Other Activities:

Invited Presentations

• Cohen, A. J., & Drew, R. (Nov. 2000). Psychology and film music. Symposium on interdisciplinary perspectives on film music. Society for Music Perception and Cognition, (organizers: A. J. Cohen & C. Morton). Toronto.



• Cohen, A. J. (June, 2000). Teaching psychology through music. Symposium address. Section on Teaching. Canadian Psychology Association. Ottawa.



• Cohen, A. J. (April, 1999). Music and multimedia: An approach from cognitive psychology. Technical university of Eindhoven. Eindhoven, NE.



• Cohen, A. J. (April, 1999). Experience and tonality induction. Expert Workshop on Tonality Induction. Bruges, Belgium (Organizers P. Vos & M. Leman).



• Cohen, A. J. (Mar. 1999). Music as a vehicle in multimedia contexts. Special session on musical acoustics. Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustical Society, Berlin. (Organizers R. Kendall, S. McAdams).



• Cohen, A. J. (Feb. 1999). Music and Multimedia: A cognitive approach. University of New Brunswick, Dept. of Psychology Colloquium Series.



• Cohen, A. J. (Nov. 1998). Functions of music in multimedia. Information Technology Week. Charlottetown. PE.



• Cohen, A. J. (Aug., 1998). Functions of Music in Multimedia. Invited plenary speaker. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Seoul, Korea.



• Frankland, B. W. & Cohen, A. J. (June, 1998). Parsing of melodies is robust and predictable across two testing conditions. Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Science, Ottawa. (L. Cuddy, B. Thompson, organizers).



• Cohen, A. J. (Oct., 1996). American Consumer Behavior Conference. Psychology of film music. Tucson, AZ. (Wanda Wallace organizer).



• Cohen, A. J. (May, 1996). Music and the psychology of aging. Department of Psychology. Colloquium. Ohio State University, Newark Campus.



• Cohen, A. J. (May, 1996). Psychology of film music. Invited address for Annual Honours Banquet,Ohio State University, Newark Campus.



• Cohen, A. J. (October, 1995). Music and the psychology of aging. Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting Psychological Association of Prince Edward Island.



• Cohen, A. J. (Sept., 1995). research in Hearing and Music Perception. Workshop leader for PEI Women Do Math & Science Conference. Colonel Grey High School. Charlottetown.



• Cohen, A.J. (Nov., 1994). Brain function and auditory pattern perception. Department of Anatomy and Physiology Seminar. Atlantic Veterinary College. U.P.E.I.



• Cohen, A. J. ( July, 1994). Invited discussant: Symposium on Music Development in Infancy. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Liege, Belgium.



• Cohen, A. J. ( July, 1994). Invited paper: Symposium on Pitch Schemata (Chair, Ian Cross). International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Liege, Belgium.



• Cohen, A. J. (June, 1993). Perception of tonality. research laboratory seminar of P. Johnson-Laird. Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton. N. J.



• Cohen, A. J. (May, 1993). Recent research in music perception. Dpmt. of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI.



• Cohen, A. J. (February, 1992). Recent research in music perception. Dpmt. of Psych., St. Francis Xavier Univ.Antigonish, N.S.



• Cohen, A. J. (December, 1990). Recent psychological research on musical soundtracks: Meaning and memory. Department of Music, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.



• Cohen, A.J. (November, 1990). Development of integration of audiovisual information in an emotional rating task. IWK Hospital Developmental Interest Group, Halifax.



• Cohen, A.J. (November, 1990). Audiovisual integration in film perception. Department of Psychology, Colloquium Series, Acadia University, Wolfville.



• Cohen, A.J. (April, 1989). Recent research on music perception: Elements of memory and meaning. Department of Psychology Colloquium, Northeastern University, Boston.



• Cohen, A.J., & Frankland, B. (October, 1988). The interdependence of scale and serial order information in melodic perception. Organizer, L.L. Cuddy. Symposium on Music Perception. Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting. Toronto.



• Cohen, A.J. (December, 1987). The major triad: Meaning and memory across the lifespan. Dept. of Music, Dalhousie University, Halifax.



• Cohen, A.J., & Trehub, S.E. (July, 1987). Infants' sensitivity to melodic variables: Contour, absolute and relative frequency. Symposium on music development. Organizer, T. Umemoto, IXth Biennial Meeting of the International Society of Studies of Behavioral Development, Tokyo.



• Cohen, A. J. (January, 1985). Meaning and music. Erindale-McMaster Cognitive Seminar, Mississauga, Ontario. Cohen, A.J. (August, 1981). Exploring the sensitivity to structure in music. Symposium on Music Perception. Queen's University. Kingston, Ontario.



• Foley, J. E. & Cohen, A. J. (March, 1981). Sex differences in the mental mapping of a megastructure. University College, London



• Cohen, A. J. (June, 1978). Perception of musical structure. Human Performance Centre. University of Michigan. Anne Arbor.



• Cohen, A. J. (April, 1978). Inferred sets of pitches. Symposium on the Cognitive Structure of Musical Pitch. R.N. Shepard Chair. Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Symposia Organized

• Cohen, A. J. & Morton, C. (November 2000). Interdisciplinary perspectives on film music. {5 presentations representing aesthetic, cognitive, theoretical, ethnomusicological & feminist perspectives} Nov. [Meeting of 15 societies].



• Cohen, A. J. (Feb. 2000). Music, multimedia, and mind. U.P.E.I.



• Cohen, A. J. (organizer--with the help of Dean Philip Smith) March, 1998. Interdisciplinary meeting on music across the UPEI campus [4 presentations from 4 departments in the Arts Faculty]



• Cohen, A. J. (Oct., 1996). Canadian Acoustical Association. Music perception. Session 1: Calgary researchers. Session 2. UPEI students. Calgary.



• Cohen, A. J. (1988). Recent developments in music cognition: Processing of internal and external relations. Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Halifax. Canadian Psychologist, 30, 343.



• Cohen, A. J., & Cuddy, L. L. (1985). Session on Musical Acoustics, Music Perception and Computer Applications Canadian Acoustical Association, Ottawa.



• Cohen, A. J. and Trehub, S. E. (Organizers & Chair) (1985). Development of Musical Behaviors in Children. Society for research in Child Development. Biennial Conference, Toronto.



• Cohen, A.J. (Spring, 1983). Acoustic images of the environment. Symposium on Acoustical considerations in environmental design. Environmental Design research Association (EDRA14), Nebraska.



• Cohen, A. J. (May, 1981). [First] Symposium on Musical Cognition. Acoustical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Ottawa.

Other Activities >> Community Acoustics

• Cohen, A. J. , Hughes, M.L., Woods, B., Fleming, R. & MacSwain, V. (1998). Island Acoustics Society. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Ottawa.



• Cohen, A.J. (June, 1987). An audiovisual presentation of acoustics in Canada (double-projector slide and sound track). Environmental Design research Association. Ottawa. In J. Harvey (Ed.) EDRA 18 Proceedings: Public Environments. p. 334.



• Cohen, A.J. (October, 1985). Chair, Membership Committee Project. Audiovisual overview of Canadian Acoustics. Canadian Acoustical Association, Ottawa.



• Cohen, A.J. (Spring, 1983). Symposium organizer. Acoustic images of the environment. Symposium on Acoustical considerations in environmental design. Environmental Design research Association (EDRA14), Nebraska