| e-mail: | shinri(at)l.u-tokyo.ac.jp *Replace (at) with @. |
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| Tel: | 03-5841-3861 |
The Department of Psychology focuses on education and research in basic psychological sciences. We are engaged in experimental studies examining basic psychological processes, such as perception, attention, learning, language, action planning, emotion, and social cognition.
Teaching staff
Hiroshi IMAMIZU (Professor) Learning mechanisms
| Research fields: | Motor control and learning, Cognitive learning, Sense of agency, Brain activity measurement and modeling |
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| Courses taught: | In the seminar, students closely read books and articles on empirical studies of human movement and cognition. The lectures describe state-of-the-art psychological experiments and brain activity measurements on human movement and cognition. |
Ikuya MURAKAMI (Professor) Sensation and perception
| Research fields: | Psychophysics, Visual motion, Spatial vision, Temporal perception, Attention, Detection sensitivity, Perceptual impression, Illusions, Eye movements and localization, Pupil responses, Multisensory interactions |
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| Courses taught: | In the seminar, students closely read books and articles on empirical studies of human perception. The lectures proceed with a lot of illusion demos on the truly exciting aspects of human perception, so that basic knowledge about psychological and physiological findings in the field of sensation and perception is understood through compelling experiences. |
Atsunobu SUZUKI (Associate Professor) Experimental psychology
| Research fields: | Person perception/social cognition, Psychology of aging |
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| Courses taught: | Seminars involve the reading and discussion of academic papers and book chapters on empirical studies of higher-level cognitive and affective processes, including person perception and cognitive aging. Lectures provide an overview of the foundations of cognitive psychology and person perception, with a focus on face perception. |
Michiko ASANO (Associate Professor) Cognitive psychology
| Research fields: | Cognitive psychology, especially cross-modal processing, synesthesia, and cognitive processing of language |
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| Courses taught: | In the seminar, students closely read books and articles on empirical studies of human cognitive processing. The lectures introduce and explain human cognitive processing, focusing on object recognition, attention, cognitive processing of language, and cross-modal processing. Emphasis is placed on findings from experimental psychology. |
Takumi TANAKA (Research Associate)
| Research fields: | Experimental Psychology |
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