Mari Riess Jones is professor of psychology emerita at Ohio State University. For more than thirty years, she has investigated the role of time and rhythm in perception and attention as these states relate to listening to music and to other auditory events. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, Riverside, she earned a master’s degree with high honors at Boston University and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Massachusetts in 1967. Dr. Jones joined the psychology faculty at Ohio State as a visiting assistant professor, was appointed an assistant professor in 1969, and named a full professor in 1976, a post she held until her retirement two years ago. She currently serves as an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Psychology Association (APA), and the International Foundation for Research in Music. She has been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, served on the board of directors of the International Society of Ecological Psychology, and is a past president and former member of the board of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Dr. Jones is a fellow of the APA, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the recipient of two awards, the Joan Huber Distinguished Scholar Award and the Fred Brown Research Award, given by Ohio State. A consulting editor of Perception and Psychophysics, she also serves on the editorial board of Psychomusicology and Music Perception. She is the author or co-author of some eighty papers published in scientific journals and volumes of collected works as well as the co-editor (with Susan Holleran) of the Cognitive Bases of Musical Communication, which was published by the APA in 1991.