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Action in Perception: Prominent Visuo-Motor Functional Symmetry in Musicians during Music Listening.
2015
Musical training leads to sensory and motor neuroplastic changes in the human brain. Motivated by findings on enlarged corpus callosum in musicians and asymmetric somatomotor representation in string players, we investigated the relationship between musical training, callosal anatomy, and interhemispheric functional symmetry during music listening. Functional symmetry was increased in musicians compared to nonmusicians, and in keyboardists compared to string players. This increased functional symmetry was prominent in visual and motor brain networks. Callosal size did not significantly differ between groups except for the posterior callosum in musicians compared to nonmusicians. We conclude…
Expression of emotion through musical parameters in 3- and 5-year-olds
2019
While the use of musical parameters for emotional expression has been extensively studied, little is known about which specific musical parameters children at different ages are able to use for expressing specific emotions. We used a novel interface called Music Box that allows modification of musical parameters while music is being played in real time. Children (N = 37, 18 girls) at the age of 3 and 5 were asked to modify three parameters – tempo, loudness, and pitch – in expressing three emotions – happiness, sadness, and anger. We hypothesised that both 5-year-olds and 3-year-olds could use each of the parameters in differentiating between the emotions. Results showed that 3-year-olds we…
Structural changes induced by daily music listening in the recovering brain after middle cerebral artery stroke: a voxel-based morphometry study
2014
[Abstract.] Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal, frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional, and motor processing. Regular musical activities have been shown to effectively enhance the structure and function of many brain areas, making music a potential tool also in neuro- logical rehabilitation. In our previous randomized controlled study, we found that listening to music on a daily basis can improve cognitive recovery and improve mood after an acute mid- dle cerebral artery stroke. Extending this study, a voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis utilizing cost function masking was perf…
Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents
2017
This chapter analyzes the contribution to the debates on labor and immigration of a group of Jewish academicians and reformers who, during the second half of the Progressive Era, explicitly took a stance against the racialist and eugenic rhetoric of the period. This group includes first-rank economists like Edwin R. A. Seligman, Jacob H. Hollander, and Emanuel A. Goldenweiser; influential field specialists such as Isaac A. Hourwich and Isaac M. Rubinow; and relatively less known figures like Max J. Kohler and Samuel K. Joseph. By focusing on the voices of these dissenters, this chapter enriches the emerging picture of Progressive Era eugenic and racial thought.
La audición musical en la enseñanza secundaria y su implicación en la práctica docente del profesorado de música
2014
El objetivo de esta comunicación responde al interés de los autores por conocer la utilización que los profesores hacen de la audición musical en sus clases, los planteamientos metodológicos, las estrategias didácticas que utilizan, el repertorio que proponen, etc. con el fin de conocer mejor la realidad de la educación auditiva que se está llevando a cabo actualmente en la enseñanza secundaria obligatoria. Se ha llevado a cabo un estudio exploratorio “ex post facto” que utiliza el método encuesta mediante la utilización de un cuestionario elaborado ex profeso para tal fin. La población de referencia para obtener la muestra la constituyen los profesores de música que imparten docencia en la…
Cortázar a la recerca de Parker: un apropament literari, musical i didàctic vers El perseguidor
2014
Johnny Carter pul·lula pel París de meitat dels cinquanta. El jazz es omnipresent per tot arreu així com al llarg del conte on Charlie Parker (alter ego metafísic de Johnny Carter) anirà traient una voluntat descarnada i oculta de l'autor: parafrasejar a sobre el paper al seu col·lega i trompetista Boris Vian i considerar-se ell mateix com a complice de les anades i tornades del saxofonista ara musicals adés actitudinals vers aquells que l'envolten. Johnny Carter walking for the Paris of the fifties. The jazz is present all over as well as along the tale where Charlie Parker (alter ego metaphysical of Johnny Carter) will go taking out a will sincere and unseen of the author: imitating to on…
Bernardo Adam Ferrero en el mundo de las bandas de música valencianas
2015
Este trabajo aborda la figura y obra del compositor valenciano Bernardo Adam Ferrero y sus aportaciones al mundo de las bandas de música. Al mismo tiempo se realiza un estudio de estas agrupaciones desde diversos ángulos: el histórico, el social y el artístico. La Tesis está articulada en cuatro grandes capítulos. El primero de ellos, Bernardo Adam Ferrero y su contexto, comienza con un repaso de los acontecimientos históricos, sociales y culturales que rodean los años de formación y creatividad de nuestro músico, pasando a continuación, a realizar un recorrido por la música del siglo XX. Seguidamente se presenta la biografía del compositor, y nos adentramos en su poética y estética, así co…
Estudio y catalogación de la obra musical de Ángeles López Artiga : sus aportaciones a la historia de la música valenciana.
2016
La figura de la compositora, intérprete y pedagoga Ángeles López Artiga destaca como un auténtico espíritu libre. En este trabajo de investigación se incluyen: - un estudio de la trayectoria artístico-humanística a través de la biografía de la autora. - un análisis del contexto social e histórico que rodea a la compositora. - un estudio del contexto artístico y, en particular, artístico-musical de López Artiga, por medio de los casos previos y coetáneos. - una descripción de las características técnico-compositivas y estético-filosóficas de la autora. - un análisis particularizado de toda su obra en dos bloques principales (música vocal y música instrumental). The essence of the composer, s…
Las obras musicales en las radios universitarias
2018
The Spanish General Audiovisual Communication Law does not relate to Campus Radio Stations. In this context, Copyright Collection Societies do not cover them in their catalogues of general fees. For this reason, the holders of these radios are forced to negotiate them. Althoug the Intellectual Property Law and the Order ECD/2574/2015, of 2 December, contain obligations for Copyright Collection Societies, on this matter its enforcement are far from being achieved
'I love Rock 'n' Roll'--music genre preference modulates brain responses to music.
2013
The present study examined the effect of participants' music genre preference on the neural processes underlying evaluative and cognitive judgements of music using the event-related potential technique. To this aim, two participant groups differing in their preference for Latin American and Heavy Metal music performed a liking judgement and a genre classification task on a variety of excerpts of either music genre. A late positive potential (LPP) was elicited in all conditions between 600 and 900 ms after stimulus onset. During the genre classification task, an early negativity was elicited by the preferred compared to the non-preferred music at around 230-370 ms whereas the non-preferred g…