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Is it not beautiful?
... as well as in sound (waves, waterfalls and rain) and music (birdsong and nursery rhymes). Mathematical fractals ... in the Society section. Alex Forsythe said: ‘Noel loved music, and any donations to ... – a charity that helps disadvantaged kids with ...
Searching for superhuman
... would you believe that anyone could identify a piece of music merely by looking at the groove patterns on a vinyl ... anything other than his own vast knowledge of orchestral music from Beethoven onwards, combined with an ability to ...
Hearing pitch – right place, wrong time?
... It is arguably the most important perceptual dimension of music, allowing us to appreciate melody and harmony. In ...
State of the art - Synaesthesia
... A? What does the number 1 taste of? Does listening to music, speaking or eating food produce colours, shapes or ...
Why I study...media psychology
... to study psychology. As an English graduate and freelance music journalist, I found myself near Zurich doing a feature ...
New voices: Learning from learners
I immerse myself in three disciplines: research, music and art. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University ...
State of the art: Psychopathy
... it, psychopathic individuals ‘know the words but not the music’ (p.217). In this article we argue that although ...
So you think you can dance?
... – and he intends to be nothing short of dazzling. The music begins and he starts to move. You hold your breath… ...
Book reviews
... stories in the details. Not unlike the adoption of Western music and fashions by young people in traditional cultures, ...
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 ...
Damon Albarn's 'Everyday Robots'…
... very simply rendered, and often mournfully sung. The music uses samples of voices and sounds, sewn together with a ... that influence how we shop, atmospherics (e.g. lighting, music played in shops), and brand ‘priming’. He writes in ...
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 ...
Book reviews
... on Viennese life at the turn of the century, on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous ...
The social dimension of emotion
... tournament), or a social or cultural artefact (a piece of music). Of course, we sometimes experience emotions in ...
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
... and ‘dream pictures’ while listening to classical music. His aim was not unlike that of a patient in ... on one page… beginning and ending, if possible, with the music itself.’ He said that some of these were ‘purely ...
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 ...