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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...
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...
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, ...
Forum
... 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)....
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...
Forum
... 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Forum
... 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...
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 ...