In this study, we explored associations between perception of musical features (pitch, tonality, timing, timbre, and loudness), vocal abilities (singing accuracy, melodic achievement, rhythmic performance), cognitive levels (reading accuracy comprehension, grammar, math) among children ages 6 to 12. Musical were measured using the Implicit Tonal Ability Test. Vocal Cognitive standardized Dutch ...

The mechanisms of how children develop the capacity to make use of speech articulation cues to support interpretation of the speech signal are not exhaustively explored. The purpose of this study is to investigate if there are parallels in infants’ way of attending to speech articulation and their perception of physical changes in speech-unrelated objects. The current research questions grew ou...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

Abstract Techniques for discovering topological structures in large data sets are now becoming practical. This paper argues why the musical realm is a particularly promising arena in which to expect to find nontrivial topological features. The analysis is able to recover three important topological features in music: the circle of notes, the circle of fifths, and the rhythmic repetition of time...

The article explores issues of the American musical theater nineteenth century, fruitfully developing on basis postminimalism. Among brightest representatives this style is composer David Lang (1957), a member group “Bang Can”. His theatrical projects last two decades demonstrate new phase in development postminimalist theater, foundation which was laid by his older contemporaries, Philip Glass...

We present a time domain approach to explore a sound transformation paradigm for musical performance. Given a set of sounds containing a priori desired qualities and a population of agents interacting locally, the method generates both musical form and matter resulting from sonic trajectories. This proposal involves the use of bio-inspired algorithms, which possess intrinsic features of adaptiv...

Background: As most of the baby boomer generation have now reached retirement age, there are increasing demands for long-term care services. Depression and psychological distress can be highly prevalent at advanced ages. Regardless of chronological age, it is important to have a decent quality of life as a human being by improving resilience. The present study aims to briefly look at the curren...

Watching a speaker say words benefits subsequent auditory recognition of the same words. In this study, we tested whether hearing words also facilitates subsequent phonological processing from visual speech, and if so, whether speaker repetition influences the magnitude of this word repetition priming. We used long-term cross-modal repetition priming as a means to investigate the underlying lex...

Computational models of beat tracking of musical audio have been well explored, however, such systems often make “octave errors”, identifying the beat period at double or half the beat rate than that actually recorded in the music. A method is described to detect if octave errors have occurred in beat tracking. Following an initial beat tracking estimation, a feature vector of metrical profile ...