The aim of this study is to manipulate musical cues systematically to determine the aspects of music that contribute to emotional expression, and whether these cues operate in additive or interactive fashion, and whether the cue levels can be characterized as linear or non-linear. An optimized factorial design was used with six primary musical cues (mode, tempo, dynamics, articulation, timbre, ...

We give a combinatorial interpretation for the super Catalan number S(m,m + s) for s ≤ 3 using lattice paths and make an attempt at a combinatorial interpretation for s = 4. We also examine the integrality of some factorial ratios.

objective: the aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the persian adaptation of abbreviated math anxiety scale (amas), proposed by hopko, mahadevan, bare & hunt. method: the validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from tabriz university in iran. the confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) was carrie...

Measurement bias refers to systematic differences across subpopulations in the relation between observed test scores and the latent variant underlying the test scores. Comparisons of subpopulations with the same score on the latent variable can be expected to have the same observed test score. Measurement invariance is therefore one of the key issues in psychological testing. It has been establ...

It has been suggested that sensory information processing makes use of a factorial code. It has been shown that the major components of the hippocampal-entorhinal loop can be derived by conjecturing that the task of this loop is forming and encoding independent components (ICs), one type of factorial codes. However, continuously changing environment poses additional requirements on the coding t...

A new procedure for simultaneously finding the optimal cluster structure of multivariate functional objects and finding the subspace to represent the cluster structure is presented. The method is based on the k-means criterion for projected functional objects on a subspace in which a cluster structure exists. An efficient alternating least-squares algorithm is described, and the proposed method...