While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referring to taste sensations. In a recent work, we f...

OBJECTIVES This research aims at studying the neuroendocrine effects of music on creating morphine dependence in mice using conditioned place preference (CPP). METHODS The mice treated with 10 mg/kg morphine subcutaneously, fast music and slow music. Morphine was used to create dependence. In order to recognize the morphine rewarding effects, CPP technique was used. In the conditioning stage ...

The widespread use of beatand tempo-tracking methods in music information retrieval tasks has been marginalized due to undesirable sporadic results from these algorithms. While sensorimotor and listening studies have demonstrated the subjectivity and variability inherent to human performance of this task, MIR applications such as recommendation require more reliable output than available from p...

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...

We detail our work on a multi-agent model for the generation of structurally expressive music performance. It is a combined performance and composition system which attempts to implement the common observation in expressive music performance studies that performers slow down at boundaries in a musical piece, with the amount of slowing down being larger when the boundary is more significant. Bec...