Abstract Many people listen to music while working nowadays. However, conventional recommendation systems that are designed for playing songs matching user preferences cannot be applied such a situation. This is because previous research showed listeners’ concentration can negatively affected not only by listeners strongly dislike but also the like. Therefore, when we consider system used worki...

This study presents an effective technique for automatically identifying the singer of a music recording. Since the vast majority of popular music contains background accompaniment during most or all vocal passages, directly acquiring isolated solo voice data for extracting the singer’s vocal characteristics is usually infeasible. To eliminate the interference of background music for singer ide...

The present study reexamined the mood-mediation hypothesis for explaining background-music-dependent effects in free recall. Experiments 1 and 2 respectively examined tempo- and tonality-dependent effects in free recall, which had been used as evidence for the mood-mediation hypothesis. In Experiments 1 and 2, undergraduates (n = 75 per experiment) incidentally learned a list of 20 unrelated wo...

BACKGROUND Music and singing are considered to have a strong impact on human emotions. Such an effect has been demonstrated in caregiving contexts with dementia patients. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to illuminate vocally expressed emotions and moods in the communication between caregivers and persons with severe dementia during morning care sessions. DESIGN Three types of caring ses...

Background: Despite the development of pediatric post-operative pain management and use of analgesic/narcotic drugs, post-operative pain remains as a common problem. Some studies suggested, the most effective approach to controlling immediate post-operative pain may include a combination of drug agents and non-drug methods. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on...