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2. Impact of music on the dynamic perception of coffee and evoked emotions evaluated by temporal dominance of sensations (TDS) and emotions (TDE)
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Galmarini, M.V., primary, Silva Paz, R.J., additional, Enciso Choquehuanca, D., additional, Zamora, M.C., additional, and Mesz, B., additional
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- 2021
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3. Marble melancholy: using crossmodal correspondences of shapes, materials, and music to predict music-induced emotions.
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Mesz B, Tedesco S, Reinoso-Carvalho F, Ter Horst E, Molina G, Gunn LH, and Küssner MB
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Introduction: Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed appropriately, can give rise to specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This study aimed to assess two primary objectives: (1) identifying crossmodal correspondences emerging from music-induced emotions, and (2) examining the predictability of music-induced emotions based on the association of music with visual shapes and materials., Methods: To achieve this, 176 participants were asked to associate visual shapes and materials with the emotion classes of the Geneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist scale (GEMIAC) elicited by a set of musical excerpts in an online experiment., Results: Our findings reveal that music-induced emotions and their underlying core affect (i.e., valence and arousal) can be accurately predicted by the joint information of musical excerpt and features of visual shapes and materials associated with these music-induced emotions. Interestingly, valence and arousal induced by music have higher predictability than discrete GEMIAC emotions., Discussion: These results demonstrate the relevance of crossmodal correspondences in studying music-induced emotions. The potential applications of these findings in the fields of sensory interactions design, multisensory experiences and art, as well as digital and sensory marketing are briefly discussed., Competing Interests: Author GM was employed by company Bayesian Solutions LLC, Charlotte, NC, United States. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2023 Mesz, Tedesco, Reinoso-Carvalho, Ter Horst, Molina, Gunn and Küssner.)
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- 2023
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4. Analysing the Impact of Music on the Perception of Red Wine via Temporal Dominance of Sensations.
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Wang QJ, Mesz B, Riera P, Trevisan M, Sigman M, Guha A, and Spence C
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- Adult, Aged, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Auditory Perception physiology, Music, Sensation physiology, Taste physiology, Taste Perception physiology, Temporal Lobe physiology, Wine
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Several studies have examined how music may affect the evaluation of food and drink, but the vast majority have not observed how this interaction unfolds in time. This seems to be quite relevant, since both music and the consumer experience of food/drink are time-varying in nature. In the present study we sought to fix this gap, using Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS), a method developed to record the dominant sensory attribute at any given moment in time, to examine the impact of music on the wine taster's perception. More specifically, we assessed how the same red wine might be experienced differently when tasters were exposed to various sonic environments (two pieces of music plus a silent control condition). The results revealed diverse patterns of dominant flavours for each sound condition, with significant differences in flavour dominance in each music condition as compared to the silent control condition. Moreover, musical correspondence analysis revealed that differences in perceived dominance of acidity and bitterness in the wine were correlated in the temporality of the experience, with changes in basic auditory attributes. Potential implications for the role of attention in auditory flavour modification and opportunities for future studies are discussed.
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- 2019
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5. The music of morality and logic.
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Mesz B, Rodriguez Zivic PH, Cecchi GA, Sigman M, and Trevisan MA
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Musical theory has built on the premise that musical structures can refer to something different from themselves (Nattiez and Abbate, 1990). The aim of this work is to statistically corroborate the intuitions of musical thinkers and practitioners starting at least with Plato, that music can express complex human concepts beyond merely "happy" and "sad" (Mattheson and Lenneberg, 1958). To do so, we ask whether musical improvisations can be used to classify the semantic category of the word that triggers them. We investigated two specific domains of semantics: morality and logic. While morality has been historically associated with music, logic concepts, which involve more abstract forms of thought, are more rarely associated with music. We examined musical improvisations inspired by positive and negative morality (e.g., good and evil) and logic concepts (true and false), analyzing the associations between these words and their musical representations in terms of acoustic and perceptual features. We found that music conveys information about valence (good and true vs. evil and false) with remarkable consistency across individuals. This information is carried by several musical dimensions which act in synergy to achieve very high classification accuracy. Positive concepts are represented by music with more ordered pitch structure and lower harmonic and sensorial dissonance than negative concepts. Music also conveys information indicating whether the word which triggered it belongs to the domains of logic or morality (true vs. good), principally through musical articulation. In summary, improvisations consistently map logic and morality information to specific musical dimensions, testifying the capacity of music to accurately convey semantic information in domains related to abstract forms of thought.
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- 2015
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6. Principal pitch of frequency-modulated tones with asymmetrical modulation waveform: a comparison of models.
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Etchemendy PE, Eguia MC, and Mesz B
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- Adult, Audiometry, Pure-Tone, Humans, Psychoacoustics, Sound Spectrography, Time Factors, Acoustic Stimulation methods, Auditory Pathways physiology, Models, Neurological, Pitch Perception
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In this work, the overall perceived pitch (principal pitch) of pure tones modulated in frequency with an asymmetric waveform is studied. The dependence of the principal pitch on the degree of asymmetric modulation was obtained from a psychophysical experiment. The modulation waveform consisted of a flat portion of constant frequency and two linear segments forming a peak. Consistent with previous results, significant pitch shifts with respect to the time-averaged geometric mean were observed. The direction of the shifts was always toward the flat portion of the modulation. The results from the psychophysical experiment, along with those obtained from previously reported studies, were compared with the predictions of six models of pitch perception proposed in the literature. Even though no single model was able to predict accurately the perceived pitch for all experiments, there were two models that give robust predictions that are within the range of acceptable tuning of modulated tones for almost all the cases. Both models point to the existence of an underlying "stability sensitive" mechanism for the computation of pitch that gives more weight to the portion of the stimuli where the frequency is changing more slowly.
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- 2014
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7. A composition algorithm based on crossmodal taste-music correspondences.
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Mesz B, Sigman M, and Trevisan MA
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While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referring to taste sensations. In a recent work, we found that taste words were consistently mapped to musical parameters. Bitter is associated with low-pitched and continuous music (legato), salty is characterized by silences between notes (staccato), sour is high pitched, dissonant and fast and sweet is consonant, slow and soft (Mesz et al., 2011). Here we extended these ideas, in a synergistic dialog between music and science, investigating whether music can be algorithmically generated from taste-words. We developed and implemented an algorithm that exploits a large corpus of classic and popular songs. New musical pieces were produced by choosing fragments from the corpus and modifying them to minimize their distance to the region in musical space that characterizes each taste. In order to test the capability of the produced music to elicit significant associations with the different tastes, musical pieces were produced and judged by a group of non-musicians. Results showed that participants could decode well above chance the taste-word of the composition. We also discuss how our findings can be expressed in a performance bridging music and cognitive science.
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- 2012
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8. The taste of music.
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Mesz B, Trevisan MA, and Sigman M
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- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Male, Music, Taste
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Zarlino, one of the most important music theorists of the XVI century, described the minor consonances as 'sweet' (dolci) and 'soft' (soavi) (Zarlino 1558/1983, in On the Modes New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983). Hector Berlioz, in his Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration (London: Novello, 1855), speaks about the 'small acid-sweet voice' of the oboe. In line with this tradition of describing musical concepts in terms of taste words, recent empirical studies have found reliable associations between taste perception and low-level sound and musical parameters, like pitch and phonetic features. Here we investigated whether taste words elicited consistent musical representations by asking trained musicians to improvise on the basis of the four canonical taste words: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. Our results showed that, even in free improvisation, taste words elicited very reliable and consistent musical patterns:'bitter' improvisations are low-pitched and legato (without interruption between notes), 'salty' improvisations are staccato (notes sharply detached from each other), 'sour' improvisations are high-pitched and dissonant, and 'sweet' improvisations are consonant, slow, and soft. Interestingly, projections of the improvisations of taste words to musical space (a vector space defined by relevant musical parameters) revealed that, in musical space, improvisations based on different taste words were nearly orthogonal or opposite. Decoding methods could classify binary choices of improvisations (i.e., identify the improvisation word from the melody) at performance of around 80%--well above chance. In a second experiment we investigated the mapping from perception of music to taste words. Fifty-seven non-musical experts listened to a fraction of the improvisations. We found that listeners classified with high performance the taste word which had elicited the improvisation. Our results, furthermore, show that associations of taste and music go beyond basic sensory attributes into the domain of semantics, and open a new venue of investigation to understand the origins of these consistent taste-musical patterns.
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- 2011
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9. [Percutaneous balloon valvotomy in neonatal obstructive cardiopathy. II. Critical aortic valve stenosis].
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Cazzaniga M, Faella H, Gamboa R, Kurlat I, Laneri D, Sciegata A, Dietl C, and Mesz B
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- Aortic Valve Stenosis diagnostic imaging, Aortic Valve Stenosis mortality, Aortic Valve Stenosis therapy, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Echocardiography, Female, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Pulmonary Valve Stenosis diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Valve Stenosis therapy, Shock, Cardiogenic prevention & control, Spain, Aortic Valve Stenosis congenital, Catheterization
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Percutaneous balloon aortic valvotomy using one or more balloons in sequential approach was attempted in 11 non selected neonates with critical aortic valve stenosis. The procedure was complete in 9 (81%), and they represent the study group with a mean age of 19 days. Using a balloon/annulus ratio of 0.86, the transvalvar gradient decreased from 49 to 25 mmHg, and left ventricular systolic pressure fell from 112 mmHg to 96 mmHg (p < 0.01, respectively). Fifty-five percent (5/9) of the patients developed a new aortic regurgitation, only one with grade 3. The maximal instantaneous Doppler gradient recorded in 7 neonates before and after valvotomy dropped from 67 to 35 mmHg (p < 0.01); while the left ventricular shortening fraction increased from 15 to 31% (p < 0.01). The Doppler gradient was correlated with the left ventricular shortening fraction (r:0.72) and the aortic regurgitation with the balloon/annulus ratio (r:0.82). The balloon pulmonary valvotomy was unsuccessful in 2 neonates (22%), both with hypoplastic left ventricle, both of which died in the operating room. Echocardiographic features of reestenosis were not found in the follow-up period (14 +/- 10 months); only one patient may need a future surgical intervention because significant aortic insufficiency. The pulmonary balloon valvotomy is a safe and effective therapy that must be used as the first step in the management of neonates with critical aortic stenosis in absence of hypoplastic left ventricle.
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- 1993
10. [Percutaneous balloon valvotomy in neonatal obstructive cardiopathy. I: critical pulmonary valvular stenosis].
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Cazzaniga M, Faella H, Laneri D, Sciegata A, Gamboa R, Kurlat I, Mazzuchelli T, Gutiérrez D, and Mesz B
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- Angiography, Echocardiography, Female, Heart Defects, Congenital therapy, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Pulmonary Valve Stenosis therapy, Catheterization, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Valve Stenosis diagnostic imaging
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Percutaneous pulmonary balloon valvotomy using one balloon or more in sequential approach was attempted in 9 no selected neonates with critical pulmonary valve stenosis between March 1985 and October 1990 (mean age 10 + 8.6 days). The procedure was successful in seven of them (78%) in whom with a 1.22 + 0.2 balloon/annulus ratio the right ventricular systolic pressure decreased from 96 to 45 mmHg (p < 0.001), the transvalvular gradient from 65 to 23 mmHg (p < 0.001); and the systemic oxygen saturation increased from 69 to 86% (p < 0.001). In one patient the valve was not crossed. Two patients underwent surgery because unsuccessful balloon valvotomy result in the immediate and mid term period: hypoplastic right ventricle in one, and inferior vena cava thrombosis that prevent a second dilation in the other respectively. The mid term follow up showed a 62% (5/8) of successful result. Although the complex methodology and complications are not uncommon, the balloon pulmonary valvotomy is a safely and effective therapy for neonates with critical pulmonary stenosis.
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- 1993
11. [Boric acid poisoning].
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Mesz B, Canepa CA, and Gimenez ER
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- Humans, Infant, Male, Borates poisoning, Candidiasis therapy, Nystatin therapeutic use, Petrolatum therapeutic use, Skin Diseases therapy, Talc therapeutic use
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- 1965
12. [Neuroplegic treatment of poliomyelitis].
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Matera FC, Alvarez AR, Badia I, Bugarini H, Landoni JF, Mesz B, Mendilharzu F, Mandilharzu JL, Murad J, and Quintana H
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- Humans, Chlorpromazine therapeutic use, Nervous System Diseases therapy, Poliomyelitis therapy, Promethazine therapeutic use
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- 1957
13. [Hibernotherapy in poliomyelitis].
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MATERA FC, BADIA IB, LANDONI FERNANDEZ J, MENDILAHARZU F, MURAD J, ALVAREZ AR, BUGARINI H, MESZ B, MENDILAHARZU J, and QUINTANA H
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- Hibernation, Poliomyelitis therapy
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- 1956
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