A paper by Michael Makoto Martinsen has been published.

A new paper by Michael Makoto Martinsen and Kairi Yoshino has been published in the Journal of Vision. Lab-members Dr. Yuya Kinzuka, Dr. Fumiaki Sato, Asst. Prof. Hideki Tamura, Prof. Tetsuto Minami, and Prof. Shigeki Nakauchi also contributed to this paper. The publication, titled “Facial ambiguity and perception: How face-likeness affects breaking time in continuous flash suppression”, explores the mechanisms of facial recognition and how ambiguous face-like stimuli are processed under unconscious conditions using continuous flash suppression (CFS).

The key finding was that binary faces (similar to Mooney Faces), especially those with higher face-likeness, resulted in shorter breaking time, even when presented unconsciously. This suggests that even minimal facial cues can significantly influence how quickly ambiguous stimuli are brought to awareness.

Martinsen, M. M., Yoshino, K., Kinzuka, Y., Sato, F., Tamura, H., Minami, T., & Nakauchi, S. (2024). Facial ambiguity and perception: How face-likeness affects breaking time in continuous flash suppression. Journal of Vision, 24(9):18, 1–14,
https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.9.18

Conference Information: September

The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the Conference on 9/6 – 8.

日本心理学会 第88回大会
https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/jpa2024

Place:熊本城ホール
Date:2024/9/6 – 8

Title:同期タッピングにおけるパートナー間の同期とジョイントラッシングの発生に及ぼす協同作業の効果
Presenter:岩田空,日根恭子,中内茂樹
Date:9/6
Format:ポスター

Title:逐次数推定と音楽知覚能力の関連
Presenter:江幡壮馬,日根恭子,南哲人,中内茂樹
Date:9/6
Format:ポスター

Title:群衆の表情知覚におけるばらつき残効
Presenter:久高萌永,田村秀希,南哲人,中内茂樹,上田祥代
Date:9/6
Format:ポスター

Title:無意識下における抽象画の方位判断
Presenter:坂口春輝,マーティンセンマイケル誠,日根恭子,中内茂樹
Date:9/8
Format:ポスター

Title:動的刺激の見え方の変化が時間知覚に与える影響
Presenter:野尻澪,田村秀希,中内茂樹,南哲人
Date:9/8
Format:ポスター

Title:中心・周辺情報の想起における視点不一致効果の検討
Presenter:藤川周磨,林田龍之介,日根恭子,南哲人,中内茂樹
Date:9/8
Format:ポスター


The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the Conference on 9/14 – 16.

日本視覚学会 2024夏季大会
https://sites.google.com/view/vsj2024jwumejiro/

Place:日本女子大 目白キャンパス,日本
Date:2024/9/14 – 16

Title:連続フラッシュ抑制下でもグレア錯視の明るさ感は増強する
Presenter:仙田 大空,マーティンセン マイケル誠,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:彩色が持続時間の判断に与える影響
Presenter:守谷 光生,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:ガラス材質と金属材質の識別におけるfocus distanceの役割
Presenter:佐藤 優太,田村 秀希,南 哲人,中内 茂樹
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:知覚時間の上下視野異方性と偏心度依存性
Presenter:高木 晃太,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:見えないけれど感じる:連続フラッシュ抑制を用いたムーニー顔の潜在的視覚処理の検討
Presenter:マーティンセン マイケル誠,仙田 大空,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:情動喚起が物体に対する光沢感知覚と瞳孔反応に与える影響
Presenter:野村 風雅,田村 秀希,南 哲人,中内 茂樹
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:表情と顔色の結びつきは注意を引くのか:事象関連電位を用いた検討
Presenter:長谷川 友哉,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/14
Format:Poster

Title:手鏡で自分の後ろの顔を見る:顔の空間位置による表情認知増強
Presenter:田村 秀希,小林 優吾,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/15
Format:Poster

Title:肌の潤い・乾燥に寄与する視覚的手がかり
Presenter:山田 柚夏,長谷川 友哉,田村 秀希,兼松 圭,石黒 陽平,南 哲人,中内 茂樹
Date:9/15
Format:Poster

Title:有効視野内では下側の方が色づいて見えやすい
Presenter:大川 智也,マーティンセン マイケル誠,田村 秀希,南 哲人,中内 茂樹,Sérgio M.C. Nascimento
Date:9/15
Format:Poster

Title:他者との空間関係が怒り顔認知へ与える影響
Presenter:安嶋 優,田村 秀希,南 哲人,中内 茂樹
Date:9/15
Format:Poster

Title:グレア錯視の発達的特性:頭部運動やまばたきに頑健な瞳孔計測パラダイム
Presenter:中山 晏覽,吴 詩源,白井 述,伊村 知子,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/15
Format:Poster

Title:同一刺激への情動的・非情動的予期と定常状態視覚誘発電位
Presenter:福永 倫大,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/15
Format:Poster


The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the Conference on 9/24 – 26.

第8回深奥質感会議
https://shitsukan.jp/deep/

Place:京都府京都市
Date:2024/09/24 – 26

Title:疑似心拍が音楽選好テンポに与える影響
Presenter:土谷慧太,若菜慶友,日根恭子,南哲人,中内茂樹
Date:9/25, 9/26
Format:Poster

Title:ネガティブ刺激による光沢感と瞳孔反応の変化
Presenter:野村風雅,田村秀希,南哲人,中内茂樹
Date:9/25, 9/26
Format:Poster

Title:ガラス・金属材質の識別とfocus distanceの関係
Presenter:佐藤 優太,田村 秀希,南 哲人,中内 茂樹
Date:9/25, 9/26
Format:Poster

Title:連続フラッシュ抑制下におけるグレア錯視の効果
Presenter:仙田 大空,マーティンセン マイケル誠,田村 秀希,中内 茂樹,南 哲人
Date:9/25, 9/26
Format:Poster

Conference Information: August

The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the international Conference on 8/25 – 29.

46th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2024)
https://ecvp2024.abdn.ac.uk/

Place:Aberdeen, Scotland
Date:2024/8/25 – 29

Title:Unseen yet recognized: unconscious processing of upright and inverted Mooney faces
Presenter:Michael Makoto Martinsen, Hirotaka Senda, Hideki Tamura, Tetsuto Minami, Shigeki Nakauchi
Date:Monday, Aug 26, 2024,9:00 AM – 10:30 AM,Hall B
Format:Poster

Title:Facial expression recognition with regard to faces behind observers
Presenter:Hideki Tamura, Yugo Kobayashi, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami
Date:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024,3:00 PM – 4:30 PM,Hall B
Format:Poster

Title:Perception of angry facial expressions is enhanced by somatosensory cues for avoidance
Presenter:Yugo Kobayashi, Hideki Tamura, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami
Date:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024,3:00 PM – 4:30 PM,Hall B
Format:Poster


The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the Conference on 8/28 – 29.

The 2024 Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronic, and Information-Related Societies of Tokai Section (令和6年度 電気・電子・情報関係学会 東海支部連合大会)
https://www.tokai-rengo.jp/

Place:Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
Date:2024/8/28 – 29

Title:The effect of facial color on implicit facial expressions (顔色が潜在的な表情に与える影響)
Presenter:Hoang Nam Nguyen, Hideki Tamura, Tetsuto Minami, Shigeki Nakauchi
Date:August 29, 2024
Format:Oral presentation in Japanese

Conference Information: July

The following members of our laboratory will give presentations at the international symposium on 7/21 – 26.

The 16th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV2024)
https://www.apcv2024.com/

Place:Singapore
Date:2024/7/10 – 12

Title:Forward and backward steps in virtual reality affect facial expression recognition
Presenter:Hideki Tamura


The following members of our laboratory will give presentations at the international Conference on 7/21 – 26.

33rd International Congress of Psychology
https://icp2024.com/

Place:Prague, Czech Republic
Date:2024/7/21 – 26

Title:Influence of Viewpoint During Recall on False Memory Differs Depending on Visual Imagery Ability
Presenter:Ryunosuke Hayashida, Kyoko Hine, Shigeki Nakauchi
Date:2024/7/23
Format:Poster

Title:The Tempo of Prior Finger Tapping Affects Preferred Music Tempo via Heart Rate
Presenter:Keita Tsuchiya, Yoshitomo Wakana, Kyoko Hine, Shigeki Nakauchi
Date:2024/7/24
Format:Poster

Our lab member was awarded by the IEICE Tokai Section

Nguyen Hoang Nam received the Student Research Encouragement Award at the IEICE Tokai Section Awards Ceremony.


A paper by Hasegawa has been published.

A paper by Yuya Hasegawa, a member of our laboratory, Hideki Tamura, an assistant professor of our laboratory, and Shigeki Nakauchi and Tetsuto Minami, professors of our laboratory, has been published.

Yuya Hasegawa, Hideki Tamura, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami; Facial expressions affect the memory of facial colors. Journal of Vision 2024;24(5):14. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.5.14.

Symposium Information: June

The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at the international symposium held at Chiba Univ. on 6/18 – 19.

Symposium on color vision and facial skin color

Dates:June 18 and 19, 2024 (starting in the afternoon of the 18th and ending in the morning of the 19th)
Place:Chiba University, Conference Room on the 2nd floor, Engineering Research Building 2

Presenter:Hideki Tamura (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Title:Visual cues for moisture perception of facial skin

Presenter:Hoang Nam Nguyen, Hideki Tamura, Tetsuto Minami, Shigeki Nakauchi (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Title:The effect of facial color on implicit facial expressions

Presenter:Yuya Hasegawa, Hideki Tamura, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Title:Facial expressions affect the memory of facial colors

Conference Information: April

The following members of our laboratory gave presentations at SPIE Photonics Europe 2024.

SPIE Photonics Europe 2024
https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/photonics-europe#_=_

Place:Strasbourg, France
Date:7 – 11 April 2024
Format:Oral

Presenter:Kota Sadamoto, Shigeki Nakauchi
Title:Dynamic lighting using spread spectrum technique to eliminate ambient light effects for EEM measurements
Date:10 April 2024