How Readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with Wikipedia (2002-2013)

How knowledge is negotiated between the makers of encyclopedias and their audiences remains an ongoing question in research on encyclopedias.A comparative content analysis of the published answers of letters to the editor of the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (Korrespondenzblatt) from 1885 and the discussion pages of the article potato of the G

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Neural correlates of acoustic dissonance in music: The role of musicianship, schematic and veridical expectations.

In western music, harmonic expectations can be fulfilled or broken by unexpected chords.Musical irregularities in the absence of auditory deviance elicit well-studied neural responses (e.g.ERAN, P3, N5).These responses are sensitive to schematic expectations (induced by syntactic rules of chord succession) and veridical expectations about predictab

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