This study investigated the roles of depth of processing and elaboration in incidental recall of musical passages learned in the course of several readings of an unfamiliar score. Pianists with performing experience played short passages four times each under instructions emphasising deep processing (focus on aesthetically perceived elements of the piece), shallow processing (focus on non-aesthetic elements of the piece), high elaboration (four different examples of deep or shallow focus) or low elaboration (one example of deep or shallow focus). In surprise-free and cued-recall tasks, the pianists were asked to play back as much of the pieces as they could remember. The pnrncipal finding was that the high-elaboration instructional condition favoured cued recall of deeply processed musical material over cued recall of shallow processed musical material. In the low-elaboration condition there were no differential effects for deep versus shallow processed music. These results are interpreted in terms of a transferappropriate processing framework applied to musical performance. Implications of the results for formal musical performance are discussed.

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This article explores the affective impact of remote touch when used in conjunction with video telecon. Committed couples were recruited to engage in semi-structured discussions after they watched a video clip that contained emotionally charged moments. They used paired touch input and output devices to send upper-arm squeezes to each other in real-time. Users were not told how to use the devices and were free to define the purpose of their use. We examined how remote touch was used and its impact on skin conductance and affective response. We observed 65 different touch intents, which were classified into broader categories. We employed a series of analyses within a framework of behavioral and experiential timescales. Our findings revealed that remote touches created a change in the overall psychological affective experience and skin conductance response. Only remote touches that were judged to be affective elicited significant changes in EDA measurements. Our study demonstrates the affective power of remote touch in video telecommunication, and that off-the-shelf wearable EDA sensing devices can detect such affective impacts. Our findings pave the way for new species of technologies with real-time feedback support for a range of communicative and special needs such as isolation, stress, and anxiety.

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