MIYAZAKI Ken'ichi Professor Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities Niigata University miyazaki@human.niigata-u.ac.jp
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Research Area

• Cognitive Psychology
• Psychology of Hearing
• Psychology of Music

Specific Research Interests

• Pitch perception
• Frequency selectivity in hearing
• Absolute pitch and relative pitch
• Perception of musical pitch musical intervals, melodies, and harmony
• Auditory perceptual grouping
• Attention and memory in hearing
• Auditory Stroop effects
• Ear asymmetry

Publications (request of reprints should be sent to miyazaki@human.niigata-u.ac.jp)

• Miyazaki, K. (2007) Asolute pitch and its implications for music. Archives of Acoustics, 32(3), 3-14.
• Rakowski, A. and Miyazaki, K. (2007) Absolute pitch: Common traits in music and language. Archives of Acoustics, 31(1), 5-16
• Miyazaki, K. and Ogawa, Y. (2006) Learning absolute pitch by children: A cross-sectional study. Music Perception, 24(1), 63-78
• Miyazaki, K. (2005) Verbal encoding in musical pitch recognition by absolute-pitch possessors. Japanese Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 67-70 (in Japanese).
• Itoh, K., Suwazono, S., Arao, H., Miyazaki, K., and Nakada, T. (2005) Electrophysiological correlates of absolute pitch and relative pitch. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 760-769.
• Miyazaki, K. (2004) Recognition of transposed melodies by absolute-pitch possessors. Japanese Psychological Research, 46, 270-282. Abstract PDF
• Miyazaki, K. (2004) How well do we understand absolute pitch? Acoustical Science & Technology, 25, 426-432 PDF
• Itoh, K., Miyazaki, K., & Nakada, T. (2003) Ear advantage and consonance of dichotic pitch intervals in absolute-pitch possessors. Brain and Cognition, 53, 464-471. Absract
• Miyazaki, K. & Rakowski, A. (2002) Recognition of notated melodies by possessors and non-possessors of absolute-pitch Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1337-1345. Abstract PDF
  Miyazaki, K. & Rakowski, A. (2002) Percepcja melodii prezez osoby ze sluchem absolutnym i bez sluchu absolutnego. In Andrzej Rakowski (Ed.), Ksztaltowanie i percepcja sekwencji dzwiekow muzycznych (pp. 100-124). Warszawa: Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina (in Polish).
• Miyazaki, K. (1998) A System for Experiments on Music Perception and Cognition using Apple Macintosh and HyperCard . Journal of Music Perception and Cognition, 4, 100-111 (in Japanese). Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1995) Perception of relative pitch with different references: Some absolute-pitch listeners can't tell musical interval names. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 962-970. Abstract
• Miyazaki, K., Ishii, R, and Ogushi, K. (1994) Relation between absolute pitch and relative pitch for music students. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 50, 780-788 (in Japanese) . Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1993) Absolute pitch as an inability: Identification of musical intervals in a tonal context. Music Perception, 11, 55-72. Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1992) Perception of musical intervals by absolute pitch possessors. Music Perception, 413-426. Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1990) The speed of musical pitch identification by absolute pitch possessors. Music Perception, 8, 177-188. Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1989) Absolute pitch identification: Effects of timbre and pitch region. Music Perception, 7, 1-14. Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (1988) Musical pitch identification by absolute pitch possessors. Perception & Psychophysics, 44, pp. 501-512. Abstract

  Other papers

• The Auditory Stroop Interference and the Irrelevant Speech/Pitch Effect: Absolute-Pitch Listeners Can't Suppress Pitch Labeling. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress on Acoustis (ICA 2004), Aril 4-9, 2004 (Kyoto, Japan). Abstract
• Miyazaki, K. (2000) Interaction in musical-pitch naming and syllable naming: An experiment on a Stroop-like effect in hearing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Neuroscience of Music (October 15-17, 1999, Niigata, Japan). Absract
• The Cognitive Process of Musical Pitch by Absoluute-Pitch Listeners (Mar. 1999). Report of Researh Project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 1997-1998 (in Japanese)
• Interaction in Musical-Pitch Naming and Syllable Naming: An Experiment on a Stroop-like Effect in Hearing (Nov. 1999). Paper presented at the Meeting of the Japanese Society of Music Perception and Cognition, Kyoto (in Japanese)
• Interaction of Musical Pitch and Pitch Syllables: An Auditory Stroop Phenomenon in Dichotic Listening. (Technical Comittee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, The Acoustical Society of Japan. Dec., 2000、Fukuoka) (in Japanese)

Academic Activities

• The Japanese Psychological Association
• The Acoustical Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition

Teaching (2001)

• Methods of Psychological Research I
• Cognitive Science I
• Seminar - Psychology I, II
• Basic Psychology (General Education)
• Congitive Psychology of Sound and Music (General Education)
• Cognitive Science (Master Course)
• Practice in Cognitive Science (Master Course)
• Perceptual Information Processing (Doctor Course)