9th Triennial C 2015 - 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)

Central theme of the conference is music cognition, i.e., the study of the cognitive processes involved when humans listen to music and when they create or perform music. Submissions are invited that report empirical and theoretical research that contributes to a better understanding of how music is perceived, represented and generated. Research is welcome from a broad range of disciplines, such as psychology, psychophysics, philosophy, aesthetics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, psychoacoustics, linguistics, music theory, anthropology, cognitive science, education.
The conference consists of invited keynote lectures, workshops, papers and poster sessions, and symposia arranged around specific themes.
Topics include:
Acoustics and psychoacoustics
Aesthetics
Cognitive ethnomusicology
Cognitive modeling of music
Cognitive musicology
Composition and improvisation
Computational Modeling of Music
Cross-cultural studies of music
Memory and music
Musical development
Musical timbre
Music and emotions
Music and evolution
Music and language
Music and meaning
Music and movement
Music and neuroscience
Music and personality
Music and well-being
Music education
Music performance
Music therapy
Perception and response
Pitch and tonal perception
Rhythm, meter, and timing
Social psychology of music