Dr. Large's research areas include auditory neuroscience, music psychology and dynamical systems theory. His interdisciplinary research combines behavioral experimentation, neurophysiology, and neuroimaging with nonlinear dynamical systems modeling, to gain a deeper understanding of the neural underpinnings of musical experience. 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 the perception of pitch, the perception of tonality, the perception of rhythm, auditory attention, communication of affect and emotion, and the neural basis of song.
Research
Large, E. W. & Jones, M. R. (1999) The dynamics of attending: How we track time-varying events. Psychological Review, 106, 119-159.
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., Almonte, F. & Velasco, M. (in press). A canonical model for gradient frequency neural networks. Physica D.
Large, E. W. (in press). Neurodynamics of music. In M. R. Jones, A. N. Popper & R. R. Fay (Eds.), Springer Handbook on Music Perception. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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 the Journal Music Perception, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. He is also the founder of Circular Logic, a software company based in Boca Raton, FL. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner, and in 2006 he was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Chair in the Science and Technology of Music at McGill University. Dr. Large was FAU Researcher of Year for 2007 – 08.
Short Biography
Edward W. Large, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Complex Systems & Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
Office phone: 561.297.0106
