Research Experience

  • Apr 2024 – Present: JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Keio University
  • Apr 2023 – Mar 2024: Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
  • Apr 2021 – Mar 2023: JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), The University of Tokyo
  • Jun 2020 – Mar 2021: Research Assistant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Education

  • Mar. 2023 : PhD in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Dissertation: Perception of musical meter: Examining the interaction between top-down and bottom-up processes (Advisor: Kazuo Okanoya)
  • Mar. 2019 : MS in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Mar. 2017 : Bachelor of Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Project/Research Interst

  • Musical beat and meter perception
  • Music chill
  • Musical interaction
  • Respect-related emotions
  • Mental health and resilience in adolescents

Publication

Preprints (Under Review)

  1. Kondoh, S., Okanoya, K., & Tachibana, R. O. Neural entrainment predicts the anticipatory P300 component during musical meter perception: An EEG study using dual-meter sound stimuli. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.01.662512
  2. Etani, T., Nakajima, S., Honda, S., Homma, S., Kaneko, Y., Kondoh, S., … & Fujii, S. (2025). Pleasure in groove is associated with neuromelanin levels in the substantia nigra of younger healthy individuals: A neuromelanin-sensitive MRI study. bioRxiv.
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.10.653047
  3. Homma, S., Etani, T., Kondoh S., Morizumi K., Matsumoto S., Shindo K., Shindo Y., Fujii S. (2025). Effects of background music on mood of older users and staff members at a senior daycare facility in Japan. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ybjv9_v1
  4. Kondo, H., Kondoh, S., & Fujii, S. (2025). Perceived vibrato and the singing power ratio explain overall evaluations in opera singing. PsyArXiv.
    https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sr8ck_v1
  5. Watanabe, A., Kondoh, S., Samma, T., & Fujii, S. (2024). Enhanced subjective performance achievement in wind instrument playing through positive memory recall: Effects of sympathetic activation and emotional valence. bioRxiv.
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.628097
  6. Kondoh, S., Etani, T., Sakakibara, Y., Naruse, Y., Imamura Y., Ibaraki, T., & Fujii, S. (2024). A chill brain-music interface for enhancing music chills with personalized playlists. bioRxiv.
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.07.621657
  7. Sakakibara, Y., Kusutomi, T., Kondoh, S., Etani, T., Shimada, S., Imamura, Y., Naruse, Y., Fujii, S., & Ibaraki, T. (2024). A nostalgia brain-music interface for enhancing nostalgia, well-being, and memory vividness in young and elderly individuals. bioRxiv.
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.29.620793

Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Nitta, J., Kondoh, S., Okanoya, K., & Tachibana, R. O. (2024). Spectral consistency in sound sequence affects perceptual accuracy in discriminating subdivided rhythmic patterns. PLoS One, 19(5), e0303347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303347
  2. Kondoh, S., Fujimura, T., Nakatani, H., Muto, S., Nonaka, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2023). Experiencing respect elongates the orienting response: a pilot study. Discover Psychology, 3(1), 17.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-023-00075-5
  3. Fujiwara, M., Kondoh, S. (Co-first author), & Sakaguchi Y. (2022). Sharing Intentions: Insights from Human and Animal Synchrony and Entrainment (review in Japanese). Hitsuji Shobo. https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784823411618
  4. Kondoh, S., & Okanoya, K. (2022). Performance in a task improves when subjects experience respect, rather than admiration, for those teaching them. Discover Psychology, 2(1), 38.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-022-00051-5
  5. Kondoh, S., Okanoya, K., & Tachibana, R. O. (2021). Switching perception of musical meters by listening to different acoustic cues of biphasic sound stimulus. PLoS One, 16(8), e0256712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256712

Presentation (selected)

  1. Kondoh, S., Etani, T., Sakakibara, Y., Naruse, Y., Imamura, Y. Ibaraki, T. Fujii, S. Enhancing music chills through closed-loop neurofeedback generating tailor-made playlist for individuals using an in-ear EEG device. The Neurosciences and MusicVIII, Helsinki, Finland, 2024/6/13-16. (peer-reviewed, poster)
  2. Kondoh, S., Okanoya, K., & Tachibana, R. O. Examining the interaction between top-down and bottom-up processes of meter perception: an EEG study with biphasic sound stimuli. ICMPC17-APSCOM7, Tokyo, Japan, 2023/8/24-28. (peer-reviewed, oral)
  3. Kondoh, S., Okanoya, K., Tachibana, R.O. Quantifying subjective intensity of musical beats. Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan, 2022/9/5-8. (peer-reviewed, poster)
  4. 近藤聡太郎, 橘亮輔, 岡ノ谷一夫. 多義的な拍子喚起刺激の知覚. 日本音楽知覚認知学会春季研究発表会, 大阪樟蔭女子大学, 大阪. 2019年6月. (poster) [poster award]
  5. Kondoh, S. , Tachibana, R.O., Okanoya, K. EEG correlates of multistate meter perception. The 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, Kumamoto, Japan, 2018/12/8-9.
  6. Kondoh, S., Fujimura, T., Nakatani, H., Nonaka, Y., Muto, S., Okanoya, Emotions associated with “respect” induces physiological change. The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Kanagawa, Japan, 2016/7/24 – 29. (peer-reviewed, poster)

Contact

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