• PhD, Ohio State University

I am interested in the way in which the mind organizes sequences of events in real time during production and perception. I am particularly interested in sensorimotor interactions that occur during the production of complex sequences such as music and speech. Specific research programs include the way in which people use the sounds they create (auditory feedback) to maintain fluency in production, individual differences in the vocal imitation of pitch, the role of memory retrieval in production, and the way in which sequence structure guides the perception of sequences.

Books

• Pfordresher, P. Q. (2019). Sound and action in music performance. San Diego, CA: Elsevier and Academic Press.
• Tan, S. L., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Harré, R. (2018). Psychology of music: From sound to significance (2nd Edition). London: Routledge.

Journal Articles

• Coleman, N. C., Palmer, C., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2024). Spontaneous production rates in song and speech. Music & Science, 7, 20592043241279056.
• Van Hedger, S., Halpern, A. R., Vollweiler, D. J., Smith, E. E., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2024). Is Hey Jude in the right key? Cognitive components of absolute pitch memory. Memory & Cognition, 52, 1142-1151.
  
• Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J. M., Benetos, E., Proutskouva, P., Chiba, G., Liu, F., Jacoby, N., Purdy, S. C., Opondo, P., Fitch, W. T., .,... & Savage, P. E. [75 authors] (2024). Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech: A registered report. Science Advances, 10, eadm9797.
  
• Greenspon, E. G., Gentile, A. M., Pruitt, T. A., Halpern, A. R., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). Subvocalization during preparatory and non-preparatory auditory imagery. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 6, 108-127.
  
• Honda, C., Pruitt, T. A., Greenspon, E. B., Liu, F., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2023). The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 1296-1309. 
• Berglin, J., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Demorest, S. M. (2022). The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation. Psychology of Music, 50, 1077-1090. 
• Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). Singing accuracy across the lifespan. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1515, 120-128. 
• Pfordresher, P. Q. (2022). A reversal of the song advantage in vocal pitch imitation. JASA Express Letters, 2, 034401. 
• Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., & Pruitt, T. A. (2022). Effects of intention in the imitation of sung and spoken pitch. Psychological Research, 86, 792-807.
• Wang, L., Pfordresher, P. Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2021). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation. Autism Research, 14, 2355-2372.
• Pfordresher, P. Q., & Demorest, S. M. (2021). The prevalence and correlates of accurate singing. Journal of Research in Music Education, 69, 5-23.
• Pfordresher, P. Q., & Nolan, N. P. (2019). Testing convergence between singing and music perception accuracy. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 2, 67-81
• Greenspon, E. B., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2019). Pitch specific contributions of auditory imagery and auditory memory in vocal pitch imitation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81, 2473-2481
• Pfordresher, P. Q., & Chow, K. (2019). A cost of musical training? Sensorimotor flexibility in musical sequence learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 967-973.
• Demorest, S. D., Nichols, B. E., & Pfordresher, P. Q. (2018). The effect of focused instruction on young children's singing accuracy. Psychology of Music, 46, 488-499.