Subject: Special journal issue on music performance From: Bill <b.thompson@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:55:45 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>The online journal Advances in Cognitive Psychology (ACP) has just published a Special Issue on Music Performance. The issue can be downloaded from the ACP website: http://www.ac-psych.org/ Details and contents are listed below. --- Advances in Cognitive Psychology 2006, volume 2, issue 2-3 Special issue: Music Performance Guest Editors: William F. Thompson, Simone Dalla Bella, and Peter E. Keller http://www.ac-psych.org/index.php?id=2&rok=2006&issue=2 Description: Drawing from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, motor control, and neuroscience, this special issue of Advances in Cognitive Psychology comprises invited review articles describing the latest research relating to music performance. Contents: Music performance (Editorial) - Thompson, W. F, Dalla Bella, S., & Keller, P. E. Music performance anxiety: New insights from young musicians - Kenny, D. T. & Osborne, S. M. Practicing perfection: How concert soloists prepare for performance - Chaffin, R. & Logan, T. The KTH synthesis of singing - Sundberg, J. Overview of the KTH rule system for musical performance - Friberg, A., Bresin, R., & Sundberg, J. Rate limits of sensorimotor synchronization - Repp, B. H. Coordination of perception and action in music performance - Pfordresher, P. Q. Music-reading deficiencies and the brain - Hébert, S. & Cuddy, L. L. Focal Dystonia in musicians: From phenomenology to therapy - Jabusch, H-C. & Altenmüller, E. Neural correlates of rhythmic expectancy - Zanto, T. P., Snyder, J. S., & Large, E. W. BOOK REVIEW "Musical Excellence: Strategies and techniques to enhance performance" - Kenny, D. T.