9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and 6th Triennal Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music

The 9th ICMPC follows the meetings of the music perception and cognition research community in Kyoto, Japan (1989), Los Angeles,USA (1992), Liège,Belgium (1994), Montreal, Canada (1996), Seoul, South Korea (1998), Keele,UK (2000), Sydney, Australia (2002) and Evanston, USA (2004).The 9th ICMPC Conference will also host the 6th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM6).Previous ESCOM conferences were, in Trieste, Italy (1991), Liège, Belgium (1994), Uppsala, Sweden (1997), Keele, UK (2000) and Hannover, Germany (2003). The 9th ICMPC will be sponsored by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM).Other participanting societies include: - Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) - Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (APSCOM) - Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) - Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition (JSMPC) - Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition (KSMPC) - Argentine Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (SACCOM). The 9th ICMPC conference is also supported by the International Society for Music Education (ISME) and the Society for Education Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) The focus of the 9th ICMPC is interdisciplinary discussion and dissemination of new, unpublished research relating to the field of music perception, cognition and education. The conference will have relevance for university and industry researchers and graduate students working in: - Psychology of Music - Music Theory and Composition - Psychophysics - Music Performance and Education - Music therapy and Music medicine - Neurophysiology - Ethnomusicology - Developmental psychology - Linguistics - Artificial Intelligence - Computer Technology