Cross‐sectional study on the relationship between music training and working memory in adults

Learning to play musical instruments has been shown to enhance a wide variety of cognitive domains. The present study investigated the specific aspects of working memory (WM) that differed between adult musicians and non‐musicians. Twenty‐four musicians and 30 non‐musicians matched for age, gender, years of formal education, and verbal intelligence performed several WM tasks. A multivariate analysis of covariance, wherein family income was controlled, revealed that musicians outperformed non‐musicians in tasks related to visual–motor coordination, visual scanning ability, visual processing speed, and spatial memory. However, no significant differences were found in phonological and visual memory capacity. This study supports the view that music training is associated to specific (and not general) WM skills.     

Processing emotions in sounds: cross-domain aftereffects of vocal utterances and musical sounds

Nonlinguistic signals in the voice and musical instruments play a critical role in communicating emotion. Although previous research suggests a common mechanism for emotion processing in music and speech, the precise relationship between the two domains is unclear due to the paucity of direct evidence. By applying the adaptation paradigm developed by Bestelmeyer, Rouger, DeBruine, and Belin [2010. Auditory adaptation in vocal affect perception. Cognition, 117(2), 217–223. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.008], this study shows cross-domain aftereffects from vocal to musical sounds. Participants heard an angry or fearful sound four times, followed by a test sound and judged whether the test sound was angry or fearful. Results show cross-domain aftereffects in one direction – vocal utterances to musical sounds, not vice-versa. This effect occurred primarily for angry vocal sounds. It is argued that there is a unidirectional relationship between vocal and musical sounds where emotion processing of vocal sounds encompasses musical sounds but not vice-versa.     

FROM DNA TO DEAN

Abstract. In this broadly intellectual autobiographical essay, Arthur Peacocke describes how his educational background at Oxford led him eventually to physicochemical studies on DNA and other biological macromolecules and how biological complexity and the general problems it evokes have remained a recurring theme in his thought. He also describes how, although coming from a relatively non ecclesiastical background, this interest has nevertheless been intertwined with the larger questions to which the Christian faith seeks to respond. He outlines how he has been able to reconcile these two strands in his existence-even to becoming a priest-scientist and eventually the Dean of chapel of a Cambridge college. He reflects on the trends in the relation of religion and science over the last four decades and points to some hopeful developments in the relation between the two communities-and to some unanswered questions.     

网易云音乐不同人格用户的网络行为及歌词偏好特征分析

本研究通过网络爬虫技术获取在线音乐用户网络行为与歌词文本数据,并结合大五人格问卷进行分析,旨在探讨用户的人格与网络行为、歌词偏好特征之间的相关模式。结果：（1）用户的人格特质与平台网络行为特征呈弱相关;（2）用户的人格特质与歌词文本的词类分布、关键词特征呈弱相关,用户歌词文本的关键词特征在一定程度上符合其人格特点。     

元宇宙时代音乐治疗发展探索

通过分析元宇宙本身的特征和音乐治疗学发展过程中的关键点,主流时代传递信息媒介的变化影响着音乐治疗学的发展,这更是对中国音乐治疗学整合发展的契机。一方面,元宇宙与音乐治疗之间新的交互模式为提高治疗效果、促进治疗过程、治疗中的实时监测和评估提供了更多的便利性和治疗维度上的延展。另一方面,以数字为载体的元宇宙也打破了音乐治疗空间和地域的限制,浮现出文化的多元性对治疗师的挑战和个案的权益保护及相关的伦理问题。     

音乐治疗学在中国之研究述评

对国内音乐治疗学的相关研究进行梳理与探讨,发现其研究内容主要包括操作方法、治疗效果、作用机制和思想文化四个方面,这些研究在研究视角、研究方法、理论建构、操作技术等方面都呈现出多样性以及本土化的发展态势,逐渐将我国的音乐治疗学学科体系进行完善和扩大。尽管目前的研究已经取得了一些成果,但是部分研究在理论依据、研究方法和研究视角等方面还存在不足之处,未来的研究应探寻更加严谨的实验范式和更加多样的理论架构进一步促进本土音乐治疗学的发展。

     

孔、孟“乐”理念比较研究

本文对孔子和孟子的乐理念的各自特点及其异同之处进行了初步分析和评价。作者认为,孔子的乐理念具有明显的泛伦理化倾向。他所关注和注重的,乃是乐的社会教化、社会整合的伦理调节功能。孔子视礼仁为乐之魂魄,视至善为乐之归宿和极致。乐的艺术审美特质被淡化和边缘化。孟子对孔子乐理念的最大修正,在于他将其民本的政治诉求贯彻于其乐理念之中,诉诸与民同乐的政治氛围,从而将乐理念平等化、平民化、感性化,扬弃了孔子对乐的种种宗法等级束缚,破除了对乐的雅俗之别的偏见,从而使乐理念向其平等的、感性的审美氛围迈出了重要的一步。同孔子泛伦理化的乐理念相比较,孟子的乐理念则具有泛政治化的理论倾向。