Subject: Music as a Brain and Behavioural System - special issue From: Kate Stevens <kj.stevens(at)UWS.EDU.AU> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:51:02 -0800To the AUDITORY list, Music as a Brain and Behavioural System Special Issue of Australian Journal of Psychology December 1999 Volume 51, Number 3 We are pleased to announce publication of a special issue of the 'Australian Journal of Psychology' with the theme Music as a Brain and Behavioural System. The special issue contains eight peer-reviewed articles from research groups in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States. The table of contents is shown below. The aim of the special issue is to bring together some of the current experimental work being conducted in Australia and internationally, and to draw attention of the experimental psychology readership in Australia to the vital and expanding area of the psychology of music. The issue includes articles on neuropsychology and neurophysiology of music, measuring emotional response to music, attention and timing factors, and performance and perceptual-motor skills. If you are interested in obtaining a reprint of a particular article please contact the author via e-mail (see below). Sound samples and appendices to accompany the papers can be found at: http://www.macarthur.uws.edu.au/marcs/ajp_music.html We do hope the papers are of interest. Best wishes, Kate Stevens and Jeff Pressing Guest editors, Australian Journal of Psychology, 51(3) ------------- Australian Journal of Psychology, 1999, 51(3) Special Issue 'Music as a Brain and Behavioural System' Table of Contents ARTICLES Neuropsychology and Neurophysiology of Music: Cognitive Models of Music Psychology and the Lateralisation of Musical =46unction within the Brain Sarah J. Wilson, Jeff Pressing, Roger J. Wales, and Phillipa Pattison s.wilson(at)psych.unimelb.edu.au Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) Responses Correlate with Musically Trained Subjects' Encoding and Retention Phases of Musical Working Memory Task Performance Philip G. Harris and Richard B. Silberstein pharris(at)bsi.swin.edu.au A Comparison of Contour and Interval Processing in Musicians and Nonmusicians Using Event-Related Potentials Laurel J. Trainor, Ren=E9e N. Desjardins, and Conrad Rockel ljt(at)mcmaster.ca Measuring Emotional Response to Music: Measuring Emotion Continuously: Validity and Reliability of the Two-Dimensional Emotion Space Emery Schubert e.schubert(at)unsw.edu.au Attention and Timing Factors: Attending in Complex Musical Interactions: The Adaptive Dual Role of Meter Peter Keller p.keller(at)uws.edu.au The Effect of Tempo and Musical Experience on Perceived Beat J. Devin McAuley and Peter Semple mcauley(at)bgnet.bgsu.edu Performance and Perceptual-Motor Skills: Relationships between Performance Timing, Perception of Timing Perturbations, and Perceptual-Motor Synchronisation in Two Chopin Preludes Bruno H. Repp repp(at)haskins.yale.edu Interdependence of Right and Left Hands in Sight-Read, Written, and Rehearsed Fingerings of Parallel Melodic Piano Music Richard Parncutt, John A. Sloboda, and Eric F. Clarke richard.parncutt(at)kfunigraz.ac.at BOOK REVIEWS Cognition and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics edited by Perry R. Cook. Reviewed by Densil Cabrera, Department of Architectural and Design Science, The University of Sydney The Psychology of Music (2nd Ed.) edited by Diana Deutsch. Reviewed by Andrew R. Brown, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology ******** _______________________________________________ Dr Kate Stevens Department of Psychology & Macarthur Auditory Research Centre University of Western Sydney, Macarthur PO Box 555 Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia Phone: (+612) 9772 6324; Fax: (+612) 9772 6584 E-mail: kj.stevens(at)uws.edu.au WWW: http://www.macarthur.uws.edu.au/marcs ______________________________________________