Makiko Sadakata
Cognition of Music and Language

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Thesis project: Master

Thesis project: Bachelor

2020-2021

Thesis project: Master

• Lisette Olsthoorn (UvA, Music Studies) The effect of music interventions on emotion in people with dementia: A meta-analysis
• Anastasios Kyriakou (UvA, Music Studies) COVID-19 and Young Musicians: The Impact of the Pandemic on the Psychological Wellbeing and Motivation of Young Musicians
• Ada Örken (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) Music: ‘the Can-opener for People’s Memories’: A Literature Review on Autobiographical Memory Retrieval in Alzheimer Disease Patients with the Help of Music
• Jesse van Langeveld (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Practicing music might have an anti-aging effect and slow Dementia: a comparison with physical exercise
• Melanie Stahlecker (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Heeft muzikale training een positif effect op taalontwikkeling? Een literatuuronderzoek
• Pien Zwart (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Music for dogs: Een onderzoek naar voor honden gecomponeerde muziek
• Qi Draaisma (UvA, Artificial Intelligence) Groove and timbre project




2019-2020

Thesis project: Master

• Anna Himestra (UvA, Music Studies) Acoustic Vowel Space in the Speech-to-Song Illusion* (the best student paper award at ICMPC 16)
• Arran Lyon (UvA, Computational Science lab/Informatics institute) The Music Emerges: A Computational Approach to the Speech-to-Song Illusion

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Chayenne van den Hazel (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) The relation between product type and the function of music in Dutch TV commercials
• Catheijne Vandersmissen (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Evaluation of the effects of musical “cues” during lead climbing practice
• Jannie de Leeuw (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Beïnvloedt samen musiceren, in klassikale lessen op de basisschool, prosociale vaardigheden?
• Mariëlle C. E. Baelemans (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Oh, Mommy show me the rhythm of love: How the rhythm of Infant-Directed Speech shapes infant’s musicality for social bonding
• Rick Kooijman (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Het effect van muziek op de kijkers aandacht bij natuurfilms




2018-2019

Thesis project: Master

• Abigail M. Golec (UvA, Music Studies) Musicality as a component of engaging speech
• Miguel de Sousa (UvA, Music Studies) Music therapy research and Alzheimer's disease: Problems, perceptions and possible solutions
• Arjen Hilbers (UvA, Music Studies) The effect of handedness on novice learners of keyboard instruments
• Maud Zweers (UvA, Music Studies) The effect of the Speech-to-Song Illusion on the recruitment of music-specific knowledge over the course of eight days
• Eylül Turan (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) The effect of the speech-to-song illusion on the perception of language-related information
• Kanthida van Walzen (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) The effect of the speech-to-song illusion on the perception of speech rhythm
• Andres von Schnehen (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) Beyond the Musical Binary: The Past, Present, and Future of Research Exploring Brain and Cognitive Differences Between Musicians and Non-Musicians

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Anna Hiemstra (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Young Violinists in Motion: Violin playing and motor development
• Santiago Bonanni (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) The extrapolation of pitch class to the dimension of rhythm and its perception within a tonal context
• Chrissy Vrijenhoek (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) When Language Meets Music: The role and potential of music as a linguistic vehicle.




2017-2018

Thesis project: Master

• Mrudula Arunkumar (RU, Master of Cognitive Neuroscience): Effect of linguistic background on music rhythm and melodic perception (collaboration with Ao Chen)
• Heidi Järvikylä(UvA, Master of cognitive science @ University of Malta): Effect of Finnish lingustic experience on music rhythm and melodic perception (collaboration with Holger Mitterer)
• Sophie van Weeren (UvA, Musicology): Musical Anhedonia (Co-supervision with H. Honing)
• Jouke Geerts (RU, AI master): Modeling synergy in automatic photobook generation.

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Tim Römer (AUC)
• Henk Jacobs (UU, involved as an external advisor)




2016-2017

Thesis project: Master

• Melis Çetinçelik* (UvA, Brain & Cognitive sciences): Effect of L2 on music perception
• Bas Coonerlissen* (UvA, Master of Logic): Speeh to Song Classification (collaboration with Henkjan Honing)
• Laura Cray (RU): Semantics and syntax in Music and Language (N400) (collaboration with Kimberley Mulder)
• Jeannette van Ditzhuizen (UvA, Brain & Cognitive sciences) Interpersonal Synchrony & Music: Consequences Regarding Social Functioning of Children and Adults
• Gerben Groenveld* (UvA, Musicology): Speech to Song Illusion
• Kristin Mitchell (UvA, Musicology): Taiko project
• Bob Oudejans (UvA, Brain & Cognitive sciences): Auditory ERP review (co-supervision with Paula Roncaglia-Denissen)
• Eileen Sowa (RU, AI): Audio-Visual feedback system for speech training (co-supervision with Masaki Matsubara, Tsukuba Univeristy)
• Takaaki Sakino (Tsukuba U): Emsenble music performance project (co-supervision with Hiroko Terasawa)

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Christopher Strucks (RU, AI)
• Leonoor Coppoolse (UvA, Musicology)
• Franziska Goltz (RU, Honor program Psychology)
• Mercylyn Wiemer (UvA, Psychobiology)

 

 

2015-2016

Thesis project: Master

• Gisela Govaart (UvA): Automatic speech recognition, towards pronuncitation feedback system (Internship with the EO project, co-supervision with Paul Boersma)
• Eline Smit* (UvA): Musical skills and handedness (co-supervision with Ashley Burgoyne)
• Andra Alexa (RU): 3D body information analyses (Internship project at Phililps)
• Paul Bertens*(RU): Musical decade classification using deep learning (co-supervision with Masanobu Miura, Ryukoku University)

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Sophie van Weeren (UvA) Speech to Song Illusion, effect of pitch interval categorization.
• Tiarma Witte (UvA) Speech to Song Illusion, effect of visual perception.
• Chris Kemper (RU) What makes music more human-made like?
• Anne van Peer (RU) Perception of musical emotions in the context of naturally and artificially made music.
• Linde Kuijpers (RU) Automatic Speech Recognition of English /a/ and /e/
• Tim Haverkamp (RU) Automatic Speech Recognition of English /a/ and /e/
• Maarten Vos(RU) Automatic Speech Recognition of English /a/ and /e/

 

 

2014-2015

Thesis project: Master

• Drikus Roor* (MA, UvA): Mastering of two languages with different rhythmic properties enhances musical rhythm perception. (co-supervision with Paula M. Roncaglia-Denissen, presented at RPPW 2015 & submitted for a journal publication)
• Heather Pinkham (MA, UvA): Production and perception of melodic expectancy: an empirical study evaluating the principles of the implication realization model.
• Maartje Koning* (MA, UvA): Anew illusion in the perception of relative pitch intervals.
• Jurre Thuis (MA, UvA): Pitch anticipation: a study of glide tone perception (co-supervision with Ashley Burgoyne)
• Jessica Akkermans (MA, UvA): Music and memory: Feeling of knowing in pop tunes (co-supervision with Berit Janssen)
• Belle Edelman (MA, UvA): Musical recall: a study on transmission (co-supervision with Berit Janssen)
• Joyce Hoorgendorn (MSc, Radboud University Nijmegen): Individual differences in second language phoneme acquisiotion and first language phoneme processing (co-supervision with Jana Krutwig, Eliana Garcial-Cossio, James M. McQueen)

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Wytze Korstanje & Ian Skingley (BSc, RU): Learning L2 vowel contrasts / automatic speech recognition (co-supervision with Jana Krutwig)
• Johan Tangleman (BA, UvA): O.P.E.R.A. Revisited: An in-depth literature analysis to the sustainability and applicability of Patel's OPERA hypothesis.

Spontaneous projects

• Janne Weijkamp (MSc, RU): Audio-visual expression of clainet performance (collaboration with Tom Wolfs)
• Jessica Akkermans, Belle Edelman, Maartje Koning, Gerben Groenveld* (UvA, MA): Aesthetics and Music (presetned by Gerben Vroenveld at The UvA Cognitive Musicology master presentation day)
• Helena Naeff (BSc, UvA): Embodied Music Cognition

 

2013-2014

Thesis project: Master

• Bas Kooiker* (MSc, RU): Music performace system based on automatic gesture recognition (oral presentation at the BNAIC 2014, the 26th Benelux conference on artificial intelligence)
• Tom Wolfs* (MSc, UvA): Seing is believing (accepted for a poster presentation at International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music)
• Joyce Lam (MSc, UvA): The role of deliverate practice in musical skill acquisition

Thesis project: Bachelor

• Eileen Sowa (BSc, RU): Classification of MMN response: towards generic and adaptive classification

Spontaenous projects

• Anja Junk & Myrthe Dijkman (MSc, RU): Role of variability in perceptual learning of pitch intervals
• Bas Kooiker (MSc, RU): Multi-agent music composition sytem KSE

 

 

 

Funded projects

EarOpener: Learning auditory categories by means of brain signals (2011-2016)

Learning to perceive the sounds of a foreign language requires many hours of training, and nonnative adult listeners rarely achieve native-like levels of performance. Here, we seek to solve this problem by developing a neurofeedback device. I am involved in this project as a team leader and working with Alex Brandmeyer, Peter Desain, Christian Hoffman, James McQueen, Loukianos Spyrou, Jana Krutwig, Eliana Garcia-Cossio (STW, No.11141).


 

Between-channel processing of perception of time, space and speech (2013 - 2017)

Are there any common mechanisms among processing of time, space and speech? There may be common between-channel communicatinons underlying processing these domains. The leader of this project is Shuji Mori. I am involved in this project as a collaoborator of Kaoru Sekiyama, looking into perception of silence in speech signals (JSPS grant Kiban A).

(past projects)

 

Zien hoe je praat (2011-2013)

Parkinson patients often have difficulty with controlling their speech production. Especially, pitch height and loudness are two challenging features to control. We are developing intuitive and effective real-time vitalization of speech which will be used for the speech therapy setting. Collaborators are Lillian Beijer, Rebecca Scahefer, Toni Rietveld and Wiel Sueskens (stitpro project).

 

Perception-action systems in real complex environments (2009-2013)

This project aims at experimentaly investigating perception-action systems in real complex environments, such as sports, walking, music and speech. The team leader of this project is Shuji Mori. I am invovled in the "music and language" subproject as a collaborator of Kaoru Sekiyama, looking into influence of musical training on speech perception (JSPS grant Kiban B).

 

PracticeSpace (STW) (2006-2010)

This project aims at developing visual feedback systems for learning to perform music. I was involved as a post-doctoral fellow, worked together with Renee Timmers, Alex Brandmeyer, and Peter Desain.