Publications

Wasserman, Z. B. ‡ & Kragness, H. E. (in press). Beliefs about the origins of musical characteristics. Music Perception. Open Access Preprint

Rickett, B. W.‡, Leopold, H. B.‡, &Kragness, H. E. (in press). Who should play the instrument? Effects of pitch and loudness on children’s gender stereotyping of musical instruments. Infant and Child Development. Open Access Preprint

Cirelli, L. K. &Kragness, H. E. (2025). The development of dance in early childhood. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 34(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251323490 Open Access Article

Kragness, H. E., Mansoor, A.†, Qureshi, A.†, Peiris, R.†, & Cirelli, L. K. (2025). Five-year-old children identify emotions in music along valence and intensity dimensions. Infant and Child Development, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.1002.icd.70004 Open Access Preprint · OSF Project

Kragness, H. E., Mehl, K., & Belfi, A. M. (2024). Musical reward in young children. Music & Science, 7. Open Access Article · OSF Project

Cirelli, L. K., Talukder, L. S., & Kragness, H. E. (2024). Infant attention to rhythmic audiovisual synchrony is modulated by stimulus properties. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1393295. Open Access Article

Kragness, H. E., Eitel, M. J., Anantharajan, F., Gaudette-Leblanc, A., Berezowska, B., & Cirelli, L. K. (2023). An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000597 Open Access Postprint · OSF Project

Kragness, H. E., Hannon, E. E., & Cirelli, L. K. (2023). The musical mind: Perspectives from developmental science. In Margulis, E. H., Loui, P., & D. Loughridge (Eds.). The science-music borderlands: Reckoning with the past and imagining the future (pp. 183-201). The MIT Press. Chapter

Kragness, H. E., Anderson, L.†, Chow, E.†, Schmuckler, M., & Cirelli, L. K. (2023). Musical groove shapes children’s free dancing. Developmental Science, e13249. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13249 Open Access Postprint · OSF Project · Databrary Repository 1129 · Video Abstract

Kragness, H. E., Berezowska, B., & Cirelli, L. K. (2023). A concert for babies: Attentional, affective, and motor responses in an infant audience. Developmental Science, e13297. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13297 Open Access Postprint · OSF Project · Video Abstract

Kragness, H. E., Ullah, F.†, Chan, E.†, Moses, R. †, & Cirelli, L. K. (2022). Tiny dancers: Effects of musical familiarity and tempo on children’s free dancing. Developmental Psychology, 58(7), 1277-1285. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001363 Open Access Postprint · OSF Project · Databrary Repository 1141

Kragness, H. E., Johnson, E. K., & Cirelli, L. K. (2022). It’s the song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity. Developmental Science, e13149. http://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13149 OSF Project · Open Access Postprint

Hansen, N. C.*, Kragness, H. E.*, Vuust, P., Trainor, L. J., & Pearce, M. T. (2021). Information dynamics of auditory boundary perception. Psychological Science. OSF Project · Open Access Postprint

Swaminathan S., Kragness, H. E., & Schellenberg, E. G. (2021). The Musical Ear Test: Norms and correlates from a large sample of Canadian undergraduates. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01528-8

Kragness, H. E.* Swaminathan, S.*, Cirelli, L. K., & Schellenberg, E. G. (2021). Individual differences in musical ability are stable over time in childhood. Developmental Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13081

Kragness, H. E. & Cirelli, L. K. (2021). A syncing feeling: Reductions in physiological arousal in response to observed social synchrony. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaa116. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa116 OSF Project · Open Access PDF

Chang, A., Kragness, H. E., Tsou, W., Bosnyak, D., J., Thiede, A., & Trainor, L. J. (2021). Romantic interest is predicted by body sway and promoted by groovy music in speed dating. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaa093. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa093 Open Access Preprint · OSF Project

Kragness, H. E., Baksh, A. M.†, Eitel, M. J.† & Trainor, L. J. (2020). Evidence for early arousal-based differentiation of emotions in children’s musical production. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12982

ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Open Access Preprint

Kragness, H. E. & Trainor, L. J. (2019). Nonmusicians express emotions in musical productions using conventional cues. Music & Science, 2, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059204319834943 Open Access PDF · OSF Project

Chang, A. Kragness, H. E., Livingstone, S., Bosnyak, D., & Trainor, L. J. (2019). Body sway represents joint emotional expression in music ensemble performance. Scientific Reports, 9, 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36358-4 Open Access PDF

Kragness, H. E. & Trainor, L. J. (2018). Young children pause on phrase boundaries in self-paced music listening: The role of harmonic cues. Developmental Psychology, 54(5), 842-856. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000405 Open Access Postprint

Kragness, H. E. & Trainor, L. J. (2016). Listeners lengthen boundaries in self-paced music. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 42(10), 1676-1686. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000245 Open Access Postprint

Kragness, H. E. (2014). Conference report: 9th Annual NeuroMusic Conference: Modeling the Musical Mind. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 24(2), 191-192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000043 Open Access Postprint