Laura A. Stambaugh

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Laura Stambaugh
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Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
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Dr. Laura A. Stambaugh coordinates the Music Education area, teaches courses in music education, and supervises student teachers. Previously, she taught at Georgia Southern University, Western Washington University, and in public schools in southern New Hampshire. Her curriculum included chamber music ensembles and emphasized the Comprehensive Musicianship approach. She has been active as an oboist and conductor with community ensembles in Georgia, New Hampshire, and Washington.

Dr. Stambaugh’s primary research agenda examines the development of automaticity in playing instruments, largely through motor learning perspectives. She seeks to answer the big questions of: what are the cognitive mechanisms underlying how people learn to play wind instruments, and how can teachers use that knowledge to improve instruction? Secondary research areas the development of error detection skills, the music teacher pipeline, and music and autism. Her book, Music and the Brain for Musicians: Understanding the Research and Getting Involved, was published in 2022 by Conway Publications.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 
            
Master of Music, Music Education, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
                                       
Bachelor of Music, Music Education, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 

Selected Publications

Stambaugh, L. A. & Cardoso, C. d. A. (2023, August). Offline learning in instrumental music. Paper presented at International Symposium on Performance Science, Warsaw, Poland.

Stambaugh, L. A. & Bryan, C. J. (2022). Seeing red: Effects of practice interventions on woodwind students’ accuracy in performing articulation. Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 40(3), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/87551233211049427

Nichols, B. E. & Stambaugh, L. A. (2022). Melody, not beat perception, predicts rhythmic error detection. Journal of Research in Music Education, 70(2), 190-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224294211032160

Stambaugh, L. A. & Nichols, B. E. (2022, November). Relationships among component music skills and error detection ability. Poster presented at the National Association for Music Education National Conference, National Harbor, Maryland.

Thomas, M., Norgaard, M., Stambaugh, L. A., Atkins, R. L., Kumar, A. B., & Farley, A. L. P. (2021). Online involvement for Georgia student teachers during COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology: Performance Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648028

Stambaugh, L. A. (2021, October). A motion capture study of the development of woodwind motor skills. Paper presented remotely at International Symposium on Performance Science, online.

Stambaugh, L. A. & Nichols, B. E. (2020). The relationships among interval identification, pitch error detection, and stimulus timbre by pre-service teachers. Journal of Research in Music Education, 67(4), 465-480. doi: 10.1177/0022429419885931