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Gross Generalizations and Wild Oversimplifications of this "study" a waste of time. Eleni Lapidaki thinks she cannot be proven wrong. Think again.

Stability of Tempo Perception in Music Listening

Lapidaki, Eleni (2000) Stability of Tempo Perception in Music Listening. [Journal (Paginated)]

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This study was designed to determine whether listeners from different age groups and musical backgrounds (musicians and nonmusicians) could set tempi in a consistent manner over an extended period of time. The variables of musical style, familiarity, and preference were also considered. Subjects (n=90) heard the same six compositions on four separate occasions. The order of the presentation and the initial tempo of the examples were varied systematically in each session. Subjects were asked to listen to each composition and indicate whether the experimenter should set the tempo "faster" or "slower" until it sounded right to them; they had to adjust an initially wrong tempo to a personally preferred tempo. Results indicated that the initial tempo significantly dominated subjects’ "correct" tempo judgements: the slower initial tempo generally evoked slower tempo selections, and so on. However, a relatively small number of adults, mostly musicians, were remarkably consistent in their tempo judgements across all four trials. It appeared that these individuals possess an exceptional ability with respect to acute stability of large-scale timing in music. There was also evidence that the degree of consistency in correct tempo judgements gradually increased from preadolescence through adulthood. Few statistically significant differences in consistency of tempo judgements were found as a result of musical background. The findings strongly suggested that the style of musical examples influenced the degree of tempo consistency across trials. Moreover, there was statistically significant evidence that an increase of familiarity with and preference for the musical examples and the musical styles resulted in an increase of consistency of correct tempo judgements. The study concludes with recommendations for music education.

Item Type:	Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:	tempo perception, musical time, absolute tempo, music psychology, music education, music listening
Subjects:	Psychology > Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
ID Code:	1828
Deposited By:	Lapidaki, Eleni
Deposited On:	19 Oct 2001
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2007 17:41

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Please tell me how this so called research study does any more than toss another limited, tiny deductive experiment which proves absolutely nothing, and in fact, just obfuscates the issue ofi music tempo through its use of weasel adjectives and terms of music so grossly oversimplified as to signal to other academia people: "n=50, I found absolutely no useful results, but listen to this acedemese wow the parents."

The trick is to price the studies at such a disgusting level that no one who is smart enough to take apart the professor's "assertions" after translating same into actual Engish from Ph.D. Adacademia-keep-away-from-us speak.

This is a 2000 study. Where did it go? Nowhere, of course. There's nothing in it. There's no conspiracy to keep the truth from you. The Ph.D conspiracy is how to say once simple 10 syllable sentence in 10,000 syllables of obfuscating university-speak.


/Ian Andrew Schneider, Esq./
12/8/08

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Forgotten But Not Gone: How The Brain Re-learns

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Gmail exploit may allow attackers to forward e-mail

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clipped from news.cnet.com A Gmail security vulnerability may allow an attacker to set up filters on users' e-mail accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept posted Sunday at GeekCondition.com. In his post, Brandon writes that the vulnerability has caused some people to lose their domain names registered through GoDaddy.com. When you create a filter in your Gmail account, a request is sent to Google's servers to be processed. The request is made in the form of a url with many variables. For security reasons, your browser doesn't display all the variable contained within the url. Using FireFox and a plugin called Live HTTP Headers, you can see exactly what variables are sent from your browser to Google's servers. After that, an attacker just needs to identify the variable that is the equivalent of the username. "Obtaining this variable is tricky but possible," he writes. "I'm not going to tell you how to do it, if you search hard enough online you'll find out how."

Deep brain stimulation induces vivid memories

In addition, this incident reaffirms a suspicion I’ve had about the brain and its ability to store memories. I’ve often thought that the brain does an excellent job recording and storing memories, but that our recall mechanisms are disturbingly weak and highly selective. Our long-term associations with memories are frequently diminished (e.g. some of our more painful memories are often exaggerated, distorted or suppressed).

What this incident with DBS suggests is that our memories are beautifully preserved in our brains. We just lack the recall linkages and cognitive mechanisms to bring those memories back in any kind of detail. Our memories are accessed as fleeting bits of information instead of linear experiences.

clipped from ieet.org Earlier this year doctors in Toronto reported a strange incident involving a morbidly obese man who was undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS). DBS involves implanting electrodes into the brain to treat conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. In this particular case, the electrodes were implanted into a 50-year old’s hypothalamus (an area in the limbic system) in hopes of granting him better control over his appetite. But a strange thing happened during the procedure. When the electrodes were stimulated by electrical impulses the man began to experience feelings of deja vu. According to the patient, he viewed the scene as an observer and experienced the scene in colour. As the surgeons increased the intensity of the stimulation the details became more and more vivid. We hopefully have found a circuit in the brain which can be modulated by stimulation, and which might provide benefit to patients with memory disorders

IBM plans 'brain-like' computers

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The fundamental shift toward putting the problem-solving before the problem makes the potential applications for such devices practically limitless.

Free from the constraints of explicitly programmed function, computers could gather together disparate information, weigh it based on experience, form memory independently and arguably begin to solve problems in a way that has so far been the preserve of what we call "thinking".

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called "cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. The resulting technology could be used for large-scale data analysis, decision making or even image recognition. "The mind has an amazing ability to integrate ambiguous information across the senses, and it can effortlessly create the categories of time, space, object, and interrelationship from the sensory data," "There are no computers that can even remotely approach the remarkable feats the mind performs," "The key idea of cognitive computing is to engineer mind-like intelligent machines by reverse engineering the structure, dynamics, function and behaviour of the brain." The longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat's brain.