European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music

ESCOM is an international non-profit society to promote theoretical, experimental and applied research in the cognitive sciences of music. Since its foundation in 1991, ESCOM has become the leading European representative of scientific approaches to music, including natural, social and formal sciences. ESCOM also actively promotes collaboration among arts, humanities and sciences in music research The Society has published the journal MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ since 1997. Since 2011, the journal has been published by SAGE, assuring a wide distribution and excellent online accessibility. The journal includes empirical, theoretical and critical articles that address how music is perceived, represented and generated from diverse viewpoints, including empirical musicology, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, music education, artificial intelligence, music theory, and music performance. Specific topics include the developmental psychology of music, musical creativity, similarity perception and modelling, music and evolution, music as emotion regulation, singing skills, and the perception of structure and form. ESCOM organizes a major international conference every three years; every six years, this conference is combined with the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). The Society also regularly organises or supports smaller conferences, symposia, seminars, educational programs, and summer schools.