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How the mind is easily hooked on musical imagery
2009
Recent studies show that nearly all people living in western societies are affected by involuntary musical imagery, or “earworms”. It has been suggested that prior exposure to music is an important predictor of this phenomenon. In comparison, cognitive psychologists use the concepts of recency (serial position) and the priming effect (brief exposure) to describe similar memory features. The aim of this study was to explore the dynamics of involuntary musical imagery in relation to these memory concepts. Two experiments and a novel experimental manipulation to induce the experience were designed to investigate the topic. The experiments utilized a modified musical image scanning task to cue …
I colori fra il giallo e l’azzurro del cielo
2017
In Carlo Scarpa’s architecture it is noticeable how colour is able to communicate sensations and emotions. He drew attention to this in many of his constructed spaces, choosing to use the “ephemeral” perception of a colour which changes according to the person who sees it and how he recalls it. This essay will consider the sensory experiences of a possible visitor, highlighting his intimate and privileged relationship with light and colour, by means of the experience carried out by Carlo Scarpa in his re-functionalization of Palazzo Chiaramonte, called Steri, in Palermo. The places designed by Scarpa and carried out by Roberto Calandra, with whom the Venetian maestro enjoyed a complicated a…