Search results for " listening"

Cognition and interpersonal communication: The effect of voice quality on information processing and person perception

2014

Abstract Against the backdrop of cognitive load theory (CLT) it was tested if irregular voice increases processing demands on working memory (WM). An experiment was designed to expose N = 54 participants to expository text delivered with a modal and a creaky human voice. Working memory capacity was measured by a secondary task on the visual modality. Listening to a creaky voice quality consumes more cognitive capacity as indicated by the significant decrease in secondary task performance; also, retention of information was found to be impaired. Results are explained within the framework of CLT and implications for professional communication are discussed.

Hey Teacher, Don’t Leave Them Kids Alone: Action Is Better for Memory than Reading

2017

International audience; There is no consensus on how the enactment effect (EE), although it is robust, enhances memory. Researchers are currently investigating the cognitive processes underlying this effect, mostly during adulthood; the link between EE and crucial function identified in adulthood such as episodic memory and binding process remains elusive. Therefore, this study aims to verify the existence of EE in 6–10 years old and assess cognitive functions potentially linked to this effect in order to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the EE during childhood. Thirty-five children (15 second graders and 20 fifth graders) were included in this study. They encoded 24 action phrases f…

On listening to atonal variants of two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven

2009

International audience; We investigated the contribution of tonal relationships to the perception of musical ideas and to the feelings of "arousal." Two excerpts of piano sonatas by Beethoven and two atonal variants were used as experimental stimuli. This manipulation destroyed the tonal relationships but preserved both the local and global temporal organization (rhythm and formal). Listeners were asked to indicate the onset of musical ideas, to estimate the arousing properties of the music in a continuous response task, and to rate the similarity of the pieces. A drastic change in the pitch structure strongly affected judgments of similarity. However, it had no effect on the segmentation o…

Emergence of feeling in osteopathic manual listening

2014

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Experiences of music listening and music therapy in acute stroke rehabilitation

2012

Attitudes toward sad music are related to both preferential and contextual strategies.

2015

Music-related sadness and its paradoxical pleasurable aspects have puzzled researchers for decades. Previous studies have highlighted the positive effects of listening to sad music and the listening strategies that focus on mood-regulation. The present study explored people’s attitudes toward sad music by focusing on a representative sample of the Finnish population. Three hundred and fifty-eight participants rated their agreement with 30 statements concerning attitudes toward sad music. The ratings were subjected to factor analysis, resulting in 6 factors explaining 51% of the variance (RMSEA = 0.049). The factors were labeled Avoidance, Autobiographical, Revival, Appreciation, Intersubjec…

2021

(1) Background: Internet use has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily lives. It is important to understand how adolescents use the internet, and how this use is associated with demographic factors and health from a person-oriented perspective. (2) Methods: The study applied the Finnish nationally representative HBSC data (persons aged 11, 13, and 15, n = 3408), descriptive observation, latent class analysis, and multinomial logistic regression analysis. (3) Results: Entertainment activities (listening to music) and socially oriented activities (liking posts, talking online) were the most prevalent among adolescents, but gender differences emerged. Five different internet user profi…

El Trabajo Social en residencias para personas mayores dependientes. De la burocracia a la empatía

2011

Las residencias para personas mayores dependientes aparecen como uno de los grandes ámbitos de intervención de los trabajadores sociales incluso mucho antes que apareciera la famosa 'Ley de Dependencia'. A través de este artículo viajaremos por esas funciones propias para descubrir un trabajo social más allá de la burocracia que nos precede y más cercano al desconocido perfil social y humano que nos caracteriza. Senior citizens' homes for the dependent have come forward as one of the major areas of intervention by social workers even long before the famous 'Law of Dependence' appeared. Through this article we will take a look at these particular functions to discover a type of social work b…

Come ascoltare i figli e come farsi ascolatre

2010

In questo breve saggio, sono delineate alcune caratteristiche che la comunicazione reale tra genitori e figli dovrebbe possedere, secondo il personale punto di vista pedagogico dell’autore. A ben vedere, per realizzare questo compito, bisogna prima interpellare i genitori su quello che già sanno sul tema a motivo della loro quotidiana esperienza educativa vissuta a contatto con i loro figli preadolescenti (11-14 anni) e adolescenti (15-19 anni). Per questo, innanzitutto si riferiscono alcune idee sul tema in questione espresse nel contesto dei focus group dai genitori che hanno partecipato agli incontri pedagogici fatti in alcune scuole secondarie di primo e di secondo grado della nostra re…

The Modifying Mirror

2023

Abstract This chapter compares music listening with the infant’s experience of care. Several scholars have argued that music can be used for scaffolding one’s self-experience. Developmental psychologists, in turn, maintain a wide consensus over the claim that, in early interaction, the attuned caregiver supports and modifies the infant’s self-experience in various ways. The chapter brings these phenomena together, illustrating how the examination of the early self/other relation can teach us something important concerning the listener/music relation. The first section elaborates on the scaffolding function of music and clarifies two ambiguities haunting the debate. The second section reloca…