HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 6 Number 3

Thursday, 18th February 2010
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In this issue

Participant Spotlight

Helen Shoemark, 1. Murdoch Children's Research Institute. 2.Mercy Hospital for Women

spotlight participant

Research area: Auditory Neuroscience - music, singing, hospitalized infant

I am concerned with development of premature and medically fragile full-term infant hospitalised at birth. I am working to measure, and change the interpersonal experience of the infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Special Care Nurseries. The focus of this work is the receptive and expressive auditory experiences of the infant in the context of his/her family. In particular I am investigating the protective potential of family and age-appropriately graded stimulation. Two interventions are currently being investigated. At MCRI, we are investigating the capabilities and potential of mothers to sing to their full-term or more mature preterm infants, and will eventually test the impact of this exercise on maternal sensitivity and infant neuropsychological development. At MHW we are investigating the use of recorded music to support the on-going physiological and behavioral state of the preterm infant, and will take this into the application of music to support sleep. Recent publication: Shoemark, H. & Grocke, D. (in press). The markers of interplay between the music therapist and the medically fragile newborn infant. Journal of Music Therapy. Shoemark, H. (2009). Music therapy: An exercise in humanity. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 20 (special edition), 31-44. Shoemark, Helen (2008). Mapping progress within an individual music therapy session with full-term hospitalized infants. Music Therapy Perspectives, 26, 39-46.

Contact:
Helen Shoemark
1. Murdoch Children's Research Institute. 2.Mercy Hospital for Women
1. Critical Care & Neuroscience theme. 2. Dept of Paediatrics
email: helen.shoemark@rch.org.au     www:

News

Call for Papers - ISMA2010

The International Symposium on Music Acoustics is held every three years, usually close in both time and space to the International Congress on Acoustics. ISMA will be held this year August 26-31 in Sydney and Katoomba. The two days in Sydney will be special sessions of ICA and the Katoomba sessions will include the more specialised papers. Deadline for abstracts is 8 March. As well as its scientific side, ISMA is famous for the musical involvement of its participants. For more information please visit: http://isma2010.phys.unsw.edu.au/.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality

, Malta
Due date: 19 Feb 2010
URL: http://www.multimodal-corpora.org

ICA2010 ICA 2010

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 22 Feb 2010
URL: http://www.ica2010sydney.org/

WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information & Computation

Brasília, DF, Brazil
Due date: 28 Feb 2010
URL: http://wollic.org/wollic2010/

Workshop on 3D Visualisation of Natural Language

Cardiff, United Kingdom
Due date: 1 Mar 2010
URL: http://kes2010.kesinternational.org

ICCG-6 Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar

Prague, Czech Republic
Due date: 1 Mar 2010
URL: http://constructiongrammar.org/iccg6

MOG 2010 3rd Workshop On Multimodal Output Generation

Dublin, Ireland
Due date: 14 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.mog-workshop.org/

6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Dublin, Ireland
Due date: 14 Mar 2010
URL: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/conferences/INLG2010/

SemDial 2010 14th Workshop on the Semantics & Pragmatics of Dialogue

Poznań, Poland
Due date: 15 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.semdial2010.amu.edu.pl

TSD 2010 Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

Brno, Czech Republic
Due date: 15 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.tsdconference.org/

EKAW Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Lisbon, Portugal
Due date: 19 Mar 2010
URL: http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

MeMCA Mediality of Music Cognition and Aisthesis

Cologne (Köln), Germany
Date: 19 Feb 2010 to 20 Jan 2010
URL: http://list.bowdoin.edu/pipermail/ams-announce/2009-August/001580.html

Prosodic Typology Prosodic Typology: State of the Art & Future Prospects

Berlin, Germany
Date: 24 Feb 2010 to 26 Feb 2010
URL: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/

HRI2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Osaka, Japan
Date: 2 Mar 2010 to 5 Mar 2010
URL: http://hri2010.org

Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions

Bristol, United Kingdom
Date: 8 Mar 2010 to 10 Mar 2010
URL: http://language.psy.bris.ac.uk/workshop/index.html

TCP2010 11th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics 2010

Tokyo, Japan
Date: 12 Mar 2010 to 13 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

Internat. LAUD Symposium Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Landau/Pf, Germany
Date: 15 Mar 2010 to 18 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-410.html

MAD'10 8th International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2010

Moissac, France
Date: 17 Mar 2010 to 20 Mar 2010
URL: http://w3.workshop-mad2010.univ-tlse2.fr/

23rd CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing

New York, United States
Date: 18 Mar 2010 to 20 Mar 2010
URL: http://psych.nyu.edu/cuny/

Ultrafest V

New Haven, CT, United States
Date: 19 Mar 2010 to 21 Mar 2010
URL: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/conferences/ultrafestV.html

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