June 2017 - News!

AIRS News  

• Estonian Research Council interview with Dr. Marju Raju and Laura Välja (regarding their research supervised by Dr. Jaan Ross).  Link  
  

• Congratulations to Ross Dwyer, former longstanding administrative officer for AIRS, who has recently been awarded the  Presidential Recognition Award of Merit for Staff at the University of Prince Edward Island, for his contributions to the AIRS Project, his current position as Research Manager of Young Lives, and his assistance with the  biennial  L. M. Montgomery Institute Biennial Conference. We have greatly appreciated Ross's support over the years and wish him continuing success in his current position.  Link 
  

• AIRS researchers presenting at the Canadian Psychological Association annual meeting, Toronto, June 8-10, will be at a GIMME-5 session entitled Do re me fa sol: Developmental research perspectives on singing and psychology. (Students at all levels, undergraduate, graduate*, and postdoctoral fellows** are indicated in blue text). 
  

  • Does infant directed singing cue infant prosociality? Laura K. Cirelli** & Sandra Trehub (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto, ON)
    

  • Infants’ processing of melody and lyrics when presented simultaneously in song. Alexandra M. Ryken & Christine D. Tsang (Department of Psychology, Huron University College at Western)
    

  • Effect of Song and Focus on Learning Unfamiliar Words by Musicians and Non-Musicians. Jiaqi Guo, Henrietta Lempert, Vanessa Lee, Amy Yu, Janice Hui, (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto)
    

  • Applying the Singing Experience Scale of Gick and Busch (2015). Hailey Arsenault, Ed Hanson & Annabel J. Cohen  (Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island)
    

  • Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder have enhanced memory for vocal music, Michael W. Weiss**¹, Megha Sharda**¹, Sandra E. Trehub², Krista L. Hyde^1,3 (¹ International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS), Department of Psychology, University of Montreal; ² University of Toronto; ³ Faculty of Medicine, McGill University)
    

  • Vocal performance of student élite athletes: effects of music training on pitch stability of repeated key-notes in a familiar song.  Eric Da Silva¹, Kyle Dutton¹, Bing-Yi Pan*/**², & Annabel J. Cohen¹  (¹ Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island;  ² Department of Music Therapy, Concordia University)
    

  • Antecedents to the Calling of Singer-songwriters in Canada: An Online Survey of the influences of geographic location, family members, and self-efficacy. Christopher Robison and Annabel J. Cohen (Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island)
    

  • Investigating Self-Discernment and Psychological Well-Being in University-Level Singers, Darryl Edwards, Charlene Santoni, Chritina Haldane (University of Toronto)
    

  • Positive effect of group singing on cooperative behaviours in children, Arla Good, Frank Russo (Ryerson University)
    

• The symposium on singing entitled "Studies of singing: abilities and well-being from infancy to senior years" has been accepted for presentation at the meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition to be held at University of California, San Diego, July 30-August 3rd.
  

  AIRS members are presenting the following papers:
  

  • Infants Can Categorize Singing and Speaking, Christine D. Tsang,  Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Simone Falk, CNRS / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3, FRANCE
    

  • Developing innovative techniques for testing singing ability in 3-year-olds, Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir  (Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Iceland;  currently Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University, New York)
    

  • Testing domain-based vs domain-general theories of creativity: comparing vocal and speech improvisation in the AIRS Test Battery of Singing Skills in young adults, Annabel J. Cohen, Eric da Silva, Kyle Dutton, University of Prince Edward Island; Bing-Yi Pan Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. 
    

  • Applying SingFit Technology to the distribution of music as medicine for older populations. Andy Tubman and Rachel Francine, Music Health Technologies, Los Angeles.
    

• National Endowment for the Arts  Funding Opportunity for/with US collaborators.   Link
  

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Conferences, Symposiums, Workshops   view all upcoming

• Choral Canada’s biennial conference and choral festival, hosted by The Singing Network, is holding Podium on the EDGE: Singing from Sea to Sea to Sea, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, June 29-July 3, 2018. The Podium 2018 National Steering Committee invites the submission of proposals for the presentation of Interest Sessions and Lecture-Recitals, due date: 30 June 2017; notification of results: 28 July 2017.     Link 
  

• The International Symposium on Singing and Song is happening as a back-to--back event with Podium 2018 on June 27-29, 2018. The Call for Presentations for this Symposium are due October 15, 2017.   Link
  

• The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) 2017 Summer Institute for Educators, University of California at Berkely, Clark Kerr Campus, June 25-30 OR July 16-21, 2017.    Link
  

• 4th International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2017), Saturday 28th October 2017, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China. Proceedings to be published in ACM ICPS.    Link  
  

• 2nd Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, Open University in Milton Keynes (UK), 11-13 Sept 2017.    Link
  

Student Opportunities

• Institute of Musical Research, University of London, Summer School on Music, Language and Cognition will be held on Lake Como, Italy from 26 to 30 June, 2017. Applications are invited from prospective students. Further details are available here.
  

• The Cognitive Science Departement  of École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Département d'études cognitives, DEC) aims to recruit advanced undergraduate international students in Cognitive Science and in Linguistics.   LINK