In computational musicology research, clustering is a common approach to the analysis of expression. Our research uses mathematical model selection criteria to evaluate the performance of clustered and non-clustered models applied to intra-phrase tempo variations in classical piano performances. By engaging different standardisation methods for the tempo variations and engaging different types ...

A melody's identity is determined by relations between consecutive tones in terms of pitch and duration, whereas surface features (i.e., pitch level or key, tempo, and timbre) are irrelevant. Although surface features of highly familiar recordings are encoded into memory, little is known about listeners' mental representations of melodies heard once or twice. It is also unknown whether musical ...

We live in our own rhythms in daily lives. Human life is closely related to rhythm as the words “talk rhythm,” “getting into the rhythm” and the “Biorhythm” show. The rhythm is important for us to live in order and cheerfully. Each person has his/her own action rhythm called the “Personal Tempo.” It is the basic rhythm observed in person's voluntary actions, such as tapping on a table. Psycholo...

Surface partitioning of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidynyloxy radical (Tempo) to the air/water interface follows a Langmuir isotherm. The partition constant was obtained by the surface tension measurements in the concentration range of 1.0 x 10(-4)-2.4 x 10(-3) M yielding K = 640 +/- 99 M(-1). The lateral mobility of Tempo at the air/water interface was measured electrochemically in the surface ...

Although the sequence of pubertal maturation remains consistent across most individuals, the timing and tempo of development fluctuate widely. While past research has largely focused on the sequelae of pubertal timing, a faster tempo of maturation might also present special challenges to children for acclimating to new biological and social milestones. Using latent growth curve modeling, the pr...

Motor skill acquisition inherently depends on the way one practices the motor task. The amount of motor task variability during practice has been shown to foster transfer of the learned skill to other similar motor tasks. In addition, variability in a learning schedule, in which a task and its variations are interweaved during practice, has been shown to help the transfer of learning in motor s...

This extended abstract details a submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange in the Audio Beat tracking task. The basic idea is based on the algorithm which submitted by Daniel P.W. Ellis in MIREX 2006. We consider about the energy of beats in order to approximate the human auditory system and improve tracking accuracy. I. BEAT TRACKING WITH A MOVING WINDOW In MIREX 2009, ...

We investigated the effects of different encoding tasks and of manipulations of two supposedly surface parameters of music on implicit and explicit memory for tunes. In two experiments, participants were first asked to either categorize instrument or judge familiarity of 40 unfamiliar short tunes. Subsequently, participants were asked to give explicit and implicit memory ratings for a list of 8...

This paper introduces a temporal logic based on precedence constraints among events which captures net semantics, i.e. a particular net can be mapped into a semantic-equivalent formula in the logic. Tempo, a declarative concurrent programming language, is based on such logic and has a procedural interpretation which allows speciications to be executed as concurrent programs. Thus, the execution...

Turkey has been experiencing significant fertility decline since the 1950s. Increasing mean ages at childbearing have accompanied this decline, thus studies regarding tempo effects are necessary for Turkey. The main aim of this study is to reveal the tempo distortions in recent period fertility in Turkey as a whole and for different sub-groups by using an adjustment procedure. A procedure by Bo...