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Traditional song in Ireland: living fossil or dynamic resource
(Festival 500 Sharing the voices, 1997)
When I submitted the abstract of this paper, I did not realize that the late
Frank Harrison used almost exactly the same title in an 6 Riada memorial lecture
at University College Cork, Ireland some years ago (Harrison, ...
National identity and local ethnicity: the case of the Gaelic League's Oireachtas sean-nós singing competitions
A discussion of traditional singing as a cultural phenomenon in contemporary Ireland, together with a brief historical overview.
Some effects of negative delays upon the perception of causal relatedness
(The International Society for Psychophysics, 2004)
We examined the effects of negative delays on the perception of causality using a variation of the paradigm originated by Michotte (1954) and as an extension to similar work conducted by Kanizsa and Vicario (1968). In our ...
Expectancy, not memory determines identical search rates in static and dynamic displays.
(International Society for Psychophysics, 2005)
Search rates are often used as a measure of search efficiency. Horowitz & Wolfe employed this measure to compare static and dynamic visual search (Horowitz & Wolfe, 1998). Based on identical search rates, they argued that ...
The impact of constructing aqueducts on the settlement patterns of Roman Crete
(2004-10)
In this paper the Roman aqueducts of Crete will be presented for the purpose of exploring the effects of aqueduct construction on settlement patterns on the island.1 The study will demonstrate the diversity and the extent ...
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)
Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the
literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s
Ossian poems. Many
revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...
Structural imbalance and aesthetic preference in domestic chicks
(The International Society for Psychophysics, 2010-10)
In Arnheim¿s (1954/1974) theory of structural balance, an image is more aesthetically pleasing when it demonstrates balance between multiple internal sources of directed perceptual force. Areas of balance and preferred ...
Electrophysiological correlates of flicker-induced form hallucinations
(The International Society for Psychophysics, 2010-10)
Form hallucinations can be reliably induced using temporally modulated light within a specific frequency range (15-30Hz). The neural substrates of such states have yet to be established with certainty. Brain activity of 5 ...
Process timing and its relation to the perception of tonal harmony
(Editora Legis Summa Ltda, 2002)
Recent advances in auditory research suggest that gamma-band synchronization of frequency-specific cortical loci could be responsible for the integration of pure tones (harmonics) into harmonic complex tones. Thus far, ...