Guest Editorial

Canadian researchers have been and continue to be at the forefront of research in music cognition. By my count, there are currently 12 labs in Canada that are engaged in some aspect of music cognition, and in any given year, work from these labs accounts for no less than 15% of the peer-reviewed literature in the field. Although the roots of music cognition can be found in well-controlled psychoacoustic paradigms, researchers have increasingly branched out to consider questions that touch on aspects that run closer to our everyday experience with music. Consistent with this trend, there has been a growing interest in the manner by which separate physical dimensions of music including those that span modalities are registered, compared, and in some cases integrated. This special issue features four papers that investigate the multidimensional and multimodal nature of music and related questions of integration.