Novelty is an important psychological construct that affects both perceptual and behavioral processes. Here, we propose a lexical novelty score (LNS) for a song’s lyric, based on the statistical properties of a corpus of 275,905 lyrics (available at www.smcnus.org/lyrics/). A lyric-level LNS was derived as a function of the inverse document frequencies of its unique words. An artist-level LNS w...

Music with lyrics about helping is shown to reduce aggression in the laboratory. This paper tests whether the prosocial lyric effect generalizes to reducing customer aggression in the workplace. A field experiment involved changing the hold music played to customers of a call center. The results of a 3 week study suggested that music significantly affected customers, but not in the way suggeste...

Music emotion regression is considered more appropriate than classification for music emotion retrieval, since it resolves some of the ambiguities of emotion classes. In this paper, we propose an AdaBoost-based approach for music emotion regression, in which emotion is represented in PAD model and multi-modal features are employed, including audio, MIDI and lyric features. We first demonstrate ...

Five experiments examined effects of songs with violent lyrics on aggressive thoughts and hostile feelings. Experiments 1, 3, 4 and 5 demonstrated that college students who heard a violent song felt more hostile than those who heard a similar but nonviolent song. Experiments 2-5 demonstrated a similar increase in aggressive thoughts. These effects replicated across songs and song types (e.g., r...

“Lyric tradition” was put forward by Chen Shixiang, a scholar in the United States, speech 1970s.It became view of characteristics Chinese literature, and developed widely accepted later literary criticism,becoming one most productive views foreign Sinology last century. But recent years academic circle its theory system,there are some dissenting voices on system, among which critical criticism...

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 This paper shows the linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis lyrics song. Those aspects are cohesion device and grammatical cohesion. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; lexical devices. Grammatical contains reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction while collocation reiteration. research analyzes from soloist band namely Alec Benjamin entitle ...

Expression of AEG-1 (also known as MTDH or LYRIC) is elevated in many cancers including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), in which it functions as an oncogene. AEG-1 activates AKT signaling and physically interacts with AKT2 in GBM. Disruption of this interaction reduces glioma cell survival and invasion, uncovering a novel potential target for development of an effective therapy against GBM.