Ciekawostka: About 55% of all movies are rated R

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How Speaker Configuration of Recorded Media Affects Subjective Ratings for Listeners With and Without Hearing Loss.. Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of loudspeaker configuration and relative dialogue-to-background sound levels on subjective ratings of speech understanding and sound quality of recorded media for listeners with and without hearing loss. Method Three groups of 20 adults participated, including younger and older adults with normal hearing and older adults with mild sloping to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss. Participants rated their perceived speech understanding and sound quality in response to 10-s-long recorded media clips in audio-…

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Popular music and movies as autobiographical memory cues.. Research on music-evoked autobiographical memories has grown rapidly in recent years, suggesting that music can be an effective stimulus for cueing memories from one's life. One challenging aspect of this type of research is creating a stimulus set that is effective at cueing autobiographical memories in a wide range of individuals. The present work sought to address this issue by creating a normed stimulus set of popular music and popular movie cues. In addition to this methodological aim, we had an empirical aim to identify differences between autobiographical memories cued by music and movies. Participants (N = 248) either listen…

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, a film has a rating of 100% if each professional review recorded by the website is assessed as positive rather than negative. The percentage is based on the film's reviews aggregated by the website and assessed as positive or negative, and when all aggregated reviews are positive, the film has a 100% rating. Listed below are films with 100% ratings that have a critics' consensus or have been reviewed by at least twenty film critics. Many of these films, particularly those with a high number of positive reviews, have achieved wide critical acclaim and are often considered among the best films ever made. A number of these films also appear on…

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