[Japanese] [English]

Toyohashi University of Technology, Graduate school of Engineering, Associate Professor Toshie Matsui

Curriculum Vitae

March 2000 Kyoto City University of Arts, Faculty of Music, Bachelor of music (Piano performance)
August 2000-May 2001 University of North Florida, Department of Music, scholarship student on Performers' certificate program
April 2000-March 2003 Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate school of music, Master of music (Piano performence).
April 2007-March 2008 Kwansei Gakuin University, School of science and technology, CrestMuse project Resercher
September 2007-March 2008 Kyoto Tachibana University, Department of childhood education, part-time instructor (piano class I, II)
April 2008-March 2009 Kwansei Gakuin University, School of science and technology, CrestMuse project Technical staff
April 2009-March 2010 Kwansei Gakuin University, School of science and technology, CrestMuse project Researcher
April 2004-March 2010 Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate school of music, Doctor course (Acoustical psychology) , Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology (Ph.D.)
April 2010-March 2011 Kwansei Gakuin University, Graduate school of science and technology, CrestMuse project Postdoctoral fellow
April 2011-March 2013 Nara Medical University, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and neck surgery, Postdoctoral fellow
April 2011-March 2013 Tezukayama University, Faculty of contemporary human life science, Department of child studies, part-time instructor (piano class I-IV)
April 2013-March 2014 University of Tsukuba, Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, Postdoctoral fellow
April 2013-March 2014 Kyoto City University of Arts, Faculty of Music, part-time lecturer (Musicology i)
April 2014-April 2014University of Tsukuba, School of Integrative and Global Majors (SIGMA), Ph.D. Program in Human Biology, Assistant Professor
May 2014-October 2014University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, Division of Information Engineering, Assistant Professor
November 2014-October 2017 Wakayama University, Graduate School of Systems Engineering, Assistant Professor
November 2017-March 2022Toyohashi University of Technology, Graduate school of Engineering, Associate Professor (tenure track)
April 2022- present Toyohashi University of Technology, Evolution of the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) Professor

CV on Researchmap

Publications (Excerpts from English papers only)

  1. Toshie Matsui (2023),
    "Sound processing in the auditory periphery: toward speech communication and music comprehension,"
    Acoustic Communication in Animals / From Insect Wingbeats to Human Music (Bioacoustics Series Vol. 1) edited by Yoshimasa Seki, pp. 219-231, Springer. [DOI]

  2. Kyoko Hine, Koki Abe, Yuya Kinzuka, Mohammad Shehata, Katsunobu Hatano, Toshie Matsui, Shigeki Nakauchi (2022),
    "Spontaneous motor tempo contributes to preferred music tempo regardless of music familiarity,"
    Frontiers in Psychology, 13, pp. 1-11. [DOI]

  3. Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Ryo Uemura, Kodai Yamamoto, Hideki Kawahara, Roy D. Patterson (2022),
    "Modelling speaker-size discrimination with voiced and unvoiced speech sounds based on the effect of spectral lift,"
    Speech Communication, Vol. 136, pp. 23-41. [DOI]

  4. Toshie Matsui, Kengo Ohgushi (2020),
    "The effects of duration and context on the perception of the pitch of the missing-fundamental tones,"
    Journal of Music Perception and Cognition, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. xx-xx. (in printing)

  5. Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tomohiro Nakatani (2019),
    "Speech intelligibility prediction with the dynamic compressive gammachirp filterbank and modulation power spectrum,"
    Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 84-92. [DOI]

  6. Toshio Irino, Kenji Yokota, Toshie Matsui, Roy D. Patterson (2018),
    "Auditory filter derivation at low levels where masked threshold interacts with absolute threshold,"
    Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 887-890. [DOI]

  7. Ryota Shimokura, Sakie Akasaka, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, and Toshie Matsui (2017),
    "Autocorrelation factors and intelligibility of Japanese monosyllables in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss,"
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 141, No. 2, pp. 1065-1073. [DOI]

  8. Toshie Matsui, Koji Kazai, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Haruhiro Katayose (2016),
    "Musicians' analytic listening to music deactivates dorsal prefrontal cortex: A study using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy,"
    Journal of Music Perception and Cognition, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 3-9.

  9. Eriko Aiba, and Toshie Matsui (2016),
    "Music memory following short-term practice and its relationship with the sight-reading abilities of professional pianists,"
    Frontiers in Psychology Performance Science, 7:645. [DOI] [URL]

  10. Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Misaki Nagae, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patterson (2016).
    "The effect of peripheral compression on syllable perception measured with a hearing impairment simulator,"
    Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing,
    van Dijk, P., Başkent, D., Gaudrain, E., de Kleine, E., Wagner, A., Lanting, C. (Eds.)
    in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 894, pp. 307-314. [DOI]

  11. Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Osamu Saito, Ryosuke Miyamae, Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Toshiaki Yamanaka, Tadashi Kitahara, Harry Levitt (2015),
    "Cartilage conduction efficiently generates airborne sound in the ear canal,"
    Auris Nasus Larynx, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 15-19. [DOI]

  12. Toshie Matsui, Shuichi Yanai, Ryota Shimokura, Hiroshi Hosoi (2014),
    "Evaluation of a short reverberant sound field using syllable intelligibility and listening difficulty under multitalker babble,"
    Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 279-281. [DOI]

  13. Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Yuya Takaki, Tadashi Nishimura, Toshiaki Yamanaka, and Hiroshi Hosoi (2014),
    "Evaluation of speech intelligibility in short-reverberant sound fields,"
    Auris Nasus Larynx, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 343-349.

  14. Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Osamu Saito, Ryosuke Miyamae, Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Toshiaki Yamanaka, Harry Levitt (2014),
    "Is cartilage conduction classified into air or bone conduction?,"
    The Laryngoscope, Vol. 124, No. 5, pp. 1214-1219. [DOI]

  15. Toshie Matsui and Minoru Tsuzaki (2013),
    "Independence of mental representations for tonotopic and periodic scales in perceptual judgment of vowel-like sounds,"
    Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 436-439. [DOI]

  16. Ryota Shimokura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Takashi Iwakura, Tadashi Nishimura, Toshie Matsui (2013),
    "Development of monaural and binaural behind-the-ear cartilage conduction hearing aids,"
    Applied Acoustics, Vol. 74, pp. 1234-1240. [DOI]

  17. Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Osamu Saito, Ryosuke Miyamae, Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, and Takashi Iwakura (2013),
    "Benefit of a new hearing device utilizing cartilage conduction,"
    Auris Nasus Larynx, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 440-446. [DOI]

  18. Toshie Matsui, Satomi Tanaka, Koji Kazai, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Haruhiro Katayose (2013),
    "Activation of the left superior temporal gyrus of musicians by music-derived sounds,"
    NeuroReport, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 41-45. [DOI]

  19. Eriko Aiba, Koji Kazai, Takayuki Shimotomai, Toshie Matsui, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Nagata Noriko (2011),
    "Accuracy of Synchrony Judgment and its Relation to the Auditory Brainstem Response: the Difference between Pianists and Non-pianists,"
    Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 962-971. [URL]

  20. Toshie Matsui, and Minoru Tsuzaki (2008),
    "Functional difference between the tonotopic and periodic information in recognition of transposed melodies: How do local cues affect global features?"
    Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 5, 309-319. [DOI]
Back to Top

Presentations: International Conferences

  1. Toshio Irino, Kenji Yokota, Toshie Matsui, Roy D. Patterson (2018),
    "Auditory filter derivation at low levels where masked threshold interacts with absolute threshold,"
    International Symopium on Hearing (ISH2018) (Snekkersten, Denmark, 10-15, June 2018).

  2. Toshie Matsui, Eriko Aiba (2017),
    "Subjective assessment of solfege-based abilities correlates with performance behavior of professional pianists,"
    Abstracts of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, pp. 64-65 (Reykjavik, Iceland, August 30 - September 2, 2017).

  3. Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Kodai Yamamoto, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patterson (2017),
    "The effect of spectral tilt on size discrimination of voiced speech sounds,"
    Interspeech 2017 – 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Proceedings, p. 100 (Stockholm, Sweden, August 20–24, 2017).

  4. Toshio Irino, Eri Takimoto, Toshie Matsui, Roy. D. Patterson (2017),
    "An auditory model of speaker size perception for voiced speech sounds,"
    Interspeech 2017 – 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Proceedings, p. 123 (Stockholm, Sweden, August 20–24, 2017).

  5. Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tomohiro Nakatani (2017),
    "Predicting Speech Intelligibility Using a Gammachirp Envelope Distortion Index Based on the Signal-to-Distortion Ratio,"
    Interspeech 2017 – 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Proceedings, p. 197 (Stockholm, Sweden, August 20–24, 2017).

  6. Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Hazuki Inabe, Yuri Nishimura and Roy D. Patterson (2016),
    "Estimation of auditory compression and filter shape of elderly listeners using notched noise masking,"
    J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3274 (Proceedings of 5th Joint Meeting of ASA/ASJ, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, November 2016).

  7. Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui and Roy D. Patterson (2016),
    "Characterizing impairments in compression and filter shape to establish their role in hidden hearing loss,"
    J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3151 (Proceedings of 5th Joint Meeting of ASA/ASJ, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, November 2016). INVITED TALK

  8. Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita and Tomohiro Nakatani (2016),
    "Analysis of acoustic features for speech intelligibility prediction models ,"
    J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3114 (Proceedings of 5th Joint Meeting of ASA/ASJ, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, November 2016).

  9. Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita and Tomohiro Nakatani (2016)
    "Speech intelligibility prediction based on the envelope power spectrum model with the dynamic compressive gammachirp auditory filterbank,"
    In proceedings of Interspeech 2016, pp. 2885-2889 (Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, USA, 8–12 September 2016).

  10. Eriko Aiba, and Toshie Matsui (2015).
    "Behavioral changes in professional pianists during a short period of practice for a new piece,"
    Abstracts of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2015, pp. 40-41 (Kyoto, Japan, September 2015).

  11. Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Misaki Nagae, Hideki Kawahara, Roy D. Patterson (2015).
    "The effect of peripheral compression on syllable perception measured with a hearing impairment simulator,"
    Proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Hearing, pp. 257-263 (Groningen, Netherlands, June 2015).

  12. Minoru Tsuzaki, Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, and Chihiro Takeshima (2013),
    "Age Related Shifts Of Absolute Pitch Judgment And Their Relation To The Hearing Impairment,"
    Proceedings of 37th ARO MidWinter Meeting (San Diego, CA, USA)

  13. Daiki Aminaka, Koichi Mori, Toshie Matsui, Shoji Makino, Tomasz M. Rutkowski (2013),
    "Bone-conduction-based Brain Computer Interface Paradigm - EEG Signal Processing, Feature Extraction and Classification,"
    Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems, pp. 818-824, IEEE Computer Society (Kyoto, Japan, December 2013).

  14. Chisaki Nakaizumi, Koichi Mori, Toshie Matsui, Shoji Makino, Tomasz M. Rutkowski (2013),
    "Auditory Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm with Head Related Impulse Response-based Spatial Cues,"
    Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems, pp. 806-811, IEEE Computer Society (Kyoto, Japan, December 2013).

  15. Ryota Shimokura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Tadashi Nishimura, Toshie Matsui (2013),
    "Cartilage conduction sound amplified by changing contact pressure of transducer,"
    Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Temporal Design, (Taipei, Taiwan, November 2013).

  16. Toshie Matsui and Minoru Tsuzaki (2013),
    "Interaction between resonant scaling and fundamental frequency on codings in auditory system,"
    Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, Article ID: 050107 (ICA2013, Montreal, Canada). [DOI] [Poster JPG 2.9MB] [Sound sample m4a (Simulation & Discussion (c))]

  17. Toshie Matsui, Ryota Shimokura, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, and Seiji Nakagawa (2013),
    "Speech intelligibility of hearing impaired participants in long-term training of bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid,"
    Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, Article ID: 050088 (ICA2013, Montreal, Canada, June 2013). [DOI] [Poster JPG 3MB]

  18. Minoru Tsuzaki, Chihiro Takeshima, Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino (2013),
    "Perceptual outcomes by rapid alternation of the resonant scaling and its relation to the fundamental frequenc,"
    Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, Article ID: 050199 (ICA2013, Montreal, Canada, June 2013). INVITED TALK

  19. Ryota Shimokura, Sakie Akasaka, Hiroshi Hosoi, Toshie Matsui (2013),
    "Relationship between Intelligibility and autocorrelation factors of Japanese monosyllables,"
    Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, Article ID: 060035 (ICA2013, Montreal, Canada, June 2013).

  20. Minoru Tsuzaki, Chihiro Takeshima, Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino (2013),
    "Matching of the Dominant Pitch of Scale Alternating Wavelet Sequences Against Complex Tones with Odd Harmonics Attenuation: Decision Statistics on the Stabilized Auditory Images,"
    Abstract Book of 36th Annual MidWinter Meeting of The Association for Research in Otolaryngology, pp. 239-240 (Baltimore, USA, February 2013).

  21. Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Osamu Saito, Ryosuke Miyamae, Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Takashi Iwakura (2013).
    "Development of Cartilage Conduction Hearing Aid (2) -Benefits in Patients with Continuous Otorrhea or Acquired Aural Atresia,"
    Abstract Book of 36th Annual MidWinter Meeting of The Association for Research in Otolaryngology, p. 220 (Baltimore, USA, February 2013).

  22. Ryota Shimokura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Toshie Matsui, Tadashi Nishimura (2013).
    "Development of Cartilage Conduction Hearing Aid (3) - Monosyllable Intelligibility in the Noisy Condition-,"
    Abstract Book of 36th Annual MidWinter Meeting of The Association for Research in Otolaryngology, p. 218 (Baltimore, USA, February 2013).

  23. Eriko Aiba, Koji Kazai, Takayuki Shimotomai, Toshie Matsui, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Nagata Noriko (2012).
    "Difference in synchrony judgment accuracy of two pulses depending on musical experiences and its relation to the cochlear delays,"
    Proceedings of ICMPC-ESCOM 2012 Joint Conference, pp. 31-32 (Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2012).

  24. Minoru Tsuzaki, Chihiro Takeshima, Toshie Matsui (2012).
    "Pitch perception for sequences of impulse responses whose scaling alternates at every cycle,"
    Basic Aspects of Hearing, pp. 147-156 (Proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Hearing, St. John's College, Cambridge, July 2012), Springer, 2013. [URL]

  25. Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi (2012),
    "Advantages of cartilage sound conduction in hearing aids,"
    Proceedings of the 2012 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, pp. 134-141 (Kobe, Japan, July 2012).

  26. Toshie Matsui, Ryota Shimokura, Osamu Saito, Fumi Fukuda, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi, Seiji Nakagawa (2012),
    "Intelligibility of Bone-conducted Ultrasonic Speech Sounds: A Case Study of Two Profoundly Hearing-impaired Rehabilitants,"
    Abstract Book of The 14th Japan-Korea Joint Meeting of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, p. 149 (Nara, Japan, April 2012).

  27. Ryota Shimokura, Toshie Matsui, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi (2012),
    "Development of cartilage conduction hearing aid -Evaluation of bone conduction pathway-,"
    Abstract Book of The 14th Japan-Korea Joint Meeting of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, p. 112 (Nara, Japan, April 2012).

  28. Minoru Tsuzaki, Toshie Matsui, Chihiro Takeshima and Toshio Irino (2011),
    "Pitch perception for sequences of pulses alternating different resonance scales,"
    J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 129, No. 4, Pt. 2, April 2011, p. 2592 (Seattle, Washington, USA, May 2011).

  29. Toshie Matsui, Koji Kazai, Haruhiro Katayose and Minoru Tsuzaki (2009),
    "Activation of musicians' brains during phrase segmentation of actual music: An fMRI study,"
    Proceedings of Human Brain Mapping (California, USA, June 2009).

  30. Toshie Matsui, Koji Kazai, Minoru Tsuzaki and Haruhiro Katayose (2008),
    "Investigation of the musician's brain activation during different music listening modes: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy study,"
    Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition: Abstract Book, pp. 67-68 (Sapporo, Japan, August 2008).

  31. Mitsuyo Hashida, Toshie Matsui, and Haruhiro Katayose (2008),
    "A New Music Database Describing Deviation Information of Performance Expressions, "
    International Conference of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2008), pp. 489-494 (Philadelphia, PA USA, September 2008).

  32. Toshie Matsui, Chihiro Takeshima and Minoru Tsuzaki (2006),
    "Interaction between the tonotopic and periodic information in recognition of "melodic" contours,"
    J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 120, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3124 (Proceedings of 4th Joint Meeting of ASA/ASJ, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, November 2006).

  33. Toshie Matsui and Minoru Tsuzaki (2006),
    "Functional difference between the tonotopic and periodic cues in discrimination of melodic pitch intervals under a diatonic context,"
    Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 1681-1685 (Bologne, Italy, August 2006).
Back to Top