relaxation is one of the important mental skills in physical education and sportsactivities. relationship between relaxation and rhythmic exercises with anemphasis on flexibility-functional mechanisms of nervous system has receivedattention in recent studies. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectof rhythmic exercises on deepening the relaxation of national judo athletes. fo...

Emergent Rhythmic Structures as Cultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents João Pedro Magalhães Martins This thesis studies rhythm from an evolutionary computation perspective. Rhythm is the most fundamental dimension of music and can be used as a ground to describe the evolution of music. More specifically, the main goal of the thesis is to investigate how c...

Musical rhythm, consisting of apparently abstract intervals of accented temporal events, has a remarkable capacity to move our minds and bodies. How does the cognitive system enable our experiences of rhythmically complex music? In this paper, we describe some common forms of rhythmic complexity in music and propose the theory of predictive coding (PC) as a framework for understanding how rhyth...

Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source the development of theories prosody and rhythm stress-based languages, but been explored less from rhythmic perspective realm tone languages. African languages especially under-studied terms text-setting, likely large part due to ill-understood status metrical structure prosodic prominence asymmetries many these Here, we explore ho...

Human capacity for entraining movement to external rhythms-i.e., beat keeping-is ubiquitous, but its evolutionary history and neural underpinnings remain a mystery. Recent findings of entrainment to simple and complex rhythms in non-human animals pave the way for a novel comparative approach to assess the origins and mechanisms of rhythmic behavior. The most reliable non-human beat keeper to da...

Musical genres are categorical descriptions that are used to describe music. They are commonly used to structure the increasing amounts of music available in digital form on the Web and are important for music information retrieval. Genre categorization for audio has traditionally been performed manually. A particular musical genre is characterized by statistical properties related to the instr...

Functional neuroimaging has recently offered the means to map the workings of the human auditory system during music processing. I propose a cognitive theoretical account of rhythmic memory brain processing on the basis of current functional neuroimaging data on music perception in the light of my own work on the brain coding of body perception. This framework allows unifying experimental evide...

This paper addresses a question about music cognition: how do we derive polymetric structures. A preference rule system is presented which is implemented into a drum computer. The preference rule system allows inferring local polymetric structures, like two-over-three and three-over-two. By analyzing the micro-timing of West African percussion music a timing pattern consisting of six pulses was...

Musical meter and attributes of the rhythmic feel (e.g., swing) are crucial when defining musical style, but they are often difficult to capture in music audio signals. In this work, we employ a set of tree ensemble models trained using a rhythm-inspired acoustic feature set. We model a total of nine rhythmic attributes covering meter and feel using over one million examples labeled by experts ...