Dr. Large's research areas include nonlinear dynamical systems, auditory neuroscience, and music psychology. He uses theoretical modeling in conjunction with behavioral, neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques to understand how people respond to complex, temporally structured sequences such as music and speech. He and his colleagues have pioneered the idea that attention is a dynamic, and inherently rhythmic process. He has applied these ideas to explain the rhythmic structure of music, and its interaction with brain dynamics. His current research projects include auditory pattern recognition and learning, perception of tonality in music, auditory brainstem neurodynamics, cortical dynamics of attention, perception of rhythm in music and speech, rhythmic interactions in nonhuman primates, emotional communication in music and the neural basis of song.
Research
Chapin, H., Jantzen, K. J., Kelso, J. A. S., Steinberg, F. & Large, E. W. (2010). Chapin, H., Jantzen, K. J., Kelso, J. A. S., Steinberg, F. & Large, E. W. (2010). Dynamic Emotional and Neural Responses to Music Depend on Performance Expression and Listener Experience. PLoS ONE, 5 (12), e13812.
Large, E. W., Almonte, F. & Velasco, M. (2010). A canonical model for gradient frequency neural networks. Physica D, 239, 905-911.
Large, E. W. (2010). Dynamics of musical tonality. R. Huys and V. K. Jirsa (Eds.): Nonlinear
Dynamics in Human Behavior (pp. 193–211). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Rankin, S. K., Large, E. W. & Fink, P. (2009). Fractal tempo fluctuation and pulse prediction. Music Perception, 26 (5), 401-413.
Snyder, J. S., & Large, E. W. (2005). Gamma-band activity reflects the metric structure of rhythmic tone sequences. Cognitive Brain Research, 24 (1), 117-126.
Large, E. W. & Jones, M. R. (1999). The dynamics of attending: How we track time-varying events. Psychological Review, 106, 119-159.
Representative Publications
Dr. Large received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1994, and he did his postdoctoral work at University of Pennsylvania. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience and Music Perception, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. He has served on the boards of the Fulbright Association of South Florida the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner, and he was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Chair in the Science and Technology of Music at McGill University in 2006. Dr. Large was named FAU Researcher of the Year for 2007 – 08. He is also the founder of Circular Logic, LLC, a technology company based in Boca Raton, FL.
Short Biography
Edward W. Large, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Complex Systems & Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
Office phone: 561.297.0106
