Congratulations to Dr. Jane Bairnsfather!
A huge congratulations to Dr. Jane Bairnsfather, who recently graduated from a combined Master of Clinical Neuropsychology and PhD!
Jane's thesis was titled "Phenotyping Absolute Pitch", and is available in the University's repository. She has also published several wonderful papers from her thesis:
- Bairnsfather, J. E., Mosing, M. A., Osborne, M. S., & Wilson, S. J. (2025). Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 61. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02577-z
- Bairnsfather, J. E., Osborne, M. S., Martin, C., Mosing, M. A., & Wilson, S. J. (2022). Use of explicit priming to phenotype absolute pitch ability. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0273828. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273828
- Bairnsfather, J. E., Ullén, F., Osborne, M. S., Wilson, S. J., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). Investigating the relationship between childhood music practice and pitch-naming ability in professional musicians and a population-based twin sample. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 25(3), 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2022.29