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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger +2 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect
Scientific Reports, 2021 Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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Sonic mediatization of the book: affordances of the audiobook
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2013 This article addresses cultural changes resulting from the growing number of audiobook users and changes in audiobook use emerging from digital technological developments of the past decade.
Iben Have, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
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A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements
Scientific Reports, 2023 Ekman famously contended that there are different channels of emotional expression (face, voice, body), and that emotion recognition ability confers an adaptive advantage to the individual.
Julia F. Christensen +7 more
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Aesthetic Visual Question Answering of Photographs [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Aesthetic assessment of images can be categorized into two main forms: numerical assessment and language assessment. Aesthetics caption of photographs is the only task of aesthetic language assessment that has been addressed. In this paper, we propose a new task of aesthetic language assessment: aesthetic visual question and answering (AVQA) of images.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The current study examined the musical taste of musicology students as compared to a control student group. Participants (n=1003) completed an online survey regarding the frequency with which they listened to 22 musical styles. A factor analysis revealed
Paul eElvers +3 more
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How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others
Scientific Reports, 2023 Music production is a universal phenomenon reaching far back into our past. Given its ubiquity, evolution theorists have postulated adaptive functions for music, such as strengthening in-group cohesion, intimidating enemies, or promoting child bonding ...
Eugen Wassiliwizky +2 more
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Sample-specific repetitive learning for photo aesthetic assessment and highlight region extraction [PDF]
Multimedia tools and application, 2020, 2019 Aesthetic assessment is subjective, and the distribution of the aesthetic levels is imbalanced. In order to realize the auto-assessment of photo aesthetics, we focus on retraining the CNN-based aesthetic assessment model by dropping out the unavailable samples in the middle levels from the training data set repetitively to overcome the effect of ...
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Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation via Aesthetic Gradients [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This work proposes aesthetic gradients, a method to personalize a CLIP-conditioned diffusion model by guiding the generative process towards custom aesthetics defined by the user from a set of images. The approach is validated with qualitative and quantitative experiments, using the recent stable diffusion model and several aesthetically-filtered ...
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A Simple Methodology to Better Appreciate Structures in Mandibular Angle Fractures Using 3-Dimensional Reconstruction Software [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019 Introduction: In Singapore, fractures of the mandible are common and of which, 32% occur at its angle. Current TwoDimensional (2D) imaging methods are lacking in accuracy, leading to increased surgical morbidity.
Arjunan Kumaran +4 more
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