| 1981.4-1985.3 | B.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 1985.4-1987.3 | M.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 1987.4-1990.3 | Ph.D in Psychology [Awarded in 1996], Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 1990.4-1992.3 | Research Associate, ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Laboratories , Japan |
| 1992.4-1999.1 | Research Scientist, NTT Basic Research Laboratories , Japan |
| 1997.10-1998.10 | Honorary Research Fellow, Dept. Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK |
| 1999.1- | Research Scientist, NTT Communication Science Research Laboratories, Japan |
| 2006.4-2012.3 | Visiting professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
| 2008.8-2016.03 | Visiting Professor, Center for Multidisciplinary Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan |
| 2014.04- | Visiting Professor, Leading Graduate School at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan |
| 2018.08- | Honorary Professor, Department of Psychology, Nottingham University, UK |
| 2019.04- | Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Editorial board member of Journal of Vision (2007-), Vision Research (2008-2017) and Multisensory Research (2017-) |
| Member of Science Council of Japan: RENKEI KAIIN (2005.10-2017.9), KAIIN (2017.10-2023.9) |
| Member of Vision Sciences Society, Vision Society of Japan, The Japanese Psychological Association, and The Japanese Psychonomic Society |
| 2006.2 | JSPS prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2006.11 | JPA International Prize, The Japanese Psychological Association |
| 2015.04 | Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |