The hypothesis was tested that musical activities may contribute to the prevention of alexithymia. We tested whether musical creative achievement and musical practice are associated with lower alexithymia. 8000 Swedish twins aged 27-54 were studied. Alexithymia was assessed using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. Musical achievement was rated on a 7-graded scale. Participants estimated number o...

The experience of flow, or optimal experience (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990, 2002), is an intensely rewarding psychological state that has been linked with peak performance and high achievement in a variety of settings ranging from competitive sports to the workplace. While the concept of flow remains somewhat elusive, its study has broad implications for training as well as for pedagogical and motiv...

the concept of iranian traditional musical modes, namely dastgäh, is the basis for the traditional music system. the concept introduces seven dastgähs. it is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...

The field of music raises very interesting challenges to computer science and in particular to Artificial Intelligence. Indeed, as we will see, computational models of music need to take into account important elements of advanced human problem solving capabilities such as knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning. In this paper I describe examples of computer programs capable of carryi...

This work described in this paper forms part of a wider research project, described in Holland (1989), to find ways of using artificial intelligence methods to encourage and facilitate music composition by musical novices. This paper focusses on the key component of a knowledge-based tutoring system under development to help novices learn to compose and analyse musically 'sensible' chord sequen...

In this paper, a novel research tool, which allows real-time implementation and evaluation of sound synthesis of musical instrument, is described. The tool is a PC-based application and allows the user to evaluate the effects of parameter changes on the sound quality in an intuitive manner. Tuning makes use of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) technique. Flute and plucked string modeling examples are us...

The field of neuroscience is fast emerging with the various types intelligence becoming critical to overall wellbeing an individual. aim this study understand relationship between fingerprint patterns and multiple among young adults (18-26 years) in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra state. Two hundred forty one subjects were enlisted study, comprising 140 females (58.1%) 101 males (41.9%). Eac...