
Jamshed J. Bharucha
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Appointments
Distinguished Fellow
President Emeritus, Cooper Union
Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Sai University, India
Area of Expertise
Cognitive neuroscience,
Music perception,
Data science,
Cognitive foundations of higher education
Education
Ph.D Harvard University, 1983
M.A. Yale University, 1979
B.A. Vassar College, 1978
Associate's Diploma in Violin Performance, Trinity College of Music, London, 1973
Taught Courses
Publications
Jamshed Bharucha (2023). India's realignment in higher education. Daedalus, 153(2). MIT Press.
Jamshed Bharucha (2019). From passive to active learning. India Today (August).
Large, E., Kim, J.C., Flaig, N., Bharucha, J. & Krumhansl, C. (2016). A neurodynamic account of musical tonality. Music Perception, 33, 319-331.
Bharucha, J. (2013). Education in South Asia: Time bomb or silver bullet? In A. Najam & M. Yusuf (Eds.), South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures. NY: Anthem Press.
Curtis, M.E. & Bharucha, J. (2010). The minor third communicates sadness in speech, mirroring its use in music. Emotion, 10, 335-348.
Bharucha, J. (2009). Overlapping crises. Inside Higher Ed, December 10.
Bharucha, J. (2009). From frequency to pitch, and from pitch class to musical key: Shared principles of learning and perception. Connection Science, 21, 177-192.
Bharucha, J. (2008). Cognitive dilemmas in higher education. In M.E. Devlin (Ed), Futures Forum 2008. Cambridge, MA: Forum for the Future of Higher Education and NACUBO.
Bharucha, J., Curtis, M.E. & Paroo, K. (2006). Varieties of musical experience. Cognition, 100, 131-172.
Janata, P., Birk, J., Van Horn, J.D., Leman, M., Tillmann, B. & Bharucha, J. (2003). The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science, 298, 2167-2170.
Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J. & Bigand, E. (2000). Implicit learning of tonality: A self-organizing approach. Psychological Review, 107, 885–913.
Bharucha, J. (1996). Melodic anchoring. Music Perception, 13, 383-400.
Bharucha, J. & Mencl, W.E. (1996). Two issues in auditory cognition: Self-organization of categories and pitch-invariant pattern recognition. Psychological Science, 7, 142-149.
Bharucha, J., & Todd, P. (1991). Modeling the perception of tonal structure with neural nets. Computer Music Journal, 13, 44-53. [Reprinted in P. Todd & G. Loy (Eds.), Music and Connectionism (pp 128-137). Cambridge: MIT Press.]
Bharucha, J. (1987). Music cognition and perceptual facilitation: A connectionist framework. Music Perception, 5, 1-30.
Bharucha, J. & Stoeckig, K. (1987). Priming of chords: Spreading activation or overlapping frequency spectra? Perception & Psychophysics, 41, 519-524.
Bharucha, J. (1984). Anchoring effects in music: The resolution of dissonance. Cognitive Psychology, 16, 485-518.
Castellano, M.A., Bharucha, J. & Krumhansl, C.L. (1984). Tonal hierarchies in the music of North India. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 394-412.
Bharucha, J. & Krumhansl, C.L. (1983). The representation of harmonic structure in music: Hierarchies of stability as a function of context. Cognition, 13, 63-102.
Selected Works & Activities
Board of Trustees, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2012-2015
Trustee, Vassar College: 1991-1999, 2012-2020
International Activities
Inaugural Vice-Chancellor of SRM University AP: the first CEO and Chief Academic Officer of a new university in Amravati, Andhra Pradesh (2018-2020)
Founding Vice-Chancellor of Sai University, Chennai: designed and implemented the academic structure and curriculum of a new university (2020-2024)
Honorary Board of Advisors, IIMUN (India's International Movement to Unite Nations)
Board of Directors, Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation, 2013-2016
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