OBJECTIVE To assess the potential clinical use, particularly in modulating stress, of changes in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems induced by music, specifically tempo, rhythm, melodic structure, pause, individual preference, habituation, order effect of presentation, and previous musical training. DESIGN Measurement of cardiovascular and respiratory variables while patients listened...

We consider the problem of counting number vertices reachable from each vertex in a digraph G, which is equal to computing all out-degrees transitive closure G. The current (theoretically) fastest algorithms run quadratic time; however, Borassi has shown that this not solvable truly subquadratic time unless Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis fails [Borassi, 2016 [13]]. In paper, we present an O...

Objective: To assess the potential clinical use, particularly in modulating stress, of changes in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems induced by music, specifically tempo, rhythm, melodic structure, pause, individual preference, habituation, order effect of presentation, and previous musical training. Design: Measurement of cardiovascular and respiratory variables while patients listened...

We investigated the effects of group music intervention on aggression and self-esteem in children with highly aggressive behavior. Forty-eight children were allocated to either a music intervention group or an untreated control group. The music intervention group received 50 min of music intervention twice weekly for 15 consecutive weeks. The outcome measures were Child Behavior Checklist Aggre...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of music on anxiety and perceived pain during transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty consecutive men with an elevated serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level and/ or an abnormal digital rectal examination referred for transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy were recruited and allocated to ...

Human adults generally find fast tempos more arousing than slow tempos, with tempo frequently manipulated in music to alter tension and emotion. We used a previously published method [McDermott, J., & Hauser, M. (2004). Are consonant intervals music to their ears? Spontaneous acoustic preferences in a nonhuman primate. Cognition, 94(2), B11-B21] to test cotton-top tamarins and common marmosets,...

The cross-modal literature posits a weak-to-strong continuum of synesthesia. One extreme views cross-modal associations as idiosyncratic and unique to synesthetes. The other extreme suggests that cross-modal associations follow a general pattern across individuals, and are mediated by emotional associations. We tested these views by examining differences between music-color synesthetes and non-...

BACKGROUND Music has been used for therapeutic purposes since the beginning of cultural history. However, despite numerous descriptions of beneficial effects, the precise mechanisms by which music may improve human well-being remain unclear. METHODS We conducted a randomized study in ten critically ill patients to identify mechanisms of music-induced relaxation using a special selection of sl...

The present study compared the effects of two different music interventions on changes in emotional states before and during running, and also explored effects of music interventions upon performance outcome. Volunteer participants (n = 65) who regularly listened to music when running registered online to participate in a three-stage study. Participants attempted to attain a personally importan...