Many computational models of music fail to capture essential aspects of the high-level musical structure and context, and this limits their usefulness, particularly for musically informed users. We describe two recent approaches to modelling musical harmony, using a probabilistic and a logic-based framework respectively, which attempt to reduce the gap between computational models and human und...

The plot structure in television advertisements can enhance consumers’ brand attitudes and foster increasing consumer and industry recognition. A corpus analysis of contemporary television advertisements shows that advertisements using the repetition-break plot structure are a small percentage of television advertisements but a large percentage of Clio and Effie award–winning advertisements. Th...

Background in music education: The relationship between new technology and learning is gaining more relevance in the field of music education (Webster 2002). The present study deals with an area still under-studied, that of interactive musical systems, in an attempt to understand in what way it can affect the learning and the musical creativity of children. In particular, we chose to study youn...

Understanding the timbre and pitch of musical instruments is an important issue for automatic music transcription, music information retrieval and computational auditory scene analysis. In particular, recent worldwide popularization of online music distribution services and portable digital music players makes musical instrument recognition even more important. Musical instruments are one of th...

aim and background: it has been shown in several studies that, students with mathematics learning disabilities have memory problems. this research compares memory profile of students with and without mathematics learning disabilities. methods and materials: the design of research was cross-sectional with causal-comparative method. the statistical population were 3 rd grade student boys in isfah...

The Repetition-Break plot structure, which capitalizes on how people learn through drawing comparisons, generates persuasive narratives. In two experiments, we show that television advertisements using the Repetition-Break plot structure are persuasive, leading to higher brand attitudes and purchase intentions than ads with alternative structures. This effect is partly attributable to compariso...

We review the existing evidence, behavioral and neural, of infants’ ability to encode repetition- (‘same’) diversity- (‘different’) based regularities in speech. These studies show that, from birth, infants exhibit a robust capacity for learning repetition-based rules speech (e.g. AAB or ABA, which A = A). Further, generalize such structures is not strictly language-specific, as extract musical...

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech. This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The "OPERA" hypothesis proposes that such benefits are driven by adaptive plasticity in speech-processing networks, and that this plasticity occurs when five conditions are met. These are: (1) Overlap: there is anatomical overlap in the brai...