A recent study of spatial processing in amusia makes a controversial claim that such musical deficits may be understood in terms of a problem in the representation of space. If such a link is demonstrated to be causal, it would challenge the prevailing view that deficits in amusia are specific to the musical or even the auditory domain.

The present study investigated music-syntactic processing with chord sequences that ended on either regular or irregular chord functions. Sequences were composed such that perceived differences in the cognitive processing between syntactically regular and irregular chords could not be due to the sensory processing of acoustic factors like pitch repetition, pitch commonality (the major component...

A fundamental feature of everyday music perception is sensitivity to familiar tonal structures such as musical keys. Many studies have suggested that a tonal context can enhance the perception and representation of pitch. Most of these studies have measured response time, which may reflect expectancy as opposed to perceptual accuracy. We instead used a performance-based measure, comparing parti...

Numerous arguments in the recent neuroscientific literature support the use of musical training as a therapeutic tool among the arsenal already available to therapists and educators for treating children with dyslexia. In the present study, we tested the efficacy of a specially-designed Cognitivo-Musical Training (CMT) method based upon three principles: (1) music-language analogies: training d...

In this paper, we describe a set of hardware and software tools for creating musical controllers with any flat surface or simple object, such as tables, walls, metallic plates, wood boards, etc. The system makes possible to transform such physical objects and surfaces into virtual control interfaces, by using computer vision technologies to track the interaction made by the musician, either wit...

introduction: children with cochlear implants (cis) may experience few opportunities for positive musical experiences, and musical perception is therefore often not sufficiently developed. this paper investigates and discusses the relationship between intelligence quotient (iq) and musical ability in children with cis compared with children with normal hearing.                                  ...

stylistics as a new method of text analysis explores the overall structure of texts. an author’s use of repetition as well as other linguistic and literary elements is among the most prominent stylistic features intended to create an effective expression. since the nahj al-balaghah is one of the most important religious books, and has a great literary value, it has always attracted the attentio...

Musicians make use of the notion of shape in relation to music performance, teaching, composition, improvisation; they often think and talk about the shape of a musical phrase or melody, the shape of a single sound event, the shape of a longer section or piece, the expressive shaping of music during performance. But how can a primarily spatial term such as shape (meaning “the external form, con...

The recent language acquisition literature has revealed powerful, domain-general learning mechanisms that rely on frequency and distributional properties of the input. A second set of research investigates generalization of learned patterns to new input. The relationship between these two bodies is not entirely clear. The present paper demonstrates that the latter mechanism appears to be domain...

This paper situates NIME practice with respect to models of social interaction among human agents. It argues that the conventional model of composer-performer-listener, and the underlying mid-20 century metaphor of music as communication upon which it relies, cannot reflect the richness of interaction and possibility afforded by interactive digital technologies. Building on Paul Lansky’s vision...