Abstract This study aimed to explore healthy, term neonates’ behavioural and physiological responses music using frame-by-frame analysis of their movements (Experiment 1; N = 32, 0–3 days old) heart rate measurements 2; 66, 0–6 old). A ‘happy’ ‘sad’ was first validated by independent raters for emotional content from a large pool children’s songs lullabies, the effect emotions in these two piec...

The Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) project team is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. The project seeks both to augment the study of literary history by drawing attention to the magnitude of poetry published in newspapers and by making the poetry more readily available for study, as well as to advance work on the use of digit...

This paper aims at illustrating how narrative theories can apply to the analysis of lyric poetry with an example from Korean literature: The Azaleas by Kim Sowöl. This poem in seven-and-five-syllable meter as well as with its thematic aspect that is concerned with lamentation or broken heart is considered the most representative of the folkloric tradition in the history of Korean lyric poetry. ...

BACKGROUND Individuals with the rare genetic disorder Williams-Beuren syndrome (WS) are known for their characteristic auditory phenotype including strong affinity to music and sounds. In this work we attempted to pinpoint a neural substrate for the characteristic musicality in WS individuals by studying the structure-function relationship of their auditory cortex. Since WS subjects had only mi...