The Psychology of Music in Multimedia
Edited by Siu-Lan Tan, Annabel J. Cohen, Scott D. Lipscomb, and Roger A. Kendall
Author Information
Siu-Lan Tan, Department of Psychology Kalamazoo College, USA, Annabel J. Cohen, Department of Psychology University of Prince, USA, Scott D. Lipscomb, School of Music, University of Minnesota, USA, Roger A. Kendall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Siu-Lan Tan is Associate Professor of Psychology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan USA. Born in Indonesia and raised in Hong Kong, she holds diplomas from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (England) and degrees in Music and Piano Pedagogy, and taught music in Hong Kong and California for many years before completing a PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University USA and a term on scholarship at Oxford University in England. Tan's research on video games and virtual reality games has been published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, Interacting with Video (Praeger 1996), and Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations and Virtual Environments (IGI 2012). Her research on film music and other topics has appeared in Music Perception, Psychology of Music, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, and College Music Symposium.
Annabel J. Cohen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada. Her doctorate is from Queen's University, B.A from McGill, and Associate diploma (ARCT) from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. She has dedicated her career to the study of music perception and cognition, with extensions to multimedia. She has published on the topics as tonality, music transposition, the acquisition of music grammar, and film music, from a cognitive perspective. She has led multi-institutional research projects focusing on harnessing multimedia for education in the context of culture and cognition. On that foundation, she currently directs a major international collaborative research initiative (AIRS - Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing). Cohen is the Editor of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain and serves on the consulting boards of several journals (e.g., Music and the Moving Image, Musicae Scientiae, Music Perception, Psychology of Music, The Soundtrack).
Scott D. Lipscomb is Associate Professor and Division Head of Music Education and Music Therapy and Associate Director for the School of Music at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. In addition to his primary research interest in "sound for multimedia," he is currently pursuing investigations related to surround sound presentation of cinema and musical sound, the effect of music in video game contexts, the impact of visual performance information on listener preference for "complex" music, integration of music across the K-12 curriculum, and the development of interactive instructional media to enhance the music learning experience. Lipscomb served two three-year terms as Treasurer for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, four two-year terms as President of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), and serves as a member of the Executive Board and as Chair of the Research Committee for TI:ME (Technology Institute for Music Educators).
Roger A. Kendall is a Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in the specialization of Systematic Musicology. He co-authored an invited chapter on music perception and cognition for the Ecological Psychology volume of the Handbook on Perception, as well as a chapter on comparative music psychology for Psychology of Music (D. Deutsch, Ed. 2nd edition). His current research interests include comparative perceptual and acoustical analyses of natural versus synthetic and sampled orchestral timbres and spectra, tuning models and perception of the slendro mode in the Gamelan, expressive music performance modelled in terms of communication theory, and perception of meaning in film music. Kendall co-edited Perspectives in Systematic Musicology in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Volume 12 and contributed a chapter outlining connections of experimental empirical research in meaning to visual and musical elements.
Contributors:
Professor David Michael Bashwiner, University of New Mexico, USA
Professor Marilyn G. Boltz, Department of Psychology, Haverford College, USA
Professor Sandra L. Calvert, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, USA
Professor Annabel Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Professor Nicholas Cook, Department of Music, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Zohar Eitan, School of Music, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Professor Mark Grimshaw, Institut for Kommunikation, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
Professor Berthold Hoeckner, Department of Music, University of Chicago, USA
Professor Kineta Hung, Department of Communications Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Professor Shin-ichiro Iwamiya, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan
Professor Hermann Kappelhoff, Freie Universität Berlin , Germany
Professor Roger A. Kendall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Professor Mark Kerins, Division of Cinema-Television, Southern Methodist University, USA
Professor Stefan Koelsch, Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Professor Lars Kuchinke, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Professor Scott D. Lipscomb, School of Music, University of Minnesota, USA
Professor Howard C. Nusbaum, Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, USA
Professor Agnieszka Roginska, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development New York University, USA
Professor Mark Shevy, Communication and Performance Studies Department, Northern Michigan University, USA
Professor Siu-Lan Tan, Department of Psychology, Kalamazoo College, USA
