[CogSci] Call for papers: special issue of Developmental Science on "Music in Development"

[Samuel Mehr]

Dear CogSci, Heather Bortfeld and I are editing a special issue of
Developmental Science on "Music in Development". The details are copied
below and in the attached pdf. Please circulate to anyone who might be
interested!

thanks,
Sam

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Samuel Mehr
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
*Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org <https://themusiclab.org/>!*
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Special Issue of *Developmental Science* on *Music in Development*



Editors:

Samuel Mehr, Harvard University (Guest Editor) sam at wjh.harvard.edu

Heather Bortfeld, UC Merced (Editor-In-Chief) hbortfeld at ucmerced.edu



Infants and children are precocious listeners: they are fascinated by their
auditory environment, skilled at decoding music and other sounds into
meaningful components, and motivated to engage musically with other
humans. *Developmental
Science* is inviting papers for submission to a Special Issue focusing on
the "how" and "why" of music in development, in terms of the roles and
impacts of music in auditory development, the functions of music in
higher-level cognitive processes, and developmental changes in music
perception during infancy and across childhood.



We are most interested in papers that:

(1)   focus on understudied populations, such as neonates, cross-cultural
samples, citizen scientists, people with developmental disabilities, etc;

(2)   use advanced quantitative methods, such as computational modeling,
music information retrieval, machine listening, etc;

(3)   already have or eventually could have translational applications,
such as music therapy or music-as-medicine;

(4)   clarify or uncover mechanisms of music perception, including (but not
limited to) genetic or neuroimaging studies and cross-species work; and/or

(5)   creatively revisit existing data and/or re-interpret/re-analyse prior
findings in a new light.



Other research under the umbrella of music and audition is also very
welcome, but please note that all submissions must report new data or new
analyses (including ethnographic reports and meta-scientific studies), as
theory/review articles will not be considered.



Authors interested in submitting a manuscript should send a pre-submission
inquiry via email to both Special Issue Editors, with the subject line
"pre-submission inquiry for DevSci Special Issue on Music" including a
tentative abstract, title and author list, and a one-paragraph cover note
summarizing the topic, sample, methodology, and any relevant information
about its potential fit to the Special Issue.



Timeline:

01 Feb 2022: Pre-submission inquiries due (but may be submitted at any time
before this date).

15 Feb 2022: Invitations for full manuscript submissions sent.

01 May 2022: Complete manuscripts due via *Developmental Science*'s
ordinary Manuscript Central portal.

Late 2022/Early 2023: All articles published.



All invited manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review process. An
invitation to submit a manuscript will not imply eventual acceptance of the
manuscript. Authors unsure of the fit of their research to this call for
papers are welcome to contact the Special Issue Editors informally to
discuss a potential submission. We hope to maximize the breadth of topics
and methods in the Special Issue and so we welcome inquiries from anyone
who might not typically submit their research to *Developmental Science*.
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