NEURAL CORRELATES OF ACOUSTIC DISSONANCE IN MUSIC: THE ROLE OF MUSICIANSHIP, SCHEMATIC AND VERIDICAL EXPECTATIONS.

Neural correlates of acoustic dissonance in music: The role of musicianship, schematic and veridical expectations.

In western music, harmonic expectations can be fulfilled or broken by unexpected chords.Musical irregularities in the absence of auditory deviance elicit well-studied neural responses (e.g.ERAN, P3, N5).These responses are sensitive to schematic expectations (induced by syntactic rules of chord succession) and veridical expectations about predictab

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Contractual relationship in the practice of Russian federalism

The contractual mechanism of the federal relations regulation is fixed in the constitutional norms.However, the implementation practice for read more almost a quarter of a century indicates ambiguous tendencies.The paper analyzes the problems of concluding and implementing agreements on the distribution of powers and subject matters between the pub

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Benefaction and benevolence: The concept of the pure gift and realization of the community in Greece. An anthropological approach

The study examines diachronically the phenomenon of benefaction and benevolence here in Greece, and endeavors to interpret this through prevailing theories on gift and specifically of the competitive and the pure gift, as these have been formulated by distinguished sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers.It is argued that this offering is in

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