Curriculum Vitae: Makiko Sadakata

Personal details:

Title(s), initial(s), first name, surname:Dr. Makiko Sadakata

Male/female:Female

Date and place of birth:29-05-1976

Nationality:Japanese

Birth country of parents: Japan

Home address:Zevendreef 3042, 6605vc, Wijchen, The Netherlands

Phone number:+31-6-1404-4132

Work address:Radboud University Nijmegen,

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition

Montessorilaan 3, 6525HR, Nijmegen, The Nethelrands

Phone number:-31-24-3612689

e-mail:

web-site:

Language skills

JapaneseMother tongue

EnglishFluent

DutchIntermediate

Education

November 2006Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Degree: PhD (Social science), Ritme and Rizumu: studies in music cognition

Supervisor: Prof. dr. ir. Peter Desain (Radboud Univeristy Nijmegen)

Promotors: Prof. dr. Harold Bekkering (Radboud Univeristy Nijmegen)

April 1999-March 2002Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto, Japan)

Degree: MA, Musicology

April 1995-March 1999Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto, Japan)

Degree: BA, Music Composition

Additional academic courses

2012-presentAcademic leadership course at the Radboud University Nijmegen

Additional diplomas

Basic qualification for education (Dutch University) at the Radboud University Nijmegen

Diploma of national examination of Dutch (NT2)

Employment record

Education

  • December 2009 – present

Lecturer at Social Science department, Radboud University Nijmegen

Montessorilaan 3, 6525HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Permanent contract (30%)

Dutch professional skill scale 11.5, Bruto salary 1.198,91 euro

  • 2008 – 2009/2010-present

Lecturer at the Musicology department, University of Amsterdam

Research

  • January 2011- present

Postdoctoral fellow

Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition (DCC)

Laboratory of Prof. dr. ir. Peter Desain

Montessorilaan 3, 6525HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Fixed term till December 2014, part time (60%)

Dutch professional skill scale 11.5, Bruto salary 2.397,81 euro

  • January 2010 – December 2010

Postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistcs (MPI)
Laboratory of Prof. dr. Anne Cutler

  • December 2006 – December 2009

Postdoctoral fellow at the Nijmegen institute for Cognition and Information (NICI),

Laboratory of Prof. dr. ir. Peter Desain

Other

  • December 2008 – December 2009

Scientific programmer at Social Science department, Radboud University Nijmegen

Educational activities

Coordination & Lecturing

  • Radboud University Nijmegen

2013-Research Method course at the Artificial Intelligence department (BSc)

2009-presentResearch Method course at the Artificial Intelligence department (MSc)

2007-2008Music Cognition at the Psychology department (BSc)

  • University of Amsterdam

2010-2012Music Cognition at the Art, Religion and Cultural Sciences department (BSc)

2008Muziekanalysetechnieken (music analysis techniques) at the Art, Religion and Cultural Sciences department (MSc)

Teaching assistant

2004Statistics at the Psychology department (BSc, Teaching assistant)

Others

2003-presentRegularly invited to giveguest lectures at various institutes, Cognitive Neuroscience master programme at the Donders Graduate School, AI MSc / BSc programme at the University of Nijmegen, Music department at the University of Sheffield, Linguistic department at the University of Utrecht, Sonology department at the Royal Conservatory Den Haag

Coaching & Supervision

BSc thesis

2006David Hoppe (Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University Nijmegen)

2009Akvil Lukose (Psychology, The University of Utrecht)

2010Lotte van der Zanden (Psychology, Radboud Univesrity Nijmegen)

2011Marieke Sweers(Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University Nijmegen)

2011Nora Vrieler, (Musicology, Amsterdam University College)

2012Iris Hulzink(Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen)

2012Janne Weijkamp(Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University Nijmegen)

MSc thesis

2010Giacomo Novembre, “On the specificity of auditory and motor simulation. An fMRI study with expert pianists” (Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2nd supervisor)

2012Bas Kooiker, “Towards an interactive music improvisation system (tentative)”, (Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2nd project)

2012Mihaela Gregori, “Perceptual learning through ERP-based neurofeedback (tentative)”, (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam)

2013 (planned)Anja Junk, title unknown, (Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University Nijmegen)

PhD-thesis

2010-presentWenCui Zhou, title unknown, (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic, 2nd super visor)

2011-presentChristian Hoffman, title unknown, (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition)

Management experience

2011-presentProject coordinator of the STW funded research program EarOpener: Learning auditory categories by means of brain signals (2 senior researchers, 2 post-doctoral researchers and 2 PhD students and 1 intern student invloved)

2011-presentProject co-coordinator of the research program VEST: visual E-learning based Speech Therapy (1 senior researcher, 3 post-doctoral researchers involved)

2011-presentMentor for PhD students at the Donders Institute, Centre for Cognition (DCC)

2011-2012Organizer of the Music and Speech reading group (The Donders Institute, Max Planck Institute and Behavioural Science Institute)

2010-presentCoordinator of the Good AIfternoon lecture series at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud University Nijmegen

2008-presentSecretary of the Master Artificial Intelligence degree program committee, Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

2008-presentSecretary of the Bachelor Artificial Intelligence degree program committee, Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Research activities

Research Interests

My researchfocus is in the area of auditory perception.My research goals are two-fold: First, understanding underlying mechanisms of perceptual learning (empirical works) and second offering solutions towards efficient learning (applications).

List of main research topics, related publications and collaborators

  • Empirical works

1) Effect of variability on training materials: this workshowed that increased variability in training materials enhances learning to form perceptual speech categories rather than learning to discriminate acoustical information (Publication 1, 14).

Collaborator: Prof. dr. James M. McQueen (Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen)

2) Transfer of learning from music to speech: this work demonstrated that musicians show superior sensitivity in perceiving timing feature of speech among other features. This may be due to the strong connection between speech and music with regard to the processing of temporal information (Publication 3, 15).

Collaborator: Prof. dr. Kaoru Sekiayama (Kumamoto University)

3) Development of abstract representation: we found that Japanese natives apply different abstract representation than that of Dutch natives when perceiving asilent duration in speech signals. Our new project with children tries to uncover when and why such representation emerges (Publication 10, 13).

Collaborator: Prof. dr. Kaoru Sekiyama

4) Effect of daily exposure: my PhD dissertation dealt with an influence of daily exposure to auditory environments (speech and music) on musical rhythm perception and production. We put forward a Bayesian model to show that rhythm perception is adaptive to one’s environmental information (Publication 7, 9, 18-22).

Supervisors: Prof. dr. ir. Peter Desain (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) Prof. dr. Henkjan Honing(University of Amsterdam)

  • Applications

5) The EarOpener project (2011-present): This project aims at providing based on brain signals (EEG) that reflects one’s perceptual state of sounds (Publication 24, 25).

Collaborators: Prof. dr. Peter Desain,Prof. dr. James M. McQueen, Dr. Loukianos Spyrou1, Drs. Alex Brandmeyer1, Drs. Christian Hoffman1(1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)

6) The Visual E-health Speech Therapy project (2011-present): The project aims at developing a real time visual feedback system for speech therapy for neurological patients.

Collaborators: Prof. dr. Toni Rietveld (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dr. Lilian Beijer (Sint Maartenskliniek Nijmegen), Dr. Rebecca Schaeffer (The University of Edinburgh)

7) The PracticeSpace project (2006 – 2010): This project developed five systems that aim at supporting learning of various musical skills by means of real time visual feedback(Publication 2, 4, 6, 8, 17).

Collaborators: Prof. dr. ir. Peter Desain, Dr. Renee Timmers (The University of Sheffield), Drs. Alex Brandmeyer

Publications

Book Chapters

1.Timmers, R., & Sadakata, M. (in press). Training expressive performance by means of visual feedback: existing and potential applications of performance measurement techniques. In E. Shubert, D. Fabian, and R. Timmers (Eds), Expressiveness in Music Performance.

International (refereed) journals

  1. Sadakata, M., Shingai, M., Brandmeyer, A., & Sekiyama, K. (submitted). Sound of silence – Empirical evidence of moraic representations of geminate consonants by Japanese native listeners. Journal of Memory and Language.
  2. Sadakata, M., & McQueen, J. M. (in revision). High stimulus variability in non-native speech learning supports formation of abstract categories: Evidence from Japanese geminates. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America.
  3. Timmers, R., Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2012). Grace note The Role of Visual Feedback and Creative Exploration for the Improvement of Timing Accuracy in Performing Musical Ornaments, Music Perception.
  4. Sadakata, M. & Sekiayam, K. (2011).Enhanced perception of various linguistic features by musicians:
    a cross-linguistic study,Acta Psychologica,138, pp.1-10.
  5. Brandmeyer, A., Sadakata, M., Timmers, R., & Desain, P. (2011). Learning expressive percussion performance under different visual feedback conditions. Psychological Research, 75, 2, pp. 107-121.
  6. Schaefer, R., Farquhar, J., Blokland, Y., Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2011). Name that tune: Decoding music from the listening brain. Neuroimage, 56(2), pp. 843-849.
  7. Sadakata, M., Hoppe, D., Brandmeyer, A., Timmers, R. & Desain, P. (2008).Real-Time Visual Feedback for Learning to Perform Short Rhythms with Variations in Timing and Loudness. Journal of New Music Research, 37, pp. 207-220.
  8. Sadakata, M., Desain, P. and Honing, H. (2006).Bayesian way to relate rhythm perception and production. Music Perception, 23, pp. 267-286.
  9. Hoppe, D., Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2006).Development of real-time visual feedback assistance in singing training: a review. Journal of computer assisted learning, 22, pp. 308-316.
  10. Sadakata. M., Ohgushi, K., & Desain, P. (2004).A Cross-cultural Comparison Study of the Production of Simple Rhythmic patterns. Psychology of Music 32, pp. 389-403.

Conference proceedings (papers)

  1. Grootwagers, T.,Dijkstra, K., ten Bosch, L., Brandmeyer, A., Sadakata, M. (submitted). Word Identification using Phonetic Features: towards a method to support multivariate fMRI speech decoding. Interspeech 2013.
  2. Sadakata, M., Spyrou, L., Shingai, M., & Sekiyama, K. (submitted). Composing auditory ERPs: Cross-linguistic comparison of auditory change complex for Japanese fricative geminate consonants. Interspeech 2013.
  3. Sadakata, M., Shingai, M., Brandmeyer, A., & Sekiyama, K. (2012). Perception of the moraic obstruent /Q/: a cross-linguistic study. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2012), Portland, US.
  4. Sadakata, M. & J. M. McQueen (2011).The role of variability in non-native perceptual learning of a Japanese geminate-singleton fricative contrast. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), pp.873-876, Florence.
  5. Sadakata, M., van der Zanden, L., Sekiyama, K. (2010).Influence of musical training on perception of L2 speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), pp. 118-121, Makuhari.
  6. Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2007). Relating perception and production of simple rhythmic patterns explanation of the regression effect. Proceedings of 23rd meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (Fechner day), pp. 433-438, Tokyo.
  7. Brandmeyer, A., Timmers, R., Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2007). Real-time visual feedback in music pedagogy: Do different visual representations have different effects on learning. Proceedings of 8th Conference of SMPC, pp. 37-38, Montreal.
  8. Sadakata. M., Desain, P., Honing, H., Patel, A. D., & Iversen, J. R. (2004).A cross-cultural study of the rhythm in English and Japanese popular music.Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acousitcs (ISMA), pp. 41-44, Nara.
  9. Sadakata, M., Desain, P., Honing, H., Patel, A. D., & Iversen, J. R. (2003).An analysis of rhythm in Japanese and English popular music. Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 49-52, Tokyo.
  10. Sadakata, M., Desain, P. & Honing, H (2002).The relation between rhythm perception and production: towards aBayesian model. Transaction of Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, 32 (10), pp. 59-63, Fukuoka.
  11. Sadakata, M., Ohgushi, K. & Desain, P. (2002).A cross-cultural comparison study of the production of simple rhythmic patterns. Proceedings of International Conference of Auditory Display 2002 RenCon Workshop, Kyoto.
  12. Sadakata, M. & Ohgushi, K. (2001). Cross-cultural comparison of simple rhythm production. [Tanjun na rizumu patan no ensoukeikou no kokusai hikaku]. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 53-60, Osaka.
  13. M. Sadakata & Ohgushi, K. (2000). Comparative judgements pitch intervals and an illusion. [Ontei no hikakuhandan to sore ni tomonau sakkaku genshou]. Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 35-42, Sendai.

Conference proceedings (abstracts)

  1. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Spyrou, L., Desain, P., & McQueen, J. M. (2012). A cross-linguistic study on perception of Japanese geminate-singleton fricative consonants, The sixth conference on mismatch negativity (MMN) and its clinical and scientific application,NY, June.
  2. Hoffman, C.W.G., Brandmeyer, A., Sadakata, M., Spyrou, L., Farquhar, J., McQueen, J.M., & Desain, P. (2012). "EarOpener - Classificatoin of auditory stimuli of varying complexity.", BBCI workshop 2012: Advance in Neurotechnology. Berlin, September.
  3. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Timmers, R. & Desain, P. (2010). Practice Space: real-time visual feedback for music education. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Seattle, August.
  4. Schaefer, R.S., Sadakata, M. Farquhar, J., & Desain, P. (2010). Name that tune: What is your brain listening to? Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Seattle, August.
  5. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Timmers, R., & Desain, P. (2008)The visual feedback system with interactive contrast training for fluent finger piano exercises. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 10, Sapporo, August.
  6. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Timmers, R., Miezlaiskyte, A., & Desain, P. (2008)Longitudinal study of rhythm tapping with visual feedback.Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 10, Sapporo, August.
  7. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Hoppe, D., Timmers, R. & Desain, P. (2007). Learning to perform musical rhythms with expressive timing. Proceedings of the 7th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Dublin, July.
  8. Brandmeyer, A. Timmers, R., Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2007). Does real-time visual feedback improve expressive percussion performance? Proceedings of the 7th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Dublin, July.
  9. Sadakata, M., & Desain, P. (2006).Perception and production of short Western musical rhythms. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC9), Bologna, August.
  10. Sadakata, M., Brandmeyer, A., Hoppe, D., Timmers, R., and Desain, P. (2006).Learning expressive performance of short musical rhythms with real-time visual feedback. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, pp. 24, Manchester, July.
  11. Sadakata, M., Hoppe, D., & Desain, P. (2006).Learning to perform musical rhythms with expressive timing. Proceedings of the Teaching, Learning and Performing music conference, pp. 54, Manchester, July.
  12. Brandmeyer, A., Hoppe, D., Sadakata, M., Timmers, R. & Desain, P. (2006).PracticeSpace: A platform for real-time visual feedback in music instruction. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC9), Bologna, August.
  13. Hoppe, D., Brandmeyer, A., Sadakata, M., Timmers, R. & Desain, P. (2006).The effect of real-time visual feedback on the training of expressive performance skills. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC9), Bologna, August.
  14. Sadakata, M. & Desain, P. (2005). Perception and production of short western musical rhythms. Proceedings of the 7th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Alden-Biesen, July.
  15. Sadakata. M., Desain, P., & Honing, H. (2004).An Analysis of Rhythmic Ratios in Scores of Various Kinds of Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). Evanston: NU, August.

Others / Popular Press

  • CNCWord News interview (2012, December)
  • Malou van Hintum (2011, July, 2).Muziek ZIEN. Volkskrant. Zaterdag bijlagen, p.1.
  • NWO (2007, Juni). Muziekritme in beeld gebracht. Synthese NWO-jaaroverzicht 2006, pp.36.
  • van Suchtelen, P. (2007, March 16). Muziek volgens je moedertaal, Spits, pp.15.
  • van Suchtelen, P. (2006, Devember 21).Muziek volgens je moedertaal, Kennislink.nl.
  • van Maris, B. (2006, December 9).Lettergreepritme: de moedertaal bepaalt het ritmegevoel, NRC Handelsblad, pp. 51.

Funds and scholarships

  • 2011: STW Open Technologie Programma “EarOpener: learning auditory category by means of brain signals” (involved in writing, employed as a team leader / Post Doctoral fellow)
  • 2011: StitPro funds “Zien Hoe Je Praat”(co-applicant with Lilian Beijyer at the Sint Martenskliniek Nijmegen)
  • 2009-2012: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kaken B), “Perception-action systems in real complex environments” Project leader:Professor. dr. S. Mori (involved as a collaborator of the Language and Music sub project)
  • 2004: Rome music foundation scholarship
  • 2005: Rome music foundation scholarship

Other academic activities

Editorial work for journals

  • One of the editors of Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition

Post hoc reviewer

Acta Psychologica, Cognition, Musica Scientie, Music Perception, Computer & Education, Journal of New Music Research, Psychology of Music, Journal of Music Perception and Cognition (JP), Japanese psychological research (JP)

Invited lectures at international conferences and workshops

2012TABU dag (Groningen, The Netherlands)

2007De Componist 0708 workshop (The Walter Maas Huis, The Netherlands)

2006Philips Research Laboratories seminar (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Organization of conferences and workshops

2012Organizer of the Concluding Symposium of Perception and Action Project (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2010Member of the organize committee of the Nijmegen Lecture 2010 (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2008Assistant in organizing the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, ICMPC 10 (Sapporo, Japan)

2004Assistant in organizing the 18th The International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2004, Kyoto, Japan, April

2004Assistant in organizing the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, ISMA, Nara, Japan, March-April

Academic membershipsISCA: Internaional Speech Comuincation Association

SMPC: Society for Music Perception and Cognition

JSMPC: Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition

Academic activities

  • Editorial board member of the Journal of Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition
  • Organizer of language and music category learning reading group (DCC / MPI)
  • Reviewer of different journals: Cognition, Acta psychologica, Music Perecption, Journal of New Music Research, Psychology of Music