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Hearing pitch – right place, wrong time?
... It is arguably the most important perceptual dimension of music, allowing us to appreciate melody and harmony. In ...
Unhappy in a unique way
... of the Book Club episode was a regular on the couch, The Music and the Passion himself, Mr Barry Manilow. Manilow ...
Big picture: Alien invasion
... skills might not suit pencil and brush. In such art, as in music, it is easy for neurotypical and autistic minds to find ...
Reflections on the games families play
... is evident across a range of new media forms (computers, music, mobile technology), though it is not typical of those ... but only 12 per cent of parents, know how to download music (impeding parents’ ability to guide their children in ...
Big picture
... hill is where it is); sometimes patterns help him make music (like deciding to take a particular sound, run it ...
Unravelling our beginnings
... a preference that is acquired prenatally. Newborns prefer music they have heard prenatally to that which they have ... from prenatal learning is unknown. Newborn preferences for music acquired prenatally disappear by three weeks of age in ...
A festival of community psychology
... enables people to ‘bounce’ back as active citizens . Music and change Community psychology has been big in Chile ...
Creative Britain
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... activities of say, painting, sculpture, classical music, but now encompasses many new activities, as the 2001 ...
Choosing the right tools to find the right people
... produced 40 per cent of the ‘masterworks’ in classical music (Moles, 1958). Although Price’s law was originally ...
The psychology of stuff and things
... their youth too. Usually this manifests in a taste for music, books, films and other entertainment from yesteryear, ... a creative star dies, with the mass consumption of their music, books or films or other associated items. Consider how ... with our stuff is...
Student Writer Competition winners
... programmes. An organisation called TAPE offers various music and film projects; there is a strong service user group ... behind the curtain, smoking and chatting playfully. Music is played at full blast, people dance and laugh. ‘You ...
The social dimension of emotion
... tournament), or a social or cultural artefact (a piece of music). Of course, we sometimes experience emotions in ...
Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
... other in a manner comparable to the themes and phrases in music (Krippner, 1981). The structure of the chemical benzene ...
Personality and art
... also more likely to invest time and money in others (e.g. music, performing arts, theatre, etc.) (McManus & Furnham, in ...
The name game
... that involve grinding grain, and those called Melody to music making. This sort of influence can come from first ...
Rethinking siblings and mental illness
... gatherings, joining a yoga class together or going to a music festival. One sibling in the Sibling Network stated: ...
Asylum 2- Working with refugee children and families
... helpful coping strategies, such as praying, listening to music or asking a family member to tell them a story before ...
The education of children in care
... are less important, such as sport or popular music. Pre-care experiences certainly play a part in ...
The multisensory perception of flavour
... through to the colour of the lighting and the background music all affect both the foods and drinks we choose to order ... D. (2008). The social and applied psychology of music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oberfeld, D., Hecht, ...
Increasing happiness in lasting ways
... to higher pleasures like those afforded by great art, music or natural beauty. And although pleasure is an ...
Letters
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... for him, to establish himself as performer and creator of music – and, then, agreeing with the ‘social’ gurus, to ...
Coach your cortex
... been shown to be more generalised – action video games, music and athletics. Action video games were shown to be ...
Neuroscience for the soul
... who sensed a presence during seizures must have come as music to the ears of one Canadian neuroscientist in ...
Toilet psychology
... preference for faecal foods (e.g. sausage), flatulent music (i.e. wind and brass) and toilet humour. His analysis ...
The psychology of sustainable transport
... all mode users (Gatersleben & Uzzell, 2007). In addition, music is an important source of positive experiences for ...