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Music to our ears
... One ubiquitous aspect of everyday auditory environments is music. Music has a range of powerful physical, social, and emotional ... for example, Raymond MacDonald and colleagues’ 2012 book Music, Health and Wellbeing ). It is surprising,...
Unpleasant reactions to ‘music’
... (February 2015)? I have always felt a connection between music and a sense of space. Listening to pieces in two parts ... correct term for it. It occurs when I hear some sounds or music created by electronic means. Currently when the BBC ... as queasy. The same...
A curveball angle
... and interact. Let us take this third suggestion first. Music in three time ‘projects itself’ onto curves of ... and vision (as in the kite flying of Ray Bethell) while music in four or two time hearkens unto marching and jumping. ... is increasingly normative...
Can we have a Happy Christmas?
... tend to be highest at the time of year when Christmas music is being played, with this effect enhanced when the music played is paired with Christmas scent (Spangenberg et ... Christmas: The interactive effects of ambient scent and music in a...
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... to this condition in the pages of The Psychologist (‘Music – shelter for the frazzled mind?’, December 2009). ... on a task to identify emotional depiction within music (which apparently does not detract from their appreciation of the music)....
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... voice, bonding, and parent-soothing? Hospitals now give music CDs to new parents to soothe infants; there are plenty ... arrive at school hardly talking; teenagers are preferring music (Yule, 2008); swearing is generally reduced to one word ... and obscuring...
Letters: austerity and more
... menu, the dish of the day, and more drinks. Look out for music: this increases the degree of drink-buying. Music with prosocial lyrics is the most devious of the lot: ... Better still, have someone else pay. Speaking of music, pay close...
Are understandings of mental illness mired in the past?
... attacked and brain-injured in the street and now hears music from his childhood whenever a generalised seizure is ... the development of seizures, to the hearing of childhood music, to the worries about the future, is perfectly ...
Letters
... psychological responsibility will change the mood music; it’ll make people think; it’ll make psychology ... care you like, then nurses do talking therapies now. Music therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, counselling ...
Something about nothing
... to the moves, which follow the light and shade in the music; the highs and lows from one phrase to another. The ...
The Brexit carnival
... to an unofficial, festive world of extravagant costumes, music, laughter, feasting, drinking and revelry. While the ...
Don’t fear jazz
... Everyone requires highly fluid roles, a departure from the music sheet. A different audience need the notes in new ways, ...
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... column: Beyond boundaries Nature versus nurture is a lie. Music is not melody versus rhythm, wine is not grapes versus ... age of 66. She was an extraordinary woman. Jolanta studied music in Warsaw, obtaining her MA in Piano Performance in ... patients. Among...
Letters
... is, to a skilled researcher, like a piece of sheet music is to a skilled musician. However, what if we could ... content. If psychology can use these tools, then our sheet music may be heard much more loudly and clearly than before. ...
The art of revolution
... on the Sea of Azov into a professional family. She studied music in Geneva and law in St. Petersburg, but decided to ... my advice; A kiss, my darling, is not for the ear, And music is not for the eyes.” References Chandler, R., ...
Letters: the assisted dying debate
... 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 ...
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... would there be any great works of literature, poetry or music? The researchers state that their results indicate that ...
Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism
... focus is indispensible in science, maths, technology, music, art and philosophy, among others. Obviously autistic ...
Weathering the storm
... events in parks when we are able to gather again, free music festivals and free museum entry for families. Schools ...
A reset for psychology as natural science
... science, technology, engineering, medicine, culture, music, literature, the Internet and social media all enhance ...
Letters
... College, he was more interested in geology and classical music than mainstream studies. On demobilisation from the ...
Letters
... a Fellow of the Royal Society as one of his students. The music was often loud, there was great food and the alcohol ...
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... without some comment on his exquisite taste in classical music, painting, poetry, food and wine. Leslie was a ...
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... improve his water colour painting skills. His love of music ranged from Haydn to ragtime and brass bands. He played ...
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... her pottery figures and her poetry writing and love of music. Colleagues and friends alike will miss her kindness ...