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Do you listen to music while studying? A portrait of how people use music to optimize their cognitive performance by Goltz, Franziska, Sadakata, Makiko

“…The effect of background music (BGM) on cognitive task performance is a popular topic. However, the evidence is not converging: experimental studies show mixed…”
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Examining the Interaction Between Motor Development and Early Violin Learning by Hiemstra, Anna, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Playing the violin demands highly skilled motor performance, including advanced bimanual coordination and controlled, independent movement of fingers. Through…”
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Music that is used while studying and music that is used for sleep share similar musical features, genres and subgroups by Scarratt, Rebecca Jane, Heggli, Ole Adrian, Vuust, Peter, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Music is an integral part of daily human life, and certain types of music are often associated with certain contexts, such as specific music for sleeping or…”
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Parallel pitch processing in speech and melody: A study of the interference of musical melody on lexical pitch perception in speakers of Mandarin by Sadakata, Makiko, Weidema, Joey L, Honing, Henkjan

“…Music and language have long been considered two distinct cognitive faculties governed by domain-specific cognitive and neural mechanisms. Recent work into the…”
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High stimulus variability in nonnative speech learning supports formation of abstract categories: evidence from Japanese geminates by Sadakata, Makiko, McQueen, James M

“…This study reports effects of a high-variability training procedure on nonnative learning of a Japanese geminate-singleton fricative contrast. Thirty native…”
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Music in Quarantine: Connections Between Changes in Lifestyle, Psychological States, and Musical Behaviors During COVID-19 Pandemic by Terasawa, Hiroko, Matsubara, Masaki, Goudarzi, Visda, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Music is not only the art of organized sound but also a compound of social interaction among people, built upon social and environmental foundations. Since the…”
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Attention to affective audio-visual information: Comparison between musicians and non-musicians by Weijkamp, Janne, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Individuals with more musical training repeatedly demonstrate enhanced auditory perception abilities. The current study examined how these enhanced auditory…”
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I still hear a melody: investigating temporal dynamics of the Speech-to-Song Illusion by Groenveld, Gerben, Burgoyne, John Ashley, Sadakata, Makiko

“…The Speech–to-Song Illusion (STS) refers to a dramatic shift in our perception of short speech fragments which, when repeatedly presented, may start to…”
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Enhanced perception of various linguistic features by musicians: A cross-linguistic study by Sadakata, Makiko, Sekiyama, Kaoru

“…Two cross-linguistic experiments comparing musicians and non-musicians were performed in order to examine whether musicians have enhanced perception of…”
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The effect of handedness on spatial and motor representation of pitch patterns in pianists by Smit, Eline Adrianne, Sadakata, Makiko

“…This study investigated the effect of handedness on pianists' abilities to adjust their keyboard performance skills to new spatial and motor mappings. Left-…”
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Individual aptitude in Mandarin lexical tone perception predicts effectiveness of high-variability training by Sadakata, Makiko, McQueen, James M

“…Although the high-variability training method can enhance learning of non-native speech categories, this can depend on individuals' aptitude. The current study…”
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Correction: Parallel pitch processing in speech and melody: A study of the interference of musical melody on lexical pitch perception in speakers of Mandarin by Sadakata, Makiko, Weidema, Joey L, Roncaglia-Denissen, M Paula M, Honing, Henkjan

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229109.]…”
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Neural Advantages of Older Musicians Involve the Cerebellum: Implications for Healthy Aging Through Lifelong Musical Instrument Training by Yamashita, Masatoshi, Ohsawa, Chie, Suzuki, Maki, Guo, Xia, Sadakata, Makiko, Otsuka, Yuki, Asano, Kohei, Abe, Nobuhito, Sekiyama, Kaoru

“…This study compared 30 older musicians and 30 age-matched non-musicians to investigate the association between lifelong musical instrument training and…”
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The Japanese translation of the Gold-MSI: Adaptation and validation of the self-report questionnaire of musical sophistication by Sadakata, Makiko, Yamaguchi, Yasumasa, Ohsawa, Chie, Matsubara, Masaki, Terasawa, Hiroko, von Schnehen, Andres, Müllensiefen, Daniel, Sekiyama, Kaoru

“…This study presents a Japanese translation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI). The index consists of 38 self-report questions and…”
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Intuitive visualizations of pitch and loudness in speech by Schaefer, Rebecca S., Beijer, Lilian J., Seuskens, Wiel, Rietveld, Toni C. M., Sadakata, Makiko

“…Visualizing acoustic features of speech has proven helpful in speech therapy; however, it is as yet unclear how to create intuitive and fitting visualizations…”
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The Enhanced Musical Rhythmic Perception in Second Language Learners by Roncaglia-Denissen, M Paula, Roor, Drikus A, Chen, Ao, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Previous research suggests that mastering languages with distinct rather than similar rhythmic properties enhances musical rhythmic perception. This study…”
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Nonlinear Changes in the Rhythm of European Art Music by Hansen, Niels Chr, Sadakata, Makiko, Pearce, Marcus

“…Research has used the normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) to examine relationships between musical rhythm and durational contrast in composers’ native…”
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Perception of Timbre and Rhythm Similarity in Electronic Dance Music by Honingh, Aline, Panteli, Maria, Brockmeier, Thomas, López Mejía, David Iñaki, Sadakata, Makiko

“…Music similarity is known to be a multi-dimensional concept, depending among others on rhythm similarity and timbre similarity. The present study aims to…”
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Language specific listening of Japanese geminate consonants: a cross-linguistic study by Sadakata, Makiko, Shingai, Mizuki, Sulpizio, Simone, Brandmeyer, Alex, Sekiyama, Kaoru

“…Various aspects of linguistic experience influence the way we segment, represent, and process speech signals. The Japanese phonetic and orthographic systems…”
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Sentences used in the speech-to-song illusion: Comparisons of acoustic vowel space by Hiemstra, Anna, Sadakata, Makiko

“…In the speech-to-song illusion, certain spoken sentences start sounding like song when repeated several times. This perceptual transformation does not occur…”
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