Dates

23-28 July 2012: Joint Conference ICMPC-ESCOM 2012

Deadlines

5 December 2011 : Deadline for Abstract Submission
6 February 2012 : Acceptance of abstract
5 March 2012 : Early registration Deadline
30 April 2012 : Full paper submission for inclusion in the Conference proceedings
14 May 2012 : Registration fee due by at least one author for each submission in order for the paper to be included in the Abstract book and Proceedings

Theme

Central theme of the conference is music cognition, i.e., the study of the cognitive processes involved when humans listen to music and when they create or perform music. Submissions are invited that report empirical and theoretical research that contributes to a better understanding of how music is perceived, represented and generated. Research is welcome from a broad range of disciplines, such as psychology, psychophysics, philosophy, aesthetics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, psychoacoustics, linguistics, music theory, anthropology, cognitive science, education.

The conference consists of invited keynote lectures, workshops, papers and poster sessions, and symposia arranged around specific themes.

Topics include:

Acoustics and psychoacoustics
Aesthetics
Cognitive ethnomusicology
Cognitive modeling of music
Cognitive musicology
Composition and improvisation
Computational Modeling of Music
Cross-cultural studies of music
Memory and music
Musical development
Musical timbre
Music and emotions
Music and evolution
Music and language
Music and meaning
Music and movement
Music and neuroscience
Music and personality
Music and well-being
Music education
Music performance
Music therapy
Perception and response
Pitch and tonal perception
Rhythm, meter, and timing
Social psychology of music