Justin London is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in Music Theory, The Philosophy of Music, Music Psychology, Cognitive Science, and American Popular Music. He received his B.M. degree in Classical Guitar and holds a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Leonard Meyer. His research interests include rhythm and meter in western and non-western music, music perception and cognition, and musical aesthetics. He has held teaching and research appointments at The University of Cambridge, the University of Jyäskylä, Finland, The University of Oslo, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt. He served as President of the Society for Music Theory in 2007–2009, and as President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition in 2017–2018. He is the author of Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter published by Oxford University Press.

 

Stephen McAdams studied music composition and theory at De Anza College in California before turning to perceptual psychology at McGill University (BSc, 1977). He then studied studied psychoacoustics and auditory physiology at Northwestern University before moving on to Hearing and Speech Sciences at Stanford University (PhD, 1984). In 1986, he founded the Music Perception and Cognition team at IRCAM-Centre Pompidou in Paris and organized the first conference on Music and the Cognitive Sciences there in 1988. He was a research scientist in the French CNRS (1989-2004) and then returned to McGill to direct the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT, 2004-2009). He holds the Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition. He is currently interested in the perception of musical timbre applied to a psychological foundation for a theory of musical orchestration.

 

Daniel Shanahan is assistant professor of music theory and cognition at The Ohio State University. His work has been published in Music Perception, The Journal of New Music Research, The Journal of Jazz Studies, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Cognition and Emotion, and Musicae Scientiae, among others, and he is the co-editor of Empirical Musicology Review and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies.

 

Leigh VanHandel is Associate Professor of music theory at the Michigan State University College of Music, with a courtesy appointment in Cognitive Science. Her research interests include music cognition, music theory pedagogy, the relationship between music and language, computer applications in music research and pedagogy, and how all of those things relate to each other. She has presented at numerous regional, national, and international conferences and has been published in such journals as the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Music Perception, the Journal of New Music Research, and Empirical Musicology Review. She is the author of Music Theory Skill Builder, a web-based fundamentals development environment licensed and distributed by Oxford University Press, and is a consultant for Artusi, a web-based theory environment. In 2018 she was appointed to the College Board Advanced Placement Music Theory Development Committee, and was also elected to the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. She is editor of and a contributor to The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (Routledge Press, December 2019).

 

Jonna K. Vuoskoski is an Associate Professor in Music Cognition at the Departments of Musicology and Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also a core member of the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (University of Oslo). Her main areas of research are music and emotion, music and individual differences, and the social and embodied cognition of music.