background: there is no information about the pattern of use of earphones and music players in iranian adolescents. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and pattern of the use of earphone and music player devices as a main risk factor for hearing loss in adolescents of tabriz city, northwest of iran. methods: in this cross‑sectional study in november 2011, 2,359 high school studen...

background: surgery is an important stressor, which causes some harmful physiological responses such as increased breath and heart rate and blood pressure. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of music on the anxiety and some physiological responses of patients before general surgery. methods: a clinical trial study designed and 60 patients who were scheduled to undergo general ...

Since the 1960s and 1970s, aesthetic-centered music education system in Secondary School has been increasingly mature, while post-philosophical culture brought about an obvious impact on ideas of School. From cultural perspective, it is important for us to reflect return world life, explore practical philosophical tendency education, emphasize pursuit pluralistic dialogue, promote integration m...

In the last decade, educational neuroscience has become increasingly important in the context of instruction, and its applications have been transformed into new teaching methods. Although teachers are interested in educational neuroscience, communication between scientists and teachers is not always straightforward. Thus, misunderstandings of neuroscientific research results can evolve into so...

The current study sought to examine differences in physiological responses comfortable thermal stimuli applied the soles of feet during simultaneous presentation other sensory stimuli. As relaxing stimuli, underwater movie footage, classical music, light blue illumination, vibration trunk, and odor grapefruit oil were each presented simultaneously with a stimulus. Electroencephalography parieta...

The Jukebox model can generate high-diversity music within a single system, which is achieved by using hierarchical VQ-VAE architecture to compress audio in discrete space at different compression levels. Even though the results are impressive, inference stage tremendously slow. To address this issue, we propose Fast Jukebox, uses knowledge distillation strategies reduce number of parameters pr...

introduction: cochlear implantation (ci) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. however, children with cis still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. this is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of cis. emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. the present study aimed to in...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of different combinations of music and rhythmic movements on behavioral problems of children with mild mental retardation. a total of 40 children with mild mental retardation were randomly divided into 4 variations of practice including: rhythmic movement with major scale music, rhythmic movement with minor scale music, rhythmi...

introduction: it has shown that listening to mozart music can potentiate spatial tasks in human and reduce seizure attacks in epileptic patients. a few studies have reported the effects of prenatal plus postpartum exposure of mice to the mozart music on brain-drived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) in the hippocampus. here we investigated the effect of postpartum exposure to the mozart music on bdnf ...