Intl. Conf. on Music Perception & Cognition 2012

[Aniruddh Patel <apatel@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below for information on the 12th International Conference on
Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC12), in Greece in July 2012.

Also, FYI the final schedule of talks for the upcoming Society for Music
Perception & Cognition (SMPC) meeting in Rochester (Aug 11-14, 2011) is
here:

http://www.esm.rochester.edu/smpc2011/schedule.html

Regards,

Ani Patel
President, SMPC

Aniruddh D. Patel, Ph.D.
Esther J. Burnham Senior Fellow
The Neurosciences Institute
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego, CA 92121

http://www.nsi.edu/users/patel

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12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)

(Joint meeting with the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society
for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, ESCOM)

23-28 July 2012

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece


The Joint Conference ICMPC-ESCOM 2012 is an interdisciplinary conference
devoted to
the dissemination of new unpublished research relating to the field of music
perception and cognition. The conference will bring together leading
researchers
from different areas of the cognitive sciences of music. Papers 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. All submissions
will be
reviewed anonymously by the members of the Scientific Advisory Board. Full
text
papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Details for
submissions can
be accessed at the conference website: http://icmpc-escom2012.web.auth.gr/

Important Dates:
5 December 2011:  Deadline for abstract submission
6 February 2012:  Notification of Acceptance
5 March 2012:  Early registration deadline

ICMPC-ESCOM 2012 will take place from 23-28 July 2012 in Thessaloniki,
Greece. The
conference is organized by the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle
University of
Thessaloniki, and the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
(ESCOM).

The conference is directed by Emilios Cambouropoulos and Costas Tsougras,
Department
of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The ICMPC-ESCOM 2012
conference advisory committee consists of the following members: Mayumi
Adachi, Anna
Rita Addessi, Steven Demorest, Reinhard Kopiez, Jukka Louhivuori,
Yoshitaka
Nakajima, Aniruddh Patel and Jaan Ross.

Further details at the ICMPC-ESCOM 2012 website:
http://icmpc-escom2012.web.auth.gr/