Abstract Cognitive processes related to children involved in music are directly other cognitive the brain because is known or indirectly affect many mental processes, but we still don’t have evidence of how and which way this process takes place. Since paper deals with influence musically gifted students on development language competencies, theoretical elaboration will try analyze compare musi...

the confrontation between iranian and western musical cultures and especially taking the idea of western orchestra is a topic that had incongruous dimensions in iranian music. therefore, this process leads up to some questions: what is the relationship between the multiplicity of musical performance and identity of iranian music? and the other question: did such a process in its different dimen...

Trait emotional intelligence ('trait EI' or 'trait emotional self-efficacy') is a constellation of emotion-related self-perceptions and dispositions comprising the affective aspects of normal adult personality. The two studies in this paper investigate the construct validity of trait EI, as operationalized by the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue). In Study 1 (34 ballet student...

The Sultanate of Oman is characterized by a huge and creative musical heritage that remains mostly preserved. One hundred forty-two different traditional genres styles (funun) have been registered in the Sultanate. This study aimed to investigate Omanis’ achievements psychological motives behind Omani achievements. present qualitative adopted ethnographic research. two study’s questions were an...

Evaluation has been suggested to be one of the main trends in current NIME research. However, the meaning of the term for the community may not be as clear as it seems. In order to explore this issue, we have analyzed all papers and posters published in the proceedings of the NIME conference from 2012 to 2014. For each publication that explicitly mentioned the term “evaluation”, we looked for: ...

Musical keyboard instruments have a long history, which resulted in many kinds of keyboards (claviers) today. Since the hardware of conventional musical keyboards cannot be changed, such as the number of keys, musicians have to carry these large keyboards for playing music that requires only a small diapason. To solve this problem, the goal of our study is to construct UnitKeyboard, which has o...

One of the reasons of why some musical instruments more successfully continue their evolution and actively take part in the history of music is partially attributed to the existing compositions made specifically for them, pieces that remain and are still played over a long period of time. This is something we know, performing these compositions keeps the characteristics of the instruments alive...

This short paper follows an earlier NIME paper [1] describing the invention and construction of the Electrumpet. Revisions and playing experience are both part of the current paper. The Electrumpet can be heard in the performance given by Hans Leeuw and Diemo Schwarz at this NIME conference.

My main research motivation is to develop complete autonomous agents that interact with people socially. For an agent to be social with respect to humans, it needs to be able to parse and process the multitude of aspects that comprise the human cultural experience. That in itself gives rise to many fascinating learning problems. I am interested in tackling these fundamental problems from an emp...