Cuddy was born in 1939 and grew up in a musical family inWinnipeg,Manitoba.[1] A trained pianist, she completed an undergraduate degree in psychology atUnited College (now theUniversity of Winnipeg) in 1959, while also earning a diploma in music.[1][2] She earned a master's degree (1961) and a PhD (1965) in psychology from theUniversity of Toronto, under the supervision ofEndel Tulving.[1][2][3] In 1965, Cuddy and her husband, Mel Wiebe (a scholar of Victorian literature), left Toronto to accept positions at Queen's University.[1][4]
In 1969, Cuddy established the Music Cognition Lab at Queen's University, the first music psychology laboratory in Canada[5] and one of the first in the world.[6] Her research program has examined a wide range of topics within music psychology,[7] includingmelodic expectation,[8]absolute pitch,[9] and effects of musical training.[10] A recent line of research explored music processing among individuals withAlzheimer's disease.[7][11][12] This work garnered media attention for the finding that patients with memory loss associated with dementia may be able to maintain musical memories.[13][6][14][15]
Cuddy served as editor of the journalMusic Perception from 2002 to 2017, and as a consulting editor to the journalsMusicae Scientiae andPsychomusicology.[1][7][3] She was the president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition from 2001 to 2002.[7]
Cuddy, Lola L.; Cohen, Annabel J.; Miller, Janet (1979). "Melody recognition: The experimental application of musical rules".Canadian Journal of Psychology.33 (3):148–157.doi:10.1037/h0081713.PMID519545.
Cuddy, Lola L.; Cohen, Annabel J.; Mewhort, D. J. K. (1981). "Perception of structure in short melodic sequences".Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.7 (4):869–883.doi:10.1037/0096-1523.7.4.869.
Jakobson, Lorna S.; Cuddy, Lola L.; Kilgour, Andrea R. (2003). "Time Tagging: A Key to Musicians' Superior Memory".Music Perception.20 (3):307–313.doi:10.1525/mp.2003.20.3.307.
"Memory for Melodies and Lyrics in Alzheimer's Disease".Music Perception.29 (5):479–491. 2012.doi:10.1525/mp.2012.29.5.479.
Cuddy, Lola L.; Duffin, Jacalyn (2005). "Music, memory, and Alzheimer's disease: Is music recognition spared in dementia, and how can it be assessed?".Medical Hypotheses.64 (2):229–235.doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.005.PMID15607545.
^abcdeCuddy, Lola L. (2009). "Development of music perception and cognition research: An autobiographical account from a Canadian perspective".Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain.20 (1–2):43–52.doi:10.1037/h0094225.ISSN2162-1535.
^Jakobson, Lorna S.; Cuddy, Lola L.; Kilgour, Andrea R. (2003). "Time Tagging: A Key to Musicians' Superior Memory".Music Perception.20 (3):307–313.doi:10.1525/mp.2003.20.3.307.ISSN0730-7829.
^"Memory for Melodies and Lyrics in Alzheimer's Disease".Music Perception.29 (5):479–491. 2012.doi:10.1525/mp.2012.29.5.479.
^Cuddy, Lola L.; Sikka, Ritu; Vanstone, Ashley (2015). "Preservation of musical memory and engagement in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease: Musical memory in Alzheimer's disease".Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.1337 (1):223–231.doi:10.1111/nyas.12617.PMID25773638.
^Cuddy, Lola L.; Duffin, Jacalyn (2005). "Music, memory, and Alzheimer's disease: is music recognition spared in dementia, and how can it be assessed?".Medical Hypotheses.64 (2):229–235.doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.005.PMID15607545.
