[AUDITORY] CfP "Music and Mental Imagery" - Special Collection in Music & Science

[Liila Taruffi <liilataruffi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

We're pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special collection on
"Music and Mental Imagery" in Music & Science
(https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mns/special-collections/music-and-mental-imagery).

The submission portal is now open, and full manuscripts can be submitted
any time until 31 August 2022. As Music & Science runs continuously, each
article accepted by peer review is made freely available online
immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons
license and will be hosted online in perpetuity.

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About the special collection:

There has recently been a renewed focus on mental imagery and its
underlying (quasi-)perceptual processes in the cognitive sciences,
including attempts to reconsider well-known psychological phenomena such
as dreaming, episodic memory or synaesthesia as forms of mental imagery,
and discoveries of people unable to form visual and auditory mental images
on the one hand—conditions coined aphantasia and anauralia,
respectively—and cases of individuals experiencing extremely vivid mental
imagery on the other.

Mental imagery is highly relevant in a variety of musical contexts, too.
For instance, many people experience involuntary musical imagery (i.e.,
earworms) several times a week; listening to music often evokes visual
mental imagery (i.e., images in the mind’s eye); musicians use a range of
mental imagery strategies to prepare for performances (e.g., visualizing
the score or imagining hand and finger movements); and composers utilize
musical imagery to conjure up new worlds of sound and then try to capture
them in notation.

To shed further light on the role of mental imagery in musical contexts,
we invite submissions from scholars and practitioners working on any topic
related to mental imagery and music such as (but not limited to):

•Content and function of mental imagery during music listening and making
•(In)voluntary musical imagery
•Music-related mental imagery and emotional response
•Mental imagery across the senses in musical activities
•Music-related mental imagery in special conditions (e.g., synaesthesia,
aphantasia, etc.)
•Music-related mental imagery and other states of consciousness (e.g.,
absorption, trance, mind-wandering, etc.)
•Neural substrates of music-related mental imagery
•Role of mental imagery for creative processes in music
•Mental imagery as practice and performance strategy
•Music-related mental imagery from a cross-cultural perspective
•Music-therapeutic uses of mental imagery


All best wishes,

Mats Küssner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Goldsmiths, University of
London)

Liila Taruffi (Durham University)

Solange Glasser (University of Melbourne)