The Philosophical Significance of Wittgenstein’s Experiments on Rhythm, Cambridge 1912–13 [PDF]
Wittgenstein’s experiments on rhythm, conducted in Charles Myers’s laboratory in Cambridge during the years 1912–13, are his earliest recorded engagement in thinking about music, not just appreciating it, and philosophizing by means of musical thinking ...
Guter, Eran
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Understanding and Coming to Understand [PDF]
Many philosophers take understanding to be a distinctive kind of knowledge that involves grasping dependency relations; moreover, they hold it to be particularly valuable.
Lynch, Michael
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]
Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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Shared reading of children's interactive picture books [PDF]
We report on a study of children and parents shared reading of interactive printed books. We investigated the differences between books with interactive features and books with expressive typography in order to evaluate which features within a book ...
B. Bongers+11 more
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Electronic Dance Music in Narrative Film [PDF]
As a growing number of filmmakers are moving away from the traditional model of orchestral underscoring in favor of a more contemporary approach to film sound, electronic dance music (EDM) is playing an increasingly important role in current soundtrack ...
Filoseta, Roberto
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Approximate, not perfect synchrony maximizes the downstream effectiveness of excitatory neuronal ensembles [PDF]
The most basic functional role commonly ascribed to synchrony in the brain is that of amplifying excitatory neuronal signals. The reasoning is straightforward: When positive charge is injected into a leaky target neuron over a time window of positive ...
Börgers, Christoph+2 more
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation [PDF]
In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English.
Arnold+36 more
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Learner emotions and performance in hypercasual VR games with adaptive AI difficulty
Abstract Hypercasual virtual reality games (HVRGs) are widely regarded as cost‐effective tools for rapid skill acquisition, yet the mechanisms that optimise their effectiveness and user acceptance remain insufficiently explored. This mixed‐methods empirical study investigates how playful emotions, characterised by engagement, enjoyment and anxiety ...
Zeeshan Ahmed, Faizan Ahmad, Chen Hui
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Development and evaluation of lessons for class and group situations in grade I. Volume I. [PDF]
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University For volume II, please see: http://hdl.handle.net/2144 ...
Baudanza, Mary M.+3 more
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Heavy Hero or Digital Dummy? Multimodal Player–Avatar Relations in Final Fantasy 7 [PDF]
This article analyses the player-avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player-interviews and fan writing.
Burn, Andrew, Schott, Gareth
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