Research on the acquisition and use of communicative categories in domains such as language and music is largely divided between approaches suggesting innate cognitive constraints on domain-specific communicative forms, and approaches suggesting domain-general mechanisms through which specific communicative forms are learned. The present study investigates the effect of greater or lesser encult...

In this paper, we propose a new background music recommendation scheme for home videos and two new features describing the short-term motion/tempo distribution in visual/aural content. Unlike previous researches that merely matched the visual and aural contents through a perceptual way, we incorporate the textual semantics and content semantics while determining the matching degree of a video a...

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,” c...

as the most important method of religious and ritual theater, ta’ziye has many capabilities in iran which can be used in different forms of modern visualization. the only element which has been studied in this kind of theater has been distancing in performance. through studying the existent versions of ta’ziye, one can find that there are other elements that have not been studied yet. the relat...

This paper is a report of matching of melodies with line graphs and music notation by children (aged 10 & 11 years). The study found that children are able to match the up-down contour of melodies with their visual representations, and that matchingtask performance is positively related to mathematical ability in the case of line graphs, and musical ability in the case of music notation. The re...

anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders which can have negative effects on the human life. children and adults can have anxiety disorders and these disorders can lead to secondary problems such as cognitive, perceptual, emotional and behavioral problems. for treatment of anxiety, the practitioners and psychologists can apply psychotherapy approaches such as: cognitive therapy, ge...

There has been a long-standing and mutually-informing association between psychoanalysis, literature and the arts. Surprisingly, given the oral/aural basis of the ‘talking cure’, music has largely been overlooked by psychoanalysis. On the other hand, neuroscientific research investigating music reception and production has been increasing steadily in range and scope over the years. However, in ...