Elizabeth Margulis studies music using a combination of humanistic and scientific methods. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (Oxford University Press) received the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Her latest book The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) has been translated into Spanish, Hungarian, and Japanese. She is Director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University and President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.
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