APCS Newsletter
January 2025
Dear Auditory Perception and Cognition Society (APCS) members and friends,
This January edition of our society newsletter contains notes of interest regarding the updated composition of our board, a summary of the proceedings from APCAM 2024, a report from the editors of our affiliate journal Auditory Perception & Cognition, and our new social media presence on several platforms. We wish you a pleasant and productive start to your new year!
Board Membership
Three new officers are joining the board this year. Chad Rogers joins Erica Knowles as a Member At-large. Hannah Shatzer, former Member At-large, begins her term as treasurer of the board, and Lauren Petley takes the position of secretary. We are grateful for the years of service that Laura Getz and Laurie Heller provided in their former roles on the board.
APCAM 2024
(Courtesy of Timothy Hubbard, Chair of the Organizing Committee, timothyleehubbard@gmail.com)
The 23rd Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM) was held on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the New York Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York City. The meeting featured 19 talks in sessions on music, cross-modal and multi-modal perception, auditory scenes and timing, and speech and language. The poster session included 32 presentations on a range of topics in music, speech and language, auditory scene analysis, methodological issues, cross-cultural perception, and cross-modal perception and synesthesia. Notably, Prof. David Poeppel from New York University delivered an excellent keynote on Rhythms and Algorithms: From Vibrations in the Ear to Abstractions in the Brain. In addition to our long-standing support from the Psychonomic Society, we welcomed sponsorships for our initiatives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from FindingFive, Gorilla, and the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. We also received donations for these initiatives from 10 members of APCS. During abstract submission, we had queried whether applicants would be interested in mentoring younger colleagues, and during breaks during APCAM we displayed a list of those responding positively so that our younger colleagues could seek them out and find potential mentors. Finally, there was a meeting of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Society (APCS) membership, in which the society’s journal, Auditory Perception & Cognition, was discussed; membership and travel awards were presented; and ways in which APCAM attendees can get more involved in APCS were discussed.)
Auditory Perception & Cognition Editors' Report
(Courtesy of Michael Hall and Michael Russell, Co-Editors of AP&C)
As discussed during our society-wide meeting at the end of the November APCAM sessions in New York, now is an ideal time for you, our members, to submit a manuscript for publication consideration to our affiliated journal, Auditory Perception & Cognition(AP&C)! Open-access fees for accepted papers remain much lower than the competition (currently $685 per article with your active APCS membership v. well over $3,400 per article at Frontiers in Psychology, for example), and authors can still opt instead for subscription access to their accepted paper(s) without incurring any fees at all. It’s also clear that AP&C articles are being frequently read, with approximately 14,000 annual views, including several open-access papers being viewed thousands of times. (The most read paper currently has well over 5,300 views; a recently published paper received 50 views during its first week of release without any promotion.) Finally, all published papers are indexed in PsycInfo (and the editors are pursuing indexing in Scopus in the coming months). Papers can be submitted through the journal’s portal at https://www.editorialmanager.com/rpac/default.aspx. Do not hesitate to direct any submission-related questions to AP&C co-editors Michael Hall (hallmd@jmu.edu) and Mike Russell (mirussell@bellevue.edu).
Follow APCS on Social Media!
(Courtesy of Nathan Gillespie, APCS Social Media Officer)
We’re excited to announce that the Auditory Perception & Cognition Society now has a presence on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, and Facebook — and keep an eye out for our soon-to-launch account on Bluesky!
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