Many applications demand the automatic induction of the tempo of a musical excerpt. The tempo estimation systems follow a general scheme that consists of two main steps: the creation of a feature list and the detection of periodicities on this list. In this study, we propose a new method for the implementation of the first step, along with the addition of a final step that will enhance the temp...

Motor skill acquisition inherently depends on the way one practices the motor task. The amount of motor task variability during practice has been shown to foster transfer of the learned skill to other similar motor tasks. In addition, variability in a learning schedule, in which a task and its variations are interweaved during practice, has been shown to help the transfer of learning in motor s...

We investigated the effects of different encoding tasks and of manipulations of two supposedly surface parameters of music on implicit and explicit memory for tunes. In two experiments, participants were first asked to either categorize instrument or judge familiarity of 40 unfamiliar short tunes. Subsequently, participants were asked to give explicit and implicit memory ratings for a list of 8...

We live in our own rhythms in daily lives. Human life is closely related to rhythm as the words “talk rhythm,” “getting into the rhythm” and the “Biorhythm” show. The rhythm is important for us to live in order and cheerfully. Each person has his/her own action rhythm called the “Personal Tempo.” It is the basic rhythm observed in person's voluntary actions, such as tapping on a table. Psycholo...

This extended abstract details a submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange in the Audio Beat tracking task. The basic idea is based on the algorithm which submitted by Daniel P.W. Ellis in MIREX 2006. We consider about the energy of beats in order to approximate the human auditory system and improve tracking accuracy. I. BEAT TRACKING WITH A MOVING WINDOW In MIREX 2009, ...

abstract aim and background: the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of adhd symptoms and its association with sluggish cognitive tempo (sct) among freshmen of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methods and materials: the statistical population of this descriptive cross-sectional study, was all freshmen (3272 students) of ferdowsi university of mashhad by census method compl...

This paper introduces a temporal logic based on precedence constraints among events which captures net semantics, i.e. a particular net can be mapped into a semantic-equivalent formula in the logic. Tempo, a declarative concurrent programming language, is based on such logic and has a procedural interpretation which allows speciications to be executed as concurrent programs. Thus, the execution...

A model for describing the change of tempo in final ritardandi is presented. The model was based on the previous finding that runners’ average deceleration can be characterised by a constant brake power. This implies that velocity is as a squareroot function of time or alternatively, a cubic-root function of position. The translation of physical motion to musical tempo is realised by assuming t...

In the present study, we investigated a hypothesized quartic relationship (meaning three inflection points) between exercise heart rate (HR) and preferred music tempo. Initial theoretical predictions suggested a positive linear relationship (Iwanaga, 1995a, 1995b); however, recent experimental work has shown that as exercise HR increases, step changes and plateaus that punctuate the profile of ...

The present study examines how global tempo adjustment can reflect the allocation of emphasis, whether emphasis is a local prosodic phenomenon, whether the degree of perceived emphasis corresponds systematically to speech signal, and whether temporal features can be derived from production analysis. Results from acoustic analysis showed positive correlations between perceived emphasis to both l...