Why are our favorite parts of our favorite songs so special?, What would make an AI-generated melody indistinguishable from a human-generated one?, What makes good, immersive music for video games? These types of questions are approached using human-subjects experiments as well as computational modeling of musical data. To help with this goal, we developed the humdrumR software package which was inspired by David Huron’s humdrum toolkit, and carries much of the same functionality but ported into a modern software environment (R).
Arthur’s research has been published in over a dozen different journal publications and conference proceedings, including Music Perception, Music & Science, Journal of New Music Research, and the proceedings for the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR).
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