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Virtual music school becomes a reality
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programmes.
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Providing in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants increases college enrollment
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Undocumented youth are not likely to go to college. Usually they do not qualify for financial aid and often come from low-income families with little ability to pay college tuition. A new study in the Journal of Policy An ...
Genetic loci assigned for musical aptitude in Finnish families
May 19, 2008 |
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Researchers from Finland and USA have identified one major and several potential loci associated with musical aptitude in the human genome. The results raise an interesting question about common evolutionary background of ...
Creating New Ways for Audiences to Participate in Performance
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Music Professor Jason Freeman created Piano Etudes, a Web-based application that allows audiences to participate in the composition process.
Music tuition can help children improve reading skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically ...
Music makes you smarter
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.
Why musicians make us weep and computers don't
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.
Listening to music can change the way you judge facial emotions
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 06, 2009 |
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A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation.
Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
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Nov 06, 2009 |
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For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...
Mood player creates the right atmosphere
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Melancholic songs, dance rhythms or romantic background music? The mood player can recognize musical characteristics and sort songs according to moods. It also blends in suitable images to the rhythm of the ...
Memory researchers turn to Beatles
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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A group of researchers in the British city of Leeds are using the music of The Beatles to study how musical memories impact an individual's identity.
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