A New Scientific Musical Staff

The psychological laboratory in the University of Iowa is conducting a number of studies in the psychology of music, laying scientific foundations for the theory and practice of the art. To make these scientific findings in the interpretation of vocal and instrumental music as actually rendered, it has been necessary to design a scientific type of musical score. This has been built as closely as possible in musical terminology but is so designed as to show in great detail how the notes are actually sung and played. For example, instead of indicating the note C by the usual musical notation, a graph is substituted showing exactly how the tone was rendered. Parallel with this is a method of showing changes in loudness and stress in the rhythm and another notation to indicate the tone quality

The Measurement of Basic Capacities in Motor Control

The same principle that led the merchant to adopt the plan of making an inventory of his stock occasionally has led to the introduction of psychological methods in the rating of capacities for various kinds of service. Among these, perhaps the intelligence tests are the best known and most used at the present time, particularly as now employed for the entire United States Army

The Psychogram in Vocational Guidance

The speaker reported a method, percental rank”, for reducing diverse psychophysic measurements to a common unit for the purpose of a simple and direct numerical statement and graphic representation of a series of measurements on talent. The illustrations were drawn from the measurements on musical talent. After a certain measurement has been standardized so that the various factors, subjective and objective, are under control, a large number, from 400 to 4,000, depending upon the needs, are made for the purpose of establishing a normal distribution of abilities

Neonatal outcomes and their relationship to maternal buprenorphine dose during pregnancy

Buprenorphine pharmacotherapy for opioid-dependent pregnant women is associated with maternal and neonatal outcomes superior to untreated opioid dependence. However, the literature is inconsistent regarding the possible existence of a dose-response relationship between maternal buprenorphine dose and neonatal clinical outcomes