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J-GLOBAL ID：202101011480987034
Update date: Dec. 31, 2025
Kondoh Sotaro
コンドウ ソウタロウ | Kondoh Sotaro
Affiliation and department：
Job title：
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
Other affiliations (1)：
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Keio University
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Visiting research fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Homepage URL (1)：
https://neuromusic.sfc.keio.ac.jp/?page_id=2844&lang=ja
Research field (8)：
Cognitive neuroscience
, Neuroscience - general
, Physical and health education
, Cognitive sciences
, Experimental psychology
, Perceptual information processing
, Sensitivity (kansei) informatics
, Human interfaces and interactions
Research keywords (13)：
Music and Neuroscience
, Musical meter
, Beat
, Rhythm
, Chill
, Musical interaction
, Social bonding
, Respect-related emotions
, Biphasic sound stimuli
, EEG
, Heart Rate
, Psychophysics
, Tapping
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：
- 2024 - 2027 Understanding the cognitive substrates of social bonding: a study focusing on musical meter perception
- 2023 - 2024 Dynamic switching of musical meter examined through EEG measurement
- 2021 - 2023 Perception and neural correlates of musical meter examined with the biphasic sound stimulus
Papers (15)：
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Sotaro Kondoh, Takahide Etani, Yuna Sakakibara, Yasushi Naruse, Yasuhiko Imamura, Takuya Ibaraki, Shinya Fujii. A chill brain-music interface for enhancing music chills with personalized playlists. iScience (in press). 2026. 114508
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Masahiro Okano, Sotaro Kondoh, Wataru Kurebayashi, Ryosuke O. Tachibana. Coupled-oscillator-humanizer revealed possible ensemble players’ ability to discriminate cross-correlation structures in auditory sequences of paired drum tapping. PLOS One. 2025. 20. 11. e0336778
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Shizuka Sata, Inhyeok Jeong, Naotsugu Kaneko, Sotaro Kondoh, Kimitaka Nakazawa, Shinya Fujii. Musicianship and active musical engagement predict facilitation of auditory-motor plasticity: evidence from auditory-motor paired associative stimulation. Preprint at bioRxiv. 2025
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Takahide Etani, Sotaro Kondoh, Yuna Sakakibara, Keigo, Yoshida, Yasushi Naruse, Yasuhiko Imamura, Takuya Ibaraki, Shinya Fujii. A groove brain-music interface for enhancing individual experience of urge to move. Preprint at bioRxiv. 2025
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Aiko Watanabe, Sotaro Kondoh, Tomohiro Samma, Shinya Fujii. Enhanced subjective performance achievement in wind instrument playing through positive memory recall: effects of sympathetic activation and emotional valence. Frontiers in Psychology. 2025. 16. 1544069
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MISC (11)：
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Haruka Kondo, Sotaro Kondoh, Shinya Fujii. Perceived vibrato and the singing power ratio explain overall evaluations in opera singing. Preprint at PsyArXiv. 2025
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Aiko Watanabe, Sotaro Kondoh, Tomohiro Samma, Shinya Fujii. Enhanced subjective performance achievement in wind instrument playing through positive memory recall: Effects of sympathetic activation and emotional valence. Preprint at bioRxiv. 2024
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Sotaro Kondoh, Takahide Etani, Yuna Sakakibara, Yasushi Naruse, Yasuhiko Imamura, Takuya Ibaraki, Shinya Fujii. A chill brain-music interface for enhancing music chills with personalized playlists. Preprint at bioRxiv. 2024
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Yuna Sakakibara, Tomohiro Kusutomi, Sotaro Kondoh, Takahide Etani, Saori Shimada, Yasuhiko Imamura, Yasushi Naruse, Shinya Fujii, Takuya Ibaraki. A nostalgia brain-music interface for enhancing nostalgia, well-being, and memory vividness in young and elderly individuals. Preprint at bioRxiv. 2024
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Ryosuke O. Tachibana, Sotaro Kondoh, Jun Nitta, Kazuo Okanoya. Spectrotemporal modulation provides a cue for detecting repetition in noise. Proceedings of the auditory research meeting. 2024. 54. 1. 1-6
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Lectures and oral presentations (40)：
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Musical Experience Relates to Explicit but Not Implicit Consonance Preference
(21st Annual NeuroMusic Conference 2025)
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Associations between 20-Hz Auditory Steady-State Responses, Musical Sophistication, and Music Reward Sensitivity
(Neuroscience 2025: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2025)
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協和音と不協和音に対する顕在的・潜在的美的評価と音楽経験の関係
(日本音楽知覚認知学会2025年度秋季研究発表会 2025)
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The Potential of Metaverse Music Therapy: An Exploratory Study to Support Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(日本音楽知覚認知学会2025年度秋季研究発表会 2025)
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Exploring Individual Differences in Music Cognition: An EEG-Based Examination of Pleasure and Rhythm Processing
(Stanford University CCRMA colloquium 2025)
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Education (5)：
- 2019 - 2023 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Life Sciences
- 2017 - 2019 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Life Sciences
- 2015 - 2017 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences
- 2013 - 2015 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences III
- 2009 - 2012 Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School
Professional career (3)：
- PhD (The University of Tokyo)
- MS (The University of Tokyo)
- BLA (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (6)：
Awards (3)：
- 2019/06 - Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition Poster Award The perception of multi-meter sound
- 2019/03 - The University of Tokyo Encouragement Award for Master's thesis Exploring the neural representation of musical meter using biphasic sound stimuli
- 2016/09 - Symposium at UTokyo Institute for Diversity and Adaptation of Human Mind Poster Presentation Award Measuring physiological change by respect-related emotions
Association Membership(s) (2)：
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
, Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition
