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Adelina Corina Cozma, Bayview Secondary School, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, for “Growing Up ‘In Sync’: Connecting a Bridge to an Autistic Mind’s World,” and Liza Joely Strauss, Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck, N.Y., for “A Study of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Arithmetic Combinatorial Processing Using Magnetoencephalography.” • Third Place Award of $500 (five winners): Olivia A. Dure, The Altamont School, Birmingham, Ala. “Brain Plasticity: The Effect of Age (A Two Year Study).” • Neel Sanjay Patel, Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Fla. “An Analysis of Listener Perception and Visual Replication of Sonifications: A Third Year Study.” • Samantha Michelle Phillips, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, N.Y. “Strategies Utilized by People with Autism and Neuro-Typical Individuals to Determine Emotion in Faces.” • Rachel Emily Reon, The Governor’s School for Science and Technology, Hampton, Va., for “Behavioral Evidence for Cerebral Asymmetry in Green Anoles.” • Heitor Geraldo da Cruz Santos, Colegio GGE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. “Problematizing Pedagogy as a Nutritional Education Strategy: A Social Constructivist Approach.” All winners also received an award certificate and a one-year student affiliate membership to APA. n Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain joins APA’s family of journals Since 1981, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain has published cutting-edge research in the field of music cognition. In July, APA took over publication of the journal, a move that will allow Psychomusicology to expand its reach at a crucial time in the history of the field, says Annabel Cohen, PhD, the journal’s editor and a psychology professor at the University of Prince edward Island, in Canada. “there’s been an explosion of research in music psychology,” she says. “In the ‘70s, there may have been a handful of papers on the topic, but now there are hundreds of new studies each year.” neuroimaging has constituted a big part of that research boom, says Cohen. In particular, scientists are exploring ways that music processing overlaps with and differs from language processing in the brain. that trend spurred a slight adjustment in the journal’s name, from Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition to Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, Cohen says. As before, the journal will focus on publishing empirical studies in the areas of music and cognitive science, neuroscience and cognitive musicology, while making room for theoretical articles and occasional profiles of psychomusicology programs and book reviews. “this is a valuable development for the field of psychology,” says Cohen. “We want to make psychomusicology a household word.” —S. DiNGfELDER septeMber 2011 • Monitor on psychology 89

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - September 2011

Monitor on Psychology - September 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Supreme Court hears psychologists on prison and video game cases
Antipsychotics are overprescribed in nursing homes
New MCAT likely to recognize the mind-body connection
A $2 million boost for military and families
In Brief
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
On Your Behalf
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
TIME CAPSULE
QUESTIONNAIRE
Speaking of Education
SCIENCE WATCH
An uncertain future for American workers
Advocating for psychotherapy
PRACTICE PROFILE
ETHICALLY SPEAKING
Seared in our memories
Helping kids cope in an uncertain world
APA and Nickelodeon team up
Muslims in America, post 9/11
Bin Laden’s death
‘They expect us to be there’
Answering the call of public policy
Candidates answer final questions
APA News
Division Spotlight
New leaders
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
Disaster relief training
Honoring teaching excellence
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - September 2011