Kazuhiko Yokosawa

Kazuhiko Yokosawa, Dr.

Professor emeritus
Department of Psychology
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Education

1979 Tokyo Institute of Technology, B.A. in Engineering
1981 Tokyo Institute of Technology, M.A. in Engineering
1990 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Engineering

Professional Employment

1981 - 1986 Researcher, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
1986 - 1990 ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Labs.
1986 - 1991 Senior Research Scientist, NTT Basic Research Labs.
1991 - 1992 Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Engineering, The University of Tokyo
1992 - 1995 Senior Research Scientist, NTT Basic Research Labs.
1995 - 1996 Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1996 - 1998 Senior Research Scientist & Supervisor, NTT Basic Research Labs.
1998 - 2006 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
2006 - present Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

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Research Interests

Integrated Perception (Attention, Object & Scene Perception, Representation of Body & Space, Trans-Modal Perception, Aesthetics, Synesthesia, etc.)

Recent Publications (2000- )

L. Okubo & K. Yokosawa (in press). Attentional allocation and the pan-field color illusion, Journal of Vision.
K. Uno & K. Yokosawa (2022). Cross-modal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation modulates audiovisual temporal recalibration, Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25614-3.
M. Ohno, K. Yokosawa & T. Narumi (2022). Basics of integrated perception and its application to the multi sensory interface, Transaction of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 27, 1, 18-28. [in Japanese]
K. Uno & K. Yokosawa (2022). Pitch-elevation and pitch-size crossmodal correspondences do not affect temporal ventriloquism, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
D. Mine & K. Yokosawa (2021). Adaptation to delayed visual feedback of the body movement extends multi-sensory peripersonal space, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
D. Mine, S. Kimoto, & K. Yokosawa (2021). Obstacles affect perceptions of egocentric distances in virtual environments, Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
D. Mine & K. Yokosawa (2021). Remote hand: Hand-centered peripersonal space transfers to a disconnected hand avatar, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83, 3250-3258..
N. B. Root, M. Asano, H. Melero, C.-Y. Kim, A. V. Sidoroff-Dorso, A. Vatakis, K. Yokosawa, V. S. Ramachandran, & R. Rouw (2021). Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages, Consciousness and Cognition.
D. Mine & K. Yoksoawa (2021). Does response facilitation to visuo-tactile stimuli around remote-controlled hand avatar reflect peripersonal space or attentional bias? Experimental Brain Research.
L. Okubo, K. Yokosawa, M. Sawayama, & T. Kawabe (2021). Discounting mechanism underlies extinction illusion, Consciousness and Cognition.
K. Uno, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2021). Consistency of synesthetic association varies with grapheme familiarity: A longitudinal study of grapheme-color synesthesia, Consciousness and Cognition.
K. Yokosawa (2021). Synesthesia, Neurology, 95, 2, 195-201. [in Japanese]
D. Mine & K. Yokosawa (2021). Disconnected hand avatar can be integrated into the peripersonal space, Experimental Brain Research, 239, 1, 237-244.
K. Uno & K. Yokosawa (2020). Apparent physical brightness of graphemes is altered by their synaesthetic colour in grapheme-colour synaesthetes Scientific Reports, 10:20134. DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-77298-2
D. Mine, N. Ogawa, T. Narumi, & K. Yokosawa (2020). The relationship between the body and the environment in the virtual world: The interpupillary distance affects the body size perception. PLOS ONE 15(4): e0232290.
K. Uno, M. Asano, H. Kadowaki, & K. Yokosawa (2020). Grapheme-color associations can transfer to novel graphemes when synesthetic colors function as grapheme “discriminating markers", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 4, 700-706.
E. Kumakura, T. Nobuta, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Effects of cultural set on color preferences, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 38, 1, 26-32. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2019). Regularities in associations between kana characters and colors shown by Japanese non-synesthetes, CIGNITIVE STUDIES: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 26, 4, 426-439. [in Japanese]
M. Asano, S. Takahashi, T. Tsushiro, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Synaesthetic colour associations for Japanese Kanji characters: From the perspective of grapheme learning, Philosophical Transaction of The Royal Society B, 374: 20180349.
E. Kumakura, K. Schmid, K. Yokosawa, & A. Werner (2019). Subjective evaluation of natural high-saturated images on a wide gamut display, Color Research and Application, 44, 6, 886-893.
K. Uno, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Influence of graphemic information on the number of synesthetic colors for Japanese Kanji characters, The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 89, 6, 571-579. [in Japanese]
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2018). Facilitation of change detection by continuous focused attention, The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 89, 5, 527-532. [in Japanese]
E. Matsuda, Y. Okazaki, M. Asano, K. Yokosawa (2018). Developmental Changes in Number Personification by Elementary School Children, Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2214, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02214
Q. Li, R. Nakashima, & K. Yokosawa (2018). Task-irrelevant spatial dividers facilitate counting and numerosity estimation, Scientific Reports, 8:15620. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-33877-y
N. B. Root, R. Rouw, M. Asano, C.-Y. Kim, H. Melero, K. Yokosawa, & V. S. Ramachandran (2018). Why is the synesthete's "A" red? Using a five-language dataset to disentangle the effects of shape, sound, semantics, and ordinality on inducer-concurrent relationships in grapheme-color synesthesia, Cortex, 99, 375-389.
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2018). To see dynamic change: Continuous focused attention facilitates change detection, but the effect persists briefly, Visual Cognition, 26, 1, 37-47.
R. Niimi, H. Shimada, & K. Yokosawa (2017). Inhibition of Return Decays Rapidly When Familiar Objects Are Used . Japanese Psychological Research, 59, 2, 167-177.
K. Yokosawa & J. Kawahara (2017). Basic Scheme of Visual Attention for Rising in Awareness, IPSJ Magazine "Joho Shori", 58, 4, 282-286. [in Japanese]
K. Yokosawa (2017).　What is attention?, Clinical Neuroscience, 35, 8, 918－921. [in Japanese]
K. Yoksoawa (2017). Hand- and fingure-ownership and rubber-hand illusion, Clinical Neuroscience, 35, 2, 186-188. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2016). Biases and regularities of grapheme-colour associations in Japanese nonsynaesthetic population, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1, 11-23.
K. Nonose, R. Niimi, & K. Yokosawa (2016). On the three-quarter view advantage of familiar object recognition, Psychological Research, 80, 6, 1030-1048.
R. Nakashima, Y. Komori, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, & K. Yokosawa (2016). Temporal Characteristics of Radiologists' and Novices' Lesion Detection in Viewing Medical Images Presented Rapidly and Sequentially, Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1553, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01553
C. Ishiguro, K. Yoksoawa, & T. Okada (2016). Eye movements during art appreciation by students taking a photo creation course, Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1074, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01074
K. Yokosawa, K. B. Schloss, M. Asano, & S. E. Palmer (2016). Ecological Effects in Cross-Cultural Differences between US and Japanese Color Preferences, Cognitive Science, 40, 7, 1590–1616.
G. Sastyin, R. Niimi, & K. Yokosawa (2015). Does object view influence the scene consistency effect?, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 3, 856-866.
S. Kanaya, W. Fujisaki, S. Nishida, S. Furukawa, & K. Yokosawa (2015). Effects of frequency separation and diotic/dichotic presentations on the alternation frequency limits in audition derived from a temporal phase discrimination task, Perception, 44, 2, 198–214.
R. Nakashima, C. Watanabe, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, I. Matsuda, S. Miki, & K. Yokosawa (2015). The effect of expert knowledge on medical search: Medical experts have specialized abilities for detecting serious lesions, Psychological Research, 79, 5, 729-738.
S. Kanaya & K. Yoksoawa (2015). Hand-ownership and rubber-hand illusion, Journal of the Society of Biomechanisms Japan, 39, 2, 69-74. [in Japanese]
M. Shoda, N.Kuroda, & K. Yoksoawa (2015). Human faces and gaze direction strongly affects eye fixations within magical tricks, The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 12, 2, 69-76. [in Japanese]
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2015). The role of sustained attention in shift-contingent change blindness, The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 85, 6, 603-608. [in Japanese]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2014). Horizontal and vertical spatial representations in stimulus-response compatibility Effect, Japanese Psychological Review 57, 2, 235-257. [in Japanese]
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2014). Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: Hidden connections between character and color perception, Journal of Human Interface Society, 16, 4, 265-268. [in Japanese]
K. Yokosawa (2014). Integrated Perception, CIGNITIVE STUDIES: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 21, 3, 295-303. [in Japanese]
W. Yamashita, R. Niimi, S. Kanazawa, M. Yamaguchi K., & K. Yokosawa (2014). Three-quarter view preference for three-dimensional objects in 8-month-old infants, Journal of Vision, 14(4), 5, 1-10. doi:10.1167/14.4.5
K. Tamaoka, M. Asano, Y. Miyaoka, & K. Yokosawa (2014). Pre- and post-head processing for single- and double-scrambled sentences of a head-final language by the eye tracking method, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43, 2, 167-185.
E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, R. Nakashima, K. Kobayashi, K. Yokosawa, N. Hayashi, Y. Masutani, N. Yoshioka, M. Akahane & K. Ohtomo (2013). Experimental system for measurement of radiologists' performance by visual search task, SpringerPlus, 2:607. DOI: 10.1186/10.1186/2193-1801-2-607
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2013). Grapheme learning and grapheme-color synesthesia: Toward a comprehensive model of grapheme-color association, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:757. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00757
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2013). Determinants of synaesthetic colours for different types of graphemes: Towards a comprehensive model, Visual Cognition, 21, 6, 674-678.
R, Nakashima, K. Kobayashi, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, & K. Yokosawa (2013). Visual search of experts in medical image reading: The effect of training, target prevalence, and expert knowledge, Frontiers in Psychology, 4:166. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00166.
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2013). Visual search in divided areas: Dividers initially interfere with and later facilitate visual search, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75, 2, 299-307.
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2012). Spatial stimulus-response compatibility effect, Japanese Psychological Review, 55, 4, 436-458. [in Japanese]
S. Kanaya, Y. Matsushima, & K. Yokosawa (2012). Does Seeing Ice Really Feel Cold? Visual-Thermal Interaction under an Illusory Body-Ownership, PLoS ONE, 7(11): e47293. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0047293
K. Yokosawa & S. Kanaya (2012). Ventriloquism and audio-visual integration of voice and face, BRAIN and NERVE, 64, 7, 771-777. [in Japanese]
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2012). Synesthetic colors for Japanese late acquired graphemes, Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 2, 983-993.
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2012). Sustained attention can create an (illusory) experience of seeing dynamic change, Visual Cognition, 20, 3, 265-283
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2012). Effects of Visual Cue and Response Assignment on Spatial Stimulus Coding in Stimulus-Response Compatibility. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1, 55-72.
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2011). Implicit synesthetic perception in lexical processing.The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 30, 1 ,141-142.
S. Kanaya, T. Ishiwata, & K. Yokosawa (2011). Self-produced touch in rubber hand illusion. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 30, 1, 11-18. [in Japanese]
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2011). Synesthetic colors are elicited by sound quality in Japanese synesthetes, Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 4, 1816-1823.
A. Saneyoshi, R. Niimi, T. Suetsugu, T. Kaminaga, & K. Yokosawa (2011). Iconic memory and parietofrontal network: fMRI study using temporal integration, NeuroReport, 22, 11, 515-519.
R. Niimi, A. Saneyoshi, R. Abe, T. Kaminaga, & K. Yokosawa (2011). Parietal and frontal object areas underlie perception of object orientation in depth, Neuroscience Letters, 496, 35-39.
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2011). Rapid extraction of gist from visual text and its influence on word recognition, The Journal of General Psychology, 138, 2, 127-154.
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2011). Does scene context always facilitate retrieval of visual object representations?, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 2, 309-315.
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2011). Perceptual congruency of audio-visual speech affects ventriloquism with bilateral visual stimuli, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1, 123-128.
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2010). Visual representation of natural scenes in flicker changes, The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 81, 3. [in Japanese]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2010). Visual and auditory accessory stimulus offset and the Simon effect. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 72 1965-1974.
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2010). Response-specifying cue for action interferes with perception of feature-sharing stimuli. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 6, 1150-1167.
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2010). Effector identity and orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility in blindness to response-compatible stimuli. Psychological Research, 74, 2, 172-181.
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2009). The effects of visual or auditory offset on response selection. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 28, 1, 167-168.
A. Saneyoshi, R. Niimi, T. Suetsugu, T. Kaminaga, & K. Yokosawa (2009).The neural basis for temporal integration of visual information in short term memory. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 28, 1, 23-34. [in Japanese]
A. Era & K. Yokosawa (2009). Visual cuing effect for haptic angle judgment, The Japanese Jouranl of Psychology, 80, 3, 232-237. [in Japanese]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2009). Effects of laterality and pitch height of an auditory accessory stimulus on horizontal response selection: The Simon effect and the SMARC effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 4, 666-670.
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2009). Viewpoint dependency in the recognition of non-elongated familiar objects: Testing the effects of symmetry, front-back axis, and familiarity. Perception, 38, 4, 533-551.
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2009). Three-quarter views are subjectively good because object orientation is uncertain. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 2, 289-294.
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2008). Sentence context processing has priority over constituent word processing. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 27, 1, 113-114.
M. Asano, S. Kanaya, & K. Yokosawa (2008). Proofreaders show a generalized ability to allocate spatial attention to detect changes. Psychologia, 51, 2, 126-141.
R. Niimi, K. Watanabe, & K. Yokosawa (2008). The dynamic-stimulus advantage of visual symmetry perception. Psychological Research, 72, 5, 567-579.
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2008). Contingent attentional capture occurs by activated target congruence. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 4, 680-687.
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2008). Attentional awakening: Gradual modulation of temporal attention in rapid serial visual presentation. Psychological Research, 72, 2, 192-202.
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2008). Determining the orientation of depth-rotated familiar objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1, 208-214.
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2007). Preparation for horizontal or vertical dimensions affects the right-left prevalence effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 7, 1242-1252.
A. Ariga, K. Yokosawa, & H. Ogawa (2007). Object-based attentional selection and awareness of objects. Visual Cognition, 15, 6, 685-709.
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2007). On the Relation Between Object and Action: Response Consistency and Stimulus-Response Compatibility. Visual Cognition, 15, 3, 349-380.
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2007). Visual symmetry perception and its functional role. Japanese Psychological Review, 50, 2, 119-134. [in Japanese]
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2007). Characteristics of a high-level vision of proofreaders. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 26, 1, 29-37. [in Japanese]
H. Jin & K. Yokosawa (2007). The attribute of language-switching in Chinese-Japanese bilinguals' word recognition.The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 25, 2, 279-280.
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2007). Semantic activation of target congruence contingently captures attention. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 25, 2, 285-286.
R. Niimi, K. Yokosawa, & K. Watanabe (2006). Attentional set for axis of symmetry in symmetry-defined visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 7, 1153-1162.
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2006). Grouping and trajectory storage in multiple object tracking: Impairments due to common item motion. Perception, 35, 483-495. [demo]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2006). Orthogonal Stimulus-Response compatibility effects emerge even when the stimulus position is task irrelevant. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 6, 1021-1032.
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2006). Color diagnosticity or category: Which determines the role of color in visual object recognition? The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 3, 2, 181-192. [in Japanese]
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2006). The role of visual symmetry in determining depth orientation of familiar objects. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 25, 1, 105-106.
R. Niimi, K. Watanabe, & K. Yokosawa (2005). The role of visible persistence for perception of visual bilateral symmetry. Japanese Psychological Research, 47, 4, 262-270.
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2005). The transitions of time-dependent performance in the task. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 24, 1, 117-118.
K. Yokosawa, E. Wada, & H. Mitsumatsu (2005). Coding and transformation of cognitive maps in a virtual environment. Electronics and Communications in Japan: Part 3, 88, 4 , 43 - 50.
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2004). The effect of phonology and misprint location on Japanese proofreading. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 23, 1, 103-104.
S. Takei, T. Takeuchi, & K. Yokosawa (2004). Low-level visual interaction in the effect of peripheral cuing. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 23, 1, 99-100.
Y. Makino, K. Yokosawa, Y. Takeda & T. Kumada (2004). Visual search and memory search engage extensive overlapping cerebral cortices: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 23, 525-533.
T. Takeuchi, K. Yokosawa, & K.K. De Valois (2004). Texture segregation by motion under low luminance levels. Vision Research, 44, 2, 157-166.
H. Mitsumatsu & K. Yokosawa (2004). Invariance of object recognition with changes of view. Japanese Psychological Review, 47, 2, 241-256. [in Japanese]
T. Takeuchi, S. Takei, & K. Yokosawa (2004). Temporal characteristics of signal enhancement by visual attention. The Japanese Jouranl of Psychology, 75, 3, 229-237. [in Japanese]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2004). Orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility effect with multiple stimuli, Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 9, 1, 21-26. [in Japanese]
K. Yokosawa, E. Wada, & H. Mitsumatsu (2004). The coding and transformation of cognitive maps in a virtual environment. The IEICE Transaction on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, J87-A, 1, 13-19. [in Japanese]
H. Mitsumatsu & K. Yokosawa (2003). Efficient extrapolation of the view using the dynamic and predictive stimulus. Perception, 32, 8, 969-983.
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2003). Negative priming and stimulus familiarity: What causes opposite results? Memory & Cognition, 31, 3, 369-379.
K. Yokosawa & T. Kumada (2003). Voluntary Aspects of Attentional Control Setting for Detecting A Feature-Defined Target. Japanese Psychological Research, 45, 1, 1-14.
K. Yokosawa & H. Mitsumatsu (2003). Does disruption of a scene impair change detection? Journal of Vision, 3, 1, 41-48.
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2003). Visual attention and objecthood. Japanese Psychological Review, 46, 3, 527-542. [in Japanese]
K. Yokosawa & T. Ohtani (2003). Representation and attention in blindness phenomena - Current approaches to inattentional blindness and change blindness-. Japanese Psychological Review, 46, 3, 482-500. [in Japanese]
S. Takei, T. Takeuchi, & K. Yokosawa (2003). Feature search in the central and peripheral visual fields. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 21, 2, 112-119. [in Japanese]
M. Ozeki & K. Yokosawa (2003). The properties of visual short-term memory on change detection task. The Japanese Jouranl of Psychology, 73, 6, 464-471. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2003). The effect of surface and superordinate characteristics in visual object recognition. CIGNITIVE STUDIES: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 10, 1, 145-159. [in Japanese]
N. Matsuzaki, H. Shigemasu, N. Ito, & K. Yokosawa (2002). Environment for Psychological Experiments on the Internet. Educational Technology Research, 25, 1/2, 19-28.
H. Mitsumatsu & K. Yokosawa (2002). How does the internal detail of the object contribute to recognition? Perception 31, 11, 1289-1298.
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2002). The effect of response representation in a task switch. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 21, 1, 57-58.
K. Yokosawa, Y. Takeda & T. Kumada (2002). Top-down attention to location, feature, and objects and its brain activity, Japanese Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 3, 198-203. [in Japanese]
J. Kawahara & K. Yokosawa (2001). Preattentive perception of multiple illusory line motion: A formal model of parallel independent-detection in visual search, The Journal of General Psychology, 128, 4, 357-383.
M. Suganuma, K. Yokosawa, & T.Sato (2001). Three-dimensional curve tracing、The Japanese Jouranl of Psychology, 72, 5, 387-396. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2001). Negative Priming : The fitness and mechanisms of the phenomenon, Japanese Psychological Review, 44, 3, 289-306. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2001). Does distractor interference occur by rotated characters? : An examination of its relation to negative priming, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 20, 1, 31-32. [in Japanese]
N. Matsuzaki, H. Shigemasu, N. Ito, & K. Yokosawa (2001). Environmental for Psychological Experiments on the Internet, Japanese Journal of Educational Technology, 24, 4, 217-226. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa & Y. Takano (2000). Does negative priming occur by rotated characters? The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 71, 5, 395-402. [in Japanese]
J. Nagai, K & Yokosawa (2000). Effects of stimulus rotation on negative priming : An investigation by character identification task, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 19, 1, 35-36. [in Japanese]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2000). Basic evidence for curve tracing in depth, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science , 19, 1, 43-44.[in Japanese]

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Recent International Presentations (1999- )

K. Yokosawa, R. Monjo, & K. Konishi (2021). Auxiliary Movements Contribute to Maintaining Mental Tempo, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
L. Okubo, T. Kawabe & K. Yokosawa (2021). Attentional Allocation and the Pan-Field Color Illusion, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
K. Yokosawa, K. Uno, & M. Asano (2020). Factors influencing longitudinal consistency of synesthetic colors for graphemes, The 61th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
D. Mine & K. Yokosawa (2020). Disconnected hand avatar in peripersonal space, Virtual OPAM 28th Annual Meeting
K. Yokosawa, K. Uno, & M. Asano (2020). Longitudinal consistency of synesthetic colors for 300 graphemes, The 20th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society
L. Okubo, K. Yokosawa, M. Sawayama & T. Kawabe (2020). Why does a disk subjectively disappear in Ninio’s extinction illusion? The 20th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society
K. Yokosawa & A. Hayashi (2019). Perceptual learning of feature correspondence within the visual modality and between audio-visual modalities, The 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Montréal, Canada)
K. Konishi & K. Yokosawa (2019). Dynamic non-speech stimuli modulate the ventriloquist effect in situations with multiple events, The 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Montréal, Canada)
L. Tobayama, S. Harashima, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Influence of ambiguous pitch-class information on sound-color synesthesia, Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM) 18th Annual Meeting (Montréal, Canada)
L. Okubo, K. Uno, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Enhancement of color working memory in grapheme-color synesthetes, OPAM 27th Annual Meeting (Montréal, Canada)
D. Mine, N. Ogawa, T. Narumi, & K. Yokosawa (2019). Wider IPD Makes People Perceive Their Body to be not so Large when Large Hands are Presented. International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE) (Tokyo, Japan).
K. Yokosawa, Y. Shimane, & R. Niimi (2019). Scene consistency effect of object recognition in peripheral vision, The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (London, Canada).
K. Uno & K. Yokosawa (2019). Influence of synesthetic color experience on brightness perception, The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (London, Canada).
K. Yokosawa, A. Hayashi, & R. Ishihara (2019). Statistical learning of cross-modal correspondence with non-linear mappings, The 19th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, T. Nobuta, & M. Asano (2018). Effects of traditional culture on color preference. The 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 5007 (New Orleans, USA).
L. Tobayama & K. Yokosawa (2018). Tonality-Color Synesthesia and Absolute Pitch, The 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2077 (New Orleans, USA).
K. Uno & K. Yokosawa (2018). Grapheme-texture association accompanying grapheme-color synesthesia, OPAM 26th Annual Meeting (New Orleans, USA).
K. Yokosawa, H. Kadowaki, K. Uno, & M. Asano (2018). Grapheme-colour associations can transfer to novel graphemes when synaesthetic colours function as grapheme “discriminating markers”.a Royal Society discussion meeting: Bridging senses: new developments in synaesthesia, (London, United Kingdom).
E. Matsuda, Y. Okazaki, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2018). Developmental decrease in number personification by non-synesthetic children. The 22nd meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), S9-10, (Krakow, Poland).
E. Kumakura, A. Werner, & K. Yokosawa (2018). Effect of imagining another culture on color preference, The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
A. Hayashi & K. Yokosawa (2018). Acquirement of cross-modal correspondence from mere experience, The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
K. Konishi, R. Nakashima, & K. Yokosawa (2018). Does a salient auditory stimulus always impair visual memory? The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, Q. Li (2018). The capacity of visual working memory for scenes, The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa & M. Asano (2017). Synesthetic associations in Japanese grapheme-color synesthesia, The Inaugural Sino-Danish Center Symposium on Synaesthesia, Expertise, and Multi-Sensory Perception (Beijing, China)
M. Asano, J. Nagai, & K. Yokosawa (2017). The relationship between temporal consistency and sensitivity to regulatory factors in grapheme-color associations, The Inaugural Sino-Danish Center Symposium on Synaesthesia, Expertise, and Multi-Sensory Perception (Beijing, China)
K. Yokosawa, S. Kita, & M. Asano (2017). Becoming a "Bandwagon Fan" of a Sports Team Immediately Increases Preference for Colors Associated With the Team, The 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Vancouver, Canada)
L. Tobayama, E. Kumakura, & K. Yokosawa (2017). Commonalities between grapheme-color and sound-color synesthetic association in grapheme-color synesthetes, OPAM 25th Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada)
K. Uno, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2017). Influence of grapheme properties on the number of synesthetic colors for Japanese Kanji characters, OPAM 25th Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada)
M. Asano, J. Nagai, & K. Yokosawa (2017). Temporal Consistency in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Covaries with Sensitivity to Regulatory Factors in Grapheme-Color Associations,International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists Symposium (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
N. Root, R. Rouw, M. Asano, C.-Y. Kim, H. Melero, K. Yokosawa, & V. Ramachandran (2017). The Promise of Multi-Language Synesthesia Datasets Using a Five Language Dataset to Disentangle the Effects of Shape-Sound Semantics and Ordinality on Grapheme-Color Associations in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia, International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists Symposium (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, T. Tsushiro, & M. Asano (2017). Grapheme-color associations can immediately transfer to novel graphemes, but such synesthetic colors are unstable, The 17th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2016). Response Speed and Response Force in the Simon Effect, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, T. Tsushiro, Q. Li, & M. Asano (2016). Effects of Learning New Sounds or Meanings for Kanji Characters on Synesthetic Grapheme-Color Association, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, U.S.A.)
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2016). Color Associations for the English Alphabet in Non- Synesthetic Japanese People. JUN-ICHI NAGAI, University of the Sacred Heart, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, U.S.A.)
E. Kumakura & K. Yokosawa (2016). Sound-Color Correspondences Do Not Affect Preference Ratings, OPAM 24th Annual Meeting (Boston, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa (2016). Ecological Effects in Cross-Cultural Differences on Single Colour Preferences: The Effect of Symbolic/Conceptual Associations, Farbe Im Kopf, (Tübingen, Germany)
Q. Li, R. Nakashima, & K. Yokosawa (2016). The effects of spatial dividers on counting and numerosity estimation, The 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (Barcelona, Spain)
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2016). Synesthesia-like associations between graphemes and colors in Japanese non-synesthetic population. International Congress of Psychology (Yokohama, Japan)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2016). Determinants of synesthetic colors for different types of graphemes, Japanese characters and the English alphabet: a developmental model. International Congress on Psychology (Yokohama, Japan)
R. Niimi, T. Saiki, & K. Yokosawa (2016). Auditory scene context facilities visual object recognition, International Congress on Psychology (Yokohama, Japan)
K. Yokosawa, S. Takahashi, & M. Asano (2016). Influence of visual complexity on synesthetic color choice for Japanese Kanji characters, The 16th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
E. Kumakura & K. Yokosawa (2016). Disappearance of co-occurring biases among multiple features for contrast judgments, The 16th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
Q. Li & K. Yokosawa (2016). A task-irrelevant high memorability image can impair or enhance visual search performance, The 16th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
Q. Li, R. Nakashima, & K. Yokosawa (2016). The effects of spatial dividers on counting and numerosity estimation, The 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (Barcelona, Spain)
K. Yokosawa, M. Harada, & M. Asano (2015). Effect of labeling colors before rating the color preferences, The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya, Y. Ueda, H. Tochiya, & K. Yokosawa (2015). Factors mediating the correspondence between unfamiliar faces and voices, The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
M. Asano, S. Takahashi, & K. Yokosawa (2015). Influence of meaning on synesthetic color choice for Japanese Kanji characters with abstract meanings, The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
E. Kumakura, A. Muto, & K. Yokosawa (2015). Single color expression of primary triads, The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
Q. Li & K. Yokosawa (2015). The relationship between visual attention and image memorability, OPAM 23rd Annual Meeting (Chicago, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa & M. Asano (2015). Relation between synesthetic grapheme-color associa- tions and the sub-types of synesthesia. The15th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya, Y. Ueda, H. Tochiya, & K. Yokosawa (2015). The correspondence between neutral voice and face is mediated by common perceptual properties. The15th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
E. Kumakura & K. Yokosawa (2015). Acquiring multiple cross-modal correspondences. The15th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
R. Niimi, R. Ehara, & K. Yokosawa (2014). On the top-view disadvantage in visual object recognition. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Long Beach, USA)
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2014). Non-random associations between graphemes and colors: How do Japanese non-synesthetes associate Kana characters with colors? The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Long Beach, USA)
A. Nishimuta, N. Suzuki, & K. Yokosawa (2014). Influence of intermixed auditory/visual incompatible spatial mapping on the auditory/visual Simon effect. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Long Beach, USA)
K. Yokosawa, M. Asano, N. Kanazawa, K. B. Schloss, & S. E. Palmer (2014). The effect of symbolic/conceptual associations on single color preferences. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Long Beach, USA)
E. Kumakura & K. Yokosawa (2014). Learning to integrate the independent multiple features, OPAM 22nd Annual Meeting (Long Beach, USA)
K. Yokosawa & M. Shoda (2014). Event file activation interferes allocation of visual attention during motor movement. The14th annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (St. Pete Beach, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, R. Nakashima, & H. Kawai (2013).Visual Search Facilitation by Divider Frames Depends on the Saliency of the Frames., The 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Toronto, Canada)
S. Kanaya, M. Mori, & K. Yokosawa (2013).The Possibility of Out-of-Body Experience Under Correlated Visual-Tactile Input Through Air Flow, The 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Toronto, Canada)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2013). Determinants of Synesthetic Colors for Different Types of Graphemes: Toward a Comprehensive Model, OPAM 21st Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
E. Kumakura, M. Asano, & K. Yokosawa (2013). Anisotropy in cross-modal correspondences, OPAM 21st Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
M. Shoda & K. Yokosawa (2013).Foot movement for walking biases the visual attention allocation. The35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Berlin, Germany)
A. Nishimura, K. Akimoto & K. Yokosawa (2013). Seating arrangement in two-dimensional joint Simon task, 5th Joint Action Meeting (Berlin, Germany)
K, Yokosawa, G. Sastyin, & R. Niimi (2013). Does viewpoint dependency effect influence scene consistency effect? The13th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya, W. Fujisaki, S. Nishida, S. Furukawa, & K, Yokosawa (2013). Comparisons of temporal frequency limits for cross-attribute binding tasks in vision and audition. The13th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
M. Asano, M. Shimizu, & K Yokosawai (2013). Context-dependent suppression of color information in grapheme-color synesthesia. The13th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
J. Nagai, K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2013). Traits of grapheme-color synesthesia in non-synesthetes. The13th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, & M. Asano (2012).The Spectrum of Grapheme-Color Synesthesia, The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Minneapolis, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2012). The syllable congruency of audio-visual speech stimuli and the response timing in the ventriloquism with bilateral visual presentations, The 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Recognition and Perception (Okazaki, Japan).
A. Nishimura, K. Miyamoto, & K. Yokosawa (2012). Task complementarity and response complementarity in the social Simon effect. The 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Sapporo, Japan)
M. Shoda, K. Yokosawa (2012). Magic props induce misdirection differently from the magician's face. The34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Sapporo, Japan)
K. Yokosawa, F. Makino, & J. Kawahara (2012). Spatial eccentricity and temporal transition of split attentional foci. The12th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya, W. Fujisaki, S. Nishida, & K. Yokosawa (2012). Temporal frequency limits for within- and cross-attribute binding in vision and audition. The12th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
M. Asano, S. Kadowaki, K. Yokosawa, K. B. Schloss, & S. E. Palmer (2011). Cross Cultural Differences and Commonalities in Preference for Color Combination, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Seattle, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, J. Nagai, & M. Asano (2011).Grapheme-Color Synesthetic Tendency Test Without Color Presentation, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Seattle, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya, Y, Matsushima, & K. Yokosawa (2011). A Thermal Illusion Induced by Visual Objects on the Rubber Hand, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Seattle, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, I. Matsuda, S. Miki, & K. Yokosawa (2011).Both the Target Prevalence and Importance Influence Radiologists? Miss Rates in the Lesion Searches, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Seattle, U.S.A.)
M. Shoda & K. Yokosawa (2011). Semantic similarity does not affect layout learning,OPAM 19th Annual Meeting (Seattle, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa & M. Asano (2011). Synesthetic colors for Japanese scripts in Japanese synesthetes. The 12th International Multisensory Research Forum, 2-54. (Fukuoka, Japan)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2011). Syllable congruency of audio-visual speech stimuli facilitates the spatial ventriloquism only with bilateral visual presentations, The 12th International Multisensory Research Forum 1-15. (Fukuoka, Japan)
K, Yokosawa, S. Kanaya & T. Ishiwata(2011). Self-produced stimulation can elicit rubber hand illusion. The11th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2011). The way of multisensory spatial processing with audiovisual speech stimuli differs in single and bilateral visual presentations.. The 11th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2011). Sustained attention facilitates change detection, but only in a brief blank duration. The11th annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, K. B. Schloss, R. M. Poggesi, & S. E. Palmer (2010). Color preferences in Japanese-American bicultural observers. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2010). Implicit synesthetic perception in Japanese lexical processing. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima, Y. Komori, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa, & K. Yokosawa (2010). When searching for lesions, radiologists do not miss rare targets. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2010). The Simon effect and the SMARC effect induced by an auditory accessory stimulus. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2010). Bilateral visual presentation revealed the contribution of audio-visual congruency in ventriloquism. OPAM 18th Annual Meeting (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, N. Yano, K. B. Schloss, L. R. Prado-Leon, & S. E. Palmer (2010). Cross-Cultural Studies of Color Preferences: US, Japan, and Mexico. The tenth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2010). Integration and the perceptual unity of audio-visual utterances. The tenth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2010). Determinants of synesthetic color choice for Japanese characters. The tenth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2010). Sustained attention is involved only in dynamic change detection. The tenth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
A. Saneyoshi, R. Niimi, R. Abe, T. Kaminaga, & K. Yokosawa (2009). Object orientation In canonical and accidnetal views: An fMRI Study. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2009). Sentence context representation activated by transposed phrases. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society Boston, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, & A. Asano (2009). Regulatory factors of Japanese synesthetes in synesthetic perception. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima , K. Kobayashi, E. Maeda, T. Yoshikawa & K. Yokosawa (2009). The prevalence effect in the tumor search: Differences between experts and novices. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (Boston, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2009). Synesthetic colors for phonetic Japanese characters depend on sound qualities. OPAM 17th Annual Meeting (Boston, U.S.A.)
S. Kanaya & K. Yokosawa (2009). Audio-visual localization and identification processes interact to solve incongruent information. OPAM 17th Annual Meeting (Boston, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2009). Does scene context always facilitate the retrievals of representations? OPAM 17th Annual Meeting (Boston, U.S.A.)
W. Fushikida, K. B. Schloss, K. Yokosawa, & S. E. Palmer (2009). Cross-Cultural Differences in Color Preference: Japan vs. the USA . The nineth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.)
A. Saneyoshi, R. Niimi, T. Suetsugu, T. Kaminaga, & K. Yokosawa (2008). Failure of temporally separated visual information integration: An fMRI study. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2008). Sentence context processing prevails over constituent word processing. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa, N. Sato, & T. Kawashima (2008). Effect of visuospatial cues on temporal order identification of sound sequences. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, U.S.A.)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2008). A Simon effect with appearance and disappearance of visual and auditory accessory stimuli. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (Chicago, U.S.A.)
R. Nakashima & K. Yokosawa (2008). Frequent Shifts of a Scene Interrupt Change Detection. OPAM 16th Annual Meeting (Chicago, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa & A. Era (2008). Visual cue influence on three-dimensional haptic angle discrimination. The eighth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 8, 6, 176]
M. Asano, S. Kanaya, & K. Yokosawa (2008). Proofreaders show a generalized ability to allocate attention to detect changes. The eighth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 8, 6, 462]
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2008). Three-quarter view is good because object orientation is uncertain. The eighth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Naples, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 8, 6, 517]
K. Yokosawa & M. Asano (2007). Analyses of proofreading efficiency and skill. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Long Beach, U.S.A.)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2007). Horizontal and vertical preparation in right-left prevalence. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (Long Beach, U.S.A.)
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2007). A biased perception on the depth orientation of familiar objects. OPAM 15th Annual Meeting (Long Beach, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2007). Anomalous word blindness in sentence context. The joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and Psychonomics Society (Edinburgh, Scotland)
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2007). Familiarity effects of natural objects in visual search. The joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and Psychonomic Society (Edinburgh, Scotland)
A. Nishimura, A. Ariga, F. Ono, & K. Yokosawa (2007). Previous event with spatial compatibility influences time perception 15th Conference of The European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Marseille, France)
H. Jin, A. Ariga, & K. Yokosawa (2007). How target language affects attentional blink. The 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Hamburg, Germany)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2007). Characteristics of professional proofreaders -Stroop effect and Change Blindness- Satellite workshop of The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology (Kyoto, Japan)
K. Yokosawa (2007). Midstream order defi cit occurs with phonological encoding of order. The seventh annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 7, 9, 691]
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2007). It seems to turn away from me: Foreshortened front-back axes bias determination of depth orientation of familiar objects. The seventh annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 7, 9, 1042]
K. Yokosawa (2006). Distinctness not memorability affects background contextual cueing. The 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Houston, U.S.A.)
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2006). Determining the depth orientation of familiar objects. OPAM 14th Annual Meeting (Houston, U.S.A.)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2006). The role of effector identity in blindness to response-compatible stimuli. OPAM 14th Annual Meeting (Houston, U.S.A.)
K. Yokosawa & H. Jin (2006). How similarity in morphological representation affects Chinese-Japanese bilinguals' word recognition? The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [CogSci2006 proceedings, 2416-2421] (accepted as a Full Paper)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2006). Contextual Interference within the Perceptual Span in Reading Japanese Text. The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [CogSci2006 proceedings, 985-990] (accepted as a Full Paper)
K. Yokosawa & A. Era (2006). Surface reflectance properties and feel of object surface. The sixth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 6, 6, 718]
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2006). Distractor word meaning the target-defining color elicits the attentional blink. The sixth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 6, 6, 1020]
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2006). Recognizing orientation of depth-rotated familiar objects. The sixth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 6, 6, 317]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2006).Cueing of the stimulus location in polarity correspondence effect. The sixth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) . [Journal of Vision, 6, 6, 217]
K. Yokosawa & A. Nishimura (2005). The role of response-specifying precue in blindness to response-compatible stimuli. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Toronto, Canada)
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2005). Bottom-up and top-down modulations of temporal attention in RSVP. OPAM 13th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2005). Cognitive characteristics of proofreaders: how do they detect misprints? OPAM 13th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
R. Niimi & K. Yokosawa (2005). Viewpoint dependency in the recognition of symmetric familiar objects. OPAM 13th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2005). Stimulus grouping and stimulus-response compatibility. OPAM 13th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
M. Suganuma, K. Watanabe & K. Yokosawa (2005). Grouping of items by trailing motion in MOT: evidence from divided attention task. OPAM 13th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
K. Yokosawa (2005). Critical role of phonological encoding in midstream order deficit. The fifth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 5, 8, 814]
A. Ariga & K. Yokosawa (2005). Temporally gradual modulation of attention in the RSVP. The fifth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 5, 8, 1009]
R. Niimi, K. Watanabe, & K. Yokosawa (2005). Rapid successive presentation improves symmetry perception. The fifth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 5, 8, 216]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2005). Orthogonal Simon effect: A new interference effect with vertically arrayed stimuli and horizontally arrayed responses.The fifth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) . [Journal of Vision, 5, 8, 168]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2005). Effect of perceptual grouping on MOT task. Zenon Pylyshyn Conference. (Ontario, Canada)
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2004). The color diagnosticity hypothesis and plant/animal difference. OPAM 12th Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, U.S.A.)
Y. Hibi, T. Kumada, & K. Yokosawa (2004). The effect of the task-irrelevant attributes on action selection. OPAM 12th Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, U.S.A.)
Y. Makino, Y. Takeda, T. Kumada, & K. Yokosawa (2004). The activation of common brain regions in visual search and working memory search revealed by fMRI. the Society for Neuroscience 34rd Annual Meeting (San Diego, U.S.A.)
M. Asano & K. Yokosawa (2004). The Influence of Phonology and Context Comprehension in Japanese Proofreading. XXVIII International Congress of Psychology (Beijing, China)
K. Yokosawa & Y. Takeda (2004). Combination of background and spatial layout produces a stronger contextual cueing effect. The fourth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 686, 2004]
S. Takei, T. Takeuchi, & K. Yokosawa (2004). Effect of attention in the peripheral cuing effect.The fourth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 452, 2004]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2004). Effect of entrained motion of items on MOT task. The fourth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 369, 2004]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2004). Orthogonal S-R compatibility effect and categorical coding of multiple stimuli.The fourth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) . [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 666, 2004]
R. Niimi, K. Yokosawa, & K. Watanabe (2004). Search asymmetry in search for symmetry.The fourth annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 691, 2004]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2004). Stimulus representation underlying orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility effect. Fourth International Workshop on Attention and Cognition (Tsukuba, Japan) [Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 27, 2004]
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2004).Task-irrelevant factors influencing the selection of objects and actions. Fourth International Workshop on Attention and Cognition (Tsukuba, Japan) [Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 26, 2004]
Y. Makino, K. Yokosawa, Y. Takeda, & T. Kumada (2003). Brain activations common to visual search and memory search revealed by fMRI. the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting (New Orleans, U.S.A.)
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2003). What regulates the surface color effect in object recognition: color diagnosticity or category? Third International Workshop on Attention and Cognition (Tokyo, Japan) [Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 28, 2003]
K. Yoksoawa, R. Niimu, & K. Watanabe (2003). Temporal characteristics of bilateral symmetry perception: Predominant effect of visible persistence. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 748, 2003]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2003). Items in MOT are easily lost when they chase each other. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 584, 2003]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2003). Superordinate interference in basic level object recognition: The effects of object typicality. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 271, 2003]
A. Nishimura & K. Yokosawa (2003). Orthogonal S-R compatibility and stimulus saliency. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 226, 2003]
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2003). Relationship between response blocking and task switching. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 870, 2003]
Y. Chiba & K. Yokosawa (2003). Midstream order deficit in phonological encoding. The third annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 3, 9, 731, 2003]
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2002). Distractor inhibition for selection in task switching. Second International Workshop on Attention and Cognition (Tsukuba, Japan) [Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 1, 15, 2002]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2002). Effect of depth on item merging MOT. First International Workshop on Attention and Cognition (Kyoto, Japan) [Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 1, 11, 2002]
K. Yokosawa & H. MItsumatsu (2002). Availability of intrinsic axis affects view-dependency in spatial reasoning, 25th European Conference on Visual Perception (Glasgow, Scotland) [Perception, 31 Supplement, 115, 2002]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2002). Interference by rotated distractors depends on target rotation, 25th European Conference on Visual Perception (Glasgow, Scotland) [Perception, 31 Supplement, 79-80, 2002]
K. Sakamoto & K. Yokosawa (2002). A network model for the inhibitory phenomena of post-attentive vision, 25th European Conference on Visual Perception (Glasgow, Scotland) [Perception, 31 Supplement, 77, 2002]
S. Takei, T. Takeuchi, & K. Yokosawa (2002). Signal evhancement by covert attention in visual search, 2nd Asian Conference on Vision (Gyeongju, Korea) [Proceeding of the Second Asian Conference on Vision, 67, 2002]
Y. Takeda, K. Yokosawa, & T. Kumada (2002). Feature-, object-, and location-based visual attention: An fMRI study, 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, 20124 (Sendai, Japan)
K. Yokosawa & H. Mitsumatsu (2002). Contribution of internal details in object recognition, The second annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.)[Journal of Vision, 2, 7, 673, 2002]
Y. Hibi & K. Yokosawa (2002). Response mapping in a task swich, The second annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.)[Journal of Vision, 2, 7, 450, 2002]
Y. Chiba & K. Yokosawa: (2002). Repetition of location and object cause larger repetition blindness for letter, The second annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.)[Journal of Vision, 2, 7, 457, 2002]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2002). Is multiple object tracking affected by three-dimensional rigidity?, The second annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.)[Journal of Vision, 2, 7, 238, 2002]
T. Ohtani, K. Yokosawa, M. Suganuma, & T. Hasegawa (2001). Effects of eccentricity and figure-inside on binocular rivalry, Europian Conference on Visual Perception [Perception, 30 Supplement, 76-77, 2001]
K. Yokosawa & Y. Chiba (2001)..Robust midstream order deficit requires change of locations, The first annual meeting of The Vision Science Society (Sarasota, U.S.A.) [Journal of Vision, 1, 3, 219, 2001]
Y. Chiba & K. Yokosawa (2001). The effect of temporal lag for repetition in location and letter identity,ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42, 4, S865, 2001]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2001). What regulates curve tracing?,ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.)[Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42, 4, S612, 2001]
H. Mitsumatsu & K. Yokosawa (2001). View dependent effect in head rotation, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.)[Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42, 4, S868, 2001]
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2001). Surface features do not affect the superordinate similarity effect in objecy verification, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42, 4, S867, 2001]
K. Yokosawa & T. Kumada (2000). Voluntary control of attentional setting, The 26th SEIRIKEN International Symposium " Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception and Cognition" (Okazaki, Japan)
K. Yokosawa & T. Kumada (2000). Voluntary control of attentional setting for singleton-target detection, Fourth Annual Vision Reserch Conference (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.)
J. Nagai & K. Yokosawa (2000). On the relationship between negative priming and stimulus familiarity, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investgative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 4, S41, 2000]
M. Suganuma & K. Yokosawa (2000). Effect of depth on 3-D curve tracing, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investgative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 4, S235, 2000]
H. Mitsumatsu & K. Yokosawa (2000). Effect of background presence and display set size in change detection, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investgative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 4, S420, 2000]
K. Yokosawa (1999). Confusion of relative order in cycling character sequence presentation, ARVO Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.) [Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol.40, No.4, S47, 1999]
M. Ozeki & K. Yokosawa (1999). What causes change blindness?, 3rd Annual Vision Research Conference (Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A.)

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