Deafness And Music: Can Vibration Be Used When Playing Music Together?

Can music be used in medical education?

Consuming Music Together

Music Playing Robot

In our lab at the Center for Intelligent Systems we are currently developing a dual armed humanoid service robot called ISAC One of our focus areas in this research is the use of humanoid robots for en tertainment One application we have developed is using ISAC to play a musical instrument called the Theremin In this paper we present our Theremin playing robot and describe the software system u...

Music perhaps best used by music teachers.

In her Issue Is article entitled "Should Music Be Used Therapeutically in Occupational Therapy'" (AJOT, March 1992, pp. 275-277), Anne MacRae discussed issues that are not new. From 1984 until 1987, Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, was fortunate to have a part-time music therapist as a member of its occupational therapy department. Music therapy was introduced with the client ...

Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music and facilitated by dissonant music

Debates on the origins of consonance and dissonance in music have a long history. While some scientists argue that consonance judgments are an acquired competence based on exposure to the musical-system-specific knowledge of a particular culture, others favor a biological explanation for the observed preference for consonance. Here we provide experimental confirmation that this preference plays...