With the expansion of multimedia in all aspects of our life, inclusion of audio in that equation is increasingly important. Audio technology has expanded dramatically over the last few years. It has released the professional musician from the expensive commercial studio, allowing him/her to record from the home with the aid of a computer and a multi-tracking recording software program. It has a...

Non-verbal communication enables efficient transfer of information among people. In this context, classic orchestras are a remarkable instance of interaction and communication aimed at a common aesthetic goal: musicians train for years in order to acquire and share a non-linguistic framework for sensorimotor communication. To this end, we recorded violinists' and conductors' movement kinematics...

Artykuł poddaje interpretacji nowelę Janko Muzykant Henryka Sienkiewicza oraz powieść Cudzoziemka Marii Kuncewiczowej, centralnym konceptem analitycznym i interpretacyjnym czyniąc pragnienie, jakie w przypadku obojga głównych bohaterów koncentruje się wokół muzyki symbolizujących czy ucieleśniających ją skrzypiec. Rozpoznane uznane pragnienie odgrywa kluczową rolę przejściu kompleksu Edypa stwa...

The idea that extensive musical training can influence processing in cognitive domains other than music has received considerable attention from the educational system and the media. Here we analyzed behavioral data and recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) from 8-year-old children to test the hypothesis that musical training facilitates pitch processing not only in music but also in l...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, followed by automated segmentation of the Corpus Callosum in midsagittal sections has important applications in neurology and neurocognitive research since the size and shape of the Corpus Callosum are shown to be correlated to sex, age, neurodegenerative diseases and various lateralized behaviour in people. The segmenting of the Corpus Callosum is...

Graphical Abstract “Science is fun because it can take us one step closer to understanding the world … My favorite musician Alecia Beth Moore (aka Pink) …” Find out more about Nana Wang in her Introducing Profile.