Ana Tajadura-Jiménez - Department of Psychology

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Ana Tajadura-Jiménez
Lab of Action and Body, Psychology Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Phone: +44 1784 276323 y Fax: + 44 1784 434347 y E-Mail: [email protected]
Scientific Expertise: Embodied Psychoacoustics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Sciences, Virtual
Reality
Current Research Interests: Self-perception, emotion and human multisensory perception in everyday,
ecological contexts. Auditory-induced emotion. Embodiment. Presence.
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Psychoacoustics
2004-2008
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Subject of thesis: “Embodied
psychoacoustics: Spatial and multisensory determinants of auditory-induced emotion”.
Tech. Licentiate
2007
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Subject of thesis: “Embodied
cognition and emotion in multisensory media”.
M.Sc. in Digital Communication Systems and Technology
2001-2003
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering
1997-2002
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (Distinction)
Awards, Grants
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2011
Short-term postdoctoral fellowship for North American and European Researchers, Project “The sounds
around my body: Exploring the link between auditory perception and body representation”
The Royal Society
2011
International Travel Grants - 2010/R4 Travel for Collaboration
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) 2011
Travel grant
Volkswagen Foundation
2011
European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities, Project Grant: “The (Un)bound
Body project: Exploring the constraints of embodiment and the limits of body representation”
Bial Foundation
2010
Project Grant: “The different faces of one's self: Neural correlates of changes in self-identity”
Experimental Psychology Society
2010
Grindley Travel Grant
2010
Travel grant for the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities.
Publication in peer-reviewed journals*
*Publications are listed in reversed chronological order

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Toshima, I., Kimura, T., Tsakiris, M., Kitagawa, N. (in press). Action
sounds recalibrate perceived tactile distance. Current Biology.

Asutay, E., Västfjäll, D., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Genell, A., Bergman, P., Kleiner, M. (in press).
Emoacoustics: a study of the physical and psychological dimensions of emotional sound design.
Journal of Audio Engineering Society.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Pantelidou, G., Rebacz, P., Västfjäll, D., Tsakiris, M. (2011). I-space: Personal
space decreases when listening to positive music through headphones. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26083.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026083.

Tsakiris, M., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Costantini, M. (2011). Just a heartbeat away from one's body:
Interoceptive sensitivity predicts malleability of body-representations. Proceedings of the Royal
Society
B:
Biological
Sciences.
Published
online
before
print January
5,
2011,doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2547.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., Hsin-Ni, H. (2010). Whole-Body Vibration Influences
on Front-Back Sound Localization. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D,
Journal of Automobile Engineering, 224(D10), 1311-1320.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Larsson, P., Väljamäe, A., Västfjäll, D., Kleiner, M. (2010). When Room Size
Matters: Acoustic Influences on Emotional Responses to Sounds. Emotion, 10(3), 416–422.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Asutay, E., Västfjäll, D. (2010). Embodied Auditory Perception: The
Emotional Impact of Approaching and Receding Sound Sources. Emotion, 10 (2), 216–229.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Kitagawa, N., Väljamäe, A., Zampini, M., Spence, C. (2009) Auditory-tactile
multisensory interactions are spatially modulated by stimulated body surface and acoustic spectra.
Neuropsychologia, 47(1), 195–203.

Väljamäe, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Larsson, P., Västfjäll, D., Kleiner, M. (2008). Handheld experiences:
Using audio to enhance the illusion of self-motion. IEEE MultiMedia. 15(4), 68 – 75.

Väljamäe, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Larsson,P., Västfjäll, D., Kleiner, M. (2008) Binaural boneconducted sound in virtual environments: Evaluation of a portable, multimodal motion simulator
prototype. Acoustical Sci. & Tech., 29,149-155.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe A., and Västfjäll D. (2008) Self-representation in mediated
environments: the experience of emotions modulated by auditory-vibrotactile heartbeat.
CyberPsychology and Behavior, 11(1), 33-38.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Grehl, S, Tsakiris, M. The self in the mirror: Probing self-representations with
multisensory stimulation (under review)

Bergman, P., Västfjäll, D., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Asutay, E. Auditory-induced Emotion Mediates
Perceptual Categorization of Everyday Sounds (under review).
Book Chapters

Larsson, P., Väljamäe, A., Västfjäll, D., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Kleiner, M. (2010). Auditory-induced
presence in mixed reality environments and related technology. In Dubois, E., Nigay,L., Gray.P. (eds)
The engineering of Mixed Reality Systems. Springer.

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Västfjäll, D (2008). Auditory-Induced Emotion: A neglected channel for
Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. In: Peter C., Beale R. (eds.): Affect and Emotion in
Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, Heidelberg.

Väljamäe, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A. (2007). Perceptual Optimization of Audio-Visual Media: Moved by
Sound" in Anderson, B. and Anderson, J. (ed.) Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Conference papers/talks

“Seeing touch and feeling touch: Interpersonal multisensory stimulation and interoceptive awareness
modulate self-other boundaries”. UK Synaesthesia Association (UKSA) annual conference, Oxford, UK,
March 26th – 27th, 2011.

“Exploring link between hearing and body representation”. Japanese Multisensory Research Meeting,
Jan 18th 2012, The University of Tokyo.

“The other in me: Interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the
self”. IMRF 2011 – International Multisensory Research Forum, Fukuoka, Japan, October 17-20, 2011.

“The other in me: Interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the
self”. ASSC15 - Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan, June 9-12, 2011.

“Embodied Multisensory Emotion: The role of one’s body in emotional responses to multisensory
events” (Symposium organized). International Multisensory Research Forum, IMRF10, Liverpool, UK,
June, 2010.

“Change me, change the world: Self-image influences the perception of the environment”.
European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities, Volkswagen Foundation,
Tutzing, Germany, June, 2010.

“Merging with the crowd: Personal space decreases when listening to positive music through
headphones”. Experimental Psychology Society Workshop on Body Representation, 29th-30th March
2010. Goldsmiths, University of London.

“Emoacoustics: Using auditory-induced emotion to improve sound design”. MINET (Measuring the
Impossible NETwork) Conference: Measurement, sensation and cognition. UK

“I'll be your mirror: Visuo-tactile stimulation modulates the representation of one's own face”, Seminar
at Royal Holloway, University of London, October, 2009.

“When size matters: Auditory room size perception influences the emotional response to sound
events”. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) 2009 Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

"Affective multimodal displays: Acoustic spectra modulates perception of auditory-tactile signals".
International Conference of Auditory Display, ICAD08, Paris, 2008.

"Emotional bias for the perception of rising tones". Paper with oral presentation for Acoustics08, Paris,
2008.

“Whole-body vibration influences sound localization in the median plane”. 10th Workshop on
Presence, Barcelona, Spain.

“Embodied cognition and emotion in multisensory media”. The Neuroscience Seminars, Soria, Spain,

“Auditory-induced emotion: A neglected channel for communication in HCI”. Workshop on the role
of emotion in human-computer interaction, Queen Mary, University of London.

“Multi-sensory perception: the case of audio-tactile interaction”, Seminar at the Division of Applied
Acoustics, CTH, 2005.
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Research projects/collaborations
2011-2013
European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities: “The (Un)bound Body project:
Exploring the constraints of embodiment and the limits of body representation”
Bial Foundation
2011-2012
“The different faces of one's self: Neural correlates of changes in self-identity”
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2011
“The sounds around my body: Exploring the link between auditory perception and body representation”
Economic & Society Research Council (ESRC)
2009-2012
“Looking for myself: Interactions between multisensory integration and recognition of one’s own face”
(First Grant to Dr Manos Tsakiris)
Swedish Research Council (VR)
"Perceptual Optimization of Auditory-Induced
representation in Virtual Environments"
2008
Motion
EU integrated project
Simulation,
Spatial
Presence,
and
Self-
2006-2008
PRESENCCIA “Presence: Research Encompassing Sensory Enhancement, Neuroscience, CerebralComputer Interfaces and Applications”
Swedish Research Council (VR)
2004-2007
“Perceptual optimization of auditory-induced motion simulation in virtual environments"
EU integrated project
2004-2005
POEMS “Perceptually Oriented Ego-Motion Simulation”
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
June-August 2011
Visiting Researcher (host: Dr Norimichi Kitagawa)
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
March-May 2007
Visiting Researcher (host: Dr Norimichi Kitagawa)
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
April-October 2006
Visiting Researcher at Grup de Recerca Neurociència Cognitiva (host: Dr Salvador Soto-Faraco)
Expertise

Sound design and technologies

Knowledge of theories on emotion, cognition, multi-sensory perception and cross-modal integration

Use of non-invasive techniques for biological observation: bioinstrumentation and biomedical sensors;
eye-tracking; functional magnetic resonance imaging

Experience in conducting human psychophysical and psychophysiological experimental research:
experimental design, setup, data acquisition, analysis and statistical methods

Programming skills (including stimulus delivery and experimental control software)

Video camera skills (recording/editing)

Experience in working within the general framework of a project (e.g., EU project)
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Reviewer for scientific journals (e.g., Neurophysiologia, Emotion, PLoS ONE, Cyberpsychol & Behavior,
etc.)

Assistant supervisor of several undergraduate and master thesis

Organization of symposia, courses, seminars, laboratories, public events (e.g. experimental setup for 3
months for the “Who am I?” Gallery of the Science Museum, London)
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