Many applications demand the automatic induction of the tempo of a musical excerpt. The tempo estimation systems follow a general scheme that consists of two main steps: the creation of a feature list and the detection of periodicities on this list. In this study, we propose a new method for the implementation of the first step, along with the addition of a final step that will enhance the temp...

Motor skill acquisition inherently depends on the way one practices the motor task. The amount of motor task variability during practice has been shown to foster transfer of the learned skill to other similar motor tasks. In addition, variability in a learning schedule, in which a task and its variations are interweaved during practice, has been shown to help the transfer of learning in motor s...

A melody's identity is determined by relations between consecutive tones in terms of pitch and duration, whereas surface features (i.e., pitch level or key, tempo, and timbre) are irrelevant. Although surface features of highly familiar recordings are encoded into memory, little is known about listeners' mental representations of melodies heard once or twice. It is also unknown whether musical ...

Turkey has been experiencing significant fertility decline since the 1950s. Increasing mean ages at childbearing have accompanied this decline, thus studies regarding tempo effects are necessary for Turkey. The main aim of this study is to reveal the tempo distortions in recent period fertility in Turkey as a whole and for different sub-groups by using an adjustment procedure. A procedure by Bo...

We investigated the effects of different encoding tasks and of manipulations of two supposedly surface parameters of music on implicit and explicit memory for tunes. In two experiments, participants were first asked to either categorize instrument or judge familiarity of 40 unfamiliar short tunes. Subsequently, participants were asked to give explicit and implicit memory ratings for a list of 8...

This paper introduces a temporal logic based on precedence constraints among events which captures net semantics, i.e. a particular net can be mapped into a semantic-equivalent formula in the logic. Tempo, a declarative concurrent programming language, is based on such logic and has a procedural interpretation which allows speciications to be executed as concurrent programs. Thus, the execution...

A model for describing the change of tempo in final ritardandi is presented. The model was based on the previous finding that runners’ average deceleration can be characterised by a constant brake power. This implies that velocity is as a squareroot function of time or alternatively, a cubic-root function of position. The translation of physical motion to musical tempo is realised by assuming t...

abstract aim and background: the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of adhd symptoms and its association with sluggish cognitive tempo (sct) among freshmen of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methods and materials: the statistical population of this descriptive cross-sectional study, was all freshmen (3272 students) of ferdowsi university of mashhad by census method compl...

In the present study, we investigated a hypothesized quartic relationship (meaning three inflection points) between exercise heart rate (HR) and preferred music tempo. Initial theoretical predictions suggested a positive linear relationship (Iwanaga, 1995a, 1995b); however, recent experimental work has shown that as exercise HR increases, step changes and plateaus that punctuate the profile of ...

The problem of estimating the tempo of audio recordings (the number of beats per minute, or BPM) has received an increasing amount of attention in the past few years. Applications include the synchronization of multiple audio tracks for simultaneous playback, ”tempo-synchronous” audio effects, automatic looping of audio tracks... This article presents techniques for estimating the tempo and the...