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Dr. Norimichi KITAGAWA
Senior Research Scientist
Perception and Emotion Research Group
Human and Information Science Laboratory
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, JAPAN
e-mail: kitagawa.norimichi(at)lab.ntt.co.jp

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Research interests

I am interested in how sensory signals from different sensory modalities, such as vision, hearing and touch, are integrated into our unified percept.



Profile

Education

2003. 3Ph.D in Psychology, Faculty of Humanity and Social Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1997. 3M.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Humanity and Social Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1995. 3B.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Humanity and Social Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Positions

2010. 4 - PresentSenior Research Scientist, Human Information Science laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2009. 4 - 2010. 3Research Specialist, Human Information Science laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2005. 4 - 2009. 3Research Associate, Human Information Science laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2004. 4 - 2005. 3Lecturer, Department of Psychological Informatics, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2003. 5 - 2004. 3Academic Visitor, Crossmodal Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
2003. 4 - 2004. 3JSPS Reserch Fellow
2001. 4 - 2003. 3Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Tokyo Metropolitan University*


Publications

Journal papers

  1. Kondo, H. M., Kitagawa, N., Kitamura, M. S., Koizumi, A., Nomura, M. & Kashino, M. (in press) Separability and commonality of auditory and visual bistable perception. Cerebral Cortex.
  2. Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., & Ho, H.,-N. (2010) Whole-body vibration influences on front-back sound localization. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering, 224, 1311-1320.
  3. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Ichihara, S. (2010) Influence of the body on crossmodal interference effects between tactile and two-dimensional visual stimuli. Experimental Brain Research, 204, 419-30.
  4. Koizumi, A., Kitagawa, N., Kitamura, M. S., Kondo, H. M., Sato, T. & Kashino, M. (2010) Serotonin transporter gene and inhibition of conflicting emotional information. Neuroreport, 21, 422-426.
  5. Kitagawa, N., Igarashi, Y., & Kashino, M. (2009) The tactile continuity illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1784-1790.
  6. Kitamura, M., Kitagawa, N., Koizumi, A., & Kashino, M. (2009) The effect of moods on visual awareness. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 28, 161-162.
  7. Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Kitagawa, N., Väljamäe, A., Zampini, M., Murray, M. M., & Spence, C. (2009) Auditory-somatosensory multisensory interactions are spatially modulated by stimulated body surface and acoustic spectra. Neuropsychologia, 47, 195-203.
  8. Ichihara, S., Kitagawa, N. & Akutsu, H. (2007) Contrast and depth perception: Effects of texture-contrast and area-contrast. Perception, 36, 686-695.
  9. Omori, K., Kitagawa, N., Wada, Y., & Noguchi, K. (2007) Haptics can modulate the Hering and Wundt illusions. Japanese Psychological Research, 49, 79-85.
  10. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N., Spence, C. & Ichihara, S. (2007) Assessing the influence of schematic drawings of body parts on tactile discrimination performance using the crossmodal congruency task. Acta Psychologica, 124, 190-208.
  11. Kitagawa, N., & Spence, C. (2006) Audiotactile multisensory interactions in human information processing. Japanese Psychological Research, 48, 158-173.
  12. Kitagawa, N. & Igarashi, Y. (2005) Tickle sensation induced by hearing a sound. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 24, 121-122. [PDF]
  13. Kitagawa, N., Zampini, M. & Spence, C. (2005) Audiotactile interactions in near and far space. Experimental Brain Reseach, 166, 528-537.
  14. Kitagawa, N. & Spence, C. (2005) Investigating the effect of a transparent barrier on the crossmodal congruency effect. Experimental Brain Research, 161, 62-71.
  15. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Ichihara, S. (2004) Vision of a pictorial hand modulates visual-tactile interactions. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 182-192.
  16. Kitagawa, N., Akutsu, H., & Ichihara, S. (2003) The effect of contrast change on the motion-in-depth perception. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 22, 49-50.
  17. Wada, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Noguchi, K. (2003) Audio-visual integration in temporal perception. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 50, 117-124.
  18. Kitagawa, N. & Ichihara, S. (2002) Hearing visual motion in depth. Nature, 416, 172-174.
  19. Maekawa, K. & Kitagawa, N. (2002) How does speech transmit paralinguistic information? Cognitive Studies, 9, 46-66 (in Japanese).

Conference presentations

  1. Mochida, T., Kimura, T., Hiroya, S., Kitagawa, N., Gomi, H. & Kondo, T. (2011) Effects of temporal asynchrony between sensory and articulatory events on speech perception during speech articulation. Society for Neuroscience 2011, Washington, DC, United States.
  2. Kitagawa, N., Kato, M., & Kashino, M. (2011) The improved sensitivity to crossmodal asynchrony cased by voluntary action: Coparing combinations of sensory modalities. 12th International Multisensory Research Forum, Fukuoka, Japan.
  3. Kitamura, M. S., Kitagawa, N., Koizumi, A., & Kashino, M. (2011) A positive mood enhances the perceptual processing of multiple visual events. International Society for Research on Emotion, Kyoto, Japan.
  4. Koizumi, A., Kitagawa, N., Kondo, H. M., Kitamura, M. S., Sato, T., & Kashino, M. (2011) Serotonin transporter gene and gender affect detection of facial expression. International Society for Research on Emotion, Kyoto, Japan.
  5. Mochida, T., Kimura, T., Hiroya, S., Kitagawa, N., Gomi, H., & Kondo, T. (2010) Effector-specific effect of self-articulatory movement on speech perception. Society for Neuroscience 2010, San Diego, United States.
  6. Kashino, M., Kondo, H. M., Kitagawa, N., Kitamura, M. S., & Nomura, M. (2010) The effects of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism on auditory and visual bistable perception. The 33rd MidWinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Anaheim, United States.
  7. Koizumi, A., Kitagawa, N., Suzuki, M. K., Kondo, H. M., & Kashino, M. (2009) The serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) affects behavioral performance of an emotional Face-Word Stroop task. International Society for Research on Emotion, Leuven, Belgium.
  8. Kitagawa, N., Koizumi, A., Suzuki, M. K., & Kashino, M. (2009) A sad mood decreases perceptual sensitivity to emotional facial expression. International Society for Research on Emotion, Leuven, Belgium.
  9. Kato, M., Kitagawa, N., & Kashino, M. (2009) Recalibration of perceptual timing between one's own action and associated sensory feedback. 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, United States.
  10. Kitagawa, N., Kato, M., & Kashino, M. (2009) Assessing the effect of voluntary action on sensitivity to temporal asynchrony between auditory and somatosensory events. 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, United States.
  11. Suzuki, M. K., Kitagawa, N., Koizumi, A., & Kashino, M. (2008) Emotion biases which you see in a bistable motion pattern. European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  12. Kitagawa, N., Suzuki, M. K., Kondo, H. M., Nomura, M., & Kashino, M. (2008) Perceptual transitions in bistable perception occur correlatively between vision and hearing. European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  13. Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Kitagawa, N., Väljamäe, A., Zampini, M., Murray, M. M., & Spence, C. (2008) Spatial modulation of auditory-somatosensory interactions: effects of stimulated body surface and acoustic spectra. 9th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamburg, Germany.
  14. Kitagawa, N., Kato, M., & Kashino, M. (2008) Voluntary action improves auditory-somatosensory crossmodal temporal resolution. 9th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamburg, Germany.
  15. Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., & Västfjäll, D. (2008) Affective multimodal displays: Acousic spectra modulates perception of auditory-tactile signals. 14th International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris, France.
  16. Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Kitagawa, N., & Ho, S. (2007) Whole-body vibration influences sound localization in the median plane. PRESENCE 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
  17. Kitagawa, N., Igarashi, Y., & Kashino, M. (2007) Audiotactile interaction in continuity perception. 8th International Multisensory Research Forum, Sydney, Australia.
  18. Igarashi, Y., & Kitagawa, N. (2007) Proprioceptive dominance in visuotactile spatial compatibility. World Haptics 2007, Tsukuba, Japan.
  19. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N., & Ichihara, S. (2006) The effect of posture of own hand on visuotactile spatial compatibility. 7th International Multisensory Research Forum, Dublin, Ireland.
  20. Zampini, M., Kitagawa, N., Shore, D. I. & Spence, C. (2005) Spatial modulation of audiotactile temporal order judgments depends on whether stimuli presented from the front or rear. 6th International Multisensory Research Forum, Rovereto, Italy.
  21. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N., Spence, C. & Ichihara, S. (2005) Assessing the influence of a schematic drawing of the hand on tactile discrimination performance. 6th International Multisensory Research Forum, Rovereto, Italy.
  22. Spence, C. & Kitagawa, N. (2004) Investigating the effect of a transparent barrier on multisensory integration. The XXI Annual Cognitive Section Conference of British Psychological Society, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  23. Kitagawa, N. & Spence, C. (2004) Auditory-tactile crossmodal congruency effects in near and far space. 5th International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain.
  24. Wada, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Noguchi, K. (2004) The effect of information reliability on audio-visual interaction in temporal perception. 5th International Multisensory Research Forum, Barcelona, Spain.
  25. Kitagawa, N. & Wada, Y. (2004) Flexible weighting of auditory and visual information in temporal perception. The 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan (Invited talk).
  26. Kitagawa, N. & Igarashi, Y. (2003) Subjective experience of touch induced by a hearing a sound. 4th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Canada.
  27. Igarashi, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Ichihara, S. (2003) The effect of hand picture on tactile discrimination. 4th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Canada.
  28. Wada, Y., Okawa, K., Kitagawa, N. & Noguchi, K. (2003) Audio-visual interaction in judging direction of change of stimulus frequency. 4th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Canada.
  29. Kitagawa, N., Akutsu, H. & Ichihara, S. (2003) Motion-in-depth aftereffect following adaptation to contrast change. 26th European Conference on Visual Perception, Paris, France.
  30. Kitagawa, N. & Ichihara, S. (2002) Adaptation to visual motion-in-depth produces an auditory aftereffect. 3rd Annual meeting, International multisensory research forum, Geneva, Switzerland.
  31. Wada, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Noguchi, K. (2002) A change in flicker rate sometimes drives perceived auditory flutter rate: cross-modal asymmetrical effects in temporal perception. 3rd Annual meeting, International multisensory research forum, Geneva, Switzerland.
  32. Masuda, T., Wada, Y., Kitagawa, N. & Noguchi, K. (2002) Perception of dot spreading pattern -whether auditory loudness change affected impression of "looming" or "expansion"?. International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Hyogo, Japan.
  33. Kitagawa, N. (1999) The changing-loudness aftereffect following adaptation to visual motion-in-depth, 137th regular meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 2nd convention of the European Acoustics Association, Berlin, Germany.


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Updated; 31 Jan 2012