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Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University

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Professor KAWACHI Yousuke

Affiliations :

  • Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
  • Division of Department of Integrated Human Sciences
  • Psychology and Linguistics Course
  • Department of Psychology

Why does the world appear so vivid and rich?

We tend to feel that the constantly changing world before our eyes is always clear and vivid. We may even take this for granted.

But when we examine perception and cognition experimentally, we find that these functions are subject to many severe limitations. The more we uncover these limitations, the greater the gap seems to become between our limited perceptual and cognitive functions and the rich subjective experience we have in everyday life. Simply combining what is currently known about perceptual and cognitive functions does not seem sufficient to explain this richness of experience.

If so, there must be some ingenious mechanism by which rich subjective experience emerges from perceptual and cognitive functions that are themselves highly limited. With this idea in mind, I pursue research aimed at bridging the gap between these limited functions and our rich subjective experience.

  • Research, History
  • Books, papers, etc.
  • Courses
    Introduction to Psychology, Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology, Psychological Experiments
    Personal History
    Received a B.A. from the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, and completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University. Served as a specially appointed lecturer at the Kansei Fukushi Research Institute, Tohoku Fukushi University, and as an associate professor in the Department of Welfare Psychology, Faculty of Comprehensive Welfare, Tohoku Fukushi University, before joining the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University as an associate professor. Currently a professor at the same graduate school.
    Degree
    Ph.D. (Literature)
    Field
    Experimental Psychology; Psychophysics; Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
    Research Subject
    Research on visual information processing, inter- and intrasensory integration, kansei information processing, structural and functional brain analysis
    Keywords
    inter- and intrasensory integration; scene perception; kansei information processing; neuroimaging
    Affiliation
    The Japanese Psychological Association; The Japanese Psychonomic Society; Vision Society of Japan; The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology; Tohoku Psychological Association; Vision Science Society
    Database of Researchers Information
    https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/61950b5d74bc05c58850c3a7080a0f11.html
  • Books
    基礎心理学実験法ハンドブック（朝倉書店，2018年，分担執筆）
    生理心理学と精神生理学　第Ⅰ巻（北大路書房，2017年，分担執筆）
    Academic Papers
    Kawachi, Y. and Gyoba, J. (2006). A new response-time measure of object persistence in the tunnel effect. Acta Psychologica, 123(1-2), 73-90.
    Kawachi, Y., Kawabe, T., & Gyoba, J. (2011). Stream/bounce event perception reveals a temporal limit of motion correspondence based on surface feature across space and time. i-Perception, 2(5), 428-439.
    Kawachi, Y., Kawabata, H. Kitamura, S. M., Shibata, M., Imaizumi, O., & Gyoba, J. (2011). Topographic distribution of brain activities corresponding to psychological structures underlying affective meanings: An fMRI study. Japanese Psychological Research, 53(4), 361-371.
    Kawachi, Y., Matsue, Y., Shibata, M., Imaizumi, O., & Gyoba, J. (2013). Auditory startle reflex inhibited by preceding self-action. Psychophysiology, 51(1), 97-102.
    Kawachi, Y., Grove, P.M., & Sakurai, K. (2014). A single auditory tone alters the perception of multiple visual events. Journal of vision, 14(8):16, (1–13).
    Kawachi, Y. (2016). Visual Mislocalization of Moving Objects in an Audiovisual Event. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0154147.
    Sung, Y.W., Kawachi, Y., Choi, U.S., Kang, D., Abe, C., Otomo, Y., & Ogawa, S. (2018). A Set of Functional Brain Networks for the Comprehensive Evaluation of Human Characteristics. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12:149.
    Awards
    2006 Best Presentation Award, the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society
    2007 Best Presentation Award, the 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society
    2008 Human Communication Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
    2008 Best Presentation Award, the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society
    2009 Best Presentation Award, the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society
    2010 Best Presentation Award, the 29th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society

Research

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