Research activity information

• Dec. 2017 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Prize

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Research on Flexible Action Control in Body-Environment System

  International academic award

  IRI


• Sep. 2013 Nakayama Foundation for Human Science, The Nakayama Encouragement Award, 「運動の生物科学」

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Structure of variability exhibited by flexible action

  International academic award

  IRI


• Nov. 2009 Kyoto University Museum, Academic Film Expo 2009 Academic Film Competition Award

  University of Tokyo Akachan Project (led by Masato Sasaki)

• Selective Engagement with Specific Invariants in the Perception of Art

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  The perception of artifice or art is inextricably intertwined with the rich regularities manifest in the environment in which individuals are immersed. Taking my cue from James Gibson, I recast the problem of perception of works of art as part of a wider problem of possibilities for perceptual experience and selection of attention towards specific invariants in a populated environment, drawing upon examples from music, sketch comedy, and East Asian calligraphy. When a work of art is viewed not merely as a configuration of stimuli, but rather as something that makes available the information (in Gibson’s terminology) that lies open to further scrutiny, the range of possible discrimination is unlimited. At the same time, through selectively emphasizing specific invariants, a work of art offers the real possibility for active perceivers to discover for themselves what is important, which might otherwise remain unnoticed. Fundamental to theories of perception of artifice is the recognition that our modified environment is still indefinitely rich, in which individuals are provided with open-ended possibilities for tuning in on the specific regularities that are relevant to concerns at a particular time and place.

  Informa UK Limited, May 2024, Ecological Psychology, 36(2) (2), 81 - 94, English, No password, International magazine

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• How do Infants Experience through Hand-to-object Interactions in Everyday Activities at a Nursery Center

  Aoi Ikumi, Nonaka Tetsushi

  We aimed to clarify how infants interact with their surroundings and how this changes as they grow. This study reviewed video-recorded scenes where infants contacted surrounding objects at a nursery center. We identified contacted objects, contact duration, contact-related events, and adult involvement, then examined the developmental changes in how infants interact with surroundings and contingent events. We found that the duration of object contact was shorter for crawlers and walkers than pre-crawlers and longer with adult involvement than without. Crawlers and walkers showed greater variations in patterns of object contact and interaction with adults than pre-crawlers. These results suggest that how infants interact with their surroundings is influenced by adult involvement, and that their own developmental status largely contributes to the diversity of their experiences with objects in the environment.

  JAPAN SOCIETY of RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION, 2024, Early Childhood Care and Education Research Journal, 62(2) (2), 43 - 54, Japanese


• Developmental Cascades

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Hiroe Yamazaki, Chihiro, NIshio

  2024, The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35(4) (4), Japanese

  [Invited]


• Can a human sing with an unseen artificial partner? Coordination dynamics when singing with an unseen human or artificial partner

  Rina Nishiyama, Tetsushi Nonaka

  This study investigated whether a singer’s coordination patterns differ when singing with an unseen human partner versus an unseen artificial partner (VOCALOID 6 voice synthesis software). We used cross-correlation analysis to compare the correlation of the amplitude envelope time series between the partner’s and the participant’s singing voices. We also conducted a Granger causality test to determine whether the past amplitude envelope of the partner helps predict the future amplitude envelope of the participants, or if the reverse is true. We found more pronounced characteristics of anticipatory synchronization and increased similarity in the unfolding dynamics of the amplitude envelopes in the human-partner condition compared to the artificial-partner condition, despite the tempo fluctuations in the human-partner condition. The results suggested that subtle qualities of the human singing voice, possibly stemming from intrinsic dynamics of the human body, may contain information that enables human agents to align their singing behavior dynamics with a human partner.

  2024, Frontiers in Robotics and AI

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• 座位獲得以前の乳児の自発的な手の動きを契機とした養育者の言動：育児記録における検討

  青井 郁美, 野中 哲士

  2024, 生態心理学研究, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• 入園直後の0歳児クラスの保育場面において保育士はいかにモノを利用するのか

  青井 郁美, 野中 哲士

  2024, 認知科学, Japanese, Domestic magazine

  Scientific journal


• Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Enora Gandon, John A. Endler, Thelma Coyle, Reinoud J. Bootsma

  Pottery is a quintessential indicator of human cultural dynamics. Cultural alignment of behavioral repertoires and artifacts has been considered to rest upon two distinct dynamics: selective transmission of information and culture-specific biased transformation. In a cross-cultural field experiment, we tested whether community-specific morphological features of ceramic vessels would arise when the same unfamiliar shapes were reproduced by professional potters from three different communities who threw vessels using wheels. We analyzed the details of the underlying morphogenesis development of vessels in wheel throwing. When expert potters from three different communities of practice were instructed to faithfully reproduce common unfamiliar model shapes that were not parts of the daily repertoires, the morphometric variation in the final shape was not random; rather, different potters produced vessels with more morphometric variation among than within communities, indicating the presence of community-specific deviations of morphological features of vessels. Furthermore, this was found both in the final shape and in the underlying process of morphogenesis; there was more variation in the morphogenetic path among than within communities. These results suggest that the morphological features of ceramic vessels produced by potters reliably and nonrandomly diverge among different communities. The present study provides empirical evidence that collective alignment of morphological features of ceramic vessels can arise from the community-specific habits of fashioning clay.

  Oxford University Press, 2024, PNAS Nexus, 3(2) (2), English, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Two notions of medium and their implications for intelligence

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  In biology, the term medium is defined as a substance that a biological system exists or grows in or that it travels through. In physics, the term medium is defined as a substance that propagates and transmits the energy from one location to another. These two notions of medium in biology and physics are distinct, yet in reality, their referents frequently coincide in the same material systems in the environment. The air, a medium for terrestrial animals in the sense defined in biology, is a medium that transmits light, mechanical waves, and diffuses molecules from the source in the sense defined in physics. A medium that surrounds each cell in the living body in the sense of biology, at the same time, is an excitable medium that propagates electrical events, mechanical stresses, and the variety of chemical molecules in the sense of physics. In this article, I discuss the implications of this coincidence of the two notions of medium in the real world for the evolution and development of intelligent systems.

  IOP Publishing, Oct. 2023, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1292(1) (1), English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Coordinating upper limbs for octave playing on the piano via neuro-musculoskeletal modeling

  Huijiang Wang, Tetsushi Nonaka, Arsen Abdulali, Fumiya Iida

  Understanding the coordination of multiple biomechanical degrees of freedom in biological organisms is crucial for unraveling the neurophysiological control of sophisticated motor tasks. This study focuses on the cooperative behavior of upper-limb motor movements in the context of octave playing on the piano. While the vertebrate locomotor system has been extensively investigated, the coherence and precision timing of rhythmic movements in the upper-limb system remain incompletely understood. Inspired by the spinal cord neuronal circuits (central pattern generator, CPG), a computational neuro-musculoskeletal model is proposed to explore the coordination of upper-limb motor movements during octave playing across varying tempos and volumes. The proposed model incorporates a CPG-based nervous system, a physiologically-informed mechanical body, and a piano environment to mimic human joint coordination and expressiveness. The model integrates neural rhythm generation, spinal reflex circuits, and biomechanical muscle dynamics while considering piano playing quality and energy expenditure. Based on real-world human subject experiments, the model has been refined to study tempo transitions and volume control during piano playing. This computational approach offers insights into the neurophysiological basis of upper-limb motor coordination in piano playing and its relation to expressive features.

  IOP Publishing, Sep. 2023, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, English, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• An Ecological Approach to Intelligence

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  The Robotics Society of Japan, Sep. 2023, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 41(7) (7), 618 - 624, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Normally occuring experience surrounding the development of manipulation

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, Sep. 2023, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23(6) (6), 501 - 506, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Relation between the kinematic synergy controlling swing foot and visual exploration during obstacle crossing

  Momoko Yamagata, Rira Nagai, Kaoru Morihiro, Tetsushi Nonaka

  To step over obstacles of varying heights, two distinct ongoing streams of activities—visual exploration of the environment and gait adjustment— were required to occur concurrently without interfering each other. Yet, it remains unclear whether and how the manner of embodied behavior of visual exploration is related to the synergistic control of foot trajectory to negotiate with the irregular terrain. Thus, we aimed to explore that how the synergistic control of the vertical trajectory of the swing foot (i.e., obstacle clearance) crossing an obstacle is related to the manner of visual exploration of the environment during approach. Twenty healthy young adults crossed an obstacle (depth: 1 cm, width: 60 cm, height: 8 cm) during their comfortable-speed walking. The visual exploration was evaluated as the amount of time spent in fixating the vicinity of the obstacle on the floor during the period from two to four steps prior to crossing the obstacle, and the strengths of kinematic synergy to control obstacle clearance were estimated using the uncontrolled manifold approach. We found that the participants with relatively weak synergy spent more time fixating at the vicinity of the obstacle from two to four steps prior to crossing the obstacle, and those participants exhibited greater amount of head flexion movement compared to those with stronger kinematic synergy. Taking advantage of this complex relationship between exploratory activities (e.g. looking movement) and performative activities (e.g. adjustment of ground clearance) would be crucial to adapt walking in a complex environment.

  Last, Elsevier BV, Jun. 2023, Journal of Biomechanics, 111702 - 111702, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Arsen Abdulali, Chapa Sirithunge, Kieran Gilday, Fumiya Iida

  The softness perception of objects with lower stiffness than that of robotic skin is challenging, as the proportion of the deformation of skin to that of an object's surface is unknown. This makes it difficult to derive the indentation depth typically used for stiffness estimation. To overcome this challenge, we implemented human-inspired softness sensing in a soft anthropomorphic finger based on tactile information alone without using the information about indentation depth or displacement. In the experiments where LSTM networks were trained to discriminate viscoelastic soft objects, we demonstrated that the sensorized robotic finger using tactile information from barometric sensors embedded in its soft skin could successfully learn to discriminate soft objects. By dissociating the relative contribution of the dynamic pattern of pressure distribution and that of local pressure, we further investigated how differences in available tactile information could impact the ability to distinguish the softness of viscoelastic objects. The results demonstrated that the pressure distribution and its change on the soft contact area of the robotic finger provided information to discriminate the softness of viscoelastic objects and that the tactile information about softness was spatiotemporal in nature. The results further implied that nonlinear local dynamics such as hysteresis in local pressure changes can provide additional information about the viscoelasticity of touched objects.

  IEEE, Apr. 2023, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• When do toddlers point during mealtime?: Pointing in the second year of life in everyday situations

  Jun Kasuya, Tetsushi Nonaka

  2023, Frontiers in Psychology, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  While I agree with the distinction between expedient and proper ways of action, I find Jagiello et al.'s account of “stance switching” debatable. Fundamental to theories of cultural evolution is the fact that the shared environment is indefinitely rich, in which individuals are provided with opportunities for learning to tune themselves to specific affordances that are relevant to emerging situations.

  Lead, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Nov. 2022, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Medium and Intelligence

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  一般社団法人 人工知能学会, Nov. 2022, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 37(6) (6), 727 - 734, Japanese, Domestic magazine

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Literature review of flow theory in occupational therapy

  Yoshida Ippei, Hirao Kazuki, Nonaka Tetsushi, Kobayashi Ryuji

  Japanese Association of Occupational Therapists, 2022, Japanese Occupational Therapy Research, 41(1) (1), 13 - 20, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Cultural transmission and perception of vessel shapes among Hebron potters

  Enora Gandon, Tetsushi Nonaka, Thelma Coyle, Erin Coyle, Raphael Sonabend, Chibueze Ogbonnaya, John Endler, Valentine Roux

  Lead, Jul. 2021, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 63, English, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Does the Spatial Layout of a Playground Affect the Play Activities in Young Children? A Pilot Study

  Masashi Sumiya, Tetsushi Nonaka

  Last, May 2021, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 627052 - 627052, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Gaze Pattern Characteristics during Way-Finding in Real World

  NAKAZAWA Go, NONAKA Tetsushi

  人が目的地までの経路をナビゲートする時, 近道を発見し目的地に短距離で到着する人と,近道を発見せず回り道で到達してしまう人に分かれる. 今回の研究では, 其々のパターンに見られる視線を計測した。この計測データから, 近道を発見する人がナビゲーション中に見せる視線の動きと, 遠回りをする人がナビゲーション中に見せる視線の動きの違いを分析する．

  Last, The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, May 2021, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 13(1) (1), 45 - 47, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Spontaneous Hand Movement of a Pre-Sitting Infant and its Environment

  AOI Ikumi, NONAKA Tetsushi

  座位獲得までの生後０か月から７か月頃までの乳児の育児記録をもとに，日常生活において，手が自発的に動いて触れた環境対象についての記述から分析し，対象と手の動きの関係について明らかにしていきたい．43 の記録を自発的に手が触れた18 種の環境の対象によって分類し，それらを５つの視点で分析した．A)姿勢；仰臥位、伏臥位、支座位に分けられた．B）環境にかかわる手の動きの開始；自ら手が向かった対象物と、他者が手に持たせたり置いたりする対象物があった．C)環境にかかわる手の動き；「触る」「握る」「振る」「開く」「移動する」「止める」が見られ，各々が組み合わさって見られる記録があった．D)手の動きにより環境に起こること; 手の行為により環境対象は「音がなる」「揺れる」「落ちる」「見える」「近づく」「ちぎれる」「はねる」「自分の感触」「無変化」という事象が起きていた．E）他者のかかわり；環境内の対象が手の動きにより変化したことに対して，直接的あるいは間接的な他者のかかわりが起こっていた．本研究の結果は，誕生直後から座位前段階までの乳児の手の動作を，環境との関係形成として記述する可能性を示唆するものである．

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, May 2021, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 13(1) (1), 63 - 66, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Structure of variability in scanning movement predicts braille reading performance in children

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito, Thomas A. Stoffregen

  Apr. 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(7182) (7182), 1 - 12, English, No password, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• 座位獲得以前の乳児が日常場面において自発的に手を動かして触れた環境内の対象

  青井郁美, 野中哲士

  2021, 日本発達心理学会大会プログラム(CD-ROM), 32nd


• Social interaction in the emergence of toddler’s mealtime spoon use

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Thomas A. Stoffregen

  Dec. 2020, Developmental Psychobiology, 62(8) (8), 1124 - 1133, English, No password, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Assessing the influence of culture on craft skills: A quantitative study with expert Nepalese potters

  Enora Gandon, Tetsushi Nonaka, Raphael Sonabend, John Endler

  Oct. 2020, PLOS ONE, 15(10) (10), e0239139 - e0239139, English, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Traditional craftspeople are not copycats: Potter idiosyncrasies in vessel morphogenesis

  Enora Gandon, Tetsushi Nonaka, John A. Endler, Thelma Coyle, Reinoud J. Bootsma

  Lead, Sep. 2020, PLOS ONE, 15(9) (9), e0239362 - e0239362, English, International magazine, Co-authored internationally

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Development of handwriting: An Ecological Approach

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  書字技能の習得は，他の多くの道具使用と同様に，手持ち操作の習熟を要するものである．と同時に，書字の技能とその習得の過程においては，他の道具使用とは異なる，固有の事情や制約もまた存在する．たとえばそのひとつとして，書字動作およびその習熟が，他者による識別を可能にする機会を外部の環境内にもたらすことに向けられているという，書字の機能がそもそも社会的なものであるという事情が挙げられる．本稿ではこうした書字技能特有の事情を考慮しつつ，字を書く身体動作において冗長な自由度がどのように組織化されているのか，また字を書くことを学ぶ中で子どもの動作がどのように変化するのかという点について，周囲の環境とのあいだの関係形成という視点から事例とともに考察する．

  Society of Biomechanisms Japan, Sep. 2020, Journal of the Society of Biomechanisms, 44(4) (4), 203 - 210, Japanese, No password

  [Invited]

  添付ファイルのURL


• Lecture by Shizuko HIRYU: Biosonar Systems of Bats: Active Space Perception by Echolocation

  NONAKA Tetsushi, SATO Yuki

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, Apr. 2020, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 12(1) (1), 25 - 25, Japanese


• Locating the inexhaustible: Material, medium, and ambient information

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Mar. 2020, Frontiers in Psychology, 11:447, 1 - 11, English, No password, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• The material basis of perceptual information

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  I present an approach to the problems of perception that explicitly considers the material basis of the perceptual information picked up by active agents. Taking into account the reservoir of information external to the perceiver makes it possible to study activity before sensory signals have been aroused by stimuli, an activity that orients the organs of perception and explores for the external information. Drawing on J. J. Gibsonʼs ecological approach and the recent discussions on reservoir computing, I illustrate how the consideration of the material basis of potentially informative patterns could fundamentally change the traditional theories on perception.

  The Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, Feb. 2020, Kagaku tetsugaku, 52(2) (2), 21 - 40, Japanese, No password

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Visual movement coordination in accurate and expert traditional skills: Consideration of eye skills, MEMOMI, for Japanese fan making

  木崎圭介, 野中哲士

  2020, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 37th


• Evaluation of the Eye Movement Reduction Effect of Balloon Caption Using Eye Tracking Hardware

  江草遼平, 楠房子, 野中哲士, 稲垣成哲

  In this study, we measure and analyze viewer's gaze data when watching characters with subtitles, and reveal the differences in information secure by balloon captions and fixed subtitles quantitatively. Since the balloon caption is displayed in the vicinity of the speaker, the amount of movement of the line of sight is reduced more than the fixed subtitle, and it is presumed that the correspondence between the speaker and the subtitle is easy. In order to reveal these effectiveness, from the three viewpoints; fixation time ratio to total, time line of sight vertical movement distance per unit time(sec), total saccade angle with unit time. As a result, it was revealed that the balloon caption tends to have a smaller gaze moving distance of the viewer than the fixed subtitle, accompanying saccade tends to decrease.

  Human Interface Society, Nov. 2019, ヒューマンインタフェース学会論文誌(CD-ROM), 21(3) (3), 381 - 390, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• Psychology of Material: Searching for a New Niche in Psychology

  MIGITA Masao, NONAKA Tetsushi, SAITO Hanna, MORIYAMA Toru

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, Sep. 2018, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 11(2) (2), 10 - 11, Japanese


• Mother-Infant Interaction in the Emergence of a Tool-Using Skill at Mealtime: A Process of Affordance Selection

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Eugene C. Goldfield

  Jul. 2018, Ecological Psychology, 30(3) (3), 278 - 298, English, No password

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第10回）見るからだ

  野中 哲士

  金剛出版, 2018, 臨床心理学, 18(1)(1) (1), 113 - 119, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• How Does the Place Influence the Creating Process in Choreography?: The Case of Contemporary Dance Production

  赤木満里奈, 野中哲士

  2018, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 35th


• Gesture and speech as teaching and learning tools in practicing chorus

  山本真秀, 野中哲士

  2018, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 35th


• Adjusting challenge-skill balance to improve the quality of life in older adults: A Randomized Control Trial

  Yoshida, I, Mima, H, Nonaka, T, Kobayashi, R, Hirao, K

  Dec. 2017, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 72(1) (1), English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ : 地上環境の身体論(第9回)視点とナビゲーション

  野中 哲士

  金剛出版, Nov. 2017, 臨床心理学 = Japanese journal of clinical psychology, 17(6) (6), 851 - 857, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ : 地上環境の身体論(第8回)生あるものの運動法則

  野中 哲士

  金剛出版, Sep. 2017, 臨床心理学 = Japanese journal of clinical psychology, 17(5) (5), 715 - 721, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Cultural entrainment of motor skill development: Learning to write hiragana in Japanese primary school

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Sep. 2017, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY, 59(6) (6), 749 - 766, English, No password, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURLLink to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第7回）天使主義的虚偽

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, May 2017, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17(3) (3), 381 - 390, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ 地上環境の身体論(第6回)食べるからだ

  野中 哲士

  金剛出版, Mar. 2017, 臨床心理学 = Japanese journal of clinical psychology, 17(2) (2), 245 - 251, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第6回）食べるからだ

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Mar. 2017, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17(2) (2), 241 - 247, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第5回）からだの技能とそのありか

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, Jan. 2017, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17(1) (1), 121 - 127, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第4回）字を書くからだ（その２）

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, Nov. 2016, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 16(6) (6), 744 - 749, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• The adjustment method for the "challenge-skill balance" based on the flow model in occupational therapy process : Through the application to the two cases at an adult day program

  吉田 一平, 平尾 一樹, 小林 隆司, 野中 哲士

  三輪書店, Oct. 2016, 作業療法ジャーナル, 50(11) (11), 1239 - 1246, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第3回）字を書くからだ

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, Sep. 2016, 臨床心理学, 16(5) (5), 617 - 623, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Symposium on the Perceptual Basis of Aperture Passability Judgment

  Nobuhiro Furuyama, Hiroyuki Mishima, Shin Maruyama, Tetsushi Nonaka

  Jul. 2016, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51, 1010 - 1011, English


• Ecology of the development of human tool-using skills

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Jul. 2016, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51, 162 - 162, English


• Regulation of gait in getting on an escalator

  Ayumi Ohtagaki, Tetsushi Nonaka

  Jul. 2016, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51, 1158 - 1158, English


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第2回）歩くからだ（その２）まわりとわたしをつなぐもの

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, Jul. 2016, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 16(4) (4), 491 - 498, Japanese, No password

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• たのしいからだ: 地上環境の身体論（第1回）歩くからだ（その1）「歩く」からだの生まれるところ

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  金剛出版, May 2016, Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 16(3) (3), 361 - 367, Japanese, No password

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• 高齢者の作業に対する主観的評価の分析―フローモデルを基にした検討―

  吉田一平, 吉田一平, 美馬寛子, 野中哲士, 小林隆司, 平尾一樹

  日本作業療法士協会 ; 1982-, Apr. 2016, 作業療法, 35(2) (2), 113‐122 - 122, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• Specificity of Postural Sway to the Demands of a Precision Task in Patients Recovering from Stroke

  Shogo Hiragami, Tetsushi Nonaka, Yasuo Suzuki

  2016, STUDIES IN PERCEPTION AND ACTION XII, 124 - 128, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• The Reciprocity of Environment and Action in Self-Righting Beetles: The Textures of the Ground and an Object, and the Claws

  Masato Sasaki, Tetsushi Nonaka

  2016, ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 28(2) (2), 78 - 107, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The utility of a care model to individualize rehabilitation in adults aged over 80 years

  Fukumi Hiragami, Tetsushi Nonaka, Keisuke Saitoh, Yasuo Suzuki

  Apr. 2015, TOPICS IN STROKE REHABILITATION, 22(2) (2), 102 - 115, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 第96回公開シンポジウム 子どもたちが学び育つ環境 : 教育詩学・歴史人類学

  鈴木 晶子, 野中 哲士, 一色 伸夫

  甲南女子学園, Mar. 2015, 子ども学, (17) (17), 83 - 106, Japanese


• 外部イベントと同期する人の行為-エスカレーターの考察より-

  太田垣歩, 野中哲士

  2015, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 32nd


• 漆芸用ヘラ製作過程における技能伝達

  小谷俊輔, 野中哲士

  2015, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 32nd


• 高齢者の挑戦水準・能力水準バランスを調整した作業療法がQOLに与える効果-ランダム化比較研究-

  吉田一平, 吉田一平, 美馬寛子, 野中哲士, 平尾一樹, 小林隆司

  (一社)日本作業療法士協会, 2015, 日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), 49th, O1314 - O1314, Japanese


• The development of knowledge and skills as Niche construction

  Mishima Hiroyuki, Kono Tetsuya, Mori Naohisa, Menary Richard, Maruyama Shin, Nonaka Tetsushi

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 2015, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 79, SS - 040-SS-040, Japanese


• Movement Pattern Variability in Stone Knapping: Implications for the Development of Percussive Traditions

  Robert Rein, Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril

  Nov. 2014, PLOS ONE, 9(11) (11), e113567, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Structure of Variability as a Focus of Movement Analysis

  野中哲士

  臨床歩行分析研究会, Oct. 2014, 臨床歩行分析研究会誌, 1(1) (1), 9‐17 - 17, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• One month of contemporary dance modulates fractal posture in aging

  Olivier A. Coubard, Lena Ferrufino, Tetsushi Nonaka, Oscar Zelada, Blandine Bril, Gilles Dietrich

  Feb. 2014, FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE, 6(17) (17), 1 - 12, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Fractal Dynamics in Dexterous Tool Use: The Case of Hammering Behavior of Bead Craftsmen

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril

  Feb. 2014, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 40(1) (1), 218 - 231, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• 椅子からの立ち上がり動作における関節運動の協調性は加齢の影響を受けるか

  阿南雅也, 新小田幸一, 高橋真, 谷本研二, 服部宏香, 脇本祥夫, 井原拓哉, 木藤伸宏, 野中哲士

  公益社団法人 日本理学療法士協会, 2014, 日本理学療法学術大会(Web), 49th(大会特別号2) (大会特別号2), 0893 - 0893, Japanese


• どのような働き方が継続を可能にするのか-精神障害を有する人の就労ニーズを探る-

  港美雪, 籔脇健司, 岩田美幸, 野中哲士, 橋本久美子

  (一社)日本作業療法士協会, 2014, 日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), 48th, OC 2 - 3, Japanese


• 脳卒中患者のタスクに応じた姿勢制御の特性

  平上尚吾, 平上尚吾, 野中哲士, 鈴木康夫

  (一社)日本作業療法士協会, 2014, 日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), 48th, PPD - 14, Japanese


• 達成可能な作業療法目標設定に向けたクライアントの心理状態の把握-フローモデルとQOLの関連性-

  吉田一平, 吉田一平, 野中哲士, 平尾一樹, 小林隆司

  (一社)日本作業療法士協会, 2014, 日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), 48th, POC - 14, Japanese


• Motor Variability but Functional Specificity: The Case of a C4 Tetraplegic Mouth Calligrapher

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Apr. 2013, Ecological Psychology, 25(2) (2), 131 - 154, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• Coordination Strategies Used in Stone Knapping

  Robert Rein, Blandine Bril, Tetsushi Nonaka

  Apr. 2013, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 150(4) (4), 539 - 550, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Reading Gibson 66: Symposium from 4th JSEP

  SASAKI Masato, NONAKA Tetsushi, SOMEYA Masayoshi, HOSODA Naoya

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, Apr. 2013, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 6(1) (1), 1 - 44, Japanese


• Reading Gibson 1966

  Sasaki, M, Nonaka, T, Someya, M, Hosoda, N

  Mar. 2013, Journal of Ecological Psychology, 6(1) (1), 5 - 48, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• What is the exploratory behavior a constant function of?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  J.J. Gibsonの知覚システム論を背景とし，周囲の情報を浮かび上がらせ，獲得する行動の仕組みや成り立ちを検討することを通して人間の知覚を理解しようとする試みがこれまで行われてきた．本論文では，近年のこうした試みの中から，片麻痺患者によるダイナミックタッチ研究（Silva et al., 2009）をレビューする．同研究は，神経や運動に何らかの障害を抱えた患者の場合でも，環境の対象を特定するような情報に対して，多様な探索行動の組織を通してアクセスし得る事例を示した．行為を支える環境の特性の知覚における探索行動の不変を抽出するこうしたアプローチが，リハビリテーションにもたらす示唆について考察する．

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, Mar. 2013, Journal of Ecological Psychology, 6(1) (1), 51 - 54, Japanese

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• The world that coheres where behavior takes place

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Mar. 2013, UP, 3月号, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• 二一世紀身体 : ギブソン『生態学的知覚システム』の転回(2)ふるまいが適う秩序

  野中 哲士

  東京大学出版会, Mar. 2013, UP, 42(3) (3), 22 - 28, Japanese


• Kibi International University Work Sharing Project: University's contribution to the local community through increasing access to employment for people with mental health problems

  Minato, M, Yabuwaki, K, Iwata, M, Mimura, M, Nonaka, T, Hashimoto, K. K

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2013, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 14(14) (14), 27 - 32, Japanese

  Research institution


• Ecology of action development

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2013, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 14(14) (14), 13 - 20, Japanese


• The ecology of agency

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  岩波書店, Jan. 2013, Shisou, (1066) (1066), 346 - 365, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• 座談会 (特集 ギブソン66を読む)

  佐々木 正人, 野中 哲士, 染谷 昌義

  日本生態心理学会, 2013, 生態心理学研究, 6(1) (1), 19 - 44, Japanese


• What exists in the environment that motivates the emergence, transmission, and sophistication of tool use?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Aug. 2012, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 35(4) (4), 233 - +, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  添付ファイルのURL


• Nesting of asymmetric functions in skilled bimanual action: Dynamics of hammering behavior of bead craftsmen

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril

  Feb. 2012, HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE, 31(1) (1), 55 - 77, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Exploratory study on individual rehabilitation needs after a stroke: A patient care perspective

  Hiragami, F, Nonaka, T, Saito, K, Suzuki, Y

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2012, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institue of Health and Welfare, 13(13) (13), 21 - 26, Japanese


• Motor variability but task specificity: The case of a C4 Quadriplegic mouth calligrapher

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2012, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 13(13) (13), 15 - 20, Japanese


• リハビリテーションにおける代理的スキルの発達 四肢麻痺をもつ書家の書字技能の検討

  野中哲士, 野中哲士

  2012, 日本発達心理学会大会論文集, 23rd


• Functional mastery of percussive technology in nut-cracking and stone-flaking actions: experimental comparison and implications for the evolution of the human brain

  Blandine Bril, Jeroen Smaers, James Steele, Robert Rein, Tetsushi Nonaka, Gilles Dietrich, Elena Biryukova, Satoshi Hirata, Valentine Roux

  Jan. 2012, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 367(1585) (1585), 59 - 74, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 多と実在

  野中 哲士

  岩波書店, Jan. 2012, 思想, 1054(1054) (1054), 64 - 81, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Practice of contemporary dance promotes stochastic postural control in aging

  Lena Ferrufino, Blandine Bril, Gilles Dietrich, Tetsushi Nonaka, Olivier A. Coubard

  Dec. 2011, FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 5, 169 - 169, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Textility of Making

  Ingold, T, Nonaka, T

  岩波書店, Apr. 2011, Shisou, 1044(1044) (1044), 187 - 206, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• 医療および保健福祉教育の課題と専門家教育の促進

  平上二九三, 野中哲士, 横井輝夫, 斉藤圭介

  Mar. 2011, 吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所研究紀要, (12) (12), 21 - 26


• 熟練理学療法士の臨床現場における実践スキルの抽出

  山上真弘, 景山美季, 野中哲士, 平上二九三

  公益社団法人 日本理学療法士協会, 2011, 理学療法学, 38(Suppl.2) (Suppl.2), GeOS3073 - GeOS3073, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• 課題前の足底に対する触圧覚刺激の認識が立位姿勢制御に与える影響-非線形時系列解析を用いた質的評価の検討-

  安田和弘, 野中哲士, 桜井良太, 川崎翼, 樋口貴広

  公益社団法人 日本理学療法士協会, 2011, 理学療法学, 38(Suppl.2) (Suppl.2), AbPI2021 - AbPI2021, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• Education of reflective practitioners in School of Health Science and Social Welfare

  HIRAGAMI, Fukumi, NONAKA, Tetsushi, YOKOI, Teruo, SAITO, Keisuke, KYOUGOKU, Makoto, MURAKAMI, Shigeko, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Science, KIBI International University, Research Institute of Health and Welfare, KIBI International University, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health Science, KIBI International University, Department of Nursing, School of Health Science, KIBI International University

  順正学園吉備国際大学, 2011, 吉備国際大学保健福祉科学部紀要, 21(21) (21), 11 - 18, Japanese

  Research institution


• 吉備国際大学保健医療福祉学部における新しい専門家（プロフェッショナル）教育の展開

  平上 二九三, 野中 哲士, 横井 輝夫, 斉藤 圭介

  2011, 吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所紀要, 12, 21 - 26

  Scientific journal


• Dynamics of asymmetric bimanual coordination in dexterous tool-use

  野中 哲士, ブランディン・ブリル

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2011, Journal of Kibi International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 12(12) (12), 33 - 36, Japanese


• 一枚のデッサンが成立する過程―姿勢に現れる視覚の役割

  西崎 実穂, 野中 哲士, 佐々木 正人

  2011, 質的心理学研究, 10, 64 - 78

  [Refereed]


• 行為の柔軟性とリハビリテーション

  野中 哲士

  2011, 吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所紀要, 12(12) (12), 37 - 40


• How can we develop students into professionals? -Pedagogical challenges at School of Health Science and Social Welfare, Kibi International University-

  Hiragami, F, Nonaka, T, Yokoi, T, Saito, K

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2011, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 12(12) (12), 21 - 26, Japanese


• Dynamics of Asymmetric bimanual coordination in dexterous tool-use

  Nonaka, T, Bril, B

  高梁学園吉備国際大学保健福祉研究所, 2011, Journal of KIBI International University Research Institute of Health and Welfare, 12(12) (12), 33 - 36, Japanese


• The Role of Expertise in Tool Use: Skill Differences in Functional Action Adaptations to Task Constraints

  Blandine Bril, Robert Rein, Tetsushi Nonaka, Francis Wenban-Smith, Gilles Dietrich

  Aug. 2010, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 36(4) (4), 825 - 839, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• How do stone knappers predict and control the outcome of flaking? Implications for understanding early stone tool technology

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril, Robert Rein

  Aug. 2010, JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 59(2) (2), 155 - 167, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• 初期石器の打ち割りにおける剥片のかたちの予測と制御

  野中哲士, BRIL Blandine, REIN Robert

  2010, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 27th


• Dynamics of the act of drawing from life

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Miho Nishizaki, Masato Sasaki

  The picture-production process by the painter is not easily studied. By obtaining
  data about painters at work, this study explores the issues of how the acts of visual
  exploration and trace-making manipulation are organized into a coherent act, and how
  the organization evolves over time as the surface of the paper bears new meaning. On a
  blank sheet of paper, two painters were asked to draw a bronze figure of a foot. Both the
  picture on the paper and the movement of the painters were recorded by digital video
  camera and 3D motion capture system. Using RQA strategies, the dynamical proper-
  ties of the movement of the painters were quantified. It was found that the movement
  of the head to shift gaze between the figure and the paper, and the movement of the
  hand holding a pencil was reciprocally coupled in such a way not to be dysfunctional
  to each other. Furthermore, as the surface of the paper progressively gets modified, the
  coordination between the head and hand movement evolved over time reflecting the
  functional demands of different phases of picture production process.

  Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 2010, Cognitive Studies, 17(4) (4), 691 - 712, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• When a Toddler Starts Handling Multiple Detached Objects: Descriptions of a Toddler's Niche Through Everyday Actions

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Masato Sasaki

  Apr. 2009, ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 21(2) (2), 155 - 183, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• A Child's Play with Toy Blocks : Describing the Surface Layout of the Environment

  Nonaka Tetsushi

  Using video clips collected for a video encyclopedia of infancy (Sasaki, 2008), a case study was conducted on the changing processes of a toddler's behavior. Naturalistic observations were conducted of the child gathering toy blocks in a container, between the ages of 14-24 months. This investigation of the environment surrounding the toddler's behavior revealed that properties of the surface layout affected his postural variations that made possible goal-directed action of gathering blocks in a container. In addition, the boy's behavior was regulated in such a way to maintain an invariant affordance relationship between detached objects and the child. Analysis of changes in his activities indicated that that awareness of meaningful properties of the environment allowed actions to be selected among those that are afforded to flexibly deal with context-conditioned variation.

  Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, 2009, The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20(2) (2), 112 - 124, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Optical 'pushes' as inertial forces: the role of d'Almbert's principle in intentional dynamics

  Shaw Robert E, Kinsella-Shaw Jeffrey, Nonaka Tetsushi(Translation

  日本生態心理学会, 2008, Journal of ecological psychology, 3(1) (1), 3 - 19, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• 習熟者によるデッサンというイベントの非線形ダイナミクス解析

  野中哲士, 西崎実穂, 佐々木正人

  2007, 日本認知科学会大会発表論文集, 24th, 110 - 111, Japanese


• Global Array and Affordances

  Nonaka Tetsushi

  Stoffregen & Bardy (2001) によって提唱されたグローバルアレー(Global array)の概念とStoffregen (2003) によるアフォーダンス論を概観し，双方の議論が一貫した主張に基づいていることを示した上で，Gibsonの理論との比較を通してその主張を批判的に考察する．グローバルアレーに関しては，アフォーダンスの様々なレベルに応じて，それを特定する情報が様々なレベルで存在すること，また，情報の存在するエネルギー配列が単数か複数かという問題設定は，直接知覚に関して本質的な問題設定ではないことを示す．アフォーダンスに関しては，相対主義的なアフオーダンスの解釈を招きかねないStoffregenの議論の問題点を指摘した上で，環境の事実としてのアフォーダンスに，より普遍性の低い行動の事実としてのアフォーダンスが入れ子になっているという新たな見方を提示する．

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, 2004, Journal of ecological psychology, 1(1) (1), 169 - 181, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

• 入園直後の0歳児クラスの保育場面において保育士はいかにモノを利用するのか—Object-mediated caregiver-infant interactions observed during the first days of daycare—特集 価値に向き合う認知科学 : 対話・身体・記述

  青井 郁美, 野中 哲士

  名古屋 : 日本認知科学会, Sep. 2024, 認知科学 = Cognitive studies : bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society / 日本認知科学会 編, 31(3) (3), 481 - 495, Japanese


• 音楽家から研究者へ 環境と人間行動の関係を探究

  野中哲士

  Dec. 2021, 神戸大学 インタビュー, Japanese


• 環境と柔軟につながるやわらかい知能の原理に迫る

  野中哲士

  Sep. 2020, みらいぶっく, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction commerce magazine


• Sandpit Landscape Provides Children with Excitement and Pleasure: Designing a Schoolyard that Increases Attention and Learning

  Masashi Sumiya, Tetsushi Nonaka

  Child Research Net, Jan. 2020, Child Research Net, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction commerce magazine


• The 19th International Conference on Perception and Action

  NONAKA Tetsushi

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, 30 Dec. 2017, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 10(1) (1), 38 - 38, Japanese


• ISEPA（International Society for Ecological Psychology America）Meeting at the Madren Conference Center, Clemson University

  NONAKA Tetsushi

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, 01 Sep. 2016, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 9(1) (1), 70 - 70, Japanese


• Processes behind the Publication of The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception : An Interview with William M. Mace

  NONAKA Tetsushi

  J.J. Gibson(1979)による“The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception”公刊 35 年を記念し，同書が執筆されるプロセスを当時垣間見ていたWilliam Mace 氏にインタビューを行った．インタビューは 2013 年 7 月 9 日の夕方，ポルトガルのエストリルで行われた17th International Conference on Perception and Action の空き時間に行われ，佐々木正人氏（東京大学），三嶋博之氏（早稲田大学）が同席した．

  The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, 2014, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 7(1) (1), 13 - 17, Japanese

• The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Contributor, Towards an Ecology of Evolving Skills, Oxford University Press, Mar. 2024, English, From an ecological point of view, archaeological and cognitive sciences share one common goal: We must account for how to control encounters with the surfaces, substances, plants, animals, and events of the environment that we are, like it or not, obliged to cope with and use as a species, as individuals, and as groups of individuals in the past and present. The ability to control encounters with the environment to achieve particular functional outcomes is called “skill.” The purpose of this chapter is to suggest some directions for coming to grips with the ecology of skill. Taking my cue from James Gibson’s ecological approach to perception, I argue that the study of skill requires an approach that takes into account the whole system of relations constituted by the presence of the developing organism-person in a richly structured environment selected and modified by a unique population. Adopting an ecological perspective, this chapter presents empirical research on the development of craft skill as it pertains to archaeology, using two key examples—stone knapping and pottery—that had significance in the evolution of the habits of human life. By referring to empirical evidence, this chapter highlights the primacy of rich possibilities offered by the environment toward the use of which skills evolve., ISBN: 9780192895950

  [Refereed]

  DOI


• The Modern Legacy of Gibson’s Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Contributor, Description of the world that agential systems fit into, Routledge, Feb. 2024, English, The defining feature of biological agents is that they strive to control encounters with the environment to obtain beneficial encounters while preventing harmful encounters. Perceiving the “affordances” of things is perceiving what encounters with them would afford. In so doing, agents are coordinated to a particular scale of nature in which meanings and problems reside, whose behavior being a constant function of what encounters with the environment would afford. Naturally, an effort to understand perception and behavior of agents requires an adequate level of description of the world that their evolution, development, and behavior fit into; otherwise, it would be like watching a tennis match with half the court occluded from view. What a thing affords an agent is determined by what it is--an invariant combination of properties of the thing (e.g., its surface layout, passive dynamics, resistance to stress, stiffness, viscosity, size)--taken with reference to the agent. In this article, I discuss how the notion of affordance paves a new way of penetrating the centuries-old division between the physical world (what a thing is) and its meaning (what a thing affords) by developing an adequate level of description of the world that evolving agential systems fit into., ISBN: 9781032500195

  [Refereed]

  Scholarly book

  DOI


• 生きていること : 動く、知る、記述する

  Ingold, Tim, 柴田, 崇, 野中, 哲士, 佐古, 仁志, 原島, 大輔, 青山, 慶, 柳澤, 田実

  左右社, Nov. 2021, Japanese, ISBN: 9784865280371


• Perception as information detection : reflections on Gibson's Ecological approach to visual perception

  Nonaka, T. (Eds, Wagman, J. B, Blau, J. J

  Contributor, The Triad of Medium, Substances, and Surfaces for the Theory of Further Scrutiny, Routledge, 2020, 21-36, English, This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on the landmark volume by J. J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979/2015). Gibson’s book was presented as a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates, develops, and updates each of the 16 chapters in Gibson’s original volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field, from the United States, Europe, and Asia, to reflect on Gibson’s original chapters, expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibson’s classic with the current state of the field, as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception. This book is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception, vision, cognitive science, ecological psychology, and philosophy of mind., ISBN: 9780367312961

  [Refereed]

  Scholarly book

  DOI


• 質的研究法マッピング

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Contributor, Ecological Approach, 新曜社, Sep. 2019, 116-122, Japanese, ISBN: 9784788516472

  Scholarly book


• 身体とアフォーダンス : ギブソン『生態学的知覚システム』から読み解く

  染谷, 昌義, 細田, 直哉, 野中, 哲士, 佐々木, 正人

  金子書房, Apr. 2018, Japanese, ISBN: 9784760893928


• Body and Affordances

  Someya, M, Hosoda, N, Nonaka, T, Sasaki, M

  Joint work, 金子書房, Apr. 2018, ISBN: 476089392X


• パフォーマンスがわかる12の理論（鹿毛雅治編）

  野中 哲士

  Contributor, Theory10-パフォーマンスの生態学, 金剛出版, Apr. 2017, 295-320, Japanese, ISBN: 4772415483

  Scholarly book

  


• 具体の知能

  野中, 哲士

  金子書房, Jul. 2016, Japanese, ISBN: 9784760893904


• Gutai no Chinou

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Single work, 金子書房, Jul. 2016, ISBN: 4760893903


• Specificity of postural sway to the demands of a precision task in patients recovering from stroke. In T. Davis, P. Passos, M. Dicks, & J. Weast-Knapp. (Eds.), Studies in perception and action XII

  Hiragami, S, Nonaka, T, Suzuki, Y

  Contributor, pp.124-128, New York: Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2013, English, ISBN: 9781848725256

  Scholarly book


• 身体 : 環境とのエンカウンター

  佐々木, 正人, 丸山, 慎, 山崎, 寛恵, 青山, 慶, 工藤, 和俊, 三嶋, 博之, 池上, 高志, 野中, 哲士, 宮原, 克典, 伊藤, 邦武, 染谷, 昌義

  東京大学出版会, Jun. 2013, Japanese, ISBN: 9784130141314


• The Body: Encountering the Environment

  佐々木正人, 丸山慎, 山崎寛恵, 青山慶, 工藤和俊, 三嶋博之, 池上高志, 野中哲士, 宮原克典, 伊藤邦武, 染谷昌義

  Contributor, Ch7. The Resources for Change, The University of Tokyo Press, Jun. 2013, 175-196, Japanese, ISBN: 4130141317

  Scholarly book


• Dynamics of Asymmetric Bimanual Coordination in Dexterous Tool-use. In E. Charles & L. J. Smart. (Eds.), Studies in perception and action XI

  Nonaka, T, Bril, B

  Contributor, pp.224-229, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2011


• Functional tuning of action to task constraints in tool-use: The case of stone knapping. In Wagman J. B., & Pagano, C. C. (Eds.), Studies in perception and action X

  Bril, B, Rein, R, Nonaka, T

  Contributor, pp.5-10, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2009, English, ISBN: 9781848728806

  Scholarly book


• Affordances for Infant Development: Akachan Movie Database

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Contributor, Chapter 2 Section 2 What is around when actions develop in early childhood?, Tokyo: Shougakukan, Nov. 2008, 60-71, Japanese, ISBN: 4098373750

  Scholarly book


• Dynamics of the Act of Drawing from Life. In Cummins-Sebree, S., Riley, M. A., & Shockley, K. (Eds.), Studies in perception and action IX

  Nonaka, T, Nishizaki, M, Sasaki, M

  Contributor, pp.41-45, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, English, ISBN: 9780805863574

  Scholarly book


• 知性の創発と起源 (知の科学)（人工知能学会／鈴木宏昭編）

  野中 哲士, 鈴木 宏昭, 人工知能学会, JSAI

  Contributor, ３章 遊離物と知性, オーム社, Jul. 2006, 66-92, Japanese, ISBN: 4274202690

  Scholarly book

  

• 保育園の乳幼児クラスにおける歌・リズムを伴うやりとりの様相

  朝比奈茉穂, 野中哲士

  日本発達心理学会第36回大会, Mar. 2025, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 乳児の物との関わりについての縦断研究姿勢発達に伴う変容過程

  青井郁美, 野中哲士

  日本発達心理学会第36回大会, Mar. 2025, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Goal-directed behavior: 物理系から社会まで

  大須賀公一, 野中哲士, 青沼仁志, 小谷野由紀

  第37回自律分散システム・シンポジウム, Jan. 2025, Japanese, 計測自動制御学会 システム・情報部門, 山口市産業交流拠点施設 KDDI維新ホール, Japan

  Public symposium


• 人は歌声合成ソフトと歌えるか：歌唱時における音声の協調ダイナミクスの検討

  西山理奈, 野中哲士

  日本音楽知覚認知学会2024年度秋季研究発表会, Dec. 2024, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 雅楽演奏の時間構造はどのように他者と共有されるのか：口唱歌の師弟間の伝承の発達的検討

  村上瞳, 鎌田紗弓, 野中哲士

  日本音楽知覚認知学会2024年度秋季研究発表会, Dec. 2024, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 赤ちゃんに見る多様で連続的な発達

  野中 哲士

  日本赤ちゃん学会第24回学術集会, Aug. 2024, Japanese, 日本赤ちゃん学会, 東京大学伊藤国際学術研究センター, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 人は歌声合成ソフトと歌えるか：歌唱時の音声における協調ダイナミクスの検討

  西山理奈, 野中哲士

  音楽の科学研究会第36回研究会, Jul. 2024, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities

  Nonaka, T, Gandon, E, Endler, J. A, Coyle, T, Bootsma, R.J

  The XXII International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA 2024), Jun. 2024, English, The International Society for Ecological Psychology, Trondheim, Norway, Pottery is a quintessential indicator of human cultural dynamics. Cultural alignment of behavioral repertoires and artifacts has been considered to rest upon two distinct dynamics: selective transmission of information and culture-specific biased transformation. In a cross-cultural field experiment, we tested whether community-specific morphological features of ceramic vessels would arise when the same unfamiliar shapes were reproduced by professional potters from three different communities who threw vessels using wheels. We analyzed the details of the underlying morphogenesis development of vessels in wheel throwing. When expert potters from three different communities of practice were instructed to faithfully reproduce common unfamiliar model shapes that were not parts of the daily repertoires, the morphometric variation in the final shape was not random; rather, different potters produced vessels with more morphometric variation among than within communities, indicating the presence of community-specific deviations of morphological features of vessels. Furthermore, this was found both in the final shape and in the underlying process of morphogenesis; there was more variation in the morphogenetic path among than within communities. These results suggest that the morphological features of ceramic vessels produced by potters reliably and nonrandomly diverge among different communities. The present study provides empirical evidence that collective alignment of morphological features of ceramic vessels can arise from the community-specific habits of fashioning clay., International conference, Co-authored internationally

  Oral presentation


• “いいかげん”を科学して未来を創る ソフトロボット学5

  野中哲士, 石川将人, 大脇大, 岩本憲泰

  ロボティクス・メカトロニクス 講演会 2024, May 2024, Japanese, 日本ロボット学会ソフトロボティクス研究専門委員会, ライトキューブ宇都宮, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Keynote oral presentation


• 発達心理学者は発達にどうアプローチするのか

  柳岡開地, 畑野快, 平井真洋, 野中哲士

  日本発達心理学会第35回大会, Mar. 2024, Japanese, 一般社団法人日本発達心理学会, 大阪国際交流センター, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 保育園の0歳児クラスにおいて歌やリズムが果たす機能

  朝比奈茉穂, 野中哲士

  日本発達心理学会第35回大会, Mar. 2024, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 乳児が物に触れることに付随して起こる保育士の関わり

  青井郁美, 野中哲士

  日本発達心理学会第35回大会, Mar. 2024, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Development of self in a populated environment

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS) 2023, Nov. 2023, English, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, The defining feature of biological agents is that they strive to control encounters with the environment to obtain beneficial encounters while preventing harmful encounters. Perceiving the affordances of things is perceiving what encounters with them would afford. In so doing, agents are coordinated to a particular scale of nature in which meanings and problems reside, whose behavior being a constant function of what encounters with the environment would afford. In this talk, I focus on one aspect of the environment—a populated environment, which is not just a terrestrial environment, but a shared environment populated with other active, motivated perceivers and actors. I discuss the issue of how a populated environment motivates and entrains the individual development of perceiving and acting, drawing on the empirical examples of development of human everyday skills of walking, writing, and making., International conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 保育園の0歳児クラスにおける歌やリズムの果たす機能

  朝比奈茉穂, 野中哲士

  日本質的心理学会第20回大会, Nov. 2023, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• On those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japanese Association of QUalitative Psychology 20th Annual Conference, Nov. 2023, Japanese, Japanese Association of QUalitative Psychology, Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibasraki Campus, Japan, 人間を含む生物の活動は、さまざまな機会や制約をもたらす環境の中で生起する。私たちが日々の暮らしのなかで切り結んでいるのは、長期間持続してきた重力や空と大地のコントラストであり、ローカルな土地の風土であり、その土地と独特の仕方で切り結んできた周囲の他者が織りなす周期的あるいは非周期的な出来事である。こうした環境との密接な切り結びは、モノをつくる場面にとりわけ顕著に見ることができる。たとえば、溶岩の堆積の隙間にごく微粒子の珪酸鉱物が沈殿することでできる紅玉髄や瑪瑙は、肌理が細かく均質で、特定の割れやすい方向をもたず、負荷を加えると「ヘルツ破壊」と呼ばれる独特の割れ方を呈する。独特な生成の履歴をもつ石のこうした物性が示す特徴的な割れ方に、古くから人が「参入」してモノをつくり、その生活に利用してきたことが知られている。人類学者のインゴルドは、モノをつくることは「素材に随う」ことであり、作り手が自ら辿りつつある行為の流れを、意のままにならない環境の素材の展開につなぎとめ、その変化に参入することにほかならないと述べた。おそらく同様の事情は、実は私たちのあらゆる行為に広くあてはまるだろう。環境の重力を推進に利用する「歩くこと」、放射光と地上環境の出会いに生じる包囲光を利用する「見ること」をはじめ、環境のなかで生起する私たち個体の行為は、いずれも個体の中で完結し得るものではなく、個体のスケールを越えた環境のダイナミクスに参入する側面を常に有している。だが、「魚は水の話をしない」という英語のことわざがあるように、私たちが生まれ育つありふれた環境と、そこで繰り返し起こっている出来事は、その中で暮らす私たちにとってはあたりまえすぎて、あらためて問題にすることはなかなか難しい。本話題提供では、環境との密接な切り結びが特徴的なモノをつくる場面（粘土を成形する土器づくり、石を打ち割る石器づくりなど）を題材とすることで、（1）いかにして作り手が複雑な環境の変化にみずからの行為を調整し、ひとまわり大きい「個体プラス環境」の変化のダイナミクスを導き得るのか、さらに（2）このような「個体プラス環境」の挙動を調整する技能がいかにして他者と共有され得るのかという具体的な問題について考察する。さらに、「つくること」に典型的に見られるような環境との密接な切り結びに焦点をあてることが、いかにして心理学の「制作論的転回」と呼べるような視座の転換をもたらし得るのかについて議論する。, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 保育士が利用するモノの価値－入園直後の0歳児クラスの観察における検討

  青井郁美, 野中哲士

  日本赤ちゃん学会第23回大会, Aug. 2023


• Relation between visual exploration and kinematic synergy controlling swing foot while crossing an obstacle

  Yamagata, M, Nagai, R, Morihiro, K, Nonaka, T

  28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS Paris 2023), Jul. 2023, English

  Poster presentation


• Structure of variability in scanning movement involved in braille reading

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito, Thomas Stoffregen

  XXI International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA2023), Jun. 2023, English, Grand Fiesta Americana Country Club Hotel, Guadalajara, Mexico, International conference, Co-authored internationally

  Oral presentation


• Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns

  Nonaka, T, Abdulali, A, Sirithunge, C, Gilday, K, Iida, F

  6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023), Apr. 2023, English, IEEE-RAS, Singapore, Singapore, The softness perception of objects with lower stiffness than that of robotic skin is challenging, as the proportion of the deformation of skin to that of an object’s surface is unknown. This makes it difficult to derive the indentation depth typically used for stiffness estimation. To overcome this challenge, we implemented human-inspired softness sensing in a soft anthropomorphic finger based on tactile information alone without using the information about indentation depth or displacement. In the experiments where LSTM networks were trained to discriminate viscoelastic soft objects, we demonstrated that the sensorized robotic finger using tactile information from barometric sensors embedded in its soft skin could successfully learn to discriminate soft objects. By dissociating the relative contribution of the dynamic pattern of pressure distribution and that of local pressure, we further investigated how differences in available tactile information could impact the ability to distinguish the softness of viscoelastic objects. The results demonstrated that the pressure distribution and its change on the soft contact area of the robotic finger provided information to discriminate the softness of viscoelastic objects and that the tactile information about softness was spatiotemporal in nature. The results further implied that nonlinear local dynamics such as hysteresis in local pressure changes can provide additional information about the viscoelasticity of touched objects., International conference, Co-authored internationally

  Poster presentation


• Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Chapa Sirithunge, Arsen Abdulali, Fumiya Iida, Josie Hughes, Matteo Cianchetti, Thrishantha Nanayakkara

  6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023), Apr. 2023, English, IEEE-RAS, Singapore, Singapore, The defining feature of agential systems is that they strive to control encounters with the environment to obtain beneficial encounters while preventing harmful encounters. In so doing, agents are coordinated to a particular scale of nature in which meanings and problems reside, whose behavior being a constant function of what encounters with the environment would afford. In this talk, I will focus on a particular aspect of the environment, the medium that surrounds agents where rich physical patterns emerge (e.g., air, water, extracellular matrix), which provides opportunities for active exploration by information-seeking systems., International conference, Co-authored internationally

  [Invited]

  Public symposium


• Reciprocity of agent and environment: Implications for embodied intelligence

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE, Mar. 2023, English, United Kingdom, Biological agents strive to control encounters with the environment to obtain beneficial encounters while preventing harmful encounters. This control lies in the agent-environment system, which is neither in the agent nor in the environment but in the meeting of the agent and her environment. In this talk, I discuss the issue of what the generative scheme of behavior would be that is open-ended enough to produce variations which fit into different scales of environmental structure on the fly., International conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• On education of students with visual impairment

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  国立障害者リハビリテーションセンター自立支援局函館視力障害センター教官研修会, Mar. 2023, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Public discourse


• Developmental Cascades: Non-obvious causal relation between experience and developmental change

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Hiroe Yamazaki, Chihiro, Nishio, Yuta Shinya, Kei Aoyama, Ikumi Aoi, Takeshi Asao

  The 34th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2023, Japanese, The Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, 生物個体の一生という時間スケールにおいて，個体のふるまいの変化を何がもたらすのかという問題は，発達心理学の根幹をなす問いである。しかしながら，生物個体のふるまいの変化は，ひとつの原因がひとつの結果を引き起こすという単線的な因果関係にはあてはまらないことが多く，その理解はしばしば，変化をとらえる思考の枠組み自体を問い直す困難な作業を要求する。個体がある時点で示すふるまいの特徴や変化が，多方面の発達的変化へと波及する現象は「発達カスケード（developmental cascades）」と呼ばれる．ただし，この用語が用いられる以前から，短期的あるいは長期的に，生物個体のなんらかの経験やふるまいの発達的変化が，一見無関係に見える他の発達的変化に影響するという事実は数多く報告されている。経験によって非線形的にふるまいが変化する現象は，生物学における表現型可塑性をめぐる問題とも関連が深く，分野を超えてブレークスルーを要する研究課題となっている．本特集号では，生活環境の中で生じる生物の発達的変化が，観察者による想定をしばしば超えた複雑な因果関係を示すという事実が，未来の発達研究にもたらす示唆について，多方面から議論する。, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Characteristics of rhythmic interaction in toddlers in daycare

  Maho Asahina, Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 34th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2023, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Reciprocity of actor and environment: implications for biological and artificial systems

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Workshop 'Soft Robotics for Mixed Reality', Dec. 2022, English, EPSRC, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  [Invited]

  Keynote oral presentation


• The morphogenesis of ceramic vessels: Cross-cultural and individual variation

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Enora Gandon, John A. Endler, Thelma Coyle, Reinoud J. Bootsma

  ISEP 2022, Jun. 2022, English, International Society for Ecological Psychology, International conference, Co-authored internationally

  Oral presentation


• Structure of variability in scanning movement predicts braille reading performance in children

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito, Thomas A. Stoffregen

  ISEP 2022, Jun. 2022, English, International Society for Ecological Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, United States, International conference, Co-authored internationally

  Oral presentation


• Towards an Ecology of Evolving Skills

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Embodied Intelligence International Conference, Mar. 2022, English

  Oral presentation


• Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson's Ecological Approach

  日本生態心理学会第9回大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Caregiver-infant interaction instigated by spontaneous hand movements in infants

  Ikumi Aoi, Tetsushi Nonaka

  日本生態心理学会第9回大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Ecology of spontaneous hand movements in pre-sitting infants

  Ikumi Aoi, Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Emergence of Action that Explores the Enviornment

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  日本バーチャルリアリティ学会ハプティクス研究委員会第27回研究会, Nov. 2021, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• ピアノの打鍵タイミングに演奏者の個性は現れるのか:フレデリック・ショパン ワルツOp64-2第7番のモチーフによる打鍵時間構造の検討

  垣原 瑞樹, 野中 哲士

  日本音楽知覚認知学会2021年度春季研究発表会, Jun. 2021, Japanese, 日本音楽知覚認知学会, Japan, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Spontaneous hand movement of a pre-sitting infant and its environment

  Ikumi Aoi, Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 32nd Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2021, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 物と人の身体が出会う生活行為から発達過程を跡づける リターンズ

  松本光太朗, 坂上裕子, 小島康生, 野中哲士, 竹下秀子

  The 32nd Annual Meeting for the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2021, Japanese

  Public symposium


• Spontaneous hand movement of a pre-sitting infant and its environment

  Ikumi Aoi, Tetsushi Nonaka

  日本生態心理学会 第8回大会, Mar. 2021, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Gaze pattern characteristics during way-finding in real world

  Go Nakazawa, Tetsushi Nonaka

  日本生態心理学会第8回大会, Mar. 2021, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• How do we control the encounters with the environment?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  54th Annual Philosophy Colloquium - What's Next!? - Embodiment and the Future, University of Cincinnati, Feb. 2021, English

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Gaze pattern characteristics during way-finding in real world

  Go Nakazawa, Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 37th Annual Meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Sep. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Visual movement coordination in accurate and expert traditional skills :Consideration of eye skills, MEMOMI, for Japanese fan making

  Keisuke Kizaki, Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 37th Annual Meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Sep. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 身体技法：群棲環境とのエンカウンター

  野中哲士

  日本認知科学会「芸術と情動」研究分科会, Dec. 2019, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Development of skills to use specific affordances: Changes in infant-mother dyads around transitions in infant feeding

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  International Conference on Perception and Action 2019, Jul. 2019, English, Netherlands, International conference

  Public symposium


• Perception by scanning: Development of finger movement in braille reading

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito

  International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2019, English


• 環境の探索者としての赤ちゃん

  第3回だっことおんぶの学術研究会, Oct. 2018, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Keynote oral presentation


• 「媒質としての身体観」（シンポジウム「行動に還る―感情・表情・身体動作」）

  日本科学哲学会第51回大会, Oct. 2018, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• シンポジウム「素材の心理学」

  日本生態心理学会第7回大会, Sep. 2018, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• 乳幼児の発達をとりまく環境

  2018年関西保育セミナー, Jul. 2018, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Public discourse


• Regulation of gait in getting on an escalator

  Ohtagaki Ayumi, Nonaka Tetsushi

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Jul. 2016


• Symposium on the Perceptual Basis of Aperture Passability Judgment

  Furuyama Nobuhiro, Mishima Hiroyuki, Maruyama Shin, Nonaka Tetsushi

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Jul. 2016


• Ecology of the development of human tool-using skills

  Nonaka Tetsushi

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Jul. 2016


• 高齢者の挑戦水準・能力水準バランスを調整した作業療法がQOLに与える効果―ランダム化比較研究―

  吉田一平, 美馬寛子, 野中哲士, 平尾一樹, 小林隆司

  日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), Jun. 2015, Japanese


• 第96回公開シンポジウム 子どもたちが学び育つ環境 : 教育詩学・歴史人類学

  鈴木 晶子, 野中 哲士, 一色 伸夫

  子ども学, Mar. 2015, Japanese, 甲南女子学園


• 漆芸用ヘラ製作過程における技能伝達

  小谷俊輔, 野中哲士

  日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2015, Japanese


• 外部イベントと同期する人の行為―エスカレーターの考察より―

  太田垣歩, 野中哲士

  日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2015, Japanese


• どのような働き方が継続を可能にするのか―精神障害を有する人の就労ニーズを探る―

  港美雪, 籔脇健司, 岩田美幸, 野中哲士, 橋本久美子

  日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), Jun. 2014, Japanese


• 脳卒中患者のタスクに応じた姿勢制御の特性

  平上尚吾, 野中哲士, 鈴木康夫

  日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), Jun. 2014, Japanese


• 達成可能な作業療法目標設定に向けたクライアントの心理状態の把握―フローモデルとQOLの関連性―

  吉田一平, 野中哲士, 平尾一樹, 小林隆司

  日本作業療法学会抄録集(CD-ROM), Jun. 2014, Japanese


• 椅子からの立ち上がり動作における関節運動の協調性は加齢の影響を受けるか

  阿南雅也, 新小田幸一, 高橋真, 谷本研二, 服部宏香, 脇本祥夫, 井原拓哉, 木藤伸宏, 野中哲士

  日本理学療法学術大会(Web), May 2014, Japanese


• Specificity of postural sway to the demands of a precision task in patients recovering from stroke

  Hiragami, S, Nonaka, T, Suzuki, Y

  17th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2013, English, Estoril, Portugal, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Experience in the clay topos reflected in children's drawings

  Maeshima, H, Nonaka, T

  17th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2013, English, Estoril, Portugal, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Selection and differentiation of places by toddlers during free play in the Clay Topos

  Nonaka, T, Maeshima, H

  17th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2013, English, Estoril, Portugal, International conference

  Poster presentation


• On a possible relationship between dexterity and fractality

  Nonaka, T, Bril, B

  17th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2013, English, Estoril, Portugal, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Task-specificity of postural control in patients recovering from stroke

  Hiragami, S, Nonaka, T, Suzuki, Y

  2nd Joint World Congress of ISPGR / Gait & Mental Function, Jun. 2013, English, Akita, Japan, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Gibson and Bernstein in 1966: What exists in the environment toward which behavior is directed?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  4th Japanese Workshop on Ecological Psychology, Jul. 2012, Japanese, Hakodate, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Development of vicarious skills in rehabilitation: the case of C4 tetraplegic mouth calligrapher

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  23rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2012, Japanese, Nagoya, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• What is the behavior of a C4 quadriplegic Japanese calligrapher constant function of?

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  The SKILLS Conference, Dec. 2011, English, Montpellier, France, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Dynamics of Asymmetric Bimanual Coordination in Dexterous Tool-use

  Nonaka, T, Bril, B

  16th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2011, English, Ouro Preto, Brazil, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Vicarious action: the case of a Japanese calligrapher with quadriplegia

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  16th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2011, English, Ouro Preto, Brazil, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Specificity of action to the object

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  5th Verbal / Non-verbal Communication Workshop, Mar. 2011, Japanese, IEICE Verbal/Non-Verbal communication, Tokyo, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 課題前の足底に対する触圧覚刺激の認識が立位姿勢制御に与える影響－非線形時系列解析を用いた質的評価の検討－

  第46回日本理学療法学術大会, 2011

  Poster presentation


• 熟練理学療法士の臨床現場における実践スキルの抽出

  第46回日本理学療法学術大会, 2011


• Decreasing movement variability with increasing skill level in a complex too-l use task

  Rein, R, Nonaka, T, Bril, B

  4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Jul. 2010, English, Frankfurt, Germany, International conference

  Oral presentation


• 熟練技能における非対称的な両手運動協調の検討

  日本生態心理学会第3回大会, 2010


• 初期石器の打割りにおける剥片のかたちの予測と制御

  日本認知科学会第27会大会, 2010

  Poster presentation


• 石器の打割りにおけるアフォーダンスの記述

  日本生態心理学会第3回大会, 2010


• 初期石器の打ち割りにおける剥片のかたちの予測と制御

  野中哲士, BRIL Blandine, REIN Robert

  日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 2010, Japanese


• Functional tuning of action to task constraints in tool-use: The case of stone knapping.

  Bril, B, Rein, R, Nonaka, T

  15th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2009, English, Minneapolis, USA, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Affordances in complex action: Foreseeing a potential flake in a stone

  Nonaka, T, Bril, B, Rein, R

  15th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2009, English, Minneapolis, USA, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Developmental Systems Theory and Affordances

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  The 19th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Mar. 2008, Japanese, Osaka, Japan, Domestic conference

  Public symposium


• Dynamics of the Act of Drawing from Life

  Nonaka, T, Nishizaki, M, Sasaki, M

  14th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2007, English, Yokohama, Japan, International conference

  Poster presentation


• Akachan Movie Database and its Ramifications – On Nesting of Actions and Affordances –

  Sasaki, M, Nonaka, T

  14th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2007, English, Yokohama, Japan, International conference

  Public symposium


• Squatting as a Flexible Posture to Adapt to Environmental Surface Layout

  Roussel, D, Bril, B, Nonaka, T

  14th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2007, English, Yokohama, Japan, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Nested Affordances

  Thomas A. Stoffregen, Tetsushi Nonaka

  14th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2007, English, Yokohama, Japan, International conference

  Oral presentation


• 習熟者によるデッサンというイベントの非線形ダイナミクス解析

  野中哲士, 西崎実穂, 佐々木正人

  日本認知科学会大会発表論文集, 2007, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Nonlinear Analysis of Meaningful Behavior: Dynamics of the Act of Drawing from Life

  24nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 2007

  Poster presentation


• An Observational Study of a Toddler’s Clean up Tasks

  Nonaka, T, Sasaki, M

  13th International Conference on Perception and Action, Jul. 2005, English, Monterey, USA, International conference

  Oral presentation


• 環境を改変する行為について-幼児による複数物の配置換えと姿勢の柔軟性の制御と獲得

  日本認知科学会第22回大会, 2005

  Poster presentation


• 遊離物の配置換えと姿勢の柔軟性の獲得

  日本質的心理学会第2回大会, 2005


• On Actions that Modify the Surface Layout of the Environment

  22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 2005

  Poster presentation


• Modification of the layout of detached objects and acquisition of flexibility in postural control

  The 2nd Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology, 2005

• IEEE

  Feb. 2023 - Present


• 日本生態心理学会


• 日本質的心理学会


• 日本心理学会


• 日本認知科学会


• 日本発達心理学会


• The International Society for Ecological Psychology


• The Japanese Psychological Association


• The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology


• Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology


• Japanese Cognitive Science Society


• Japan Society of Developmental Psychology


• The International Society for Ecological Psychology

• 身体の摂動ダイナミクスを情報資源として用いる身体ー環境系の知覚行為制御

  野中 哲士

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 挑戦的研究(開拓), 神戸大学, 28 Jun. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2029


• Developmental Cascades Instigated by Manual Exploration in Infancy

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Hiroe Yamazaki, Chihiro Nishio

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026


• Perceptual Information Made Available by Haptic Exploration: An Ecological Perspective

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Kohei Nakajima, Hikaru Nagano, Fumiya Iida

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Kobe University, Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2025

  自律的システムが，なんらかの好ましい環境との関係をロバストに形成するかたちで，融通無碍に多自由度からなる組織や運動協調パターンを変化させる性質は「柔軟性（flexibility）」と呼ばれ，その理解は，心理学や認知科学はもとより，ロボットや人工知能など複数の研究領域においてブレークスルーを要する極めて重要な研究課題となっている．本研究プロジェクトは，多様な環境に際して，知覚すべき対象や形成すべき環境との関係に応じて，課題特定的なかたちで「探索する手」の動作パターンが柔軟かつリアルタイムで創発する原理を根本的に解明することを目的とするものである．この目的に向けて，本プロジェクトでは，身体性認知科学，レザバー計算，ロボティクス，ハプティクス工学とそれぞれ異なる研究領域を専門とする研究者たちが有機的に連携し，学際的・国際的な共同研究を行う．初年度の６ヵ月のあいだには，コロナ禍の影響もあり海外共同研究機関に直接出向くことはかなわなかったが，プロジェクトに参加している国内外の研究者が毎月オンラインでディスカッションを行うミーティングを行い，具体的な連携の進め方の丁寧な熟議を重ねた．現在，遠隔での連携による下記のプロジェクトが進行中である．（１）事物・出来事を特定するエネルギ－配列が生じ得る情報メディウムの性質から，課題特定的探索動作組織の創発に必要な条件を同定する理論研究，（２）課題特定的な探索動作の動作解析（点字の触読，身体図式の知覚）による検討，（３）複雑な熟練技能における，状況の変化に応じた動作協調パターンのシミュレーションによる検討．2022年度には，研究代表者が海外共同研究機関に直接出向き，さらなる研究の進展を図る．


• Embodied cognition in the development of craft skill

  野中 哲士

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Kobe University, 10 Sep. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2023

  本研究プロジェクトは，工芸の現場，特に轆轤を用いて粘土を成形する陶工の技能を対象として，モノの物性や状態のダイナミックな変化に適応する「モノを知る動き」の特徴についての検討を通して，質感知研究とスキル研究，考古学研究を結ぶ，モノの物性や状態のダイナミックな変化に適応する「モノを深く知る身体技法」をめぐる新たな学際的研究領域を開拓することを目的としている．本研究で対象としている陶芸技能においては、形態は素材・道具（轆轤）・手の相互作用から創発するものであり，モノと接するところに現れるダイナミックな技能が直接問題となる．2021年度は，これまで行ってきた実験で蓄積された陶芸動作および形態の膨大なデータをもとにした新たな分析を行った．分析の対象となった実験は，10年以上の作陶経験者が，4種の幾何学的形状を異なる粘土量の条件で制作したものである。新しい分析は，慣れない形態を模倣して制作する場面における，陶芸動作の調整および形態発生のプロセスに関するものであり，分析の結果は，近日中に国際学術雑誌に投稿し，発表する予定である．また2021年度には，世代を超えて技能が受け継がれること，また受け継がれる技能から新たな展開が生じることを何が可能にしているのかという問題について，理論的考察を行った論文を２編執筆した（ともに2022年度公刊予定）．これらの論文では，実験の時間スケールを超えた，長い時間をかけて獲得される技能とその変化を可能にする環境について，生態学的な観点から論じている．


• Caregiver-infant joint action in the emergence of daily skills

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 18 Jul. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2022, Principal investigator

  This project aimed to examine the issue of what motivates developing children to attend to those affordances of the environment that are relevant to the peculiarities of the specific setting such as mealtime. Our longitudinal analysis of the specific setting of mealtime in a daycare center in Japan revealed several related results. First, caregivers often manipulated objects on the table, and toddlers were more likely than chance to use their spoon to contact food immediately after watching these caregiver manipulations. Second, toddlers looked more often at the caregiver's hand than at their face. Third, the toddlers' choices about when to look at the caregiver were influenced by their own behavior, as if they wanted to know how the caregiver would react to what they had done. The results document the nature of social interaction in the emergence of skills to perform daily routines in a preferred manner in a populated environment, which supplement findings from experimental research.

  Competitive research funding


• 科学系博物館におけるユニバーサルデザイン手法の開発と実践モデルの提案

  稲垣 成哲, 溝口 博, 生田目 美紀, 増本 康平, 楠 房子, 小川 義和, 小林 真, 加藤 伸子, 杉本 雅則, 野中 哲士, 江草 遼平

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A), 基盤研究(A), 神戸大学, 01 Apr. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2022

  本研究の目的は，科学系博物館における感覚障害者（視覚・聴覚）向けの学習保障ガイドラインの体系化とその展示技法の開発，さらに具体例としての学習保障実践モデルの提案を行うことである。本研究の第2年次である2019年度の研究実績の概要は以下の通りであった。 （1）展示学習理論及び展示手法の精緻化：国際会議（CSEDU2019, EDMEDIA2019）での議論を整理し，検討するとともに，前年度における国立科学博物館等での予備的評価（ワークショップ）の結果を分析し，展示学習理論及び展示手法を整理し，ユニバーサルな展示手法の候補として漫画表現法を検討した。 （2）科学博物館等での実証実験の実施：前項で着目した漫画表現法の有効性について，豊橋市自然史博物館において，一般来館者を対象とした本格的な実証実験を実施した（2019年9月）。そこでは約150名の参加者を対象に質問紙調査，面接調査等を実施することができ，展示解説の手法としての漫画表現法の優位性を認めることができた。 （3）各大学での実証実験の実施：前項と平行して，主に神戸大学において，視線計測等の測定技術を用いた展示手法についての実験的な研究を展開した。また，筑波技術大学においても，HMD等の新しい機器やソフトウェアを利用した展示支援手法を開発し，実験的な研究を蓄積した。東京理科大では多摩美術大学と共同で，聴覚障害者用に床面投影型コンテンツの制御や非接触視線推定などの技術を開発した。視覚障害についても，筑波技術大学において，介助者との関係を再検討する試みが行われた。 （4）研究成果発表：各研究の研究成果は，国内外の学会，例えば，ICST， ICOM-Kyoto等で発表された。とくに，研究成果の中間まとめとして，日本科学教育学会年会において課題研究を開催し，代表者・分担者による6件の発表を組織し，広く学会からの外部中間評価を受けた。


• Developmental changes in the dynamics of exploratory behavior: The case of active touch

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021, Principal investigator

  Among children learning to read braille, we asked whether the quantitative kinematics of scanning movements of the reading finger would be related to the proficiency of braille reading. Over a period of 12 months, we recorded the position and orientation of the reading fingers of children. We found that the strength of long-range power-law temporal correlations in the velocity fluctuations increased with performance in braille reading. In addition, we found that the variability of the angular orientation of the reading finger was negatively related to braille reading performance. These results confirm that the kinematics of finger scanning movements were related to functional performance in braille reading. The results add to the growing body of evidence that long-range temporal correlations in exploratory behavior support perceptual performance, and that scanning movements that center important tactile information on the sensitive area contribute to the pickup of information.

  Competitive research funding


• Research on places where infants start playing spontaneously

  SASAKI Masato, NONAKA Tetsushi, AOYAMA Kei, YAMOTO Naoki, YAMAZAKI Hiroe, NISHIO Chihiro

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2019

  The purpose of this study is to clarify the qualitative change of the encounter between the infant and the surroundings by the analysis of "the place to start playing", and to summarize it as a casebook that can be used for childcare environment design. For this reason, this study focused on the infant's locomotion start period as the time to begin to adjust the encounter with the environment.The results of the analysis suggested that the place was described by a higher order unit of affordance composites, and the importance of the rearrangement of objects occurring with the locomotion. Some of the results of this research were published as Sasaki (2015), Nishio et al. (2015), Sasaki & Nonaka (2016), Nishio et al. (2018), Someya et al. (2018).


• Environmental design and Infant education through Ecological art

  MAESHIMA HIDEKI, YASUHARA Mikito, TAO Hitomi, HARADA Toshie, WATANABE Yoshiko, SOGI Hisayo, FUJIMORI Heiji, SAKAMOTO Yukimasa, SUZUKI Mahiro, NONAKA Tetsushi, TOKU Masami, Cavazzoni Paola

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kibi International University, 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017

  The purpose of this study is to establish an environmental design and an education method, as constitute ecological art pedagogy for infants, about "object" "subject" "person". We practiced and documented a concrete method of an environmental design, and the training system of the point of view for teachers, called "Childcare through Topos" , for “aiming to carry out developmental tasks while responding to the individual characteristics of each child” through environment. By the Topos by Atelierista, We made a difference of the setting play by the teacher and the child-based free play clear, and showed theoretically the function to supplement as "a model and form" not the play disagreed with each other. So we were able to show a concrete model for the education method about “material, tool, space”, “record, documentation, conversation”, “observation, prospect, and study.


• Elucidation of the reacquisition process of stroke patients' ability to lift and lower the lower garment while on the toilet

  HIRAGAMI Shogo, NONAKA Tetsushi, NAGAHATA Tetsuya, HAYASHI Shoko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017

  Our objective in this study was to examine the postural control characteristics of stroke patients in lower garment lifting while on the toilet and the changes in these characteristics during rehabilitation. In this study, we found that lower garment lifting by the patients was characterized by a long time required to perform the task, many pulls on the garment, and a higher mean percentage of body weight on the non-paretic leg. The patients displayed the positional asymmetry of the foot center of pressure (COP) on the anterior-posterior (AP) axis. Furthermore, we found in our study a significant increase in the excursion of the COP in the non-paretic leg on the AP axis in the task of stroke patients during rehabilitation. These suggest that enhancing selective COP mobility on the AP axis of the non-paretic leg could be the key point to promoting independence in lower garment lifting and lowering in toilet activities.


• Assembly Process of Exploratory Behavior into Active Sensing Systems(Fostering Joint International Research)

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research), Kobe University, Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2017, Principal investigator

  With Eugene C. Goldfield at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, this research project studied the process of the emergence of the utensil-using skill of infants to control encounters with food and mother-infant joint action that surrounds the emergence of this context-specific skill. The co-authored paper that appeared in the international journal Ecological Psychology reported on the results of the longitudinal observations from the first contact with a utensil to the beginning of successful self-feeding with a utensil. Overall, the study found the process of what may be called affordance selection, in which a definite set of opportunities for action among many available were selected by adults to invite certain spontaneous behaviors of developing infants. The study added to the growing realization that normally occurring experiences of rich affordances matter in the development of specific behavior in a given cultural context.

  Competitive research funding


• Organization of exploratory movement as active sensing systems

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Science Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2016, Principal investigator

  Human (and animal) perceptual activities can be characterized as active sensing systems. In this project, human exploratory movement involved in dexterous skills was characterized in terms of multi-scale temporal structures to better understand the assembly of such systems. The reanalysis of exploratory behavior using a hammer involved in stone beads production in India revealed the presence of long-range, power-law correlations, as part of multiplicative cascades operating over a wide range of time scales. In the unfamiliar condition using unusual material, the hammer-wielding, exploratory behavior of highly skilled experts displayed a significant increase of long-range temporal correlations, whereas that of less experts exhibited a significant loss of long-range correlations and reduced heterogeneity of scaling properties over time, which robustly discriminated the groups with different skill levels.

  Competitive research funding


• The value of a care models to individualize stroke rehabilitation services in the very old

  HIRAGAMI Fukumi, NONAKA Tetsushi, SAITOH Keisuke

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kibi International University, 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2015

  We describe a process based on effective communication within a multidisciplinary team for determining intervention points to achieve successful individualized rehabilitation in an elderly stroke patient. The communication process was designed to gain knowledge, share assessments, examine treatment options, and reflect on desired treatment outcomes. We evaluated the effectiveness of this approach in adults aged over 80 years. Our results show that having an organized communication process facilitates individualization of rehabilitation without lengthy and frequent MDT meetings and enhances the quality of rehabilitation after a stroke.


• A comparative experimental study on human tool-use

  Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Bilateral Joint Research Projects PHC SAKURA 2013, Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• Ecological pedagogy of art thrugh the infant play with clay

  MAESHIMA HIDEKI, PAOLA Cavazzoni

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kibi International University, 2011 - 2013

  The purpose of this research is the study of the environmental model of infant education as the ecological pedagogy of visual art, through the investigation and analysis of playing with clay. I asked nursery schools and kindergartens to complete a questionnaire concerning the environment surrounding those infants playing with clay within the childcare facilities. As a result, it has become clear that nursery teachers believe that playing with clay is a very important activity. However, rarely is natural clay used, and even in the case of toy clay nursery teachers rarely make use of it as a learning aid. Additionally, there were few materials available to aid the adoption of this activity as a subject.The importance of good environmental maintenance and other suitable techniques to the education of infants is, here, demonstrated. Therefore, we will stress independent learning within the environment with regard to creating the foundations of a humans development during infancy.


• Multi-scale dynamics of the learning process of everyday skills

  Tetsushi Nonaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Science Research, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Kibi International University, Sep. 2010 - Mar. 2012, Principal investigator

  A singular case of a quadriplegic calligrapher who writes with a brush gripped between his teeth was studied. When the same Chinese character was written multiple times, joint configuration variability was structured in such a way to keep the brush pressure, brush angle, and upright head posture invariant over different realizations of the task while allowing for fluctuations that do not affect these task variables. The results illustrated the functionally specific motor variability of the calligrapher which flexibly links behavior to the task-relevant aspects of the environment.

  Competitive research funding