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Makiko Sadakata
Cognition of Music and Language

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2022-2023 
  • Olivier Bais (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) Downward pitch changes disrupt illusory transformation from speech to song.
  • Jannie van Leeuw (UvA, Music Studies MA)
  • Odile Grim (UvA, Music Studies MA)
  • Jesse van Langeveld (UvA, Music Studies MA)
  • Alida Plas (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen, BA)
  • Lucas Taams (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen, BA)
  • Babke Lexmond (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen, BA)
  • Daan van Keulen (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen, BA)
  • Noortje van der Veen (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen, BA)


  • 2021-2022 

    Thesis project: Master

  • Nicolas Terpend (UvA, Music Studies) The Speech-to-Song Illusion: The Role of Pitch Information on Musical Perception and Languages
  • Tanya Palsma (UvA, Brain & Cognitive Science) A new account for the Speech-to-song illusion? A review of the Node Structure Theory as an account for the Speech-to-Song illusion.
  • Thesis project: Bachelor

  • Dewi Boessen (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) Conditions That Disrupt Music Processing: The Influence on Subjective Musical Experience
  • Daniël Dojčinović (UvA, Muziekwetenschappen) PCreating Brand Strategies through Sound: The Impact of Sound Logos on Branding
  • Yael Kirschenmann (UvA, Kunstmatige intelligentie) Analyzing Improvisation Performances of Jazz and Classical Musicians with Music Information Retrieval


  • 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.

         

         

         

     

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