Tactile rendering has been implemented in digital musical instruments (DMIs) to offer the
musician haptic feedback that enhances his/her music playing experience. Recently, this …

Functional neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that following deafness, auditory
regions can respond to tactile stimuli. However, research to date has not conclusively …

Music involves different senses and is emotional in nature, and musicians show enhanced
detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies and emotion recognition compared to non …

Massive open online courses (MOOC) have become important in the learning process and
have been adopted in higher education, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic …

This paper investigates to which extent state of the art machine learning methods are
effective in classifying emotions in the context of individual musical instruments, and how …

Vibration is an indispensable part of the tactile perception, which is encoded to oscillatory
synaptic currents by receptors and transferred to neurons in the brain. The A2 and B1 …

Background Extensive research has demonstrated that music and touch can separately
attenuate perceived pain intensity. However, little research has investigated how auditory …

Music training has been linked to facilitated processing of emotional sounds. However, most
studies have focused on speech, and less is known about musicians' brain responses to …

Technology advancements have enabled humans to go beyond restauration leading to a
new reality where human enhancement is no longer fiction. Besides the major societal …

As the future demands more user-agent social interaction, artificial agents are increasingly
appearing in virtual reality (VR). These agents can be designed to utilize emotional facial …