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Adam Ockelford is a Professor of Music and also lending his services at the University of Roehampton, London as a Director of the Applied Music Research Center. He wrote Derek Paravicini official biography and it was published in the UK in the name of “In the Key of Genius”.

Education
Adam Ockelford did Music Foundational course LRAM (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music) at the Royal Academy of Music. He studied Diploma in Special Education (Visual Impairment) at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, and earned his Ph.D. in Music from the Goldsmith’s College in London.

Research and career
Adam Ockelford did research on the Zygonic Model of Expectation in Music and found that the people exhibited different patterns of expectation and the location of Music-Structural processing in the brain may differ in Men and Women. He also conducted research on Sounds of Intent in the Early Years to investigate early music development in Children.

Adam Ockelford started his music career at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London. After that, he went to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and became Music Education Advisor. Now, he is currently serving at the University of Roehampton, London as a director of the applied music research center and also a TED Speaker.

Adam Ockelford is the founder of the Amber Trust Music for Blind Children and also serving at the Society for education, music and psychology research (SEMPRE) as the Secretary & trustee.

Selected Publications

 * "The Sounds of Intent project: modeling musical development in children with learning difficulties". Emerald Insight.
 * "Musical expectancy in atonal contexts: Musicians’ perception of “antistructure”. Psychology of Music.
 * "Sounds of intent, phase 2: gauging the music development of children with complex needs". European Journal of Special Needs Education.
 * "Exploring the structural principles underlying the capacity of groups of notes to function concurrently in music". Sage Journals.
 * "Similarity relations between groups of notes: Music-theoretical and music-psychological perspectives". Sage Journals.
 * "Zygonic Theory: Introduction, Scope, and Prospects". Society for Music theory.
 * "A Music Module in Working Memory? Evidence from the Performance of a Prodigious Musical Savant". Sage Journals.
 * "Exploring musical interaction between a teacher and pupil, and her evolving musicality, using a music-theoretical approach". Research Studies in Music Education.
 * "Implication and expectation in music: a zygonic model". Psychology of Music.
 * "Learning and creativity in a prodigious musical savant". International Congress series.