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I am a postdoctoral fellow at Donders Insitute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & Lecturer at Cognitive Artificiale Intelligence department at Radboud University Nijmegen. I am interested in cognition and comprehension of music and speech. My research projects include acquisition and learning of acoustical categories, perception and performance of musical and speech rhythms, association between music and language abilities.

Updated: 24th November 2011

News:

Press: Volkskrant, 2nd July, 2011"Muziek ZIEN" (in Dutch).
New publications:

Sadakata, M. & Sekiayam, K. (2011). Enhanced perception of various linguistic features by musicians: A cross-linguistic study, Acta Psychologica, 138, pp.1-10.

Sadakata, M. & J. M. McQueen (2011). The role of variability in non-native perceptual learning of a Japanese geminate-singleton fricative contrast. Proceedings of Interspeech, p.873-876, Florence, Aug. 2011.

Teaching 2011-2012:
Research Method course (MSc), Radboud University Nijmegen, CAI, 2nd semester
Music Cognition course (BSc), University of Amsterdam, 2nd semester

Name Makiko Sadakata, PhD
E-mail m.sadakata - at - donders.ru.nl
Affiliation
 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, centre for cognition (DCC)
Radboud University Nijmegen (Social science, Artificial Intelligence)
Post address (MPI) P.O.Box 310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Post address (RU) P.O.Box 9104, 6500HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Phone +31-(0)24-3612768 (DCC)

Projects involved (current)

Past project

Research Focus
  • Language and music
    • L2 speech category learning (Japanese geminates / Mandarin tones)
    • Visual feedback learning (music performance / speech therapy)
    • Transfer of learning
  • Rhythm perception and production
  • Bayesian modeling