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Music/Event Segmentation
The team used music to help study the brain’s attempt to make sense of the continual flow of information the real world generates, a process called event segmentation. The brain partitions information into meaningful chunks by extracting information about beginnings, endings and the boundaries between events.
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Key Phrase: event segmentation, chunking information
  • Date: August 1, 2007
  • Source: Stanford University, School of Medicine

Music/Expression
Meghen Miles and Merrick Mosst created "Emotiongrams" by mapping specific musical characteristics (e,g,, minor keys), widely identified with certain emotions (e.g., sadness), to color patterns that represented varying combinations of energy and stress.
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*what would Tchaikovsky's None but the Lonely Heart look like? fascinating, but scary
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Key Phrase: emotiongrams, analyzing musical expression
  • Date: May 10, 2006
  • Source: USC, University of Southern California
Music/Search
In a new paper, the researchers demonstrate that the online music game they created provides crucial data for building the back-end of a music search engine that allows users to type in words in order to find songs.
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Key Phrase: natural-language music search engine
  • Date: September 26, 2007
  • Source: Calit2, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Music/Speech
The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Key Phrase: the human voice and music
  • Date: May 25, 2007
  • Source: Duke University




 
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