The present issue of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain (PMMB) is special in several ways. It is the first produced by its new publisher, the American Psychological Association. This longstanding prestigious publisher assures wide dissemination through PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES, and it also assures both timeliness and highest publication standards through its professional management staff. The previous two volumes of PMMB (20 and 21) under my editorship inaugurated many changes in format (as detailed in Cohen, 2009) and the new subtitle Music, Mind, & Brain. Both volumes were double issues on special topics: The History of Music Psychology in Autobiography (with coeditor Amy Graziano) and Singing and Psychomusicology (with coeditor Sandra Trehub), respectively. The present issue (Vol. 22, No. 1) continues with the new format but represents a wide range of topics including absolute pitch, reading music and text syntax, melodic parsing, musical spatial concepts as understood by persons who are blind, and time estimation. Also included is a report on the Music and Neuroscience IV conference held in 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland, reflecting the journal's strong interest in providing an outlet for research in music and neuroscience (as implicated by the journal's new subtitle). Consistent with this thrust, the next issue (Vol. 22, No. 2) will be a special issue on music and neuroscience guest edited by Lauren Stewart.Since the beginning of my editorship, PMMB has been blessed with an active trio of associate editors: Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths, University of London), W. Jay Dowling (University of Texas at Dallas), and Bruno Repp (Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut). Regretfully, Bruno Repp has retired from Haskins Laboratories and is now also retiring from the editorial board. PMMB will miss his creative ideas, high editorial standards, embrace of the value of translating key works unavailable in English, and in addition service as book review editor. The current issue, with reviews of six recent books, attests to this dedication. PMMB welcomes as new associate editor Renee Timmers (Department of Music, University of Sheffield, England), who has conducted research in Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in addition to the Netherlands, her homeland. The associate editors and I thank the strong international board of consulting editors who represent all subspecialties in this field and serve as reviewers, guest action editors, and advisors: Mayumi Adachi, Eckhart Altenmuller, Christine Beckett, Emmanuel Bigand, Lola Cuddy, Lyle Davidson, Diana Deutsch, Zohar Eitan, Alf Gabrielsson, John M. Geringer, Amy Graziano, Pamela Heaton, Peter Keller, Bjorn Merker, Frank Russo, Gottfried Schlaug, William (Bill) Forde Thompson, Barbara Tillmann, Laurel Trainor, Peter Vuust, and Robert J. Zatorre. Among them they represent 10 countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States).PMMB encourages the submission of manuscripts in all areas of psychomusicology: music, mind, and brain; and we pride ourselves on fair and constructive reviews. …