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Altering The Movement: Learning Effects In Beginning And Well-Practiced Flute Players, Andrea Savord
Altering The Movement: Learning Effects In Beginning And Well-Practiced Flute Players, Andrea Savord
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This project looks at the extent to which musicians at varying stages of expertise are able to adapt to changes in motor movement (specifically the kinesthetic sense) while playing an instrument. Eight well-practiced and five beginning flute players were tested on playing a major scale on both a modified flute and a traditional flute. The modified flute had altered key positions so that the participants’ right hands were on the same side of the instrument as their left hands. The two modified conditions involved either playing the modified flute with the same fingers as one would play on a traditional …
Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Attentional Bias Conditioning With Fearful Faces: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis, Robert D. Torrence
Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Attentional Bias Conditioning With Fearful Faces: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis, Robert D. Torrence
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Observing a fearful facial expression elicits an automatic orienting of attention. Past research focusing on fear conditioning has used an unconditioned stimulus that the participant directly experiences (e.g. shock). Other research has focused on observational fear learning where the participant watches another individual receive the stimulus. The aim of this study was to condition a colored square with a fearful face in the dot-probe task. Orienting toward and disengagement from fearful faces was also examined using the dot-probe task. In addition, hemodynamic responses in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) were measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). It was hypothesized that after pairing …