As humans, we rely on sensory signals captured by our eyes and other sensory organs to perceive, understand, and make decisions about the external world, as well as to communicate with those around us. We study the information processing in the human brain that supports these cognitive abilities through psychophysical experiments, functional brain recordings, and computer simulations. Our labpratory also gains insigjhts into human cognitive processing by comparing it to artificial neural networks. Additionally, we leverage our basic scientific knowledge about human cognitive processing to develop innovative information communication technologies.
What's New
Lab Members Updated. (2025/04/01)
Jin Hirano, Yuma Tanaka, Yuki Oya, and Kazuki Imamura have acquired a master degree. (2025/03)
Zitang Sun and Prof. Nishida's work on neural network modeling of muiti-order human motion processing has been accepted in Nature Machine Intelligence. (Demonstration)
Dr. Okubo, Dr. Miyoshi, and Prof. Nishida's work on detection theory modeling of peripheral color illusion has been posted on PsyArXiv.
Dr. Miyoshi's work on ROC analysis with response time data has been posted on PsyArXiv.
Yen-Ju Chen, Zitang Sun, and Prof. Nishida's work on spatial grouping based on stimulus temporal correlations has been posted on bioRXiv.
M. van Zuijlen, Yung-Hao Yang, JJ van Assen (TU Delft), and Prof. Nishida's work showing the constancy of deformation perception across different object materials has been accepted in Journal of Vision.
Dr. Kuroki (NTT), Takumi Hamasaki (UEC), Prof. Kajimoto (UEC), and Prof. Nishida's work showing the inefficiency of the tactile system in recognizing spatial patterns has been publised in iScience. (2025/4/2)
Yung-Hao Yang, Zitang Sun, Taiki Fukiage (NTT), and Prof. Nishida's database work of human motion perception vectors has been accepted for CVPR2025.
Dr. Kuroki (NTT) and Prof. Nishida's work showing the inefficiency of the tactile system in selective feature integration has been published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics.
Prof. Nishida delivered a lecture at a symposium held by the Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy. (2025/03/12)
Prof. Nishida provided a lecture at SSI2024. (2024/11/14)
Prof. Nishida has been awarded a medal with purple ribbon. (2024/11/3)
Zitung Sun has acquired a doctoral degree. (2024/09)
A master course student Jin Hirano received a best presentation award from Vision Society of Japan. (2024/09/16)
Yen-ju Chen and Prof. Nishida have reported a spatial segregation effect based on stimulus temporal asynchrony in Journal of Vision. (2024/05/01)
Dr. Miyoshi and Prof. Nishida have proposed a novel signal-detection theory framework in Psychologicasl Methods. (2024/04/05)
Dr. Miyoshi's paper on flexible metacognitive adjustments has been published in Consciousness and Cognition. (2024/01/19)
Allal-Sumoto and Prof. Mizuhara's EEG work on second language acquisition has been published in Neuroscience Research. (2024/01/18)
Dr. Miyoshi's review article on metacognition has been published in Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. (2024/01/06)
Yung-Hao, Sun and Prof. Nishida's paper on the motion perception for natural scene images has been published in iScience. (2023/12/15)
Zitung Sun and Prof. Nishida's paper on the unsupervised learning of optical flow information has been published in Complex & Intelligent Systems. (2023/10/31)
Zitung Sun, Yen-Ju Chen, Yung-hao Yang, and Prof. Nishida's paper on the self-attention network for motion perception has been presented for NeurIPS2023.
Pei-Yin Chen and Prof. Nishida's paper on the coarse-to-fine interaction for motion perception has been published in Journal of Vision. (2023/10/04)
Prof. Nishida has been awarded International Award from Japanese Psychological Association. (2023/09/14)
Zitung Sun has made a presentation in CCN2023. (2023/09)
Dr. Miyoshi's paper on the DNN modeling of metacognitive phenomena has been published in Nature Communications. (2023/7/06)
Zitun Sun, Yen-Ju Chen, and Dongsheng Yang have made presentations in VSS2023. (2023/05)
Takara Kenza Allal-Sumoto (D student) has published a paper regarding the second language comprehension in Frontiers in Psychology. (2023/4/14)
Sou Yoshihara (M graduate) has published a CNN study regarding the effect of blurred experience on visual recognition in Frontiers in Psychology. (2023/2/15)
