1,720,967 research outputs found
Universal and culture-specific aspects of psychophysiological emotional-related responses to music : a cross-cultural study
No full textPrevious cross-cultural studies in music and emotion have mostly focused on emotion recognition. As a result, the impact of enculturation on music-induced emotions remains largely unexplored. In the general literature beyond music, cross-cultural studies have suggested that cultural learning is affecting differently certain components of emotion. Physiological responses show similar patterns of activity across cultures, whereas self-reports of experienced emotion have more variation. Collectivist cultures have been shown to report lower levels of experienced emotion compared to individualistic cultures, and this has often been investigated by comparing East Asian and Western groups. To test these findings in a music setting, a cross-cultural study was conducted using Finnish, Greek, and Chinese participants. Instrumental excerpts of Western, Greek, and Chinese music were selected from previous studies that rated them for the emotions they conveyed. Self-reports were used to collect ratings of valence, arousal, intensity, and familiarity, along with measures of physiological activity (heart rate, skin conductance, and respiratory rate). Results showed similar levels of familiarity with Western music across groups. Self-reports revealed substantial group differences for valence, arousal, and intensity, suggesting that subjective feeling is greatly influenced by familiarity and cultural factors. No significant differences in physiology were found, supporting the idea that autonomic nervous system responses to music are more universal. Excerpts conveying negative emotions showed more variation across groups and had lower overall consistency, indicating culture-specific associations with unpleasant emotions that not always transcend across cultures. Contrary to studies with other types of stimuli, collectivist cultures did not report lower levels of experienced emotion, suggesting that individualism-collectivism might not be as relevant in a music listening setting.unknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
The Role of Enculturation in Music-Induced Emotions : A Study on Psychophysiological Responses during Music Listening
No full textPrevious cross-cultural studies in music and emotion have mostly focused on emotion recognition and whether basic perceived emotions are recognised across cultures. As a result, the impact of enculturation on music-induced emotions remains largely unexplored. In addition, such studies have relied mainly on subjective self-reports, ignoring other components of emotion such as physiology. Cross-cultural studies have suggested that cultural learning has a differential effect on certain emotional components (subjective feeling, physiology, and facial expression), yet this has not been tested in a music setting. To test this hypothesis, three groups of Finnish, Chinese, and Greek non-musicians listened to 20 excerpts of Western, Chinese, and Greek music that were selected from previous studies in which the emotional character of the music had been rated. Self-reports were used to collect continuous ratings of valence and arousal, along with measures of physiological activity (heart rate, skin conductance, and respiratory rate). Ratings of intensity, familiarity with the excerpt and familiarity with the music style were also collected after each stimulus. Results showed similar levels of familiarity with Western music across nationalities. However, the subjective measurements revealed group differences in the subjective feeling, even when familiarity was controlled for. Arousal was the only subjective rating that did not have a differentiating pattern, in line with previous research that has suggested arousal has a more universal quality. Physiological activity also showed less variation across nationalities, indicating that autonomic nervous system responses to music listening are less mediated by enculturation.peerReviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
