| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Psychology |
| Graduate School | Psychology |
| Department | Psychology |
Career
| Feb 2009: | Ph.D. In Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2022: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Cognitive psychology, Experimental psychology
1) Synesthesia and cross-modal correspondences
Synesthesia is a phenomenon where an individual, when processing information (e.g., letters) in their mind, not only processes that information in a general way (e.g., letters are recognized as letters) but also experiences types of sensations and cognitive processing generally considered irrelevant to that information (e.g., experiencing an impression of colors when looking at letters). It is a characteristic of information processing thought to be possessed by a small percentage of the population. Cross-modal correspondences refer to non-arbitrary associations between seemingly unrelated sensory features (e.g., many people naturally associate high- and low-pitched sounds with light and dark appearances, respectively) and are observed in the general population.
2)Cognitive processing of language
I study the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension, such as word recognition and sentence comprehension. I am also interested in the relationship/interaction between language and other (i.e., non-linguistic) cognitive functions, such as perception and memory.
