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Sonic Strokes and Musical Gestures - The Difference between Musical Affect and Musical Emotion
2009
Musicological theories traditionally address the expressive powers of music within a framework of signification, in which musical affect is considered as a meaningful musical gesture. Consequently, affect is regarded as a property of the music instead of as a bodily reaction of the listener. I will outline a different conception of musical affect that takes into account the bodily nature of perception. I will introduce the notion of sonic stroke, i.e. a sound that induces affect in the listener. A sonic stroke thus is responsible for the occurrence of musical affect. By relating the notion of sonic stroke to musical gesture the differences between the two can be articulated, as well as how …
Deafferentation and pointing with visual double-step perturbations
1999
The capability of reprogramming movement responses following changes in the visual goal has been studied through the double-step paradigm. These studies have shown that: (a) continuous internal feedback-loops correct unconsciously the dynamic errors throughout the movement; (b) proprioceptive information and/or the efference copy have a privileged status among central processes, insuring on-line regulation of the initial motor commands; and (c) generation of the motor program starts after target presentation, and is continuously updated in the direction of the current internal representation of the target, at least until the onset of hand movement. This main corrective process of the initia…
L'utilisation de la musique comme support de nouveaux apprentissages dans le vieillisement normal et la maladie d'Alzheimer
2012
This thesis research aims to test the potential of music as a mnemonic support for new learning in normal elderly and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) participants. Several studies have highlighted the beneficial effects of music on cognition in aging and dementia. At the same time, in young adults, the idea that music could serve as a mnemonic support is highly debated. Yet, very few studies addressed this question in aging or dementia. In the present work, we conduct two studies in a cohort of 8 mild Alzheimer’s disease and 7 matched control participants. The first study concerns verbal memory, and compares learning and different retention delays of lyrics (unknown texts) that are either spoken o…
Effect of Foreperiod Duration and Handedness on Simple and Choice Auditory Reaction Time Among the Older People
2017
Objectives Cognitive functions such as reaction time undergo change with aging. Given the importance of preparation in response to reaction time in various life situations, this study aimed to examine the effect of various foreperiods (0.5, 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 s), and handedness at the time of simple and choice auditory reaction time. Methods & Materials The current research followed a quasi-experimental methodology and was carried out using a self-made software. The study population comprised all old people living in Ahvaz City. Of them, 30 people were selected through purposive sampling method and allocated into two groups of right- and left-handed people. Each individual was randomly teste…
Trait Empathy associated with Agreeableness and rhythmic entrainment in a spontaneous movement to music task: Preliminary exploratory investigations
2017
The simulation theory of empathy suggests that we use motor processing to empathise, through modelling the actions of others. Similarly, research into embodied music cognition posits that music, particularly musical rhythm, is perceived as a motor stimulus. In both cases, the human Mirror Neuron System (MNS) is put forward as a potential underlying mechanism. If this is the case, some overlap may exist between the ability to empathise with others, and the ability to perceive rhythm in music. The present study investigated this relationship indirectly, through the study of individual differences in Trait Empathy and rhythmic entrainment. Undergraduate students ( N = 237) completed a questio…
Gli Arbëreshë di Sicilia. Identità storica e pratiche musicali paraliturgiche
2016
Nell’ambito della tradizione musicale degli Albanesi di Sicilia, oltre ai canti liturgici bizantini (settore di studi su cui l’autore ha dedicato negli ultimi decenni numerose ricerche e numerose pubblicazioni), anche i repertori musicali devozionali e paraliturgici costituiscono un patrimonio ampio e di rilevante interesse. Nei paesi dell’Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi, in corrispondenza delle varie ricorrenze dell’anno, si svolgono infatti innumerevoli celebrazioni devozionali e paraliturgiche (novene, rosari, tridui, “mesi”), in cui segni della tradizione orientale si intrecciano a pratiche di origine occidentale, testi in arbëresh o in dialetto siciliano si avvicendano a componimenti …
Ugo Gaïsser e Francesco Falsone: due pionieri della ricerca sulla musica bizantina degli Albanesi di Sicilia
2016
A Ugo Gaisser, monaco benedettino di origine tedesca, Rettore del Pontificio Collegio Greco di Roma dal 1905 al 1912, va attribuito il merito di aver avviato una specifica attenzione nei confronti della musica bizantina degli Albanesi di Sicilia. Gaisser conobbe personalmente Alberto Favara a Roma durante il Congresso internazionale di Scienze Storiche nel 1903. In quell’occasione Alberto Favara lesse la celebre comunicazione Le melodie tradizionali di Val di Mazzara, mentre Gaisser presentò un contributo dal titolo I canti ecclesiastici italo-greci. Proprio a un allievo di Gaisser, Francesco Falsone, si deve la prima ampia raccolta di trascrizioni musicali (si tratta di circa ben 240 pagin…
Desarrollo histórico y epistemológico de los conceptos elemento químico, sustancia y sustancia simple (Primera parte)
2020
<p>La epistemología de cualquier concepto científico adquiere su pleno significado teniendo en cuenta el problema que hizo posible su conceptualización en un momento histórico dado y su posterior desarrollo. El objetivo de este artículo consistirá en recordar el problema que originó la necesidad epistemológica de introducir la idea de elemento químico a lo largo de la historia y cómo se ha ido desarrollando hasta el siglo XVIII para incidir en la epistemología del concepto de sustancia (pura) y cómo fue cambiando su relación con la del elemento químico. Este manuscrito está dividido en cuatro apartados principales, el primero de ellos titulado “El mundo natural de los filósofos griego…
Rejoinder on: Natural Induction: An Objective Bayesian Approach
2009
Giron and Moreno. We certainly agree with Professors Giron and Moreno on the interest in sensitivity of any Bayesian result to changes in the prior. That said, we also consider of considerable pragmatic importance to be able to single out a unique, particular prior which may reasonably be proposed as the reference prior for the problem under study, in the sense that the corresponding posterior of the quantity of interest could be routinely used in practice when no useful prior information is available or acceptable. This is precisely what we have tried to do for the twin problems of the rule of succession and the law of natural induction. The discussants consider the limiting binomial versi…