PRESENT
The following people attended our meeting in Boston (in alphabetical order): Brett Aarden, Ira Braus, Tim Brown, Alfred Cramer, Johanna Devaney, Megan Fogle, Bruno Gingres, Roger Grant, Robert Hatten, Norm Hirschy, Mark Johnson, Gary Karpinski, Steve Larson, Ian MacMillen, Lisa Margulis, Peter Martens, Panos Mavromatis, John McKay, Elizabeth Mellon, Sam Mukherji, Andrew Robbie, Scott Spiegelberg, David Sullivan, Michel Vallieres,

ANNOUNCEMENTS
We began the meeting with the following announcements: (a) ICMPC will meet in Bologna August 23-26, 2006; and (b) ESCOM will meet in Turina in 2007.

INTRODUCTIONS, CURRENT PROJECTS
We then introduced ourselves, and described work we are currently doing in music cognition. The following topics were mentioned: untrained listeners' responses to silence and expectation, the teaching of aural skills, 'impossible rhythms', 'gastromusicology' (food as a metaphor for music), the phenomenology of electronic music, how organists emphasize different polyphonic voices, the dynamic perception of form, syntax in non-western music, computational modeling, melodic attraction, timbre, phenomenology, rhythm in dance music, early 20th-century music, auditory scene analysis, the historical contingency of aural perception, intonation, beat and meter perception, computational modeling of counterpoint, Schenker, similarity perception, aural-skills acquisition, and short-term vs. long-term musical memory, and 'musical forces'.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION OF SELECTED ARTICLE
The article chosen for this year's roundtable discussion was not discussed in this meeting (too few had read it, partly because of insufficient advertising). But we agreed that we liked the idea of having such a roundtable discussion next year, and many suggestions were made that might enhance such a discussion. Suggestions included giving more notice, inviting the whole SMT membership, inviting the author of the article to attend, appointing to specific individuals responsibilities such as providing an overview, commenting on its historical significance, 'translating' the statistics, bringing musical examples to illustrate ideas from the article, etc. It was also suggested that we begin our session with the roundtable and then move to other business. Ira Braus, Brett Aarden, and Steve Larson will choose an article soon for next year's roundtable, and we will try to implement these suggestions.

SPECIAL SESSION SUGGESTIONS
Panos Mavromatis noted that it has become increasingly difficult to get special-session proposals accepted. Scott Spiegelberg noted that the process can be useful even if session is not accepted. It was suggested that an invited respondent who is not an SMT member, but represents a different discipline, might make a session more special. Ira Braus suggested that Albert Bregman (or James Wright) could be invited; we could have a session of auditory scene analysis. Last year, we posted calls for papers to other lists as a part of bringing in other speakers. Panos Mavromatis mentioned that brain imaging is a research area of emerging importance, and that maybe Robert Zatorre would be a good guest. Scott Spiegelberg noted that brain imaging is expensive. Bruno Gingres suggested choosing a topic that might not be accepted elsewhere. Lisa Margulis noted that a discussion on connections between cognition and theory might better represent us (and she made the apt observation that we music-cognition folks are still a minority amongst both SMT and psychology groups). It was noted that we might want to think ahead to topics for presentation at later conferences, and that we could let one another know via this email distribution list if cognition topics are a part of sessions other than our own. Robert Hatten suggested that presenters who want to be on a special session could mention this in their cover letters. Scott Spiegelberg (with the help of Ira Braus and Peter Martens) will shepherd a proposal for a special session in 2007.

Steve Larson (steve@UOREGON.EDU)