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Relevant Links
SMPC Links to Other Societies || Research Centres || Journals || Conferences
Links to Other Societies
The Acoustical Society of America: (ASA) The premier international scientific society in acoustics, dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.
American Psychological Association: (APA) Resources for Students.
American Psychological Society: (APS) The leading national organization dedicated solely to the science of psychology. This site is a vast body of information and links!
The British Psychological Society: (BPS) Aims to advance scientific psychological research, and to further the co-operation of investigators in the various branches of Psychology in Great Britain.
The Canadian Acoustical Association: (CAA) The professional, interdisciplinary organization that: fosters communication among people working in all areas of acoustics in Canada; promotes the growth and practical application of knowledge in acoustics.
European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music: (ESCOM) Home page presenting information about all ESCOM events together with access to the contents of all previous issues of the ESCOM Newsletter in both French and English. This is also the home page for the trilingual journal MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, the official organ of ESCOM.
Society for Music Theory Home Page: (SMT) Newsletter and conference and online resource info.
Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education: Society aiming to provide an international forum for researchers working in the fields of psychology of music and music education.Especially encourages the participation of younger members (students and postgraduates) reflecting the range of interests that are represented within the psychology of music and music education.
Links to Research Centres
University of Amsterdam: Music Cognition Group: A recently updated website at the University of Amsterdam on Music Cognition, bringing together lots of information, sounds examples, video fragments, etc. on topics from the intersection of psychology, computer science, and the music sciences.
Auditory Research Lab - McGill University: The Auditory Research Laboratory specializes in the study of the perceptual organization of sound.
The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies: (CNMAT) A music research, teaching, recording and performance facility striving to promote, produce and present the creative interaction between music and technology. A satellite of the University of California, Berkeley Department of Music drawing participants from many university departments including physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, computer science, cognitive science and music.
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH: Speech, Music and Hearing Laboratories at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music: IRCAM welcomes and encourages a rich interaction between musical creation and research, remaining faithful to its original vocation while reflecting on the urgency of change.
The Hearing Health Care Research Unit: An interdisciplinary group of researchers studying several aspects of hearing loss, including assessment, treatment, assistive device fitting, and behavioral and electroacoustic evaluation of assistive devices. Located at the University of Western Ontario at London, Ontario, Canada.
International Community for Auditory Display: (ICAD) A forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. Unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses.
Michigan State Acoustics/Psychoacoustics:
A group of researchers who aim to understand how the human brain processes
sound by making mathematical models of the perception process and testing
these models against experiments on human listeners.
Music Cognition at Ohio State: The music cognition program, an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the Center for Cognitive Science, includes the largest concentration of critical scholars working in music perception, performance, cognition, and theory at any university. Among other things, this site lists positions available in the department.
Professional Audiology Resources/The Hearing Help Page: The Professional Audiology Resources (PAR) section contains internet resources for audiologists and audiology students including websites, and articles on newsgroups and email listservers.
Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development: Homepage of group of researchers at Keele University, Staffordshire whose goals are: to promote and carry out research in psychological aspects of music; to develop interdisciplinary co-operation in such research, particularly between psychologists, cognitive scientists, musicians, and educationalists; to foster regional, national, and international links between individuals and organisations with related research interests; and to promote education and training in the psychology of music, particularly at postgraduate and continuing professional development levels.
Links to Journals
Acoustics Research Letters Online: (ARLO) is an online electronic letters journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) devoted to research in all fields of acoustics.
APA Journals: Searchable database of the APA Journals.
Computer Music Journal: (CMJ) A quarterly journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustical music. CMJ is published (as hardcopy) by MIT Press and is now in its 20th year.
Empirical Musicology
Review.
An online journal that aims to facilitate communication and debate between
scholars engaged in
systematic and observation-based music scholarship. Published six times
per year by the Ohio State University Library.
Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America: (JASA) Includes links to the online version
of the journal and information for authors.
Journals
of The British Psychological Society: (BPS) Direct links to several journals
published by the BPS.
Music Perception:
An international and interdisciplinary journal. Published by the
University of California Press.
Psychological Science: (APS) Including the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Psychomusicology: A biannual publication (Spring and Fall), founded in 1981 to offer a high-quality publishing resource for researchers in music cognition. The journal is distributed world-wide.
Links to Conferences
SMPC 07 was be held in August 2007 in Montreal, hosted by Concordia University and organized by Christine Beckett.
8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition: (ICMPC) August 3-7, 2004. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. This interdisciplinary conference presents a variety of aspects of music perception and cognition: psychoacoustics, music performance, musical development, music modeling, music analysis, neuro-psychology, psychomusicology, music sociology, and other related fields of enquiry.
Previous ICMPCs:( at the ICMPC main website)
The 5th European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM): The one of ESCOM's triennial meetings.