Research Topics

Material Perception

Surface Filling-in

Human Texture Vision

Awareness, Attention, and Decision

Ecological / Computaiotnal Aesthetics

Recent publications (selected)

Sato, H., Motoyoshi, I. & Sato, T. (2012). Polarity selectivity of spatial interactions in perceived contrast. Journal of Vision, 12(2): 3, 1-10.[PDF]

Motoyoshi, I.& Matoba, H. (2012). Variability in constancy of the perceived surface reflectance across different illumination statistics. Vision Research, 53, 30-39.

Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Motoyoshi, I. (2011).
Perception of surface glossiness by infants aged 5 to 8 months.
Perception, 40, 1491-1502.

Amano, K., Takahashi, T., Takeda, T. & Motoyoshi, I (2011). Neural correlates of visual awareness studied with adaptation induced blindness. 15th Annual meeting of Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Motoyoshi, I. (2011). Ecological-optics origin of the style of European and East-Asian classical painting. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society 2011.

Motoyoshi, I. (2011). Attentional modulation of temporal contrast sensitivity in human vision. PLosOne, 6, e19303. [PDF]

Motoyoshi, I. (2010). Highlight-shading relationship as a cue for the perception of translucent and transparent materials. Journal of Vision, 10(9): 6, 1-11. [PDF]

Motoyoshi, I. & Hayakawa, S. (2010). Adaptation-induced blindness to sluggish stimuli. Journal of Vision, 10(2):16, 1-8.[PDF]