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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of InformaticsDepartment of Informatics, Kansai University

Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Norman D. Cook
Researcher number: 00268319
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901010912309260
researchmap Member ID: 1000231567

External link: http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~cook/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

researcher, Zurich University, ATR (Kyoto)

Papers

The psychoacoustics of harmony perception

COOK Norman, Takefumi Hayashi

American Scientist, Jul 1, 2008
Quark degrees of freedom inside nuclei: Towards explanation of nuclear proeprties

COOK Norman, Genis Musulmanbekov

Yadernaya Fizika, 72, pp. 1-6, Jul 1, 2008
The neuron-level phenomena underlying cognition and consciousness: Synaptic activity and the action potential

COOK Norman

Neuroscience, 42, 1-15, Apr 1, 2008 Peer-reviewed
The sound symbolism of major and minor modes

COOK Norman

Music Perception, Vol. 24, 2007
Factors contributing to depth perception: Behavioral studies on the reverse perspective illusion (invited paper)

COOK Norman, Asami Yutsudo, Naoki Fujimoto, Mayu Murata

Spatial Vision, 2007
On the importance of three visual cues for perceiving 3D depth in 2D images

COOK Norman, Asami Yutsudo, Naoki Fujimoto, Mayu Murata

Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2007 Peer-reviewed
Why not study polytonal psychophysics?

COOK Norman, Fujisawa T.X., Konaka H.

Empirical Musicology Review, Vol. 2(1), pp. 34-40., 2007 Peer-reviewed
Calculating harmoniousness and how to draw the modality, tension and dissonance curves

COOK Norman

Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 25, pp. 35-51, 2006
A quantitative model of harmony

COOK Norman, Fujisawa T.X., Nagata K., Katazaki K.

Research Reports of the Information Processing Society, pp. 9-14, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Evaluation of the affective valence of speech using pitch substructure

ND Cook, TX Fujisawa, K Takami

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, 14(1) 142-151, Jan, 2006
The psychophysics of harmony perception: Harmony is a 3-tone phenomenon.

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa

Empirical Musicology Review, Vol. 1, pp.106-126., 2006 Peer-reviewed
Identifying affective valence in speech prosody using acoustical cues of harmoniousness

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa

GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering, Vol. 7(1), pp. 178-187, 2005 Peer-reviewed
Models of interhemispheric communication.

COOK Norman

Special Issue of Revue de Neuropsychologie on ”Left hemisphere, Right Hemisphere: Specialization and Collaboration”, Vol. 12, pp. 51-85, 2002
Bihemispheric language: How the two hemispheres collaborate in the processing of language

COOK Norman

British Academy, London, Vol. 106, pp. 169-194, 2002
Effects of visual-field inversions on the reverse-perspective illusion

ND Cook, T Hayashi, T Amemiya, K Suzuki, L Leumann

PERCEPTION, 31(9) 1147-1151, 2002
Chordal harmoniousness is determined by two distinct factors: interval dissonance and chordal tension.

COOK Norman

International Society for Music Perception and Cognition, 2000
Localist representations and theoretical clarity

COOK Norman

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 23, p. 474, 2000
Is the lattice gas model a unified model of nuclear structure?

COOK Norman

Journal of Physics G : Nuclear and Particel Physics, vol. 25, pp. 1213-1221, 1999
Visualizing the atomic nucleus

COOK Norman, T.Hayashi, N.Yoshida

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 19, pp. 54-60, 1999
Simulating consciousness in a bilateral neural netwrok: ”Nuclear” and ”fringe” awareness

COOK Norman

Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 8, pp. 62-93, 1999

Books and Other Publications

Models of the Atomic Nucleus

COOK Norman

Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness

COOK Norman

John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002 Peer-reviewed
Stability and Flexibility: An analysis of natural systems

COOK Norman

Pergamon Press, Oxford (1980), 1993 Peer-reviewed
Stability and Flexibility: An analysis of natural systems

COOK Norman

Pergamon Press, Oxford (1980), 1993
Biocomputers

COOK Norman

Chapman and Hall, London, 1991
Prolog and Its Applications

COOK Norman

Chapman and Hall, London, 1991
THE BRAIN CODE : MECHANISMS OF INFORMATION TRANFER ACROSS THE CORPUS CALLOSUM

COOK Norman

METHUEN, LONDON&NEW YORK, 1987 Peer-reviewed
The Brain Code : mechanisms of information transfer and the role of the corpus callosum

COOK Norman

Methuen, London and Kinokuniya, Tokyo, 1986 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

A quantitative study of ambivalent emotional expression

COOK Norman, Fujisawa T.X., Ishimori M., Hayashi K.

Japanese Psychological Society, 2006
The visual cues contributing to the reverse perspective illusion (invited talk)

COOK Norman

International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 2006
Explaining the total sonority and affective valence of chords.

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2006
Behavioral and functional MRI study of the reverse perspective illusion.

COOK Norman, Hayashi T., Umeda C., Yutsudo A.

The 4th Asian Conference on Vision, Matsue, Japan, 2006
A psychophysical explanation for why major chords are bright and minor chords are dark

COOK Norman

First International Meeting on Kansei, 2006
A psychophysical model of harmony perception

COOK Norman, Fujisawa, T.X.Nagata K., Tazaki K.

Joho Shori Gakkai (2006-MUS-66), 2006
The Art of Reverse Perspective (invited talk)

COOK Norman

ECVP Symposium on Art and Vision, La Coruna, Spain, 2005
An fMRI study of the reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman, T.Hayashi, C.Umeda

ECVP, 2005
Explaining the Affect of Major and Minor Chords on the Basis of Sound Symbolism: An fMRI Study in Non-Musicians

COOK Norman, FujisawaT.X., Takami K.

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2005
Control structures in natural systems: The foundations for a theory of organizational control.

COOK Norman, Maximillian von Zedwitz

Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research, 2005
Identifying emotion in speech prosody using acoustic cues of harmony

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa

International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, 2004
Application of a psychoacoustical model of harmony to speech prosody

COOK Norman

Speech Prosody 2004, 2004
The psychophysics of harmony: Tension and modality

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa, K. Takami

International Congress on Acoustics, 2004
A psychophysical model of harmonic modality

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa, K.Takami

International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, 2004
A psychophysical model of harmony perception.

COOK Norman, Fujisawa T.X., Takami K.

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2004
Behavioral, psychophysical and fMRI study of harmony perception.

COOK Norman

Musical Acoustics Symposium at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2004
From quarks to nucleons to nuclei: A quark model of nuclear structure

COOK Norman, Musulmanbekov G.

Proceedings of a COnfrence on Quarks and Nuclear Structure, 2004
How the hemispheres collaborate in the processing of language

COOK Norman

Symposium on Logic and Cognition, 2003
On the role of pitch intervals in the perception of emotional speech

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa, K.Takami

ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, 2003
A functional MRI study of harmony perception

COOK Norman, T.X.Fujisawa, K.Takami

Society for Music Perception and Cognition, 2003

Works

More Shapes and Shadows: A reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman

2006
Venice and Abstract Shapes: Reverse Perspectives

COOK Norman, T.Hayashi, N.Fujimoto

2006
Venice: A reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman, Naoki Fujimoto

2006
Three Reversed Perspective: Kyoto Temples, Goslar and Venice

COOK Norman

2005
Seeing Shapes and Shadows: A reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman

2005
Lines, Shapes and Shadows: A reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman

2005
The L'Oreal Illusion: A reverse perspective illusion (Kawamoto Prize at the 7th Annual L'Oreal Art and Science of Color Competition)

COOK Norman, T.Hayashi, A.Yutsudo, T.Okada

2004
Flooding in Goslar: A reverse perspective illusion

COOK Norman

2003