We are pleased to announce our conference on the schematic basis of meaning in language, music, and visual cognition. The event aims to gather linguists, psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, music, visual cognition, and multimodality researchers interested in schematic structures underlying (conceptual) meaning construction from any theoretical perspective (formal, functional, or eclectic). The phenomena of interest include, but are not limited to, image schemas, conceptual primitives, scripts, cross-modal correspondences, conceptual metaphors, metonymies and blends, semantic frames, mental and simulation models, and multimodal aspects of schematic meaning generation.

Confirmed keynotes: Ray Jackendoff (Tufts / MIT), Todd Oakley (CWRU), Beate Hampe (Erfurt).

Host: University of Niš, Serbia

Website: https://schemas.rs/conference2024/

We aim to bring together the diverse research endeavors of individuals and institutions in the interdisciplinary field of psychology and music and to continue providing a setting where they can make their work visible to each other and a broader interested audience.

Conference research topics: Psychological aspects of: - processing music - musical potential and development - music performance - music and individual differences - music and well-being - music and affect - music in social contexts - state of the art.

Keynote speakers & lectures:

- Suvi Saarikallio, Professor of Music Education, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies: Is music and emotion research an act of building a socially sustainable future?

- Blanka Bogunović, Professor of Psychology and Education Science, University of Arts Belgrade, Faculty of Music: Personality of music students and its relationship to musical skills and accomplishments

- Gary McPherson, Ormond Professor of Music, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: The roles of self-determination and self-regulation in novice to expert musicians

- Fredrik Ullén, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main: Gene-environment interplay in skill learning and expertise: what have we learned from research on music?

Conference email: psymu2024@muza.unizg.hr

Host(s): University of Zagreb Academy of Music & Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Website: http://www.muza.unizg.hr/psymu2024/

The Second Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning the significance of expression in music, dance, and language, the importance of systematic structure in these domains, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding music cognition and language and their emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny.

Keynote Speakers: - Ani Patel (Tufts) - Paul Boghossian (NYU) - Isabelle Charnavel (Université de Genève) - Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt) - Eduardo Mercado (University at Buffalo) - Philippe Schlenker (Ecole Normale Supérieure & NYU) - Alison Wray (Cardiff)

Host(s): University of Connecticut

Website: https://elm.clas.uconn.edu

Since Charles Keil (1987) argued that very small variations in timing, which he called “participatory discrepancies,” were crucial for a sensation of groove, microrhythm has been the subject of much scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Researchers have struggled to find convincing empirical evidence for the aesthetic effects proposed by Keil. Today, however, numerous studies show that timbre, center frequency, dynamic envelope, and duration influence the perception of rhythmic “feel” at least as much as timing.

This conference seeks to bring together musicians and scholars from various disciplines to connect their different perspectives and further the current state of microrhythm and groove research. Paper presentations should be 25 minutes long, with an additional 10 minutes allotted for questions and answers. We also encourage scholars to submit ideas for 90-minute workshops in which a group of participants would have the opportunity to learn about current research methods or new software and implement them.

Host(s): University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute of Popular Music

Website: https://www.ipop.at/rhythm/

We are thrilled to welcome you to the vibrant city of Linköping, the host city for CHSCOM 2024. This conference continues to serve as a unique platform, bringing together the finest minds in the field of cognitive hearing science.

Our commitment to fostering high scientific quality remains unwavering. This year, we have carefully curated sessions revolving around four distinct themes, showcasing the latest advancements, research, and discussions within the world of cognitive hearing science. The themes are Hearing, cognition and wellbeing, Communicative effort, fatigue, and ecological assessment, Neural coding of auditory and multisensory signals and Technologies in hearing science and translation.