Acknowledgment I may never have undertaken without the enthusiastic encouragement from the person who became my advisor, Prof. Yasuhiko Yasuda. He often steered me in the right direction when I wasn't certain of which path to investigate. I acknowledge his significant contribution to my PhD studies. I would like to thank Prof. Fumio Takahata, Prof. Shigeki Goto and Prof. Jiro Katto for their ve...

Perception of moving sound sources obeys different brain processes from those mediating the localization of static sound events. In view of these specificities, a preprocessing model was designed, based on the main perceptual cues involved in the auditory perception of moving sound sources, such as the intensity, timbre, reverberation, and frequency shift processes. This model is the first step...

Watching other people move elicits engagement of a collection of sensorimotor brain regions collectively termed the Action Observation Network (AON). An extensive literature documents more robust AON responses when observing or executing familiar compared to unfamiliar actions, as well as a positive correlation between amplitude of AON response and an observer's familiarity with an observed or ...

We have focused on the problem that quantitative research timbre of musical instruments has not yet been established. In order to solve this problem, we conducted evaluation using guitars, which are plucked string instrument among instruments. previous paper, proposed a new factor called octave quantitatively evaluate tone quality. This was able show superiority two types high-quality handmade ...

We describe the design of a system in which the motion of an electric guitar is used to control effects applied to the instrument’s audio output.