Can Musical Emotion Be Quantified With Neural Jitter Or Shimmer? A Novel EEG Based Study With Hindustani Classical Music

The term jitter and shimmer has long been used in the domain of speech and acoustic signal analysis as a parameter for speaker identification and other prosodic features. In this study, we look forward to use the same parameters in neural domain to identify and categorize emotional cues in different musical clips. For this, we chose two ragas of Hindustani music which are conventionally known to portray contrast emotions and EEG study was conducted on 5 participants who were made to listen to 3 min clip of these two ragas with sufficient resting period in between. The neural jitter and shimmer components were evaluated for each experimental condition. The results reveal interesting information regarding domain specific arousal of human brain in response to musical stimuli and also regarding trait characteristics of an individual. This novel study can have far reaching conclusions when it comes to modeling of emotional appraisal. The results and implications are discussed in detail.Comment: 6 pages, 12 figures, Presented in 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN) 201

Complexation of O-Vanillin with Some First Transition Cations in Aqueous Ethanol (70%) Medium

The present paper summarizes the complexation behaviour of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(lI) and Zn(II) with 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde examined by Crow\u27 s me an diffusion coefficient method. Diffusion currents of polarographic waves were used to determine the stability constants of the 1: 1 and 1 : 2 complexes of the respective ions (298 K) which were 4.0, 2.7; 4.7, 3.3; 5.4, 2.5; 5.3, 3.5 and 4.5, 3.5, respectively. Overall stability constants at three temperatures 288, 298 and 308 K yielded the thermodynamic parameters

Optimal Path to Epigenetic Switching

We use large deviation methods to calculate rates of noise-induced transitions between states in multistable genetic networks. We analyze a synthetic biochemical circuit, the toggle switch, and compare the results to those obtained from a numerical solution of the master equation.Comment: 5 pages. 2 figures, uses revtex 4. PR-E reviewed for publicatio