The Preference-Polarization Effect of Music: How Background Music Changes Preferences

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Lee ◽  
Manoj Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Polarization Effect ◽  
Background Music

Film Music from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Cognitive Perspective

This chapterexamines how the effects of film music on meaning, memory, and the construction of a reality within a film can be addressed or understood from a cognitive scientific perspective. It reviews studies that aim to explain why music is important to film as well as how music functions in film, and it discusses the principles of cognitive science and cognitive perspective. It also considers the Congruence-Associationist Model for understanding filmmusic, which was developed to account for the fact that the attitudes toward three geometric film characters were affected differently by background music.

American Humor in Literature and Politics

1985 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
William Hill ◽  
Dennis Lape
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Strobe Light ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Humor In Literature ◽  
American Humor

The lights dim. The students stir nervously, not sure of what to expect of the strobe light and the background music from "Thriller." The student course guide had recommended American Humor in Literature and Politics, but no one had been able to locate a living survivor to provide a personal testimony. Two middle-aged men of spacious girths enter the room and begin calling the roll. One looks like he might be a Democrat. The other one doesn't. As they alternate calling student names, crack terrible puns, and climb in and out of fright wigs and false noses, it begins to dawn on the class why no Ishmael has stepped forward to tell the story of American Humor.

scholarly journals Comparison of auditory sensations in patients who underwent cataract phacoemulsification surgery in the first and second eye

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Konopińska ◽  
Dorota Ługowska ◽  
Zofia Mariak ◽  
Iwona Obuchowska
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Group I ◽  
Group Ii ◽  
Pleasant Experience

AbstractTo compare subjective auditory sensations of patients during the first and second eye cataract surgeries. Consecutive patients who underwent phacoemulsification of the first eye (group I) and second eye (group II) completed questionnaires designed to evaluate their auditory sensations in the operating room including background music, sound of working equipment, staff conversations, and surgeon’s voice. This study included 124 patients in group I and 76 patients in group II. Patients most often heard nursing staff’s conversations (91.9% and 96%, respectively, p > 0.05), surgeon’s voice (87.9% and 86.8%, respectively, p > 0.05), and music (70.9% and 75%, respectively, p > 0.05). Music was the most pleasant experience (78.2% and 78.9%, respectively, p > 0.05). The sound of the working phacoemulsifier was the most undesirable sound (20.2% and 15.8%, respectively, p > 0.05). Patients in group II more often indicated that none of the sounds required elimination (69.7% and 52.6%, respectively, p = 0.013) or that staff conversations should be eliminated (13.2% and 3.1%, respectively, p = 0.005). The most desirable sounds during phacoemulsification include music and the surgeon’s voice regarding the procedure. The most unpleasant sound was that that of phacoemulsifier. The commonest sounds to be eliminated in groups I and II included those of equipment and staff conversations.

scholarly journals Thermal and Transport Properties of Molten Chloride Salts with Polarization Effect on Microstructure

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 746
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Lu ◽  
Senfeng Yang ◽  
Gechuanqi Pan ◽  
Jing Ding ◽  
Shule Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Capacity ◽  
Polarization Effect ◽  
Chloride Salt ◽  
Coulombic Interaction ◽  
Molten Chloride ◽  
Self Diffusion ◽  
Local Structures ◽  
Property Data ◽  
Chloride Salts ◽  
And Storage

Molten chloride salt is recognized as a promising heat transfer and storage medium in concentrating solar power in recent years, but there is a serious lack for thermal property data of molten chloride salts. In this work, local structures and thermal properties for molten chloride salt—including NaCl, MgCl2, and ZnCl2—were precisely simulated by Born–Mayer–Huggins (BMH) potential in a rigid ion model (RIM) and a polarizable ion model (PIM). Compared with experimental data, distances between cations, densities, and heat capacities of molten chloride slats calculated from PIM agree remarkably better than those from RIM. The polarization effect brings an extra contribution to screen large repulsive Coulombic interaction of cation–cation, and then it makes shorter distance between cations, larger density and lower heat capacity. For NaCl, MgCl2, and ZnCl2, PIM simulation deviations of distances between cations are respectively 3.8%, 3.7%, and 0.3%. The deviations of density and heat capacity for NaCl between PIM simulation and experiments are only 0.6% and 2.2%, and those for MgCl2 and ZnCl2 are 0.7–10.7%. As the temperature rises, the distance between cations increases and the structure turns into loose state, so the density and thermal conductivity decrease, while the ionic self-diffusion coefficient increases, which also agree well with the experimental results.

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