Research activity information

• The negative cue effect on distractor suppression: An ERP study

  Tomoya KAWASHIMA, Eriko MATSUMOTO

  The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Feb. 2021, The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18(2) (2), 43 - 52

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Negative cues lead to more inefficient search than positive cues even at later stages of visual search.

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  Observers can focus their attention on task-relevant items in visual search when they have prior knowledge about the target's properties (i.e., positive cues). However, little is known about how negative cues, which specify the features of task-irrelevant items, can be used to guide attention away from distractors and how their effects differ from those of positive cues. It has been proposed that when a distractor color is cued, people would first select the to-be-ignored items early in search and then inhibit them later. The present study investigated how the effects of positive and negative cues differ throughout the visual search process. The results showed that positive cues sped up the early stage of visual search and that negative cues led to initial selection for inhibition. We further found that visual search with negative cues was more inefficient than that with positive cues even at later stages, suggesting that sustained inhibition is needed throughout the visual search process. Taken together, the results indicate that positive and negative cues have different functions: prior knowledge about target features can weight task-relevant information at early stages of visual search, and negative cues are used more inefficiently even at later stages of visual search.

  Oct. 2018, Acta psychologica, 190, 85 - 94, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Multiple approaches for analyzing of fear: experimental psychology, cinema studies and neuroscience

  Matsumoto Eriko, Shirai Risako, Itakura Fumiaki, Naito Tomoyuki, Inagaki Mikio, Sato Hiromichi, Osaka Naoyuki

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 2018, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 82(0) (0), SS - 056-SS-056, Japanese


• 視覚探索における無視手がかりの効果

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2018, Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 4, 7 - 8


• Cognitive Control of Attentional Guidance by Visual and Verbal Working Memory Representations

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  Jan. 2017, JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 59(1) (1), 49 - 57, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Distinctive effects of visual novelty of package design between aesthetic preference and want to eat judgment

  Eriko Matsumoto, Tomoya Kawashima, Miho Takeuchi, Mathieu Lajante, Masahiro Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Kitaguchi, Tomoyuki Naito

  Jul. 2016, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51, 176 - 176, English

  [Refereed]


• Individual differences in reward sensitivity and both liking and wanting food with novel package design

  Tomoya Kawashima, Mathieu Lajante, Masahiro Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Kitaguchi, Tomoyuki Naito, Eriko Matsumoto

  Jul. 2016, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51, 173 - 173, English

  [Refereed]


• Numerosity underestimation in sets with illusory contours.

  Atanas Kirjakovski, Eriko Matsumoto

  May 2016, Vision research, 122, 34 - 42, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Electrophysiological evidence that top-down knowledge controls working memory processing for subsequent visual search.

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  Mar. 2016, Neuroreport, 27(5) (5), 345 - 9, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 行動目標が注意の割り当てに与える影響：刺激の顕著性の操作による検討

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2016, Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 20, 39 - 40


• Effects of probability instruction on attention and maintenance of working memory representations in visual search

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  Aug. 2015, PERCEPTION, 44, 108 - 108, English

  [Refereed]


• The attentional capture by emotional distractor faces differed between adult's and children's facial expression

  Eriko Matsumoto

  Aug. 2015, PERCEPTION, 44, 68 - 69, English

  [Refereed]


• 視覚探索とワーキングメモリ負荷との関連：ERPによる検討

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2015, Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 16, 32 - 33


• イメージの働きを考える 人間の視覚認知からのアプローチ

  松本 絵理子

  2015, 民族藝術, 31, 40 - 44, Japanese

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Relative spatial frequency tuning and its contrast dependency in human perception.

  Tomoyuki Naito, Naofumi Suematsu, Eriko Matsumoto, Hiromichi Sato

  Nov. 2014, Journal of vision, 14(13) (13), 23 - 23, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 記憶項目が選択的注意に与える影響

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2014, Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 9, 17 - 18


• モダリティの違いによる情報の理解と印象評定に及ぼす影響：ＳＤ法を用いた検討

  松本 絵理子

  2014, 紀要国際文化学研究, 42, 105 - 116, Japanese

  Research institution

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• 日本人英語学習者の文処理時における言語情報への敏感さに熟達度が与える影響～事象関連電位測定実験による神経脳科学的検討～

  鳴海智之, 長井千枝子, 松本絵理子, 林 良子, 横川博一

  Aug. 2013, 電子情報通信学会思考と言語研究会『信学技報』, 113(17) (17), 13 - 18, Japanese

  Research society


• Cueing effects of target location probability and repetition.

  Takashi Kabata, Eriko Matsumoto

  The search performance for targets is improved when the targets appear in a specific location more frequently than in other locations. Although this phenomenon, called the "probability cueing effect," has been reported in past studies, it is unclear whether probability cueing is driven by statistical learning and/or intertrial facilitation of the target location. We investigated the underlying mechanisms for probability cueing effects by manipulating probabilities and repetitions of the target appearance at each target location. The first experiment demonstrated that the reaction time benefits of both statistical learning and intertrial facilitation contributed to the probability cueing effect. In contrast, the second and third experiments demonstrated that the probability cueing effect did not occur when target location repetitions on consecutive trials were fully or partially restricted. Also, any intertrial facilitation effects disappeared if there were more than one intervening trials. These results suggest that consecutive target location repetitions throughout the experiment facilitate learning of the target location probability.

  Corresponding, Elsevier BV, Nov. 2012, Vision research, 73, 23 - 9, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 刺激呈示時間が目標出現位置の履歴効果に及ぼす影響(日本基礎心理学会第30回大会,大会発表要旨)

  嘉幡 貴至, 松本 絵理子

  日本基礎心理学会, 2012, 基礎心理学研究, 30(2) (2), 235 - 235, Japanese


• The effects of target location probability and repetition on allocation of attention

  Takashi Kabata, Eriko Matsumoto

  2011, I-PERCEPTION, 2(4) (4), 228 - 228, English

  [Refereed]


• 確率情報が注意過程に及ぼす影響(日本基礎心理学会第28回大会,大会発表要旨)

  嘉幡 貴至, 松本 絵理子

  日本基礎心理学会, 2010, 基礎心理学研究, 28(2) (2), 272 - 272, Japanese


• Top-down attention influences change detection for foregrounds and backgrounds

  Takashi KABATA, Eriko MATSUMOTO

  The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2009, The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 7(1) (1), 9 - 16

  Scientific journal


• 刺激の呈示条件が前景-背景分割を伴う変化検出に及ぼす影響(日本基礎心理学会第26回大会,大会発表要旨)

  嘉幡 貴至, 松本 絵理子

  日本基礎心理学会, 2008, 基礎心理学研究, 26(2) (2), 211 - 211, Japanese


• 「わかる」と「気付く」を支える脳のはたらき

  2006, 兵庫教育


• 主観的中心定位過程における視覚情報の利用 : leftward biasと参照軸の効果(日本基礎心理学会第22回大会,大会発表要旨)

  松本 絵理子, 宮内 哲

  日本基礎心理学会, 2004, 基礎心理学研究, 22(2) (2), 233 - 234, Japanese


• Transfer of long-range interaction across the visual hemifield by reversed visual input

  Yasuto Tanaka, Satoru Miyauchi, Toshihide Imaruoka, Masaya Misaki, Eriko Matsumoto, Takara Tashiro

  2003, Journal of Vision, 3(9) (9), 166, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The influence of processing similarity between flankers and distractors on suppression of interference

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 33(1) (1), 1 - 8, Japanese

  [Refereed]

• Psychological Factors Affecting Risk Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Eriko MATSUMOTO

  Lead, The Japanese Psychological Association, 2021, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 85, PI - 079, Japanese


• 非注意性聞き落としにおける課題非関連音の出現頻度効果

  松本絵理子, 石崎彩淑

  2020, 日本心理学会大会発表論文集, 84th


• Cueing distractor leads to active suppression of distractor: An ERP study

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 11 Sep. 2019, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 83, 2A - 055


• 無視手がかりによる妨害刺激の能動的な抑制:事象関連電位による検討

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2019, 日本心理学会大会発表論文集, 83rd


• Inattentional deafness: Its relationship with working memory task performance and visual task load

  Masahiro Zaitsu, Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 20 Sep. 2017, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 81, 3A - 041


• The process of distractor inhibition: A comparison of distractor-color and distractor-location cue effects

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 20 Sep. 2017, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 81, 3C - 045


• 非注意性難聴の生起:ワーキングメモリ成績および視覚課題負荷との関連

  財津昌弘, 川島朋也, 川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2017, 日本心理学会大会発表論文集, 81st


• 非注意性難聴に対するワーキングメモリ容量の個人差と知覚的負荷の効果

  財津昌弘, 松本絵理子

  2017, 基礎心理学研究, 35(2) (2)


• 妨害刺激抑制のメカニズム:学習過程と持続性

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  2017, 基礎心理学研究, 35(2) (2)


• The influence of anxiety and task load on the deployment of attention

  Tomoya Kawashima, Eriko Matsumoto

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 10 Sep. 2014, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 78, 3AM - 1


• The influence of target discriminability on the process of distractors

  Tomoya KAWASHIMA, Eriko MATSUMOTO

  The Japanese Psychological Association, 19 Sep. 2013, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 77, 1PM - 046


• Cueing effects of target location probability and repetition

  Takashi Kabata, Eriko Matsumoto

  Nov. 2012, Vision Research, 73, 23 - 29


• The manipulation of probabilistic cuing influences allocation of attention

  KABATA Takashi, MATSUMOTO Eriko

  If the probability that a target item in a visual task is presented at a given location or with a given feature is high, the reaction times for biased targets are shorter than those for low probability targets. However, the relationship between manipulation of probabilistic information and this probability effect is unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of the spatial and nonspatial probabilities associated with the onset of targets on attentional deployment. When targets appeared at high probability locations, reaction times for target discrimination were faster than those that appeared at less likely locations (Experiment 1). However, such a probability advantage did not appear when the targets' appearances were associated with the shapes of the placeholders, regardless of their locations (Experiment 2a). The probability effect reoccurred when participants were informed of the nonspatial probabilistic manipulation (Experiment 2b). These results suggest that the spatial probability is effective as an attentional cue without awareness, whereas the nonspatial probability is not.

  Corresponding, The Japanese Psychonomic Society, Sep. 2011, The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 30(1) (1), 56 - 64, Japanese


• 脳と心の視点から探る心理学入門

  2011, 培風館


• Bias in Attending to Emotional Facial Expressions: Anxiety and Visual Search Efficiency

  Eriko Matsumoto

  Apr. 2010, APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 24(3) (3), 414 - 424, English


• トップダウンの注意が前景と背景の変化検出に及ぼす影響

  2009, 認知心理学研究, 7,9-16


• ポジティブ感情、ネガティブ感情の認知と神経基盤

  2009, 産業ストレス研究, 16, 151-158


• 情動を伴う先行刺激が単純呈示効果に及ぼす影響

  2008, 国際文化学, 18, 19-33


• Phonological influences on lexicosemantic processing of kanji words.

  Qiang Wei, Aya Ihara, Tomoe Hayakawa, Tsutomu Murata, Eriko Matsumoto, Norio Fujimaki

  19 Nov. 2007, Neuroreport, 18(17) (17), 1775 - 80, English, International magazine


• Phonological influences on lexicosemantic processing of kanji words

  Qiang Wei, Aya Ihara, Tornoe Hayakawa, Tsutomu Murata, Eriko Matsumoto, Norio Fujimaki

  Nov. 2007, NEUROREPORT, 18(17) (17), 1775 - 1780, English


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency.

  2007


• 不安・緊張が怒り表情への注意に及ぼす影響

  2007


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency

  2007


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency

  E. Matsumoto

  2007, PERCEPTION, 36, 130 - 130, English

  Summary international conference


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency.

  2007


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency

  2007


• Attentional bias to emotional facial expressions: Social anxiety influences on a visual search efficiency

  2007, 36, 130


• 言語性短期記憶の神経基盤

  2006, 丸善出版


• 人の脳機能障害と行動変化

  2006, こころの病気と脳 NPO法人脳の世紀推進会議編


• 系列順情報の記憶に関わる脳内メカニズム

  2005


• 時系列の記憶に関わる脳内メカニズム

  2005


• Brain mechanisms of verbal short-term memory for serial order information

  2005


• 列順情報の短期記憶に関わる脳内メカニズム

  2005


• ヒトの脳機能障害と行動変化

  2005


• Brain mechanisms of verbal short-term memory for serial order information

  2005


• Neural mechanisms of spatial stimulus-response compatibility: the effect of crossed-hand position.

  Eriko Matsumoto, Masaya Misaki, Satoru Miyauchi

  Sep. 2004, Experimental brain research, 158(1) (1), 9 - 17, English, International magazine


• Neural mechanisms of spatial stimulus-response compatibility: the effect of crossed-hand position

  E Matsumoto, M Misaki, S Miyauchi

  Sep. 2004, EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 158(1) (1), 9 - 17, English


• Asymmetric activation to the context-dependent right in the right inferior frontal region.

  Masaya Misaki, Eriko Matsumoto, Satoru Miyauchi

  Mar. 2004, The European journal of neuroscience, 19(5) (5), 1425 - 9, English, International magazine


• 空間認識課題における頭頂－前頭領域の結合関係の変化

  2004


• The neural bases of verbal short-term memory for serial order information: a fMRI study

  2004


• Object-centered and body-centered spatial coding: changes of front-parietal functional connectivity

  2004


• The neural bases of verbal short-term memory for serial order information: a fMRI study

  2004


• Object-centered and body-centered spatial coding: changes of front-parietal functional connectivity

  2004


• 空間認識課題における頭頂−前頭領域の結合関係の変化

  2004


• 半側空間無視における視覚情報、視覚的フィードバックの有無が正中判断に及ぼす影響

  2003


• 主観的正面定位過程における視覚情報の利用

  2003


• 身体と対象中心位置判断における前頭頭頂ネットワークの役割

  2003, echnical Report on Attention and Cognition, 7, 1-2


• The leftward spatial bias exists in the estimation of the subjective midpoint without visual information

  Eriko Matsumoto, Yasuto Tamaka, Masaya Misaki, Satoru Miyauchi

  2003, Journal of Vision, 3(9) (9), 563, English


• Asymmetric activation to the context-dependent right in the right inferior frontal region

  2003, 19, 1425-1429


• Long-range interaction at right-left symmetrical locations across the visual hemifields

  Y Tanaka, M Misaki, E Matsumoto, S Miyauchi

  2003, PERCEPTION, 32, 160 - 160, English

  Summary international conference


• Dorsal visual cortex activity elicited by posture change in a visuo-tactile matching task.

  Masaya Misaki, Eriko Matsumoto, Satoru Miyauchi

  07 Oct. 2002, Neuroreport, 13(14) (14), 1797 - 800, English, International magazine


• Dorsal visual cortex activity elicited by posture change in a visuo-tactile matching task

  M Misaki, E Matsumoto, S Miyauchi

  Oct. 2002, NEUROREPORT, 13(14) (14), 1797 - 1800, English


• Neural mechanisms of spatial stimulus-response compatibility: The effect of hand position

  E Matsumoto, M Misaki, S Miyauchi

  Apr. 2002, JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 148 - 148, English

  Summary international conference


• 空間的S-R compatibilityに関する脳内機構；手の交差による効果に関する検討

  2002


• Increasing STG activation due to crossed hand posture in a spatial S-R compatibility task based on a body centered reference frame

  2002


• 視覚環境情報が主観的正中正面判断に及ぼす影響

  2002, Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 15, 1-3


• Increasing STG activation due to crossed hand posture in a spatial S-R compatibility task based on a body centered reference frame

  2002


• 左右空間定位・反応選択の脳内機構

  2001


• 左右空間認識におけるcrossed-hand 効果について：fMRIを用いた検討

  2001


• 空間的注意の時空間的分布に関する定量的研究

  2001, 神経心理学, 17, 201-212


• Magnetic response of human extrastriate cortex in the detection of coherent and incoherent motion

  K. Lam, Y. Kaneoke, A. Gunji, H. Yamasaki, E. Matsumoto, T. Naito, R. Kakigi

  Apr. 2000, Neuroscience, 97(1) (1), 1 - 10, English


• Quantitative analysis of spatio-temporal distribution of spatial attention: evidence from Alzheimer Disease patients

  2000


• Quantitative analysis of spatio-temporal distribution of spatial attention: evidence from Alzheimer Disease patients

  2000


• The processing of global and local visual information in Alzheimer's disease

  E Matsumoto, Y Ohigashi, M Fujimori, E Mori

  2000, BEHAVIOURAL NEUROLOGY, 12(3) (3), 119 - 125, English


• 視覚性注意における注意領域調節機能と神経機構

  1999


• Global/local視覚刺激の認知 global precedence theoryのADにおける検討

  1999


• 対象の大きさに依存した視覚認知障害について

  1999


• 大きさに依存した視覚認知障害について

  1999, 神経心理学, 16, 56-65


• Magnetic response of human extrastriate cortex in the detection of coherent and incoherent motion

  1999, 97, 1-10


• 局所的注意と全体的注意の機能局在について

  1998


• Alzheimer型痴呆症例における視覚認知成績のサイズ依存効果

  1998


• 前頭葉損傷例における注意の持続と課題遂行制限因子について

  1997


• Frontal lobe damage and spatial working memory task performance in human neuropsychological study

  1997


• Frontal lobe damage and spatial working memory task performance in human neuropsychological study

  1997


• 前頭葉損傷による課題遂行制限因子

  1996


• 月経周期がスタンバーグの短期記憶課題処理に及ぼす影響

  1996, 大阪教育大学紀要 第３部門 自然科学・応用化学, 45-1, 141-146


• 女性の性周期がストループ課題に及ぼす影響

  1996, 大阪教育大学紀要 第３部門 自然科学・応用化学, 45-2, 305-309


• 妨害刺激処理における希釈項目の影響

  川島朋也, 松本絵理子

  Technical Report on Attention and Cognition, 25, 49 - 50


• ポジティブ感情、ネガティブ感情の認知と神経基盤

  産業ストレス研究, 16, 151-158


• トップダウンの注意が前景と背景の変化検出に及ぼす影響

  認知心理学研究, 7,9-16


• Bias in attending to emotional facial expressions: Anxiety and visual search efficiency

  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 414-424


• 標的出現確率の付与方法が注意配分に及ぼす影響

  基礎心理学研究, 30, 56-64


• 脳と心の視点から探る心理学入門

  培風館

• 日本基礎心理学会


• 日本神経心理学会


• 神経科学学会


• 日本神経科学学会


• 日本認知心理学会


• 日本心理学会

• Predictive information and cognitive process: How affect the emotional value of pre-cue on the attention control process

  松本 絵理子

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025

  我々の日常行動は，周辺環境下の情報に左右される。生体にとって危機的な状況が迫っている場合には，脅威情報に対する反応を優先的に処理することで危機に対処しようとする働きがあり，ネガティブバイアスとして知られている。しかし多くの研究が，脅威情報に接した後の処理に焦点をあてているのに対して，脅威が与えられる確率などの先行情報による心的処理への影響については不明な点が多い。本研究では心理学実験と脳機能測定を併せて用い，事後に呈示される妨害刺激の情動価に関する先行情報がもたらす注意制御過程への影響を，認知的指標と事象関連電位の相互の解析により明らかにする。 特に先行呈示される妨害刺激の感情価に着目することで，日常行動にも影響の大きい，感情価を含む情報と認知制御の関係の解明に資するものと考えられる。令和4年度は文献的検討と情報収集を進め，脅威情報に伴う心的処理の影響に関する知見を整理すると共に，近年の感情と認知制御に関するモデル間の比較等を行った。また，感情価を含む情報の呈示とそれが後続刺激に与える効果の持続的変化を検討するための心理学実験に着手した。実験では高速逐次視覚呈示法（RSVP）パラダイムを用いて脅威刺激呈示による後続課題への影響を調べた。その結果，脅威刺激が課題関連で能動的処理が求められる場合に後続処理に対して妨害的に働くことが示された。これらの結果は学会・研究会にて報告を行うと共に，追加の検討を行って学会誌への投稿を準備している。先行する脅威情報が後続処理の資源を奪う現象（emotion-induced blindness)はこれまでにも報告がなされているが，それらの研究間の結果はかならずしも一致しておらず，脅威情報の処理水準や後続処理との関連性などにより影響を受けると考えられている。今後さらに脅威情報に対する認知制御や個人差等に関しても検討を進める。


• Research on visualization of attractive image representation in mind

  Naito Tomoyuki

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Osaka University, 01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2021

  In this study, we developed a visualization technique for common attractive images using the reverse correlation method. First, from the results of a sensitivity evaluation task for paintings, we found that beauty and ugliness, liking and disliking, and artistry differ greatly among individuals and are difficult to explain by low-order image characteristics of stimuli such as image color statistics. Next, using the psychological reverse correlation method, we investigated whether it is possible to visualize the ideal image of facial beauty and ugliness. The results showed that it is possible to visualize the ideal image of facial aesthetics and ugliness from the results of the 2AFC aesthetics and ugliness sensitivity evaluation task with 2000 to 2500 trials.


• Study of viewers attention in the field of Film studies and Cognitive psychology

  Itakura Fumiaki

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Kobe University, 29 Jun. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2020

  Trying to merging film studies and cognitive psychology, this study examined viewers attention during seeing movies. This study inquired the relationship between film directors' expressions and viewers trajectories of attention during watching movies by using eye tracking device. And this study also historicized the research of viewers' attention within the history of film studies. This study summarized that this kind of research started with Hugo Munsterberg in 1916 and developed by David Bordwell in the 1980s with his cognitive approach. Then some film scholars began to utilize eye tracker from the 2000s to reconfirming what film directors practiced for a long decade.


• Attentional control for unexpected stimuli and individual differences

  MATSUMOTO ERIKO

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2019, Principal investigator

  When people acquired multiple aimed tasks simultaneously, that would require complex cognitive control such as the divided attention, switching tasks, planning of cognitive process, and so on. Under the daily environments including several type of information, cognitive control needs to select information to process and to inhibit task-irrelevant information because of the cognitive capacity limitation. However, there are cases in which task-irrelevant and unnecessary information is processed irrespective of intention. In this research project aim to analysis the attentional control on the execution of multitask using psychological experiments and measuring event-related brain potentials. As the results, we obtained several suggestions that the relationship between distracting effects and personal psychological traits, as well as differences of distracting effects due to the predictability and the saliency of the task-irrelevant information.

  Competitive research funding


• The effects of anxiety on inhibition process for task-irrelevant information.

  Matsumoto Eriko

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

  This research aimed to examine the attentional control process for task irrelevant emotional stimuli during performing high demanding tasks. Precious studies suggested that threat related emotional faces captured attention whereas they appeared as task-irrelevant stimuli. We examined the mechanisms for rejecting the task-irrelevant information during the high cognitive load tasks. Also, we focused on the individual differences of the inhibition process. The results suggested that high anxiety individuals showed difficulty of top-down control over negative emotional task-irrelevant distractors than low anxiety group. However, for positive emotional task-irrelevant distractors, high anxiety individuals succeed to reject them when the task load was low. These results could help understanding the mechanisms of focusing attention in the high distracting circumstances especially high social anxiety people.


• Phonetic characteristics of Japanese utterances by foreign learners under stressed vs relaxed conditions

  HAYASHI Ryoko, MATSUMOTO Eriko, MATSUDA Makiko, SADANOBU Toshiyuki, SAKAKIBARA Kenichi, A Rongna, KANEDA Jumpei, ZHANG Yaming

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2015

  In this study, speech data by foreign learners of Japanese were collected under three types of conditions (relaxed, temporally stressed and psychologically stressed) and their acoustic characteristics were analyzed. . Overall, the speakers showed better mora-timing rhythm when they were in a relaxed condition. The major differences between relaxed and stressed (tense) situations were seen in pitch characteristics and dis-fluency markers, such as fillers and pauses.


• Attentional process of haptics: psychological and physiological experiments

  KITA Shinichi, MATSUMOTO Eriko, TSUJIMOTO Satoshi, NOGUCHI Yasuki, TERAMOTO Wataru, YAMAGUCHI Toshimitsu

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2010 - 31 Mar. 2015

  The present study was aimed to examine mechanisms for the information processing for touch by finger tips, by performing psychological and physiological experiments to elucidate haptics or tactile attention. We conducted experiments of haptic search by sighted people to examine the prevalence effect, which had been examined in visual search, and did experiments of tactile maps by sighted and blind people. By measuring spatiotemporal property of those search processes, we clarified the mechanisms of attentional process in haptics.


• An investigation of the automatization process in language processing with respect to the development of foreign language proficiency

  YOKOKAWA Hirokazu, SADTO Norihiro, YOSHIDA Haruyo, HARADA Yasunari, TANABE Hiroki, HAYASHI Ryoko, MATSUMOTO Eriko, YOSHITOMI Asako, TOYA Mitsuyo, MURAKAMI Masayuki, YABUUCHI Satoshi, SUGAI Kosuke

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2009 - 31 Mar. 2014

  This project attempted to ecplore the automatization process for langauge comprehension and production by foreign language learners through psycholingusitic and physiological experiments. The major findings are as follows: (1)Sscores on the RST, which places a cognitive load on syntactic processing in particular, was significantly poorer than those of other types of RSTs and correlated significantly with English proficiency scores. English proficiency largely depends on the degree of automatization of syntactic processing. (2)The process required to carry out the sentence building task(syntactic processing) becomes more automatic as the learners' fluency level increases, and the learners with higher L2 fluency had the option of allocating more of their cognitive resources to story comprehension than did the learners with lower L2 fluency.


• How human detect the threat? : A study of the threat-related information processing.

  MATSUMOTO ERIKO, NAITO Tomoyuki

  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, 2011 - 2013

  In this study, we investigated how humans detect and recognize threat-related information in the environment. We conducted experiments that used angry, neutral, and happy facial expressions; angry faces were used as threat-related stimuli. We manipulated task load, and examined whether threat-related information affects executive cognitive processes, even when they are completely task-irrelevant. The results showed a significant effect of threat-related information on the task in the high load condition. When the task load was high and angry faces were presented in the same display, cognitive processing of the central task was disrupted. These results indicate that threat-related information is difficult to avoid, and that it is processed without intention. Also, a negative correlation was revealed between individual anxiety levels and detection sensitivity.


• Analysis for the sense of manipulation : an interdisciplinary study of psychophysics, brain imaging, and informatics

  KITA Shinichi, MIYAUCHI Satoru, WATANABE Hiroshi, WADA Yuji, MIYAUCHI Satoru, MATSUMOTO Eriko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, 2006 - 2007

  The present study investigated the effect of human physicality on sensation such as visual, tactile, and auditory senses by using psychological experiments, brain imaging, virtual-reality experiments, and rehabilitation experiments. We showed the importance of vection in audio-visual interaction, influence of direct gaze on gaze perception, and object-based attention in tactile object perception.