We published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. We analyzed the motion of a professional drummer hitting a snare drum…
Read Full ArticleDarbuka Paper Published in Frontiers in Psychology!
Lab’s PhD student Kazuaki Honda’s paper has been published in Frontier in Psychology. The paper is about the tapping performance of darbuka players. The differences…
Read Full ArticleBaby Drumming Paper Published on Experimental Brain Research!
Baby Drumming Paper Published on Experimental Brain Research! Shinya, Y., Oku, K., Watanabe, H., Taga, G., & Fujii, S. (2022). Anticipatory regulation of the cardiovascular…
Read Full ArticleTapping performance and underlying wrist muscle ac-tivity of non-drummers, drummers, and the world’s fastest drummer
Fujii S., Kudo K., Ohtsuki T., & Oda S. Neuroscience Letters, 459 (2), pp. 69-73, 2009. Abstract Studies of rapid unimanual tapping have assumed that…
Read Full ArticleIntrinsic constraint of asymmetry acting as a control parameter on rapid, rhythmic bimanual coordination: A study of professional drummers and non-drummers
Fujii S., Kudo K., Ohtsuki T., & Oda S. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104 (4), pp. 2178-2186, 2010. Abstract Expert musicians show experience-dependent reduced asymmetry in…
Read Full ArticleThe Harvard Beat Assessment Test (H-BAT): a battery for assessing beat perception and production and their dissociation
Fujii S., & Schlaug G. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7:771, 2013. Abstract Humans have the abilities to perceive, produce, and synchronize with a musical beat,…
Read Full ArticleWhite matter microstructural organizations in patients with severe treatment-resistant schizophrenia: A diffusion tensor imaging study
Ochi R., Noda Y., Tsuchimoto S., Tarumi R., Honda S., Matsushita K., Tsugawa S., Plitman E., Masuda F., Ogyu K., Wada M., Miyazaki T., Fujii…
Read Full ArticlePrecursors of dancing and singing to music in three- to four-months-old infants
Fujii S., Watanabe H., Oohashi H., Hirashima M., Nozaki D., & Taga G. PLoS ONE. 16; 9(5): e97680, 2014. Abstract Dancing and singing to music…
Read Full ArticleThe role of rhythm in speech and language rehabilitation: The SEP hypothesis
Fujii S., & Wan CY. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:777, 2014. Abstract For thousands of years, human beings have engaged in rhythmic activities such as…
Read Full ArticleMore Feedback Is Better than Less: Learning a Novel Upper Limb Joint Coordination Pattern with Augmented Auditory Feedback
Fujii S, Lulic T, Chen JL., Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10: 251, 2016 Abstract Motor learning is a process whereby the acquisition of new skills occurs…
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