The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) is being held this week from August 24-28, 2023, at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In honor of the 2023 conference, we have removed …
Read More >University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking applicants for editor of the journal Music Perception. The new editorship will begin July 1, 2023 following the end of Editor Kate Stevens’s term. …
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Read More >As the joint conference of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music gets underway this week, we invite you to read …
Read More >By Valory Mitchell, co-author of Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult Development There is something about the long-term study of lives that is breathtaking. Perhaps it is …
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