Music is often described in terms of the structure of repeated phrases. For example, many songs have the form AABA, where each letter represents an instance of a phrase. This research aims to construct descriptions or explanations of music in this form, using only audio recordings as input. A system of programs is described that transcribes the melody of a recording, identifies similar segments...

Music listening is a great resource for mental well-being, pleasure, and self-regulation, but it may also be maladaptive. Depression, instance, has been shown to relate music use that characterized by rumination, avoidance, mood worsening. However, we know little of the role individual differences in such maladaptive use. Hence, this study focused on examining personality, empathic traits, emot...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

The present study aimed to explore the factors causing listening comprehension anxiety (LCA) for Afghan English major students and strategies they used as solutions reduce their anxiety. participants (n=8) were chosen through a purposive sampling technique from Department of Education Faculty at Badghis Institute Higher employed qualitative research design where semi-structured interviews condu...