Musical meters vary considerably across cultures, yet relatively little is known about how culture-specific experience influences metrical processing. In Experiment 1, we compared American and Indian listeners' synchronous tapping to slow sequences. Inter-tone intervals contained silence or to-be-ignored rhythms that were designed to induce a simple meter (familiar to Americans and Indians) or ...

Enculturation is known to shape the perception of meter in music but this is not explicitly accounted for by current cognitive models of meter perception. We hypothesize that the induction of meter is a result of predictive coding: interpreting onsets in a rhythm relative to a periodic meter facilitates prediction of future onsets. Such prediction, we hypothesize, is based on previous exposure ...

Automatic meter analysis aims to annotate a recording of a metered piece of music with its metrical structure. This analysis subsumes correct estimation of the type of meter, the tempo, and the alignment of the metrical structure with the music signal. Recently, Bayesian models have been successfully applied to several of meter analysis tasks, but depending on themusical context, meter analysis...

hypoxia and hypocapnia can cause broncho-constriction in human subjects, and this could have a bearing on performance at high altitude. the object of this study was to examine how pulmonary ventilatory functions during high-altitude trekking. this study is a cohort study on spirometric parameters at different altitudes. fifty six healthy male volunteers from a university student population were...

Abstract This paper put forward a method on the premise of not changing hardware circuit HPLC communication unit online electrical meter. In meter, meter address is modulated to electric-power line through high-speed carrier signal by on-off keying. intelligent molded case breaker box, after new-type instrument transformer used extract signal, optimization algorithm adopted achieve physical top...

Background: Despite the increase in the use of low-level laser therapy (LLLT), there is still a lack of consensus in the literature regarding how often the equipment must be calibrated. Objective: To evaluate the real average power of LLLT devices in the Greater São Paulo area. Methods: For the evaluation, a LaserCheck power meter designed to calibrate continuous equipment was used. The power m...

The expression of many nuclear genes in plants is light regulated. We have examined the fluence-response, time-course, and reciprocity characteristics of four nuclear, blue-light-regulated transcripts in Pisum sativum L. var Alaska: Cab RNA, pEA207 RNA, pEA215 RNA, and pEA25 RNA. To avoid complications due to blue-light-induced transformation of phytochrome, we have adapted the procedure of mea...

Processing musical meter—the organization of time into regular cycles strong and weak beats—requires abstraction from the varying rhythmic surface. Several studies have investigated whether meter processing requires attention, or if it can be both pre-attentive attentive. While findings on temporal expectation (processing per se) indicate benefits in complex, dual-task contexts (meter used for ...