Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1923. / Cover title. Vita. Bibliography: p. 21-22.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 8, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: B, page: 6598. Advisers: Brian F. O'Donnel; Olaf Sporns.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Telecommunications and the Program of Cognitive Science, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: B, page: 4527. Advisers: Annie Lang; Michael Gasser. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 10, 2006).

Thesis (PH.D.) -- Syracuse University, 2006 / "Publication number AAT 3251807."

Thesis--University of Florida. / Manuscript copy. Vita. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 29-30.

Forty, volunteer, University of British Columbia, Physical Education students took part in a study to determine the relationship between the physical stimulus continuum and the psychological continuum of kinesthetic extent of arm movement. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. The conditions were chosen to provide tests of three functional criteria, outlined by S. S. Stevens (1957), for differentiating between two classes of continua, prothetic and metathetic, into which the majority of sensory modalities naturally fall. The task for all conditions involved a straight arm movement from the shoulder joint, in a horizontal plane, towards the midline of the body. Condition I involved the psychophysical ratio scaling method of fractionation and from these data the subjective Kine function, Kine = .1010 S¹•⁰⁷⁵, for kinesthetic extent of movement was derived. Condition II employed the psychophysical category production method to derive the category scale for kinesthetic extent of movement, which was found to be linear when plotted against the subjective Kine scale values. In Conditions III and IV, the psychophysical ratio scaling method of fractionation was used and it was determined that the hysteresis effect was not present for kinesthetic extent of movement. The individual results from each condition supported the hypothesis that kinesthetic extent of arm movement is representative of the metathetic class. Therefore, the general conclusion, determined from a synthesis of the three tested functional criteria, was that one attribute of kinesthesis: extent of arm movement, is subserved by a metathetic process. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

Heart rate, respiration, skin conductance, muscle activity, cephalic vasomotor activity and electroencephalograph measurements were obtained from twenty-four subjects in order to test the hypothesis that the practice of Transcendental Meditation is associated with a hypometabolic state. Sixteen of the subjects were experienced practitioners of Transcendental Meditation and were randomly divided into two groups; one was asked to meditate during the test period and the other was not. The other eight subjects were non-meditating controls who sat for a relaxation period. Decreases in heart rate were evident in all three groups while no change was observed in respiration across the test period. During meditation meditators showed significantly greater decreases in skin conductance than did the meditators and non-meditators during relaxation. None of the groups showed any appreciable changes in cephalic vasomotor activity throughout the experiment. No particular changes in muscle activity were observed in most subjects; however, several meditators appeared to experience an 'active' meditation in which increased muscle activity was observed. The electroencephalogram distinguished the meditators from the non-meditators in that the former showed a predominance of alpha wave activity. It would appear that Transcendental Meditation is accompanied by a variety of physiological changes, although not to the extent implied by the term, hypometabolic state. The extent to which these changes occur, both during meditation and other processes, requires further investigation including the use of longitudinal research. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

The purpose of this study was to explore how asking for general music preferences compares to asking for music preferences that relate to the intended objective (in this case, relaxation), and to determine if one of these types of preferred music was more effective than the other in eliciting relaxation. Participants, who were undergraduate non-music majors (N = 71), took part in a music listening study in which their perceived relaxation and galvanic skin response (GSR) levels were recorded. Participants were placed in one of three groups: the participant-selected preferred music group (PM), the participant-selected preferred relaxing music group (PRM), or the unfamiliar, non-preferred music group (NPM). Results indicate that participants in the PM and PRM groups experienced significant increases in perceived relaxation and significant decreases in GSR levels, but there was not a significant difference between the two groups in the amount of change. Therefore, preferred music and preferred relaxing music appear equally effective in increasing relaxation responses. These findings provide support for the continued use of patient-preferred music in music therapy settings and offer alternative suggestions for assessing music preferences. / A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. / Summer Semester 2015. / July 13, 2015. / galvanic skin response, music preference, music therapy, relaxation / Includes bibliographical references. / John Geringer, Professor Directing Thesis; Jayne M. Standley, Committee Member; Dianne Gregory, Committee Member.

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