Published in i-Perception
The matching of scents with music is both one of the most natural (or intuitive) of crossmodal correspondences and, at the same time, one of the least frequently explored combinations of senses in an entertainment and multisensory experiential design context. This narrative review highlights the various occasions over the last century or two when s...
Music-related decision making encompasses a wide range of behaviours including those associated with music composition and performance, listening choices, music consumption, and decisions involving music education and therapy. Although research programmes in psychology and economics have contributed to an improved understanding of music-related beh...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Psychological research has long demonstrated that preferences can be influenced by stimuli coming from the environment. Music, as an external stimulus influencing people behaviours, purchasing processes and spending, has been widely analysed in consumer behaviour and marketing literature. Here, we focus on the effect of music genres on preferences ...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
It is well known and documented that sensory perception decreases with age. In the elderly population, hearing loss and reduced vestibular function are among the most prevalently affected senses. Two important side effects of sensory deprivation are cognitive decline and decrease in social participation. Hearing loss, vestibular function impairment...
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of ‘everyday data cultures’ proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices – including the production and circul...
Most human–computer interfaces are built on the paradigm of manipulating abstract representations. This can be limiting when computers are used in artistic performance or as mediators of social connection, where we rely on qualities of embodied thinking: intuition, context, resonance, ambiguity and fluidity. We explore an alternative approach to de...
Socialno delo je znanost in stroka, v kateri se srečujemo z raznolikimi posamezniki in posameznicami, ki se spopadajo z raznovrstnimi stiskami v svojem življenju. To socialne delavke in delavce spodbuja k iskanju različnih načinov dela, za kar se opiramo najprej na razvito socialnodelovno znanje in potem na druge stroke. Interdisciplinarno povezova...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Against the background of weakening face-to-face social interaction, the mental health of college students deserves attention. There are few existing studies on the impact of audiovisual interaction on interactive behavior, especially emotional perception in specific spaces. This study aims to indicate whether the perception of one’s music environm...
In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstream tendency, since approximately 2008, ecclesiastic and non-ecclesiastic actors alike have made musical arrangements of the Heart Sutra. What do these musical arrangements help us to understand about the formation of Buddhist religiosity in contempor...
