The time-span tree of Jackendoff and Lehrdahl’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music is one of the most promising representations of human cognition of music. In order to show this, we compare the distance in trees and psychological dissimilarity by using variations of Ah vous dirais-je, maman by Mozart. Since pitch and chord sequence also affect the time spans, we amend the time-span analysis to i...

Different musicians have quite different styles, which has influenced by their different historical backgrounds, personalities, and experiences. In this paper, we propose an approach to extract melody based features from sheet music, as well as an unsupervised clustering method for discovering music styles. Since that existing corpus is not sufficient for this research in terms of completeness ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the performance of automated perimetry of elderly subjects naïve to AP after listening to a Mozart sonata. INTRODUCTION Automated perimetry (AP) is a psychophysical test used to assess visual fields in patients with neurological disorders and glaucoma. In a previous study, Fiorelli et al. showed that young subjects who listened to a Mozart sonata prior to undergoing AP per...

Although the potential influence of music in eliciting organic reactions has been appreciated since the ancient Assyrian and Greek cultures, its relationship with body responses has been believed for long to belong to the field of magic. Growing experimental evidence now attests that some kind of music might indeed modulate several cardiac and neurological functions, as well as trigger biochemi...

Coppola et al. reported 5 out of 11 patients suffering from drug-resistant epileptic encephalopathy associated with cerebral palsy had a ≥50% reduction in the total number of seizures after listening a set of Mozart's compositions 2 h per day for 15 days. Our previous studies also revealed that both seizure frequencies, recurrence of first unprovoked seizure, and epileptiform discharges are sig...

Recent findings suggest that infants can remember words from stories over 2 week delays (Jusczyk, P. W., & Hohne, E. A. (1997). Infants' memory for spoken words. Science, 277, 1984-1986). Because music, like language, presents infants with a massively complex auditory learning task, it is possible that infant memory for musical stimuli is equally powerful. Seven-month-old infants heard two Moza...

Background: Spatial learning and navigation is a fundamental cognitive ability consisting of multiple cognitive components. Despite intensive efforts conducted with the assistance of virtual reality technology and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) modality, the music effect on this cognition and the involved neuronal mechanisms remain elusive. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the...

We recently bought an IBM-BLOKBUSTR computer, after reading Osherson’s (1985) beguiling description of its ability to do the uncomputable. We had hoped to use it in our study of the human ability to generate music. But we ran into problems that we had not anticipated. Readers of this journal who plan to use this rather unusual machine in their research, might want to profit from our experience....

K E Y W O R D S : cognition and emotion, cognitive ability, intellectual ability, Mozart effect, music and cognition, music listening The impact of music on listeners’ emotional state is well documented (e.g. Gabrielsson, 2001; Husain et al., 2002; Krumhansl, 1997; Peretz, 2001; Schmidt and Trainor, 2001; Sloboda and Juslin, 2001; Thayer and Levenson, 1983; Thompson et al., 2001), as is the eff...

With the rise of portal sites for image-file download of musical scores, the electronic distribution of musical scores, an activity in progress of 15 years, has attracted increased attention. We describe several data models for score distribution and emphasize the one used in the MuseData archive of musical data (1984–). This archive (containing substantial quantities of the music of Bach, Hand...