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Students
Thank you for the music ONE question that I have come up against a lot recently ... that my master’s degree is in the ‘Psychology of Music’ the response is typically something along the lines ... What’s that then?’ It seems that the idea of studying music...
News
... impossible finding that listening to children’s music can reduce participants’ actual chronological age. ... are self-harming and their families.’ js The mystery of music The latest of the ‘Plug in your brain’ public ... came in the form of a delightful...
Digest
... supported this idea: participants who listened to music with the intention of feeling happier actually ended up ... feeling less happy than others who merely listened to the music with no happiness goal. But now a new study has come ... Sheldon criticise the...
Book reviews
... Tyneside & Northumberland Mental Health NHS Trust. Putting music in context Musical Communication Dorothy Miell, Raymond ... line-up of academic and applied researchers, including music psychologists, therapists and educationalists; ... the general public...
Society
... save an attractive moat containing myriad fish. African music and tropical animal noises piped throughout added to ... of volunteering activities.’ Research seminars on music and language Middlesex University’s Language & ... competition to hold a series...
Book Reviews
... at the University of Worcester Institute of Education. Music Makers: Music Circle Times to Include Everyone Hannah Mortimer ... for early-years educators running their own developmental music therapy sessions. The reader is introduced well to...
News and media
... brains and our subjective mental lives. While the music Mrs O’Connor hears and the childhood memories she ... rope-controlled set, energetically performed Balkan folk music, and inventive props (at one point, an overhead ... it raised some profound issues. But...
News
... of people’s beliefs in the mind control powers of music. This took in 18th-century fears over the seductive power of music used by mesmerists; Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of ... and 20th-century panic in America over the supposed use of music-...
President's column
... policy on diversity and equality. It was accompanied by music and sound effects from the parade of a 12-metre tall, ... policy on diversity and equality. It was accompanied by music and sound effects from the parade of a 12-metre tall, ...
News
... But it will take years.’ CJ Psychology and the music of Michael Tippett FEW composers have acknowledged the ... work offers unique insights that are not available through music or psychology alone. Indeed the vision that his works ... of the human condition...
News and digest
... review says that airbrushed adverts, sexist sitcoms, lurid music videos, easily-accessed internet porn, ‘lads mags’ ... curriculum; lads mags to be put on the top shelf; sexy music videos to be broadcast only after the watershed; and a ...
News and media
... influence others in developing similar projects.’ Music to your ears The simple act of listening to music can improve some aspects of our musical competence – ... participants with a mixture of formal expertise levels and music listening...
Media
... eyes surveying our discipline. JS Media - Curiosity Music is a form of media that doesn’t get a lot of ... to recall information when it’s placed in the context of music, ‘An empty bliss…’ tackles amnesia and is built ... as one review says: ‘Kirby isn’t just...
Book reviews
... discusses the creative talents of genius ranging across music, painting, literature, poetry and philosophy. The text ...
Media
... the country’s most gifted young people use heavy metal music to cope with negative emotions was also a popular focus ...
Scientific tales from America
... Consistent with this, studies have shown 50 per cent of music prodigies suffer a ‘mid-life’ crisis during their ... a lot comes easily to them. An analysis of national music examination results showed that the strongest predictor ... But look closely, Gladwell...
News and Media
... the border and 600 in the capital, to hear talks on love, music, addiction, and more. Edinburgh The process of dating ... article last month, posing the question ‘is pop music bad for young people?’ North concluded that the evidence suggesting a link between...
News
... songs compared with the unknown song. ‘We played music in the scanner, and then we hit a virtual “mute” ... this, the auditory cortex remained active even though the music had stopped.’ Previous research has instructed ... the researchers concluded. CJ ...
Letters
... of screen and speaker content: this is the contemporary music culture which seems, at the very least, to be ...
ONLINE-ONLY article - Zander Wedderburn's Presidential Address
... mild electric shocks on my legs, and loud rhythmic jazz music (Oswald, 1960). Strangely, the heat of the studio ...
News
... I tinyurl.com/y6v8y2e The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) has two grant schemes ... advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education. I Reg and Molly Buck Award: one grant ...
Society
... makes us human, crisis negotiation, and whether or not pop music is bad for young people. In London the topics included ...
Thinking differently: Fashionable, original
... careers, to the detriment of their creative talents in music and art. A lively audience discussion followed the ...
Digest: What else can you expect from a Crappo?
... electricity, law, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, pathology, philosophy, and physics. But how much of ...
News and media
... from internet dating and subliminal messages in rock music through to Barbie dolls. The media and popular culture, ... targets for the censors – aggressive or antisocial music tends not to have a negative influence on young people. ... interpret or ignore...