TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lange, Elke B.
A1  - Zweck, Fabian
A1  - Sinn, Petra
T1  - Microsaccade-rate indicates absorption by music listening
JF  - Consciousness and cognition
N2  - The power of music is a literary topos, which can be attributed to intense and personally significant experiences, one of them being the state of absorption. Such phenomenal states are difficult to grasp objectively. We investigated the state of musical absorption by using eye tracking. We utilized a load related definition of state absorption: multimodal resources are committed to create a unified representation of music. Resource allocation was measured indirectly by microsaccade rate, known to indicate cognitive processing load. We showed in Exp. 1 that microsaccade rate also indicates state absorption. Hence, there is cross-modal coupling between an auditory aesthetic experience and fixational eye movements. When removing the fixational stimulus in Exp. 2, saccades are no longer generated upon visual input and the cross modal coupling disappeared. Results are interpreted in favor of the load hypothesis of micro saccade rate and against the assumption of general slowing by state absorption.
KW  - Microsaccades
KW  - Fixational eye movements
KW  - Absorption
KW  - Music
KW  - Aesthetics
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.07.009
SN  - 1053-8100
SN  - 1090-2376
VL  - 55
SP  - 59
EP  - 78
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - McElvenny, James
T1  - The fate of form in the Humboldtian tradition: The Formungstrieb of Georg von der Gabelentz
JF  - Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth
N2  - The multifaceted concept of ‘form’ plays a central tole in the linguistic work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), where it is deeply entwined with aesthetic questions. H. Steinthal's (1823–1899) interpretation of linguistic form, however, made it the servant of psychology. The Formungstrieb (drive to formation) of Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) challenged Steinthal's conception and placed a renewed emphasis on aesthetics. In this endeavour, Gabelentz drew on the work of such figures as August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887), Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) and William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894). In this paper, we examine Gabelentz' Formungstrieb and place it in its historical context.
KW  - History of linguistics
KW  - Linguistic form
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Georg von der Gabelentz
KW  - Wilhelm von Humboldt
KW  - H. Steinthal
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2015.12.004
SN  - 0271-5309
VL  - 47
SP  - 30
EP  - 42
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hartung, Heike
T1  - Late style as exile: De/colonising the life course
JF  - Journal of aging studie
KW  - Postcolonial Theory
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Late style
KW  - Life course
KW  - Exile
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.06.003
SN  - 0890-4065
SN  - 1879-193X
VL  - 39
SP  - 96
EP  - 100
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -