When the senses deliver conflicting information, vision dominates spatial processing, and audition dominates temporal processing. We asked whether this sensory specialization results in cross-modal encoding of unisensory input into the task-appropriate modality. Specifically, we investigated whether visually portrayed temporal structure receives automatic, obligatory encoding in the auditory do...

Colour harmony was investigated using direct visual observations of computer simulated displays and compared with predictions of different colour harmony theories. Ou and Luo [1] constructed a model of colour harmony (CH formula) based on a harmony pair comparison experiment. The present paper compares our results with harmony predictions of the CH formula, and of colour harmony models based on...

the ambient vibration measurement is a kind of output data-only dynamic testing where the traffics and winds are used as agents responsible for natural or environmental excitation. therefore an experimental modal analysis procedure for ambient vibration testing needs to base itself on output-only data. the modal analysis involving output-only measurements present a challenge that requires the u...

We give an overview of mathematical music theory as it has been developed in the past twenty years. The present theory includes a formal language for musical and musicological objects and relations. This language is built upon topos theory and its logic. Various models of musical phenomena have been developed. They include harmony (function theory, cadences, and modulations), classical counterp...

rhythm is a criterion for harmonic music, just in a way that prosody is for poetry. like prosody, rhythm has meters that were called periods or rhythmic periods. rhythmic periods consist of noqrehs (silver) or stresses that are equal to words in poem. present article is to study the science of rhythm and prosody, considering the similarities and dissimilarities in their divisions such as their ...

harmony and disharmony are generally considered in isolation in the phonological literature. this has led to a striking asymmetry in their analyses. in this article, it is argued that both phenomena call for a parallel treatment and that this can be accomplished within correspondence theory.correspondence theory provides a general framework for defining faithfulness constraints. what happens in...

The three experiments reported here demonstrated a cross-modal influence of an auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention. In Experiment 1, participants moved their eyes to a test dot with a temporal onset that was either synchronous or asynchronous with a preceding auditory rhythm. Saccadic latencies were faster for the synchronous condition than for the asynchronous condit...

In this paper, a computationally simple approach for damage localization and quantification in beam-like structures is proposed. This method is based on using modal flexibility curvature (MFC) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Analytical studies in the literature have shown that changes in the modal flexibility curvature can be considered as a sensitive and suitable criterion for...

patients with valvular heart disease suffer from atrial fibrillation for more than 12 months after valve surgery and have a low probability of remaining in sinus rhythm. we performed an intra-operative procedure similar to surgical maze ііі procedure for conversion of this arrhythmia to sinus rhythm. we did this study to evaluate the efficacy of this procedure to restore the sinus rhythm in pat...

0. Introduction This study documents and analyzes opacity in the coronal harmony of Kinyarwanda. This harmony presents several features of interest. First, the existence of opacity in coronal harmony is rare: to the best of our knowledge it has only previously been reported in Sanskrit’s nasal retroflex harmony. In Kinyarwanda the harmony audibly affects only sibilants, and it is blocked by cor...