Tonal music is a highly structured system that is ubiquitous in our cultural environment. We
demonstrate the acquisition of implicit knowledge of tonal structure through neural self …

Pitch extraction (also called fundamental frequency estimation) has been a popular topic in
many fields of research since the age of computers. Yet in the course of some 50 years of …

Persuasive technologies aim to influence user's behaviors. In order to be effective, many of
the persuasive technologies developed so far relies on user's motivation and ability, which is …

The classification and separation of speech and music signals have attracted attention by
many researchers. The purpose of the classification process is needed to build two different …

It is paradoxical that people should like music that evokes negative emotions. In this article
an associative network, incorporating principles of connectionism and semantic networks, is …

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines,
including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting …

The Gestalt principles of perceptual learning elucidate how the human brain categorizes
and comprehends a set of visual elements grouped together. One of the principles of Gestalt …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the neural nets, temporal composites, and
tonality. The chapter outlines a framework in which aspects of cognition can be understand …

Abstract Systems and methods for performing simple and quick real time single music note
recognition algorithm based on fuzzy pattern matching are disclosed. In one aspect, the …

Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties
of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural …