This paper considers the politics of how organizations remember their past through commemorative settings and artefacts. Although these may be seen as ‘merely’ a backdrop to organizational activity, they form part of the lived experience of organizational spaces that its members enact on a daily basis as part of their routes and routines. The main concern of the paper is with how commemoration ...

Across cultures and throughout recorded history, humans have produced visual art. This raises the question of why people report such an emotional response to artworks and find some works more beautiful or compelling than others. In the current study we investigated the interplay between art expertise, and emotional and preference judgments. Sixty participants (40 novices, 20 art experts) rated ...

This study explored associations among the Big Five personality factors, unconventionality, selected demographics, and preference for 4 distinct visual art genres (portraiture, abstract art, geometric art, and impressionism). In total, 3,254 participants completed an online survey assessing individual difference and preference ratings for different paintings. Participants were also asked to rat...

Most humans seem to demonstrate astonishingly high levels of skill in face processing if one considers the sophisticated level of fine-tuned discrimination that face recognition requires. However, numerous studies now indicate that the ability to process faces is not as fundamental as once thought and that performance can range from despairingly poor to extraordinarily high across people. Here ...

Ever since Helmholtz, the perceptual basis of speech has been associated with the energy distribution across frequency. However, there is now accumulating evidence that speech understanding does not require a detailed spectral portraiture of the signal. As a consequence, a new theoretical perspective, focused on time, is beginning to emerge. This framework emphasizes the temporal evolution of c...

Originating in a critical examination of Vernon Lee's perceived ugliness and her excessive talking among acquaintances, this essay situates historically series portraits which she features as sitter, subject comment commentator, to suggest that the interweaving voices faces can be useful resist elision seeing knowing on art historians often base their understanding gender sexuality portraiture....

Introduction Mental health issues in children involve complexities and life challenges for the child their families. Music therapy as part of treatment mental care focuses on interaction communication through music, with emphasis children’s resources. There is a small, but growing amount research field music care.Method This qualitative study explored own experiences at hospital. was done multi...