Diana Deutsch was born on 15 February 1938 and is a British-American psychologist from London, England.
21 Facts About Diana Deutsch
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Diana Deutsch is a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is a prominent researcher on the psychology of music.
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Diana Deutsch is the author of Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain, the editor for Psychology of Music, and the compact discs Musical Illusions and Paradoxes and Phantom Words and Other Curiosities.
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Diana Deutsch was born Diana Sokol, on 15 February 1938, in London, England, to Max and Iska Sokol.
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Diana Deutsch's father was a sculptor of the expressionist school, and she attributes her strong interest in relationships between art, science and philosophy to her many conversations with him in childhood.
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Diana Deutsch entered St Anne's College, Oxford in 1956, and obtained a First Class Honours degree in Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology in 1959.
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Diana Deutsch discovered a number of illusions of music and speech related to sound perception and memory.
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Diana Deutsch discovered that there are strong disagreements between listeners and how these illusions were perceived.
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Diana Deutsch produced illusions using sequences of tones that were defined in terms of pitch class, but ambiguous in terms of which octave they are in.
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Diana Deutsch's research focuses on absolute pitch, which is the ability to name or produce a musical note without the aid of a reference note.
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Diana Deutsch proposed that, if given the opportunity, infants can acquire absolute pitch as a feature of their language, and this ability carries over into music.
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Diana Deutsch carried out extensive research on memory for sequences of tones.
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Diana Deutsch demonstrated that short-term memory for the pitch of a tone is the function of a specialized and highly organized system; where as, information is not subject to interference by other sounds such as spoken words.
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Diana Deutsch published one of the earliest neural networks for musical pattern recognition.
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In 1989 Diana Deutsch co-founded the biennial International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and served as co-chair of the Organizing Committee for its first conference, which was held in Kyoto, Japan.
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Diana Deutsch founded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition in 1990, and served as its Founding President from 1990 to 1992, holding the Second International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in Los Angeles in 1992.
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Diana Deutsch founded the journal Music Perception in 1983, and served as its Founding Editor from 1983 to 1995.
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Diana Deutsch was elected a governor of the Audio Engineering Society, president of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served as chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
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Diana Deutsch's work is often featured in newspapers and magazines throughout the world.
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Diana Deutsch has been interviewed frequently on radio and television, for example for NOVA, the Discovery Channel, WNYC, BBC, CBC, ABC, and German Public Radio.
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Diana Deutsch's illusions are often displayed at science festivals worldwide, including the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC, and the Edinburgh International Science Festival.