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Jamshed Bharucha

Contact Info Tufts University Office of The Provost Ballou Hall Medford, MA 02155 Tel: 617-627-6238 Tel: 617-627-3310 Email Professor Websites Music Cognition Lab Office of the Provost Center for Cognitive Studies Neuroscience Program

Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

Jamshed Bharucha is Provost and Senior Vice President at Tufts University. Prior to Tufts, he spent his academic career at Dartmouth College, where he was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and served in several leadership posts, most recently as Deputy Provost and Dean of the Faculty. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, where he majored in biopsychology, received an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. He has served as Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception, was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-94, and was a Trustee of Vassar College from 1991 to 1999, where he chaired the Budget and Finance Committee. He is currently a Trustee of the International Foundation of Music Research. At Dartmouth, he received the Huntington Teaching Award in 1989 and the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative Special Award in 2002.

His research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music, using perceptual experiments, neural net modeling, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

• Bharucha, J. (in press). Cognitive dilemmas in higher education. In M.E. Devlin (Ed.), Futures Forum 2008. Cambridge, MA: Forum for the Future of Higher Education and NACUBO.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. & Bharucha, J.J. (in press). Tonal centers and expectancy: Facilitation or inhibition of chords at the top of the harmonic hierarchy? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
• Bharucha, J.J. (2008). Expectation as an implicit process (Tribute to Leonard Meyer). Music Perception, 25, 477-491.
• Bharucha, J. (2008). America can teach Asia a lot about science, technology, and math. Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (20), January 25, pp. A33-34.
• Bharucha, J. (2007). The globalization of higher education. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What Are You Optimistic About? New York: Harper Collins.
• Bharucha, J. (2007). Mind over music. A space for music. Tufts Magazine, XIV(2), 15-18.
• Bharucha, J. (2006). Squeeze a bit more from this sponge. Times Higher Education Supplement, September 8, p. 4. London: TSL Education.
• Bharucha, J. J, Curtis, M., & Paroo, K. (2006). Varieties of musical experience. Cognition, 100, 131-173.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003). Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 145-161.
• Janata, P., Birk, J., Van Horn, J. D., Leman, M. Tillmann, B. & Bharucha, J. J. (2003) The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science, 298, 2167-2170.
• Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. & Bharucha, J.J. (in press) The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
• Justus, T.C. & Bharucha, J.J. (in press). Music perception and cognition. In H. Pashler & S. Yantis (Eds.), Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology (3rd Ed.). New York: Wiley.
• Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J.J. (in press). Online detection of tonal pop-out in modulating contexts. Music Perception.
• Janata, P., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J. J. (2002). Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 121-140.
• Tillmann, B. & Bharucha, J.J. (2002). Effect of harmonic relatedness on detection of temporal asynchronies. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 640-649.
• Justus, T.C. & Bharucha, J.J. (2001). Modularity in musical processing: The automaticity of harmonic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1000-1011.
• Tillmann, B, Bharucha, J.J. & Bigand, E. (2000). Implicit learning of tonality: A self-organizing approach. Psychological Review, 107, 885913.
• Bharucha, J.J. (1998). Neural nets, temporal composites and tonality. In D. Deutsch (Ed.), The Psychology of Music (2d Ed.). New York: Academic Press.