Sensori-motor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an external rhythm. It plays a central role in motor, cognitive, and social behavior. SMS is commonly studied in adults and in children from four years of age onward. Prior to this age, the ability has rarely been investigated due to a lack of available methods. The present paper reviews what is known about SMS in...

This paper introduces a Travel Demand Management (TDM) model in order to decrease the transportation externalities by affecting on passengers’travel choices. Thus, a bi-objective bi-modal optimization model for road pricing is developed aiming to enhance environmental and social sustainability by considering to minimize the air pollution and maximize the social welfare as its objectives. This m...

This paper discusses techniques for pattern induction and matching in musical audio. At all levels of music harmony, melody, rhythm, and instrumentation the temporal sequence of events can be subdivided into shorter patterns that are sometimes repeated and transformed. Methods are described for extracting such patterns from musical audio signals (pattern induction) and computationally feasible ...

While Professor of Solfège...and Harmony at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, he was both interested and troubled by his students’ rhythmic problems. He noticed that one of his students, despite his musical problems, was capable of walking rhythmically. His observation caused him to conclude that people possessed musical rhythm instinctively, but did not transfer these instincts to fulfill thei...

the main purpose of this paper is analyzing the form and harmony in “neynava”, a piece composed by “hossein alizadeh”. written in 1984, the piece has been composed for solo ney (an iranian instrument) and string orchestra. according to composer himself, this piece is developed according to “dastgah of nava” and its melodic movement and parallel combination is consisted of different modes that c...

Nobody would deny that music may evoke deep and profound emotions. In this paper, we present a perceptual music composition system that aims at the controlled manipulation of a user’s emotional state. In contrast to traditional composing techniques, the single components of a composition, such as melody, harmony, rhythm and instrumentation, are selected and combined in a userspecific manner wit...

the musical and content harmony of modern iranian poetry is the core of this paper. there’ll be, initially, some arguments on the importance, coordination and the fitness existing between the poems’ components and the concinnity and elegance occurs, then the importance dedicated to such components by the poets and their beliefs to the harmonious coordination reflexes in their works will be scru...