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Carol L. Krumhansl is North America's leading music psychologist. Her most influential work addressed the perception of musical tonality (relationships between tones, chords and keys such as C major or C# minor). Her approach is based on empirical cognitive psychology and her research established the meaning of the now common term "tonal hierarchies". She has published widely in most areas of music psychology and her research crosses the borders between music psychology, music theory and the musical neurosciences. She is a trained psychologist, mathematician and statistician, and her empirical work has established high methodological standards for the international music psychology community.
Her book (Krumhansl, 1990) has been reviewed many times in music psychology journals, e.g. http://musicog.ohio-state.edu/Huron/Publications/huron.Krumhansl.review.html. It a standard resource for teachers and students of music psychology and one of the disciplines most cited sources, http://scholar.google.at/scholar?hl=de&lr=&cites=17713254184257479783. Krumhansl is the subject of regular news items such as http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/00/2.24.00/AAAS.Krumhansl.html, http://www.stefanklein.info/node/66, http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb00/AAAS.Krumhansl.music.ws.html. Krumhansl is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, http://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Faculty/clk4.html.
