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Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics [PDF]

Journal of Cognition
Hearing the remote past seems impossible. Archaeoacoustics is a contemporary field intent on reconstructing the evolution of early communication systems, offering the possibility of developing methodologies relating to past sound signaling and music ...
Victoria Anh-Vy Pham, Roland Fletcher
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Acoustic perception and emotion evocation by rock art soundscapes of Altai (Russia) [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
The major goal of psychoarchaeoacoustics is to understand the psychology behind motivations and emotions of past communities when selecting certain acoustic environments to set activities involving the production of paintings and carvings.
Samantha López-Mochales, Samantha López-Mochales, Raquel Aparicio-Terrés, Raquel Aparicio-Terrés, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera   +10 more
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Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness, and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
In western cultures, when it comes to places of worship and liturgies, music, acoustics and architecture go hand in hand. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether the emotions evoked by music are enhanced by the acoustics of the space where ...
Samantha López-Mochales, Samantha López-Mochales, Raquel Jiménez-Pasalodos, Raquel Jiménez-Pasalodos, Jose Valenzuela, Jose Valenzuela, Carlos Gutiérrez-Cajaraville, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera   +13 more
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Psychology Meets Archaeology: Psychoarchaeoacoustics for Understanding Ancient Minds and Their Relationship to the Sacred [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
How important is the influence of spatial acoustics on our mental processes related to sound perception and cognition? There is a large body of research in fields encompassing architecture, musicology, and psychology that analyzes human response, both ...
Jose Valenzuela, Jose Valenzuela, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera, Carles Escera   +7 more
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Archaeoacoustics around the World: A Literature Review (2016–2022)

Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2023
Acoustics has been integrated with archaeology to better understand the social and cultural context of past cultures. Specifically, public events such as rituals or ceremonies, where an appreciation of sound propagation was required to hold an event ...
Luz María Alonso Valerdi, Gustavo Sebastian Navas-Reascos   +1 more
exaly   +3 more sources

An Archaeoacoustics Analysis of Cistercian Architecture: The Case of the Beaulieu Abbey

Acoustics, 2021
The Cistercian order is of acoustic interest because previous research has hypothesized that Cistercian architectural structures were designed for longer reverberation times in order to reinforce Gregorian chants.
Sebastian Duran, Martyn Chambers, Ioannis Kanellopoulos   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)

Open Archaeology, 2023
In this article, the potential of archaeoacoustics for understanding past communities is discussed by looking at a range of acoustic parameters. Our case study is the Urkosh rock art area in the Ongudai district, Republic of Altai (Russia).
Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, Andrzej Rozwadowski, Margarita Díaz-Andreu   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The documentation of archaeoacoustics identity of Sultan-Barquq complex

AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2020
Sultan-Barquq complex is considered to be the most compact and unified Islamic Mamluk monuments in Cairo. In addition to its main function as a place of prayer, its design allows separate schools for teaching the four Sunni rites.
Khalid S Al-Hagla
exaly   +3 more sources

EEG data of museum visitors experiencing visual and audiovisual simulations of Edzná, an archaeological site in MexicoOpenNeuro [PDF]

Data in Brief
This dataset contains electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings and user experience (UX) reports from 51 participants who experienced visual and audiovisual simulations of Edzná, a Mayan archaeological site in Mexico.
Alonso-Valerdi Luz María, Rosado-Aíza Juan Pablo, Domínguez-Morales Fernando José, Pech-Canul Tania Yareni, Vázquez-Rodríguez Paola Guadalupe, Navas-Reascos Gustavo, Ibarra-Zárate David Isaac   +6 more
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Acoustic simulation of J.S. Bach’s Thomaskirche in 1723 and 1539

Acta Acustica, 2021
This paper investigates an early acoustical theory of Hope Bagenal about the Leipzig Thomaskirche, where J.S. Bach composed and conducted from 1723 to 1750. Bagenal predicted that the church had a shorter reverberation time than previously in Bach’s time
Boren Braxton B.
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