FINAL-NOTE EXPECTANCY AND HUMOR: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

Final-note expectancy and humor: an empirical investigation

Abstract Background Melodic expectations were manipulated to investigate the nature of tonally incongruent melodic final notes that may elicit humor in listeners.To our knowledge, this is the first experiment aiming at studying humor elicitation in music with the use of empirical, quantitative methods.To this aim, we have based the experiment on th

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Absolute counts of leukocyte subsets in peripheral blood in pregnancies complicated by preterm prelabour rupture of membranes

Background This study aimed to assess variations in the absolute counts of various leukocyte subsets in the peripheral blood of women with pregnancies affected by preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM), in relation to the presence of intra-amniotic inflammation nightstick twm-850xl (IAI).Methods The study included fifty-two women with singl

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