Advances in Cognitive Psychology is a web-based journal devoted to the scientific study of the human mind. This issue (November, 2006) is dedicated to music performance.

Music performance is not so narrowly defined as to be simply a concert or a recital. It is an experience, encompassing teaching and learning, analysis and critique, and the combined experiences of those who interact in diverse ways with the processes and

Imagine a room where music is produced by touching the wall or the floor. Imagine a room where physical gestures are mapped to notes and harmony. Imagine a room with new musical instruments designed to let individuals without any formal music training cre

iSocrates is an educational software program that allows instructors to quickly and easily create digital evaluation rubrics for virtually any assignment.iSocrates allows instructors to generate criteria pull-down menus featuring their most commonly used feedback comments, and to evaluate student performance from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective.iSocrates can also compute a performance score based on instructor-assigned weights and evaluations, and generate printouts of the filled out rubrics to hand back to students.