Resources
Music Cognition and Music Psychology Labs
Visit our map of Music Cognition and Music Psychology Labs: Sites included on this map belong to SMPC members who have provided location information on their labs.
> Green Guitar icons indicate labs with associated graduate programs in music
> Blue Brain icons indicate labs with associated graduate programs in psychology/neuroscience
> Purple Laptop icons indicate labs with associated graduate programs in electrical engineering / computer science
> Orange Microphone icons indicate labs with associated graduate programs in music and engineering/computer science
> Red Music Note notes indicate labs with associated graduate programs in music and psychology/neuroscience
> Brown Speech icons indicate labs with associated graduate programs in speech language/communication science disorders
> Yellow Mortar icons indicate labs without associated graduate programs
> Grey markers indicate labs of retired members
Academic Programs and Jobs
SMPC Academic Programs Page
Undergraduate and PhD information and resources
SMPC Internships, Post-Docs, and Jobs Page
Post-doc and job postings, job search and mentoring resources
Research Resources
Calls for Study Participation (coming soon)
Centers
• Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University
Collaboration Opportunities (coming soon)
Calls for Research
See our Events page for conference calls
Open Source Repositories
• March 2021: Future Directions of Music Cognition March Conference OSF Repository
• SMPC 2019: Repository from Open Science Symposium
Special Journal Issues
• Science News (special issue: A Mind for Music)
• Philosophical Transactions: Special Issue 'Biology, cognition and origins of musicality'
Topically Related Journals
• Computer Music Journal
• Empirical Musicology Review
• Music Perception
• Musicae Scientiae
• Psychology of Music
• Psychomusicology
• Music Performance Research
• Yearbook for Music Psychology - a German/English journal published since 1983. Articles are published free of charge in open-access advance online versions and subsequently appear in print once a year.
Teaching Resources
• Syllabi: View our list of music cognition syllabi, provided by SMPC members and nonmembers who teach courses on music cognition and who responded to our request for course syllabi in early 2011.
The syllabi are based on recently-offered courses. To determine when a course will be taught next, please contact the instructor directly (SMPC does not have this information).
Related Societies and Organizations
International
International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
• International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SYSMUS)
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
• Timing Research Forum (TRF)
Asia/Pacific
APSCOM: Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
Regional Societies:
• AMPS: Australian Music & Psychology Society
• CSMP: Chinese Society for Music Psychology
• JSMPC: Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition (English website)
• KSMPC: Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Europe
ESCOM: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
Regional Societies:
• AEPMIM: Asociación Española de Psicología de la Música y la Interpretación Musical - Spanish Association for Psychology of Music and Music Performance (English website)
• DGM: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie - German Society for Music Psychology (English website)
• The Balkans - RNPaM: Regional Network Psychology and Music
• UK - SEMPRE: Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
North America
SMPC: Society for Music Perception and Cognition
• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Regional Societies:
• NEMCOG: New England Music Cognition Group
South America
Regional Societies:
• ABCM: Associação Brasileira de Cognição e Artes Musicais - Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts
• SACCOM: Sociedad Argentina para las Ciencias Cognitivas de la Música - Argentine Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
Related Conferences
Events page: up-to-date conference and call-for-papers announcements
International Conferences (held at various international locations)
• Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) - Dates vary
• International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) - Biennial, staggered with SMPC (July/August)
• International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SYSMUS)
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) - September
• International Symposium on Performance Science - Dates vary
• The Neurosciences and Music - June
• Rhythm Production & Perception Workshop (RRPW) - June
• Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) - Summer
• UbiMus - September
North America
• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• New England Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG)
• CT, USA - New England Sequencing and Timing (NEST) - March/April
• NY, USA - IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) - October
South/Central America
• Brazil - International Symposium on Cognition and Musical Arts (SIMCAM) - Held in May
Eurasia
• European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM) - Biennial, staggered with SMPC (August)
ESCOM Related Conferences List
Related Websites, Blogs, and Multimedia
• SMPC Multimedia Page
• BBC programs about music and the mind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02zjcpx
• Auditory.org - an online resource and email list for the discussion of organizational aspects of auditory perception. Created in 1992 by Professor Albert S Bregman (McGill University Department of Psychology). Currently maintained by Dan Ellis.
• Music Matters: A Blog on Music Cognition - Henkjan Honing
• Music Psychology Blog: Victoria Williamson
• Music Therapy Research Blog
• The Art of the Score: The Mind, Music and Moving Images - Exploring the intersection of music cognition and filmmaking, including a conversation between Ani Patel and the Coen Brothers