Pitch distribution, melodic contour or both? Modeling makam schema with multidimensional scaling and self-organizing maps
Publication date: January 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): Nart Bedin Atalay, Seyit YöreAbstractExperienced listeners internalize musical tonal knowledge via statistical learning of pitch distributions as a result of exposure to musical environment. Cross-cultural studies of music cognition offer new perspectives to investigate the acquisition of tonal schema. Makam music is a rich musical system characterized by modal structures defined by micro-tonal pitch sets, and melodic progression patterns (aka seyir features). Makam schema is possibly acquired by internalizing the seyir in addition to pitch...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dispositional mindfulness, perceived social support, and academic motivation: Exploring differences between Dutch and American students
Publication date: January 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): Austin Gordon, Adena Young-Jones, Shannon Hayden, Sophie Fursa, Bailey HartAbstractMultiple countries have examined dispositional mindfulness, perceived social support, and psychological well-being within their own populations. However, no cross-cultural comparisons of these constructs have been pursued. The present study aimed to address this gap by analyzing these variables across two countries. University students from the Netherlands and the midwestern United States completed a survey, which assessed their perceived social support, their...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Investigating cumulative disruptive interference in memory for melodies, words, and pictures
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Steffen A. Herff, Kirk N. Olsen, Aydin Anic, Nora K. SchaalAbstractCumulative disruptive interference in memory describes the well-established phenomenon that recognition performance decreases as the number of intervening items between first and second stimulus presentation increases. Memory for melody has been shown to exhibit resilience to this type of recognition interference, and a novel Regenerative Multiple Representation (RMR) conjecture has been developed to explain these findings. Here, we critically assess, replicate, and extend k...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adverse racial climates in academia: Conceptualization, interventions, and call to action
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Monnica T. WilliamsAbstractRacial conflict at universities across the US has been the focus of academic concern and media attention, yet often administrators and faculty do not understand the problems or know how to approach solutions. Drawing from many branches of psychological science, this paper describes how an oppressive academic climate results in negative outcomes for students and faculty of color, such as psychological distress, grievances, discrimination lawsuits, faculty turnover, and student dropout. Described are some empiricall...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Music recognition without identification and its relation to déjà entendu: A study using “Piano Puzzlers”
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Katherine L. McNeely-White, Anne M. ClearyAbstractThe feeling of familiarity--the sensation of recognizing a situation without identifying any relevant prior experience—is one of the many ways in which people can experience a sensation of memory during retrieval failure. The present study is concerned with the experience of familiarity with music, and with using music as a means of investigating the auditory version of déjà vu known as déjà entendu. Previous laboratory research on the sensation of familiarity with music used the recog...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meta-emotions and the complexity of human emotional experience
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Maria Miceli, Cristiano CastelfranchiAbstractWe suggest that meta-emotions – defined as emotions about one's own emotions – contribute to the complexity of people's psychic life by modifying the intensity and quality of their first-order emotions, and influencing their decisions and behaviour. After addressing similarities and differences between first-order and second-order emotions, and the role played on the latter by emotion goals and evaluations about emotions, we try to show how, by revealing the consequences of emotions, meta-emo...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Why genome-wide associations with cognitive ability measures are probably spurious
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Ken Richardson, Michael C. JonesAbstractMuch time and effort, as well as funding, is being devoted to Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) for identifying genetic causes of variation (single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs) in human cognitive abilities and educational attainments (CA and EA). After years of finding only very weak associations, usually failing to replicate, attention has turned to aggregates of otherwise non-significant SNPs (called polygenic scores, or PGS) and some associations with traits are now being reported. Here w...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Bringing humor theory into practice: An interdisciplinary approach to online humor training
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Margaret C. Baisley, Neil E. GrunbergAbstractTo bring humor into practice, we conducted a thorough review of humor literature and integrated known therapeutic techniques which have found empirical support over the past decades. There are many common elements to humor theories, despite debates in the field. The theoretical debates are less relevant to the practice of humor, which necessarily should be consistent with all valid theories. We constructed a workshop as a method to explore, integrate, and resolve inconsistencies to bring the theo...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Putting the variability–stability–flexibility pattern to use: Adapting instruction to how children develop
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Thea IonescuAbstractThrough learning, children solve problems by both using known solutions and going beyond those solutions. It has been shown that humans develop by passing through a recursive pattern of variability, stability, and flexibility states. In this paper, I argue that analyzing how the cognitive system behaves in each state when a child tries to solve a problem can provide insight into how to teach and evaluate the system during learning. Ways to teach from this perspective are presented, specifically how to use context, as wel...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - May 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Extended musicking, extended mind, extended agency. Notes on the third wave
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Kevin Ryan, Andrea SchiavioAbstractThe conceptual resources of ‘4E’ music cognition – i.e. the embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive paradigms – have offered a rich set of tools to explore the nature of musical experience. Among these four approaches, the extended mind perspective has heretofore received less overall attention. In this paper we focus on further developing the musically extended mind - especially in regards to musical performance - drawing on recent third wave developments. After exploring the main tenets of fir...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Learning to discriminate new timbres
Publication date: December 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 55Author(s): Kathryn B. Bates, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu, William BrentAbstractThe present study explored whether timbre discrimination could be honed through perceptual exposure training. A timbre continuum that blended the timbres of an oboe and a trumpet was constructed to produce novel timbres to which participants had no previous exposure. Participants' baseline sensitivity (d’) in discriminating tones comprising these novel timbres were compared to their sensitivity after training. In Experiments 1 and 2, training involved exposure to a tone discri...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How meaningful is meaning-making?
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Marek S. Kopacz, Jennifer Lockman, Jaimie Lusk, Craig J. Bryan, Crystal L. Park, Susan C. Sheu, William C. GibsonAbstractThe aim of this paper is to develop understandings of how meaning-making processes apply to moral injury in military populations. Moral injury is an emerging clinical construct recognized as a source of mental health morbidity. Meaning-making processes, especially following highly stressful events, have far-reaching applicability to ensuring favorable mental health outcomes. This paper examines meaning-making processes in t...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - March 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A cognitive framework for understanding development of the ability to deceive
Publication date: Available online 21 March 2019Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Jeffrey J. Walczyk, Caroline FargersonAbstractA large research literature shows how the ability to deceive improves from early childhood on. For instance, growth in Theory of Mind allows older children to infer accurately others’ mental states, enabling plausible lying. However, theoretical frameworks for integrating these findings are scarce. We expand a cognitive theory of adult high-stakes deception for this purpose: Activation-Decision-Construction-Action Theory (ADCAT). According to ADCAT, deception typically involves four comp...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Tracking familiarity, recognition, and liking increases with repeated exposures to Nontonal Music: Revisiting MEE-Revisited
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Esra Mungan, Melisa Akan, Mustafa Taha BilgeAbstractPrevious studies demonstrated mere exposure effects (MEE) with musical tunes (e.g., Halpern & Müllensiefen, 2008; Peretz et al., 1998). Our goal was to investigate the effects of repeated exposures on processing fluency, recognition performance, and liking ratings for unfamiliar tonal and nontonal tunes, with type of tune being manipulated between-participants. Tunes were presented either 1, 3 or 6 times and processed either with a familiarity rating or counting long notes orienting task. W...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - March 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
