Background: The healing aspects of natural sounds therapy including water sound are beginning to get a lot of interest in the medical fields. Numerous studies conducted on the value of natural sounds as a therapy for various psychological treatments. Objective: to observe the influence of water fountain melodies on anxiety level among the experimental groups before undergoing dental chec kup an...

Simultaneous notes in the printed score (chords) are not played strictly simultaneously by pianists. As reported in the literature, an emphasised voice is not only played louder, but additionally precedes the other voices typically by around 30ms (melody lead; Hartmann, 1932; Vernon, 1937; Palmer, 1989, 1996; Repp, 1996). It is still unclear whether this phenomenon is “a common expressive featu...

Recently a great attention is paid to content-based multimedia retrieval that enables users to find and locate audio-visual materials according to the intrinsic characteristics of the target. Query-by-humming (QBH) is also an application that makes retrieval based on major characteristics of music, that is, "melody". There have been some researches on QBH system, most of which are to retrieve m...

When compared with individuals without explicit training in music, adult musicians have facilitated neural functions in several modalities. They also display structural changes in various brain areas, these changes corresponding to the intensity and duration of their musical training. Previous studies have focused on investigating musicians with training in Western classical music. However, mus...

The present functional magnetic resonance imaging study investigates the neural substrates of relative pitch. Musicians and nonmusicians performed 2 same/different discrimination tasks (simple and transposed melody) that differed in whether they required precise encoding and comparison of relative pitch structure, along with 2 control tasks (rhythm and phoneme). The transposed melody task invol...