Program

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics
Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University
Fukuoka, Japan
12–13 December 2015

Cosponsored by
the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics,
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University,
Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science (ReCAPS), Kyushu University,
Physiological Anthropology Research Center, Kyushu University,
the Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan,
and the Research Committee of Bioacoustics, the Acoustical Society of Japan
Supported by
Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd.

The Society for Bioacoustics

iContents
1Committee Members
1.1 The Organizing Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.2 The Programming Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Cosponsors

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Supporter

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Meeting Announcement
4.1 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2 Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3 Banquet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.4 Summary of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.5 Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Transportation and Travel Directions
5.1 From JR Hakata Station to Ohashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2 From Fukuoka Airport to Ohashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3 From Fukuoka Airport to JR Hakata Station or Tenjin by subway . . . . . . . .
5.4 From Tenjin to Ohashi by the Nishitetsu Omuta Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Accommodations

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Wireless Internet Connections

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Weather49

Map around and within the Campus

510 Schedule
10.1 Saturday, 12 December 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10.2 Sunday, 13 December 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

55611 Program
11.1 Saturday, 12 December 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11.2 Sunday, 13 December 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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111The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics will be held in Ohashi Campus,
Kyushu University (4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan) on Saturday and Sunday,
12–13 December 2015.

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Committee Members

1.1

The Organizing Committee

Chair

Kazuo UEDA

Accountant

Wen-Jie SONG

MemberChihiro HIRAMATSU

Secretariat

Yumiko WATANABE

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The Programming Committee

Chair

Ikuo MATSUO

MemberHiroshi RIQUIMAROUXMemberTakuma TAKANASHI

2Department of Human Science, Unit of Perceptual
Psychology/Research Center for Applied PerceptualScience, Kyushu University
Department of Sensory and Cognitive Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University
Department of Human Science, Unit of Physiological
Anthropology/Physiological Anthropology ResearchCenter, Kyushu University
The Society for Bioacoustics

Department of Information Science, Tohoku Gakuin
University
Shandong University-Virginia Tech International Laboratory, Shandong University; Department of Neuroscience, Brown University; National Institute of Sensory Organs, National Hospital Organization Tokyo
Medical Center
Department of Forest Entomology, Forestry and Forest
Products Research Institute (FFPRI)

Cosponsors
We express our gratitude for the valuable cooperation and assistance given by our cosponsors.
• Faculty of Design, Kyushu University• Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science (ReCAPS), Faculty of Design, Kyushu
University• Physiological Anthropology Research Center, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University• The Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan• The Research Committee of Bioacoustics, the Acoustical Society of Japan2

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Supporter
This conference is supported by Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd.

4Meeting Announcement

Dates and time: Saturday through Sunday, 12–13 December 2015. The ﬁrst session will begin
at 13:30 on 12 December 2015. The Meeting will be closed at 17:00 on 13 December 2015.
Venue: Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University (4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540,Japan).
Language: All presentations and discussions are delivered in English.
Presentations: Most of the contributed papers will be presented as posters. Oral presentations
are given by invited senior researchers and a couple of selected junior researchers.
Banquet: The banquet will be held on Saturday, 12 December 2015, from 19:00 to 21:00, at
Nagon, a Japanese restaurant which is close to Ohashi Campus.
Awards: Presentation awards are granted to excellent presentations. The award ceremony will
be held in the afternoon of Sunday, 13 December 2015.

4.1

Registration

Registration is required for all attendees. Registration will open on 12 December 2015 at 12:00
in or around room 511, on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the ﬁfth building. Attendees who have pre-registered
may pick up their badges and registration materials at the pre-registration desk.

4.2

Presentations

Lectures will be given in room 511, on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the ﬁfth building. Bring your own
computer and an appropriate connecting adaptor/cable if necessary, when you are allotted tolecture presentations. Only a video projector with VGA connections, a screen, and loudspeakers
will be prepared by the organizer.
Posters will be presented in the Experimental Hall on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the Multi-Purpose
Building (Multidimensional Hall). Poster boards and fastening materials will be provided. The
space for each poster is going to be 180 cm wide and 210 cm tall.

4.3

BanquetThe banquet will be held on Saturday, 12 December 2015, from 19:00 to 21:00, at Nagon(2-3-6 Mukaino, Minami-ku, Fukuoka; Tel. +81 92 541-5155), which is a Japanese restaurant
within a 10-minute walk from Ohashi Campus. The banquet fees are 6,000 yen for an employedperson and 3,000 yen for a student. Pre-registration is required for reserving a seat.

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Summary of Payment
Item
Member registration
Non-member registration
Banquet

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Employed person
8,000 yen
15,000 yen
6,000 yenStudent
4,000 yen
7,000 yen
3,000 yenAwardsPresentation awards are granted to excellent presentations. Both oral and poster presentations
are examined. You have to be a student member or a regular member who got a PhD degree
within three years in order to apply for Awards. You have to indicate that you would like toapply for Awards when you submit your presentation. The award ceremony will be held in theafternoon of Sunday, 13 December 2015.

5Transportation and Travel Directions

Ohashi is easily accessible from JR Hakata Station, Fukuoka Airport, and Nishitetsu Ohashi
Station. The closest one among those is Nishitetsu Ohashi Station, and it takes only 5 minutes
on foot from the Station to the Campus.

5.1

From JR Hakata Station to Ohashi

JR Hakata Station is one of the major railway stations in Kyushu, providing direct connections between Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Hiroshima, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Tokyo withShinkansen, naming just a few. By taxi, it takes about 10 minutes and costs about 1,500 yen
from JR Hakata Station to the Campus. It takes about 20-30 minutes and costs 250 yen fromJR Hakata Station to Nishitetsu Ohashi Station by Nishitetsu Bus. Alternatively, you may takeFukuoka City Subway and the Nishitetsu Omuta line via Tenjin (see 5.3 and5.4). It takes about
25 minutes and costs 410 yen.

5.2

From Fukuoka Airport to Ohashi

It takes about 20 minutes from Fukuoka Airport to Ohashi Campus by taxi, and it costs about
2,500 yen. Alternatively, you may take Fukuoka City Subway and the Nishitetsu Omuta Line.
It takes about 30 minutes and costs 470 yen (see 5.3 and 5.4). The subway terminal, Fukuoka
Airport, is connected to the Domestic Terminals of the Airport. The Domestic Terminals andthe International Terminal are connected with a free bus service, which takes about 10 minutes.

5.3

From Fukuoka Airport to JR Hakata Station or Tenjin by subway

The Domestic Terminals of Fukuoka Airport and JR Hakata Station are connected by Fukuoka
City Subway with just a 5- or 6-minute ride (260 yen). It takes about 12 minutes and costs
260 yen from Fukuoka Airport to Tenjin. It takes about 6 minutes and costs 200 yen from JRHakata Station to Tenjin.
When you go back from Tenjin to Hakata or Fukuoka Airport, you have to be careful tochoose a train going to the Airport, not to choose a train to Kaizuka, which leaves from the4same platform.

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From Tenjin to Ohashi by the Nishitetsu Omuta LineThe subway Tenjin station and the Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) terminal are connected withthe Tenjin underground shopping mall. It takes about 7 minutes on foot. You have to take anExpress (Kyuko) or a Local (Futsu) train from Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) to Ohashi. It takes
about 4 to 7 minutes and costs 210 yen. Please be careful that a Limited Express (Tokkyu)
train and a Straight (Chokko) train do not stop at Ohashi.

6Accommodations

You have a wide range of choices in selecting hotels in Tenjin, Yakuin, and Hakata areas:
Takakura Hotel Fukuoka (2-7-21 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0004, Japan; Tel. +81
92 731 1661), ANA Crowne Plaza Fukuoka (3-3-3 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 8120001, Japan; Tel. +81 92 471 7111), and Nishitetsu Inn Tenjin (4-7-1 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku,Fukuoka 810-0004, Japan; Tel. +81 92 713 5454), to name just a few.
The closest hotel to Ohashi Campus is Green Rich Hotel Nishitetsu Ohashi Ekimae (1-7-15Ohashi, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-0033, Japan; Tel. +81 92 552 4400), which is next to Ohashi
Station. The hotel staﬀ, however, speaks only Japanese.

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Wireless Internet Connections
Wireless Internet connections will be provided in the rooms of Ohashi Campus.

8Weather

The average precipitation over 30 years in Fukuoka in this season is about 2 mm, whichmeans that it rains not very often. The average temperature is around 9 degrees Celsius, withthe average maximum around 13 degrees, and the average minimum around 6 degrees. Probably
you need a coat and a sweater.

59Map around and within the Campus

The address of Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University is 4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka
815-8540, Japan.

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Straatncioenl(A) 511, 5th Building, (B) Multidimensional Hall, and (C) 3rd Building.
“Nagon” is the Japanese restaurant where the banquet is held.

10Schedule

All technical sessions and ceremonies except poster sessions take place in 511 on the ﬁrst ﬂoorof the ﬁfth building, Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University (A in the map). In the following, thealphabets in the parentheses denote the corresponding positions in the map.

10.1

Saturday, 12 December 2015

10:00-12:00
12:00
13:30-13:40
13:40-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-18:00
19:00-21:00

Executive Meeting in 601, the 3rd Building (C)Starting Registration around the Entrance of 511 (A)Opening Remarks (A)Oral Session 1 (A)Taking Group Pictures
Poster Session and Exhibitions in Multidimensional Hall (B)Banquet at Nagon

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10.2

Sunday, 13 December 201508:30-10:20
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:40
11:40-13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:10
15:10-15:20
15:20-16:20
16:20-16:50
16:50-17:00

11Poster Session and Exhibitions Continued in Multidimensional Hall (B)Break
Oral Session 2 (A)Lunch BreakGeneral Assembly and Award Ceremony (A)Board of Trustees in 521 on the 2nd Floor of the 5th Building (A)Oral Session 3 (A)BreakOral Session 4 (A)General Discussion (A)Closing Remarks (A)Program

All technical sessions and ceremonies except poster sessions take place in 511 on the ﬁrst ﬂoorof the ﬁfth building, Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University (A in the map).

11.1

Saturday, 12 December 2015

12:00 Starting registration around the entrance of 511 on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the ﬁfth building (Ain the map)
13:30-13:40 Opening remarks
Kazuo Ueda, Chair of the Organizing Commettee
Department of Human Science/Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science (ReCAPS),Kyushu University
13:40-14:40 Oral Session 1
Daniel Margoliash, Chair
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
13:40-14:00 Echolocation variations of insectivorous bats in Taiwan*Cheng-Han Chou and Hsi-Chi Cheng
14:00-14:20 Estimation of the lag time in the echolocation task of captive Commerson’s dolphins*Yayoi Yoshida, Tadamichi Morisaka, Mai Sakai, Ikuo Wakabayashi, Atsushi Seko,Masahiko Kasamatsu, Tomonari Akamatsu, and Shiro Kohshima
14:20-14:40 A cross-species analysis of primate vocalization*Tsuyoshi Sugino, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Yuko Yamashita, and Chihiro Hiramatsu
14:40-15:00 Taking Group Pictures7
15:00-18:00 Poster Session and Exhibitions
Poster Session and Exhibitions take place in Multidimensional Hall (B in the map).
P1 An inexpensive, open, scalable, versatile array recording system for bioacoustic applications in air*John Hallam, Tórur Andreassen, Søren Vissing Jørgensen, and Leon Bonde Larsen
P2 GPS tracking of large-scale navigation behavior by bats, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum nippon, combined with elaborate acoustic measurement using
microphone array for small-scale navigation*Emyo Fujioka, Koki Yoshimura, Kazuya Motoi, Dai Fukui, and Shizuko Hiryu
P3 Collision avoidance behavior of ﬂying echolocating bats within a group ofconspeciﬁcs*Yuya Yamamoto, Takara Miyamoto, Yasufumi Yamada, Kohta I. Kobayasi, andShizuko Hiryu
P4 Comparative echolocation system between CF-FM and FM bats
*Chun-Jen Hsiao, Ching-Lung Lin, Sheue-Er Wang, Philip H.-S. Jen, and Chung-HsinWu
P5 Chronic imidacloprid toxicity impairs bioacoustics system in echolocation
bats*Ching-Lung Lin, Sheue-Er Wang, Chun-Jen Hsiao, and Chung-Hsin Wu
P6 Vocal repertoire of the bush dog (Speothos venaticus) in captivity*Norihiro Kobayashi and Hideki Sugiura
P7 Mothers promote object exploration in infant degus
Tomoko Uekita
P8 Does tap dance contribute to producing louder sounds?: The relationshipbetween dance performance and sound amplitude in the courtship displayof a socially monogamous songbird*Nao Ota, Manfred Gahr, and Masayo Soma
P9 Skin pattern of squid stimulated by voice*Ruki Sho and Hiroshi Ito
P10 A behavioral investigation into monkey’s auditory short-term memory
using monkey vocalizations*He Chen and Yuji Naya
P11 Auditory streaming in Mongolian gerbil*Takashi Noguchi, Ayako Nakayama, Shizuko Hiryu, and Kohta I. Kobayasi
P12 Audiovisual integration in Mongolian gerbil*Ryo Sato, Yuta Tamai, Takashi Noguchi, Shizuko Hiryu, and Kohta I. Kobayasi
P13 Simulation of distortion-product optoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) usingﬁnite-element model of human cochlea*Takuji Koike, Hideyuki Mochizuki, and Sinyoung Lee8P14 Vibration analysis of standing trees using ﬁnite element models for insect
pest control*Yuncong Ma and Takuji Koike
P15 Intelligibility of locally time-reversed speech in four diﬀerent languages*Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Shunsuke Tamura, Akihiko Shichida, Wolfgang
Ellermeier, Florian Kattner, Stephan Daebler, and Ngar Nie Neo
P16 Characterization of a group of neurons with speciﬁc location in layer 2 ofmouse temporal cortex*Huan Luo, Kayoko Hasegawa, and Wen-Jie SongP17 Regulation of membrane KCNQ1/KCNE1 channel density by sphingomyelin
synthase 1*Meikui Wu, Makoto Takemoto, Makoto Taniguchi, Toru Takumi, Toshiro Okazaki,and Wen-Jie SongP18 A binaural compensatory mechanism in the auditory system: enhanced
cortical response to a sound to the ipsilateral ear in a stream of binauralsounds*Masataka Nishimura and Wen-Jie SongP19 Inﬂuence of visual and somatosensory stimuli on auditory responses inthe belt areas of the guinea-pig auditory cortex*Masaomi Mito, Shunji Sugimoto, and Junsei Horikawa
P20 Noise reduction from EEG using denoising autoencoder*Kota Nakazawa, Junsei Horikawa, Shunji Sugimoto, Tsuneo Nitta, and Kouichi
Katsurada
P21 EEG during Japanese vowel recall task
*Kohei Asahara, Shunji Sugimoto, Kouichi Katsurada, Tsuneo Nitta, and Junsei
Horikawa
P22 Syllable recognition from EEG based on higher-order subspace method*Takumaru Kanzaki, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Shunji Sugimoto, Kouichi Katsurada,Junsei Horikawa, and Tsuneo Nitta
P23 Study on baleen whale localization with a single ocean bottom seismometer oﬀ Sanriku in northeast Japan
Ryoichi Iwase
P24 Estimation of ﬁsh behaviour using stereo sound recording system
Masanori Ito, *Ikuo Matsuo, Tomohito Imaizumi, and Tomonari Akamatsu
E1 Bio Research Center Co., Ltd.
E2 Kame no Otonahi: A Japanese sacred composition featuring the acousticsof shochu fermentation
Social Art Lab, Kyushu University
19:00-21:00 Banquet
The Banquet is held in a Japanese restaurant, Nagon (tel. +81 92 541 5155).

911.2Sunday, 13 December 201508:30-10:20 Poster Session and Exhibitions Continued
In Multidimensional Hall (B in the map).
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:40 Oral Session 2In 511, on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the ﬁfth building (A in the map).
Hiroshi Riquimaroux, Chair
Shandong University-Virginia Tech International Laboratory, Shandong University, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, and National Institute of Sensory Organs,
National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center
10:40-11:10 A robotic reproduction of the biosonar dynamics in horseshoe bats
*Rolf Müller, Philip Caspers, and Yanqing Fu
11:10-11:40 Vocal learning, population coding, and intrinsic excitation*Daniel Margoliash and Arij Daou
11:40-13:00 Lunch BreakThe whole activities in the afternoon take place in 511 on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the ﬁfth building(A in the map), except the Board of Trustees, which is held in 521 on the second ﬂoor ofthe ﬁfth building.
13:00-14:00 Genaral Assembly and Award Ceremony
14:00-14:30 Board of Trustees
14:30-15:10 Oral Session 3
Wen-Jie Song, Chair
Department of Sensory and Cognitive Physiology, and Program for Leading Graduate
Schools HIGO Program, Kumamoto University
14:30-14:50 Distractor eﬀect of auditory rhythms on self-paced tapping inchimpanzees and humans*Yuko Hattori, Masaki Tomonaga, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa
14:50-15:10 Development of the vocal-auditory systems for social communication in a teleost ﬁsh*Raquel O. Vasconcelos, Paulo J. Fonseca, M. Clara P. Amorim, and Joseph A.
Sisneros
15:10-15:20 Break
15:20-16:20 Oral Session 4

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Kimitaka Kaga, Chair
National Institute of Sensory Organs, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center
15:20-15:50 Moth hearing and sound communication: A tribute to Annemarie
Surlykke*Takuma Takanashi and Ryo Nakano
15:50-16:20 Hearing assessment with otoacoustic emissions applied to experimental animal*Tatsuhiko Harada, Masato Fujioka, Sho Kanzaki, and Kaoru Ogawa
16:20-16:50 General Discussion
Junsei Horikawa, Chair
Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
Hiroshi Riquimaroux, President of the Society for Bioacoustics
Shandong University-Virginia Tech International Laboratory, Shandong University, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, and National Institute of Sensory Organs,
National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center

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List of Supporting Members

The Society for Bioacoustics is grateful for the ﬁnancial aid given by the supporting members
listed below.
Aco Co., Ltd.
Bio Research Center Co., Ltd.
Kuramoto Co., Ltd.

AquaSound Inc.
Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
MMT Inc.

Bio Medica Ltd.
Fusion Inc.
Otodesigners Co., Ltd.

The links to the English Websites of some of those companies are found at the Webpage of
the Society, <http://bacoust.org/?page_id=27&lang=en>. The Society invites further applications for supporting membership. The applications should be sent to the Secretariat of theSociety through the Webpage <http://bacoust.org/?page_id=13&lang=en>. The articles of
the Society are downloadable at <http://bacoust.org/?page_id=77&lang=en>.

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