Future Directions of Music Cognition 2021 Full Proceedings
2021
The Future Directions of Music Cognition conference developed parallel to many of the societal changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.The result was an innovative approach to online, remote conferencing.This proceedings journal reflects the research presented at the conference and speaker series, but the virtual nature of the conference also provides opportunities for this journal to be multimedia in new and exciting ways.Most of the articles in this journal are accompanied by an online multimedia presence, with articles linked to videos of the authors presenting, slides, and access to original data and stimuli.This article reviews the story of how the conference and speaker series developed during the pandemic, some of the achievements of the conference, and how the journal is structured."Use-inspired music cognition: Designing cognitively informed musical interventions for the brain," casts light on the future of music cognition research by reviewing and drawing lessons from the early days of the field, arguing for a deeper integration of pure music cognition research with practical applications of musicbased interventions that can genuinely help people and make the world a better place.Following this first section, the remaining sections reflect the conference's contributions in six of the music cognition sub-disciples represented by the conference, including corpus studies, music and emotion, pedagogy, music perception, rhythm and meter, and timbre.Each section consists of full-length articles organized by first author last name.Sections end with the published abstracts for that sub-discipline.Finally, the journal ends with an editorial epilogue that reflects on how the Future Directions of Music Cognition conference, speaker series, and proceedings interact with some of the societal changes that have happened between the original conception of the conference and its conclusion as a way of looking forward to what future directions the field may take.As mentioned above, all conference presentations were recorded and posted in perpetuity on the Open Science Framework's (OSF) Future Directions of Music Cognition -March Conference web page (2021).Speaker series talks are also freely available at OSF's Future Directions of Music Cognition -Speaker Series website (2021).Most of the articles in this journal were also presented at the conference, and so readers can watch video presentations on OSF.Additionally, several OSF pages also include slides of presentations, original data from studies, stimuli used, or other background materials.DOI links for each presentation are included in the header of each article below author information.Interested readers are encouraged to further examine online content.Finally, as of this publication date the conference Slack channel (2021) remains available, with separate channels for each session.Visitors to the Slack channel can review the history of questions, answers, and comments associated with each paper.By joining the Slack channel, readers may even post their own questions to authors and continue public dialogue about the research in this journal. References