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Caroline Palmer is a scientist known for her research in the field of music psychology on how complex patterns of sound communicate information and meaning. She holds the position of Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Performance at McGill University.

Palmer received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution (perception and motor performance) in 1996.

Biography
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Caroline Palmer was born in New York in August of 1959. Her mother and father had jobs like civil engineer and artist. Palmer was raised to enjoy environments that valued music. During her early years in school, she would have music lessons that stimulated the growth of her desire to learn more about music and the perception of music. Palmer's first musical accomplishment was learning how to play the piano at her home piano. As she grew up, beginning to go to high school, she would work as a pianist at a ballet academy. She became familiar with transfer of learning issues in motor skills as a member of a high school marching band. After all her experiences with music she wanted to further her knowledge of music and enrolled into the school of music while studying psychology and statistics at the School of Music at Michigan. During this time, Palmer was fortunate enough to work as a research assistant at Bell Labs where she would meet several people who will later influence her work in music and music perception. Palmer earned her B.A. of science with honors, majors in statistics and psychology, with a minor in music, from the University of Michigan. Palmer then went to Rutgers University in 1984 to earn her Masters in Science in Clinical Psychology. Finally, Palmer went to achieve her Doctors from Cornell University in Philosophy in Cognitive Psychology in 1988. After receiving her PhD, Palmer landed a position as assistant professor at Ohio State University, where music perception, psychology, cognitive science programs had many programs with critical thinkers making new discoveries in exactly what Palmer desired to research. Now Palmer is a professor at McGill University teaching psychology, while still studying music perception and still earns rewards for her ground-breaking work.

Research
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Palmer is a pioneer for her research in music cognition and performance. Through her research she earned awards for her early discoveries in perception and and motor performance with music and rhythm.

Palmer's research focuses on how and why music move us and explores how people make music, from simple rhythms to complex ensemble performances. Research involves analyzing music and speech and developing quantitative models of memory. Studies also involve understanding the structure and neural bases of complex tasks, like music instruments, rhythm, music, and speaking. Understanding this topic can create news ways of emotional healing and overall helps society.

Some key findings that have been found by Palmer and others is the nonlinear dynamic with the fundamental production of auditory sequences. Music, rhythm, and other sounds follow predictable patterns that are modeled in oscillations. This is used to understand how people move in response to sound. For example, a loud bang or crash will make a human jump or look to where they hear it because they are curious of what happened. If they hear a rhythmic pattern of sounds they might bop their head or tap their foot to the beat because it is satisfying. More of these studies can be founding an article published by Palmer here. This is one key finding that Palmer has contributed to.

Representative Publications

 * Large, E. W., & Palmer, C. (2002). Perceiving temporal regularity in music. Cognitive Science, 26(1), 1-37.
 * Palmer, C. (1989). Mapping musical thought to musical performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15(2), 331-346.
 * Palmer, C. (1997). Music performance. Annual Review of Psychology, 48(1), 115-138.
 * Palmer, C., & Krumhansl, C. L. (1990). Mental representations for musical meter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16(4), 728-741.
 * Palmer, C., & Meyer, R. K. (2000). Conceptual and motor learning in music performance. Psychological Science, 11(1), 63-68.