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Thematic areas
Psychological aspects of:
Processing music
- Music perception and cognition
- Memory for music
- Music and the body
- Music and language; music and meaning
- Neurological aspects of processing music
Musical potential and development
- Development of musical skills
- Musical skills and external criteria
- Musical ability and giftedness
- Music and creativity
Music performance
- Motivation and self-motivation
- Mental training for musicians
- Preparation for performance
- Performance anxiety
- Musical communication
Music and individual differences
- Music and personality traits
- Music and heritability
- Music and gender
- Music and learning styles
- Music and identity
Music and well-being
- Music and health
- Music and special needs
- Music therapy
- Musicians’ health
Music and affect
- Music and emotion
- Musical preferences
- Expression and perception of affect in music
- Music and aesthetics
Music in social contexts
- Music in educational settings
- Music in everyday life
- Cross-cultural studies of music
- Collaborative musicianship
- Community musicianship
State of the art
- Interdisciplinarity of the Psychology of Music
- Psychology of Music and related fields
- Development of the Psychology of Music: history, present and future
- Psychology of Music in the academic environment
- Professional associations, conferences, and publications
