187 Cognitive Neuroscience Society expressions. This study investigated how differentially valenced musical contexts would bias amygdala responses to surpised facial expressions. During fMRI scans, subjects listened to 16 minutes of valenced (i.e., either positive or negative) music followed by alternating blocks of surprised faces and fi xation. Because amygdala signal changes tend to habituat...

Pattern / Normalization Resources •1–4 digit years • “BC/AD” phrases Rules •several modifications and new rules • rules with explicit “BC/AD” phrases • rules without “BC/AD” phrases Normalization Strategies •calculations for relative and underspecified expressions •disambiguation of 2-digit years •expressions without “BC/AD” phrases ∗preliminary normalized to AD dates ∗ if explicit BC dates in ...

This paper reports research on temporal expressions. The analyzed phrases include a common temporal expression for a period of years reinforced by an adverb of time. We found that some of those phrases are age-related expressions. We analyzed samples obtained from the Internet for Spanish and French to determine appropriate annotations for marking up text and possible translations. We present t...

This paper presents a method for interpreting facial expressions based on temporal structures among partial movements in facial image sequences. To extract the structures, we propose a novel facial expression representation, which we call a facial score, that is similar to a musical score. The facial score enables us to describe facial expressions as spatio-temporal combinations of temporal int...

This paper describes the Musical Poi (mPoi), a unique sensorbased musical instrument inspired by the ancient art of Jwibulnori and Poi spinning. The trajectory of circular motion drawn by the performance and the momentum of the mPoi instrument is converted to the energetic and vibrant sound, which creates a spiritual and meditative soundscape that opens everyone up the aura and clears the mind....

of Master’s Thesis Academic Year 2000 Musical Modality: The Development and Evaluations of Augmented Modality-based Music Systems This research aims to propose new music interactive systems to extend a general idea of musical instruments. Speculating on the tactile interaction in music, I built interactive systems that provide new musical modality for a new kind of musical pleasure. In the fiel...

Semantic memory has been investigated in numerous neuroimaging and clinical studies, most of which have used verbal or visual, but only very seldom, musical material. Clinical studies have suggested that there is a relative neural independence between verbal and musical semantic memory. In the present study, "musical semantic memory" is defined as memory for "well-known" melodies without any kn...

Introduction: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) may experience few opportunities for positive musical experiences, and musical perception is therefore often not sufficiently developed. This paper investigates and discusses the relationship between intelligence quotient (IQ) and musical ability in children with CIs compared with children with normal hearing.                                  ...

The impact of music and its psychological and physiological changes during exercise is issue that has always been focused on sport science experts. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of musical exercise on aerobic capacity and quality of life in elderly men. This study was conducted on 45 elderly men. The participants were randomly allocated into three groups: aerobic musical exer...