Effects of music course on perception and production of musical and speech sounds

• Project/Area Number: 25380983
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Future University-Hakodate
• Principal Investigator: Nakata Takayuki 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (00281155)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Ruthven Stuart (RUTHVEN Stuart) 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 准教授 (40278148)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 人工内耳 / 音楽知覚認知 / 事象関連電位 / 音楽訓練 / 音楽知覚 / オンライン教育 / タイミング表現 / 音楽心理学 / 国際研究者交流（カナダ） / eラーニング / 音楽学習 / 国際情報交換 カナダ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We created a novel online musical intervention and assessed its effects on music and language perception for 7-9 year-old children with cochlear implants and normally hearing children. Overall, children with cochlear implants spent more time on the training tasks than normally hearing counterparts, suggesting that the intervention was motivating for them. We plan to test more children with cochlear implants in the coming year.

Additionally, we investigated electrophysiological responses to pitch deviation with adaptive timing partner. Results showed that having an adaptive partner leads to better pitch perception and cognition (measured by electrophysiological mismatch negativity [MMN] and N400 responses to pitch change) compared with having a non-adaptive partner.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] McMaster University/University of Toronto at Mississauga(カナダ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] McMaster University(カナダ)
• [Journal Article] Perceptual and cognitive enhancement with an adaptive timing partner: Electrophysiological responses to pitch change (2015)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata, Laurel J. Trainor
  • Journal Title: Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Pages: 404-415
  • DOI: 10.1037/pmu0000120
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Timing patterns in music influence levels of processing in response to pitch deviation (2017)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata, Laurel J. Trainor
  • Organizer: The Neurosciences and Music - VI
  • Place of Presentation: Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Singing and music listening in children with cochlear implants (2017)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata, Chiharu Wakasugi, Sandra E. Trehub, Yukihiko Kanda
  • Organizer: 第15回世界音楽療法大会
  • Place of Presentation: つくば国際会議場
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Neural evidence for enhanced sensory and cognitive processing with adaptive partners (2016)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata
  • Organizer: 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: 神奈川県横浜市、パシフィコ横浜
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-24
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Mechanical Timing Enhances Sensory Processing Whereas Expressive Timing Enhances Later Cognitive Processing (2016)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata & Laurel J. Trainor
  • Organizer: 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition
  • Place of Presentation: Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-07
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Musical experience and preference of timing expression in a song by 6- to 7-month-old infants (2016)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata, Susan Marsh-Rollo, & Laurel J. Trainor
  • Organizer: The XX Biennial International Congress on Infant Studies
  • Place of Presentation: Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Cascading Deadline System for Quizzes (2016)
  • Author(s): Peter Ruthven-Stuart, Andrew Johnson, Adam Smith, & Michiko Nakamura
  • Organizer: Moodlemoot Japan 2016 in Tokyo
  • Place of Presentation: 東京都文京区、東洋大学 白山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2016-02-21
• [Presentation] 「子供にとって音楽とは何か？ー発達における音楽の意味を多次元的に議論するー」での話題提供「音楽体験による子供の社会性と知覚認知能力の変化」 (2016)
  • Author(s): 中田隆行
  • Organizer: 日本発達心理学会第27回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道札幌市 北海道大学
• [Presentation] 人工内耳によるパラ言語と音楽の認識・表現 (2015)
  • Author(s): 中田隆行
  • Organizer: 第32回日本脳電磁図トポグラフィ研究会、第３回宮古島神経科学カンファレンス合同学術集会
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄県宮古島市、ホテルブリーズベイマリーナ
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-20
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Association of musical training and music recognition by children and adolescents with bilateral cochlear implants (2014)
  • Author(s): Nakata, T., Kanda, Y., Wakasugi, C., Ito, A., Takahashi, H.
  • Organizer: 13th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies (CI2014)
  • Place of Presentation: ドイツ、ミュンヘン市
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-18 – 2014-06-21
• [Presentation] Effects of musical training on music recognition by children with cochlear implants (2014)
  • Author(s): Kanda, Y., Wakasugi, C., Nakata, T., Yoshida, H., Hara, M., Hatachi, K., Watanabe, T., Ito, A., Miyamoto, M., Hayashida, S., Takahashi, H.
  • Organizer: 13th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies (CI2014)
  • Place of Presentation: ドイツ、ミュンヘン市
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-18 – 2014-06-21
• [Presentation] Perceptual enhancement with an adaptive timing partner: Electrophysiological responses to pitch change (2014)
  • Author(s): Nakata, T., Trainor, L. J.
  • Organizer: The Neurosciences and Music - V
  • Place of Presentation: フランス、ディジョン市
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-29 – 2014-06-01
• [Presentation] Making Moodle manageable for young learners (2014)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Nakata, Peter Ruthven-Stuart, Nathalie Gosselin
  • Organizer: Moodle Moot Japan
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄国際大学
• [Presentation] パラ言語の認識・獲得、コミュニケーション場面における音楽と音声言語 (2014)
  • Author(s): 中田隆行
  • Organizer: 公開シンポジウム『言語・コミュニケーションの諸相、発達と障害』、金沢大学人間社会研究領域特別推進研究プログラム＜認知科学＞主催
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢大学角間キャンパス
  • Invited