The Mind-Modulated Music Interface (MMMI) provides a new way to create music. The system is designed to harness the musical processing power of the brain, allowing musicians to control the output of the system just by paying attention to it. The Phase Synchrony Engine, a component of the MMMI, is used to detect musical processing in the brain via EEG in real-time. This information is then used ...

Having developed a Montague-like interpretation of a fragment of natural language, one may want to modify it in order to accomodate further linguistic phenomena. This may require radical changes in the semantic interpretation of syntactic categories. For instance, one may want to raise the semantic type assigned to the category of adverbial modifiers in order to account for quantified adverbial...

Empathy has received increasing empirical attention in the study of intergroup relations. Much of this research has focused on the potential of interventions that generate empathy for improving intergroup attitudes and reducing intergroup bias. Specifically, this work typically explores how empathy mediates the effects of various manipulations, such as direct instructions to imagine how an outg...

This multimethod research linked the Big Five personality dimensions to interpersonal conflicts. Agreeableness was the focus because this dimension is associated with motives to maintain positive interpersonal relations. Converging responses to both hypothetical conflicts and to diary records of actual daily interpersonal conflicts across a two-week period were assessed. Agreeableness was expec...

We show that the operational semantics for HOPLA is in strong correspondence with its presheaf semantics [2, 1]. The proof is a fairly standard logical relations proof, exploiting the path semantics of the language [3, 4]. Strong correspondence can be proved for full HOPLA by making use of the path semantics to get a logical relations proof off the ground. We’ll use the notation J−K for the pat...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates excessive mind wandering (MW) in adult ADHD using a new scale: the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS). METHOD Data from two studies of adult ADHD was used in assessing the psychometric properties of the MEWS. Case-control differences in MW, the association with ADHD symptoms, and the contribution to functional impairment were investigated. RESULTS The ...

In the last years several attempts to define identity-related properties such as identifiability, pseudonymity and anonymity have been made to analyze the privacy offered by information systems and protocols. However, these definitions are generally incomparable, making it difficult to generalize the results of their analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for formalizing and comp...

In this paper we present a logical system able to compute the semantics of both declarative and interrogative sentences. Our proposed analysis takes place at both the sentential and at the discourse level. We use syntactic inference on the sentential level for declarative sentences, while the discourse level comes into play for our treatment of questions. Our formalisation uses a type logic sen...

Classical theories on interpersonal relations have long suggested that social interactions are influenced by sensation, such as the experience of warmth. Past empirical work now confirms that perceived differences in temperature impact how people form thoughts about relationships. The present work first integrates our knowledge database on brand research with this idea of "grounded social cogni...