Shinichi Furuya

Musicians are bearers of the culture. They let us listen to music, which is intangible cultural heritage that has been created over centuries worldwide. To produce various musical expression based on creativity and intelligence requires sophisticated sensory, motor, and cognitive skills, which are acquired through years of extensive training from childhood. However, in the course of training, a number of musicians have suffered from failures of creating desired musical expression through performance and/or from physical and mental troubles. A goal of “Musical Dynaformics” is to realize sustainable development of culture, through research and development for enriching expertise and wellness, such as sophisticating musical skills, training, and education, and preventing overuse injuries and choking under pressure. Through making educational platform that can keep being updated based on the achievement of research and development, we dream a future in which both musicians and audience can keep being moved by music.
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Selected Publications
Furuya, Shinichi and Klaus, Matthias and Nitsche, Michael A and Paulus, Walter and Altenm{\
Ceiling effects prevent further improvement of transcranial stimulation in skilled musiciansJ. Neurosci. | pages 13834--13839
Hideki Koike and Jun Rekimoto and Junichi Ushiba and Shinichi Furuya and Asa Ito
Human Augmentation for Skill Acquisition and Skill TransferExtended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | 2021
Shinichi Furuya
Individual differences in sensorimotor skills among musiciansCurrent Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | Vol.20, pages 61-66, 2018
Furuya, Shinichi and Uehara, Kazumasa and Sakamoto, Takashi and Hanakawa, Takashi
Aberrant cortical excitability reflects the loss of handdexterity in musician’s dystoniaJ. Physiol. | pages 2397--2411
Shinichi Furuya and Takanori Oku and Fumio Miyazaki and Hiroshi Kinoshita
Secrets of virtuoso: Neuromuscular attributes of motor virtuosity in expert musiciansScientific Reports | Vol.5, oct, 2015
Shinichi Furuya and Eckart O. Altenmüller
Acquisition and reacquisition of motor coordination in musiciansAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Vol.1337, pages 118--124, mar, 2015
News & Articles
Robustness and adaptability of sensorimotor skills in expert piano performance
An article about dystonia, including an interview with researcher Furuya, was published.