KATSUMI WATANABE

Room

RM 407-1B (4F), Bldg 59, Nishiwaseda Campus, Waseda University.

Tel

03-5286-3335

E-mail

katzwaseda.jp

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Research Fields and Themes

Cognitive Science (Perception, Crossmodal interaction, Sensorimotor learning, Development, Attention, Eye movement, Social cognition, Decision Making)

Neuroscience (Motivation, Reward, Basal ganglia, Brain Imaging)

Education

1995
University of Tokyo, Department of Psychology: BA in Experimental Psychology
1997
University of Tokyo, Department of Life Sciences: MA in Cognitive Science (highest honors).
2001
California Institute of Technology, PhD in Computation and Neural Systems

Professional Experience

2001
Research fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
2002
Research fellow, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
2003
Research scientist, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.
2005
Group leader (Decision Making Research Group), Shimojo Implicit Brain Function Project, ERATO, JST.
2006
Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan.
2015 ~ 2018
Visiting Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan.
2015 ~
Professor, Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan.

Journal Articles

Sakai, S. Sarodo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Increase in speed eliminates duration expansion of a novel motion stimulus. Perception (online)DOI / LINK
Mukai, K., Isomura, T., Onagawa, R., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Electrocardiographic activity depends on the relative position between intimate persons. Scientific Reports, 14, 4281.DOI / LINK
Alemany-González, M., Wokke, M. E., Chiba, T., Narumi, T., Kaneko, N., Yokoyama, H., Watanabe, K., Nakazawa, K., Imamizu, H., Koizumi, A. (2024). Fear in action: Fear conditioning and alleviation through body movements. iScience, 27(3):109099.DOI / LINK
Sarodo, A., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Face adaptation induces duration distortion of subsequent face stimuli in a face category-specific manner. Journal of Vision, 24 (2):7, 1-14.DOI / LINK
Onagawa, R., Kudo, K., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Systematic bias in representation of reaction time distribution. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, onlineDOI / LINK
Yang, Y., Chen, Na., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Color-taste correspondence tested by the Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1250781.DOI / LINK
Mukai, K., Onagawa, R., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Automatic imitation in children: age-related change and comparison to adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(1), 64-73.DOI / LINK
Shirai, R., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Visual images of disgusting creatures facilitated attentional orienting and delayed attentional disengagement. Cognitive Processing.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Red biases sex categorization of human bodies. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1234417DOI / LINK
Ubukata, S., Watanabe, K., & Isomura, T. (2023). Cultural differences in interoceptive accuracy: Comparison between Japan and Europe. Japanese Psychological Research. 65(4), 294-309. DOI / LINK
Meng, X., Chen, Na., Ishida, J., Watanabe, K., & Murakami, T. (2023). Crossmodal correspondences between visual features and tastes in preschoolers: An exploratory study. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1226661.DOI / LINK
Meng, X., Ishii, T., Sugimoto, K., Nakawake, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Kanakogi, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities. Cognition, 239, 105576.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). An automatic red-female association tested by the Stroop task. Acta Psychologica, 238, 103982.DOI / LINK
Sasaki, K., Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). The evasive truth: Do mere exposures at the subliminal and supraliminal levels drive the illusory truth effect? Royal Society Open Science, 10, 201791.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Watanabe, K., Spence, C., & Wada, M. (2023). People with higher autistic traits show stronger binding for color–shape associations. Scientific Reports, 13, 9611.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Red background color biases gender categorization of human faces, Scientific Reports, 13(1), 7792. 10.DOI / LINK
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2023). Functional connectivity based machine learning approach for autism detection in young children using MEG signals. Journal of Neural Engineering, 20(2), 026012.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Watanabe, K., Kobayakawa, T., & Wada, M. (2023). Reasons for adding different tastes: An example of sprinkling salt on watermelon and its relation to subjective taste perception, taste preference, and autistic traits. Journal of Food Quality, 2023, 9945339.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Effect of color-shape associations on visual feature discrimination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(10), 2285-2292.DOI / LINK
Ueda, N., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Memory decay enhances central bias in time perception. i-Perception, 13(6), 1-14.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., Sarodo, A., Anstis, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2022). A motion-induced position shift depends on motion both before and after the test probe. Journal of Vision, 22(12), 19.DOI / LINK
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2022). A fusion-based machine learning approach for autism detection in young children using magnetoencephalography signals. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 4830–4848.DOI / LINK
Sarodo, A., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Changes in face category induce stronger duration distortion in the temporal oddball paradigm. Vision Research, 200, 108116.DOI / LINK
de Lissa, P., Watanabe, K., Li, G., Ishii, T., Nakamura, K., Kimura, T., Sagasaki, A., & Caldara, R. (2022). Race categorization in noise, i-Perception, 13(4),1–14.DOI / LINK
Shimane, D., Tanaka, T., Watanabe, K., & Tanaka, K (2022). Motor engagement enhances incidental memory for task-irrelevant items. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 914877.DOI / LINK
Namba, S., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2022). The spatio-temporal features of perceived-as-genuine and deliberate expressions. PLoS ONE, 17(7), e0271047.DOI / LINK
Anllo, H., Watanabe, K., Sackur, J., & de Gardelle, V. (2022). Effects of false statements on visual perception hinge on social suggestibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(8), 889-900.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Watanabe, K., Kobayakawa, T., & Wada, M. (2022). Relationships between autistic traits, taste preference, taste perception, and eating behavior. European Eating Disorders Review, 30(5), 628-640.DOI / LINK
Namba, S., Sato, W., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Computational process of sharing emotion: An authentic information perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 849499.DOI / LINK
Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Do empathetic people have strong religious beliefs? Survey studies with large Japanese samples. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 33(1), 1-18.DOI / LINK
Kato, T., Kaneko, N., Sasaki, A., Endo, N., Yuasa, A., Milosevic, M., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2022). Corticospinal excitability and somatosensory information processing of the lower limb muscle during upper limb voluntary or electrically induced muscle contractions. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(7), 1810-1824.DOI / LINK
Dalmaso, M., Vicovaro, M., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Cross-cultural evidence of a space-ethnicity association in face categorization. Current Psychology, 42, 15883-15892.DOI / LINK
Shirai, R., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Open biological negative image set (OBNIS). Royal Society Open Science, 9(1), 211128.DOI / LINK
Ueda, N., Tanaka, K., Maruod, K., Roach, N., Sumiyoshi, T., Watanabe, K., & Hanakawa, T. (2021). Perceptual inference, accuracy, and precision in temporal reproduction in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 28, 100229.DOI / LINK
Endo, N., Ito, T., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2021). Enhancement of loudness discrimination acuity for self-generated sound is independent of musical experience. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0260859.DOI / LINK
de Lissa, P., Sokhn, N., Lasrado, S., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Caldara, R. (2021). Rapid saccadic categorization of other-race faces. Journal of Vision, 21(12), 1-17.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Watanabe, K., & Wada, M. (2021). People with high autistic traits show less consensual crossmodal correspondences between visual features and tastes. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 714277.DOI / LINK
Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Caring about you: The motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan. Religion, Brain, & Behavior, 11(4), 361-370.DOI / LINK
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Effects of secondhand information on impression formation in spoken communication. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 20(3), 189-198.DOI / LINK
Yokoyama, H., Kaneko, N., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2021). Neural decoding of gait phases during motor imagery and improvement of the decoding accuracy by concurrent action observation. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4), 046099.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2021). Dynamic presentation boosts the Ebbinghaus illusion but reduces the Muller-Lyer and orientation contrast illusions. Journal of Vision, 21(6), 4, 1-8.DOI / LINK
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Managed postures modulate social impressions after limited and unlimited time exposure. Current Psychology, 42, 3957-3963.DOI / LINK
Meng, X., Ishii, T., Sugimoto, K., Itakura, S., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Source memory and social exchange in young children. Cognitive Processing, 22(3). 529-537.DOI / LINK
Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Sex differences in the motivation for viewing sexually arousing images. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7(3). 273 - 283.DOI / LINK
Endo, N., Ito, T., Mochida, T., Ijiri, T., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2021). Precise force controls enhance loudness discrimination of self-generated sound. Experimental Brain Research, 239(4), 1141-1149.DOI / LINK
Kaneko, N., Masugi, Y., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2021). Phase dependent modulation of cortical activity during action observation and motor imagery of walking: an EEG study. NeuroImage, 225, 117486.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Sense of agency with illusory visual events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(2), 238-251.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, T., Watanabe, K., & Tanaka, K. (2020). Immediate action effects motivate actions based on the stimulus-response relationship. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 67-78.DOI / LINK
Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). A new data-driven mathematical model dissociates attractiveness from sexual dimorphism of human faces. Scientific Reports, 10, 16588.DOI / LINK
Zhou H, Yang H., Cui, X., Shi, L., Gong, J., Lui, S.S.Y., Cheung, E.F.C., Watanabe, K., & Chan, R.C.K. (2020). Self-reported sensory responsiveness patterns in typically-developing and early-onset schizophrenia adolescents: its relationship with schizotypal and autistic traits. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 131, 255-262.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Color-shape associations affect feature binding. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 169-177.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., & Clifford, C. W. G. (2020). Angular tuning of tilt illusion depends on stimulus duration. Vision Research, 175, 85-89.DOI / LINK
Loria, T., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L (2020). Deploying attention to the target location of a pointing action modulates audio-visual processes at non-target locations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3507-3520.DOI / LINK
Yokoyama, H., Kaneko, N., Masugi, Y., Ogawa, T., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2020). Gait-phase-dependent and gait-phase-independent cortical activity across multiple regions involved in voluntary gait modifications in humans. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(12), 8092-8105.DOI / LINK
Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2020). People have modest, not good, insight into their face recognition ability: a comparison between self-report questionnaires. Psychological Research, 85, 1713-1723.DOI / LINK
Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Murata, A., Sasaki, K., Yamada, Y., Ikeda, A., Hinojosa, J. A., Watanabe, K., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Ospina, R. (2020). Your face and moves seem happier when I smile. Facial action influences the perception of emotional faces and biological motion stimuli. Experimental Psychology, 67(1), 14-22.DOI / LINK
Sasaki, K., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Spatial congruency bias in identifying objects is triggered by retinal position congruence: Examination using the Ternus-Pikler illusion. Scientific Reports, 10, 4630.DOI / LINK
Murata, A., Nishida, H., Watanabe, K., & Kameda, T. (2020). Convergence of physiological responses to pain during face-to-face interaction. Scientific Reports, 10, 450.DOI / LINK
Isomura, T., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Direct gaze enhances interoceptive accuracy. Cognition, 195, 104113.DOI / LINK
Meng, X., Ishii, T., Sugimoto, K., Song, R., Moriguchi, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Smiling enemies: Young children better recall mean individuals who smile. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 188, 104672.DOI / LINK
Oishi, H., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Sense of agency in continuous action is influenced by outcome feedback in one-back trials. Acta Psychologica, 199, 102897.DOI / LINK
Sen, S., Daimi, S.N., Watanabe, K., Takahashi, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2019). Switch or stay? Automatic classification of internal mental states in bistable perception. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 14(1), 95-113.DOI / LINK
Kawada, A., Nagasawa, M., Murata, A., Mogi, K., Watanabe, K., Kikusui, K., & Kameda, T. (2019). Vasopressin enhances human preemptive strike in both males and females. Scientific Reports, 9, 9664.DOI / LINK
Yokoyama, H., Kaneko, N., Ogawa, T., Kawashima, N., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2019). Cortical correlates of locomotor muscle synergy activation in humans: an EEG decoding study. iScience, 15, 623-639.DOI / LINK
Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Data-driven mathematical model of East-Asian facial attractiveness: The relative contributions of shape and reflectance to attractiveness judgements. Royal Society Open Science, 6, 182189.DOI / LINK
Abe, M.O., Koike, T., Okazaki, S., Sugawara, S.K., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., & Sadato, N. (2019). Neural correlates of online cooperation during joint force production. NeuroImage, 191, 150-161.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Watanabe, K., Velonaki, M., Tossell, C.C., & Finomore, V. (2018). FFAB – The Form Function Attribution Bias in Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 10(4), 843-851.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., Clifford, C. W. G., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Ebbinghaus illusion depends more on the retinal than perceived size of surrounding stimuli. Vision Research, 154, 80-84.DOI / LINK
Oishi, H., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Feedback of action outcome retrospectively influences sense of agency in a continuous action task. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0202690.DOI / LINK
Weller, M., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H. H., & Meilinger, T. (2018). The object orientation effect in exocentric distances. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1374.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Contribution of global and local biological motion information to speed perception and discrimination. Journal of Vision, 18(3), 2, 1-11DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Effects of model types in observational learning on implicit sequential learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 71(7), 1-34.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., Murata, A., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Gaze-cueing with crossed eyes: Asymmetry between nasal and temporal shifts. Perception, 47(2), 158-170.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Fukuda, H., Watanabe, K., & Ueda, K. (2017). Psychological influences of animal-themed food decorations. Food Quality and Preference, 64, 232-237. DOI / LINK
Duan, F., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., & Aihara, K. (2017). Detection of atypical network development patterns in children with autism spectrum disorder using magnetoencephalography. PLoS ONE, 12(9), e0184422.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Effects of an additional sequence of color stimuli on visuomotor sequence learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 937.DOI / LINK
Rachman, L., Liuni, M., Arias, M., Lind, A., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Richardson, D., Watanabe, K., Dubal, S., & Aucouturier, J. J. (2017). DAVID: An open-source platform for real-time transformation of infra-segmental emotional cues in running speech. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 323-343.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Explicit instruction of rules interferes with visuomotor skill transfer. Experimental Brain Research, 235(6), 1689-1700.DOI / LINK
Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Development of visual working memory and distractor resistance in relation to academic performance. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 154, 98-112.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H. & Watanabe, K. (2016). Action congruency influences crowding when discriminating biological motion direction. Perception, 45(9), 1046-1059.DOI / LINK
Meilinger, T., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Multiple strategies for spatial integration of 2D layouts within working memory. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0154088.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Namatame, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Color-shape associations in deaf and hearing people. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 355.DOI / LINK
Jung, E., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., de la Rosa, S., Butz, M.V., Bülthoff, H.H., & Meilinger, T. (2016). The influence of human body orientation on distance judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 217.DOI / LINK
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Temporal and spatial predictability of an irrelevant event differently affect detection and memory of items in a visual sequence. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 65.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Impacts of visuomotor sequence learning methods on speed and accuracy: Starting over from the beginning or from the point of error. Acta Psychologica, 164, 169-180.DOI / LINK
Kitamura, M., Watanabe, K., & Kitagawa, M. (2016). Positive emotion facilitates audiovisual binding. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9, 66.DOI / LINK
Aucouturier, J.J., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Segnini, R., Mercadié, L., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers' emotional state in a congruent direction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 13(4), 948-953. DOI / LINK
Yamamoto, K., Sasaki, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). The number-time interaction depends on relative magnitude in the suprasecond range. Cognitive Processing, 17(1), 59-65.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Mental summation of temporal duration within and across senses. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0141466.DOI / LINK
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe. K. (2015). Judgments of facial attractiveness as a combination of facial parts information over time: Social and aesthetic factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(2), 173-179.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Seeing objects as faces enhances object detection. i-Perception, 6(5),1-14DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Synchronous motion modulates animacy perception. Journal of Vision, 15(8), 17.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Effects of learning duration on implicit transfer. Experimental Brain Research, 233(10), 2767-2776.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Fukuda, H., Samejima, K., Watanabe, K., & Ueda, K. (2015). Impact of stimulus uncanniness on speeded response. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 662.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Cross preferences for colors and shapes. Color Research & Application, 41(2), 188-195.DOI / LINK
Saegusa, C., Namatame, M. & Watanabe, K. (2015). Interpreting text messages with graphic facial expression by deaf and hearing people. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 383.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Associations Between Color and Shape in Japanese Observers. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9(1), 101-110.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Color-Shape Associations Revealed with Implicit Association Tests. PLoS ONE, 10 (1), e0116954.DOI / LINK
Okada, R., Nakagawa, J., Takahashi, M., Kanaka, N., Fukamauch, F., Watanabe, K., Namatame, M., & Matsuda, M. (2014). The deaf utilize phonological representations in visually presented verbal memory tasks. Neuroscience Research, 90, 83-89.DOI / LINK
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & Hölscher, C. (2014). Reference frames in learning from maps and navigation. Psychological Research, 79 (6), 1000-1008.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Implicit transfer of spatial structure in visuomotor sequence learning. Acta Psychologica, 153, 1-12.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Mougenot, C., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Cultural differences in perception and attitude towards robots. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 13 (3), 149-157.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Effects of direct and averted gaze on the subsequent saccadic response. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(4), 1085-1092.DOI / LINK
Matsuyoshi, D., Kuraguchi, K., Tanaka, Y., Uchida, S., Ashida, H., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Individual differences in autistic traits predict the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females. Molecular Autism, 5(12), 1-3.DOI / LINK
Duan, F., Watanabe, K., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Aihara, K. (2014). Relationship between brain network pattern and cognitive performance of children revealed by MEG signals during free viewing of video. Brain and Cognition, 86, 10-16.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Do we know others' visual liking? i-Perception, 5(7), 572-584.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Contextual effects of scene on the visual perception of object orientation in depth. PLoS ONE, 8(12), e84371.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Gaze cueing by pareidolia faces. i-Perception, 4 (8), 490-492.DOI / LINK
Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Shape-assimilation effect: Retrospective distortion of visual shapes. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76(1), 5-10.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Implicit transfer of reversed temporal structure in visuomotor sequence learning. Cognitive Science, 38(3), 565-579.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Influence of removal of invisible fixation on the saccadic and manual gap effect. Experimental Brain Research, 232(1), 329-336.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Meilinger, T., Watanabe, K., & Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Psychological influences on distance estimation in a virtual reality environment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 580.DOI / LINK
Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Influence of gender membership on sequential decision of face attractiveness. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(7), 1347-1352.DOI / LINK
Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Object motion continuity and the flash-lag effect. Vision Research, 92, 19-25.DOI / LINK
Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Numerosity underestimation with item similarity in dynamic visual display. Journal of Vision, 13 (8),5, 1-15.DOI / LINK
Mougenot, C., Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Influence of designers' kansei on design outcomes. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 12 (2), 245-250.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, S., Ikeda, H., Kasahara, K., Kato, R., Tsubomi, H., Sugawara, S.K., Mori, M., Hanakawa, T., Sadato, N., Honda, M., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Larger right posterior parietal volume in action video game experts: a behavioral and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study. PLoS ONE, 8 (6), e66998.DOI / LINK
Tagai, K., Shimakura, H., Takata, S., Nagai, M., Watanabe, K., Niki, K., Iwaki, S., & Kumada, T. (2013). Differential brain response to one- or two-hand handling action: an fMRI study. Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, 2, 21-32.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of learning with explicit elaboration on implicit transfer of visuomotor sequence learning. Experimental Brain Research, 228(4), 411-425.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2013). Teaching as a dynamic phenomenon with interpersonal interactions. Mind, Brain and Education, 7 (2), 91-100.DOI / LINK
Tsubomi, H., Fukuda, K., Watanabe, K., & Vogel, E.K. (2013). Neural limits to representing objects still within view. Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (19), 8257-8263.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Contributions of retinal input and phenomenal representation of a fixation object to the saccadic gap effect. Vision Research, 82, 52-57.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, T., Takano, Y., Tanaka, S., Hironaka, N., Kobayashi, K., Hanakawa, T., Watanabe, K., & Honda, M. (2013). Transcranial direct-current stimulation increases extracellular dopamine levels in the rat striatum. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7, 6. DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Interference between accustomed number-space mappings and unacquainted letter-space mappings in a button press task. Human Factors, 55(6), 1088-1100.DOI / LINK
Seya, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Objective and subjective sizes of the effective visual field during game playing measured by the gaze-contingent window method. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 12, 11-19.DOI / LINK
Au, R.K.C., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Retrospective perceptual distortion of position representation does not lead to delayed localization. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 9(1), 20-31.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2013). Crowding of biological motion stimuli. Journal of Vision, 13 (4), 20, 1-6.DOI / LINK
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). A transient auditory signal shifts the perceived offset position of a moving visual object. Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (70), 1-10.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Yamada, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Loss of color by afterimage masking. i-Perception, 4 (3), 144-146.DOI / LINK
Chien, S.E., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Depth modulation of the attentional repulsion effect. Perception, 42(12), 1333-1343.DOI / LINK
Yonemura, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Back view of beauty: A bias in attractiveness judgment. Perception, 42 (1), 95-102.DOI / LINK
Au, R.K.C., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Spatial distortion induced by imperceptible visual stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (1), 99-110.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Overestimation and underestimation in a configural response learning task. Kansei Engineering International Journal, 11(4), 171-178.DOI / LINK
Yatabe, K., Inagaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Motor cortical beta oscillations are modulated by mastery of observed handwritings. Kansei Engineering International Journal, 11(4), 225-233.DOI / LINK
Yun, K., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2012). Interpersonal body and neural synchronization as a marker of implicit social interaction. Scientific Reports, 2, 959.DOI / LINK
Sugawara, S.K., Tanaka, S., Okazaki, S., Watanabe, K., & Sadato, N. (2012). Social rewards enhance offline improvements in motor skill. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e48174.DOI / LINK
Tagai, K., Takata, S., Nagai, M., Watanabe, K., & Kumada, K. (2012). A near-infrared spectroscopy study of differential brain responses to one or two-handed handing actions: An implication for cultural difference in perceived politeness. Universitas Psychologica, 12(5), 1567-1581.DOI / LINK
Kondo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Inter-trial effect in luminance processing revealed by magnetoencephalography. Universitas Psychologica, 12(5), 1559-1565.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, S., Seki, K., Hanakawa, T., Harada, M., Sugawara, S.K., Sadato, N., Watanabe, K., & Honda, M. (2012). Abacus in the brain: a longitudinal functional MRI study of a skilled abacus user with the right hemispheric lesion. Frontiers in Psychology, Sec.Perception Science, 3, 315.DOI / LINK
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., & Saida, S. (2012). Rapid and implicit effect of color category on visual search. Optical Review, 19(4), 276-281.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Short-term memory for event duration: Modality specificity and goal-dependency. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 4(8), 1623-1631.DOI / LINK
Iwayama, K., Hirata, Y., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., Aihara, K. & Suzuki, H. (2012). Characterizing global evolutions of complex systems via intermediate network representations. Scientific Reports, 2, 423.DOI / LINK
Au, R.K.C., Ono, F., & Watanabe. K. (2012). Time dilation induced by object motion is based on spatiotopic but not retinotopic positions. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(58).DOI / LINK
Seya, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). The minimal time required to process visual information in visual search tasks measured by using gaze-contingent visual masking. Perception, 41(7), 819-830.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Consistency of likeability of objects across views and time. Perception, 41(6), 673-686.DOI / LINK
Seya, Y., Tsutsui, K., Watanabe, K., & Kimura, K. (2012). Attentional capture without awareness in complex visual tasks. Perception, 41(5), 517-531.DOI / LINK
Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Sequential effects in face-attractiveness judgment. Perception, 41(1), 43-49.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Fukuda, H., Watanabe, K., & Ueda, K. (2012). Scintillating lustre induced by radial fins. i-Perception, 3(2), 101-103.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Fukuda, H., Ikeda, H., Doi, H., Watanabe, K., Ueda, K., & Shinohara, K. (2011). Roles of the upper and lower body in direction discrimination of point-light walkers. Journal of Vision, 11(14), 1-13.DOI / LINK
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Mislocalization of visual stimuli: Independent effects of static and dynamic attention. PLoS ONE, 6(12), e28371.DOI / LINK
Ono, F., Horii, S., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Individual differences in vulnerability to subjective time distortion. Japanese Psychological Research, 54(2), 195-201.DOI / LINK
Ariga, A., Kawahara, J., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Object-based maintenance of temporal attention in rapid serial visual presentation. Visual Cognition, 19(5), 553-584.DOI / LINK
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Implicit learning increases preference for predictive visual display. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(6), 1815-1822.DOI / LINK
Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Neuromagnetic correlates of perceived brightness in human visual cortex. Psychologia, 53(4), 267-275.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, S., Takeda, K., Otaka, Y., Kita, K., Osu, R., Honda, M., Sadato, N., Hanakawa, T., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Single session of transcranial direct-current stimulation transiently increases knee extenssor force in patients with hemiparetic stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 25(6), 565-569.DOI / LINK
Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Attention can retrospectively distort visual space. Psychological Science, 22(4), 472-477.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Matsuda, T., Nishioka, T., & Namatame, M. (2011). Eye gaze during observation of static faces in deaf people. PLoS ONE, 6(2), e16919.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Visual and auditory influence on perceptual stability in visual competition. Seeing and Perceiving, 24(6), 545-564.DOI / LINK
Kikuchi, M., Shitamichi, K., Ueno, S., Yoshimura, Y., Remijn, B.G., Nagao, K., Munesue, T., Iiyama, K., Tsubokawa, T., Haruta, Y., Inoue, Y., Watanabe, K., Hashimoto, T., Higashida, H., & Minabe, Y. (2010). Neurovascular coupling in the human somatosensory cortex: a single trial study. NeuroReport, 21(17), 1106-1110.DOI / LINK
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Exogenous temporal cues enhance recognition memory in an object-based manner. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(8), 2157-2167.DOI / LINK
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Contextual segmentation in the visual stream produces a temporal synchronization effect on visual perception. Psychologia, 53(2), 125-137.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Implicit auditory modulation on the temporal characteristics of perceptual alternation in visual competition. Journal of Vision, 10(4),11, 1-13.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Ikeda, H., & Miyao, M. (2010). Learning efficacy of explicit visuomotor sequences in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Asperger syndrome. Experimental Brain Research, 203, 233-239.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Illusory motion induced by blurred red-blue edges. Perception, 39(12), 1678-1680.DOI / LINK
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Time to learn: Evidence for two types of attentional guidance in contextual cueing. Perception, 39(1), 72-80.DOI / LINK
Bhagat, M., Bhushan, C., Saha, G., Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K., & Bhattacharya, J. (2009). Investigating neuromagnetic brain responses against chromatic flickering stimuli by wavelet entropies. PLoS ONE, 4(9), e7173.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, S., Hanakawa, T., Honda, M & Watanabe, K. (2009). Enhancement of pinch force in the lower leg by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 196, 459-465.DOI / LINK
Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2009). What is special about index-finger?: Index-finger advantage in manipulating reflexive attentional shift. Japanese Psychological Research, 51(4), 258-265.DOI / LINK
Ogawa, H., Watanabe, K., & Yagi, A. (2009). Contextual cueing in multiple object tracking. Visual Cognition, 17(8), 1244-1258.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Anger and happiness are linked differently to the explicit detection of biological motion. Perception, 38(7), 1002-1011.DOI / LINK
Yulmetyev, R.M., Khusaenova, E.V., Yulmetyeva, D.G., Hanggi, P., Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K. & Bhattacharya, J. (2008). Dynamic effects and information quantifiers of statistical memory of MEG signals at photosensitive epilepsy. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 6(1), 189-206.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Non-persistent effect of prior experience on change blindness: Investigation on naive observers. Psychologia, 51(2), 115-125.DOI / LINK
Yulmetyev, R.M., Khusaenova, E.V., Yulmetyeva, D.G., Hanggi, P., Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K., & Bhattacharya, J. (2008). Statistical memory of MEG signals at photosensitive epilepsy. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 18(9), 2799-2805.DOI / LINK
Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Temporal dissociation between category-based and item-based processes in rejecting distractors. Psychological Research, 73, 54-59.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Yokoi, K. (2008). Dynamic distortion of visual position representation around moving objects. Journal of Vision, 8(3), 1-11.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Saiki, J., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Realignment of temporal simultaneity between vision and touch. NeuroReport, 19(3), 319-322.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., Watanabe, K., & Yokosawa, K. (2008). The dynamic-stimulus advantage of visual symmetry perception. Psychological Research, 72, 567-579.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Persisting effect of prior experience of change blindness. Perception, 37(2), 324-327.DOI / LINK
Ghorashi, S., Jefferies, L. N., Kawahara, J., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Does attention accompany the conscious awareness of both location and identity of an object? PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness, 14, 1-13.DOI / LINK
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K. (2007). Unpredictable visual changes cause temporal memory averaging. Vision Research, 47, 2727-2731.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2007). Behavioral speed contagion: Automatic modulation of movement timing by observation of body movements. Cognition, 106(3), 1514-1524.DOI / LINK
Yulmetyev, R. M., Hänggi, P., Yulmetyeva, D. G., Shimojo, S., Khusaenova, E. V., Watanabe, K., & Bhattacharya, J. (2007). Relaxation and phase space singularities in time series of human magnetoencephalograms as indicator of photosensitive epilepsy. Physica A, 383, 443-454.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Yokoi, K. (2007). Object-based anisotropic mislocalization by retinotopic motion signals. Vision Research, 47, 1662-1667.DOI / LINK
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., Kumada, T., Doi, H., Kogure, M., & Yamamoto, T. (2006). Effective visual field in driving revealed by gaze-contingent window method. Review of Automotive Engineering, 27(4), 497-501.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., Yokosawa, K., & Watanabe, K. (2006). Attentional set for axis of symmetry-defined visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(7), 1153-1162.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Yokoi, K. (2006). Object-based anisotropies in the flash-lag effect. Psychological Science, 17, 728-735.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Ikeda, H., & Hikosaka, O. (2006). Effects of explicit knowledge of workspace rotation in visuomotor sequence learning. Experimental Brain Research, 174(4), 673-678.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2006). Speed tuning of biological motion perception. Kansei Engineering International, 6(2), 7-12. DOI / LINK
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., Kato, R., Kawai, T., Sato, T., Yamazaki, T., & Yamagata, H. (2006). Measuring spatial distribution of visual attention in action video game. Kansei Engineering International, 6(2), 13-18.DOI / LINK
Khurana, B., Carter, M., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2006). Flash-lag chimeras: the role of perceived alignment in the composite face effect. Vision Research, 46, 2757-2772.DOI / LINK
Niimi, R., Yokosawa, K., & Watanabe, K. (2005). The role of visible persistence for perception of visual bilateral symmetry. Japanese Psychological Research, 47(4), 262-270.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Hikosaka, O. (2005). Immediate changes in anticipatory activity of caudate neurons associated with reversal of position-reward contingency. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 1879-1887.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2005). Asymmetric mislocalization of a visual flash ahead of and behind a moving object. Perception, 34, 687-698.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2005). The motion-induced position shift depends on the visual awareness of motion. Vision Research, 45, 2580-2586.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., Blake, R., & Watanabe, K. (2005). Eccentric perception of biological motion is unscalably poor. Vision Research, 45, 1935-1943.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Sayres, R., Shimojo, S., Imada, T., & Nihei, K. (2004). Effect of sodium valproate on neuromagnetic responses to chromatic flicker: Implication to photosensitivity. Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, 61, 1-7.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Paik, Y., & Blake, R. (2004). Preserved gain control for luminance contrast during binocular rivalry suppression. Vision Research, 44, 3065-3071.DOI / LINK
Bhattacharya, J., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2004). Nonlinear dynamics of evoked neuromagnetic responses signifies potential defensive mechanisms against photosensitivity. International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos, 14(8), 2701-2720.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2004). Visual grouping by motion precedes the relative localization between moving and flashed stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 30(3), 504-512.DOI / LINK
Nijhawan, R., Watanabe, K., Khurana, B., & Shimojo, S. (2004). Compensation of neural delays in visual-motor behavior: No evidence for shorter afferent delays for visual motion. Visual Cognition, 11(2-3), 275-298.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Lauwereyns, J., & Hikosaka, O. (2003). Neural correlates of rewarded and unrewarded eye movements in the primate caudate nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(31), 10051-10057.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Lauwereyns, J., & Hikosaka, O. (2003). Effects of motivational conflicts on visually elicited saccades in monkeys. Experimental Brain Research, 152(3), 361-367.DOI / LINK
Sato, T. R., Watanabe, K., Thompson, K. G., & Schall, J. D. (2003). Effect of target-distractor similarity on FEF visual selection in the absence of the target. Experimental Brain Research, 151(3), 356-363.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Sato, T. R., & Shimojo, S. (2003). Perceived shifts of flashed stimuli by visible and invisible object motion. Perception, 32, 545-559.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2003). Differential effect of distractor timing on localizing versus identifying visual changes. Cognition, 88, 243-257.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Imada, T., Nihei, K., & Shimojo, S. (2002). Neuromagnetic responses to chromatic flicker: implications for photosensitivity. Neuroreport, 13(16), 2161-2165.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., & Shimojo, S. (2002). Shifts in perceived position of flashed stimuli by illusory object motion. Vision Research, 42(24), 2645-2650.DOI / LINK
Lauwereyns, J., Watanabe, K., Coe, B., & Hikosaka, O. (2002). A neural correlate of response bias in monkey caudate nucleus. Nature, 418, 413-417.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., Khurana, B., & Shimojo, S. (2001). Perceptual organization of moving stimuli modulates the flash-lag effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(4), 879-894.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2001). Inhibition of return in averaging saccades. Experimental Brain Research, 138, 330-342.DOI / LINK
Shimojo, S., Scheier, C., Nijhawan, R., Shams, L. Kamitani, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2001). Beyond perceptual modality: Auditory effects on visual perception. Acoustical Science and Technology, 22(2), 61-67.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2001). Modulation of spatial attention with unidirectional field motion: an implication for the shift of the OKN beating field. Vision Research, 41(6), 801-814.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2001). When sound affects vision: effects of auditory grouping on visual motion perception. Psychological Science, 12(2), 109-116.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2001). Postcoincidence trajectory duration affects motion event perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 63(1), 16-28.DOI / LINK
Drew, P., Sayres, R., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2001). Pupillary response to chromatic flicker. Experimental Brain Research, 136, 256-262.DOI / LINK
Khurana, B., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2000). The role of attention in motion extrapolation: Are moving objects 'corrected' or flashed objects attentionally delayed? Perception, 29 (6), 675-692.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (1999). Optokinetic nystagmus with spontaneous reversal of transparent motion perception. Experimental Brain Research, 129, 156-160.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1998). Attentional modulation in perception of visual motion events. Perception, 27(9), 1041-1054.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1997). Suppressive effect of multimodal surface representation on ocular smooth pursuit of invisible hand. Perception, 26(3), 277-285.DOI / LINK
Shimojo, S., Tanaka, Y., & Watanabe, K. (1996). Stimulus-driven facilitation and inhibition of visual information processing in environmental and retinotopic representations of space. Cognitive Brain Research, 5(1), 11-21.DOI / LINK

Books & Review Articles

Robinson, F., Pelikan, H., Watanabe, K., Damiano, L., Bown, O., & Velonaki, M. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue on Sound in Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 12(4), Article No. 45, pp.1-5. DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The influence of robot appearance and interactive ability in HRI:Cross-Cultural Study. In Agah, A., Cabibihan, J.J., Howard, A., Salichs, M.A., & He, H.A (eds.). Social Robotics (pp.392-401), Springer.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2016). Teaching and learning as interpersonal and innerpersonal phenomena: Where bodies and minds meet. In Battro, A.M., Fischer, K.W. & Majdalani, M.L. (eds.). Mind, Brain and Education at Erice: Ten Years. (pp.165-169.), Mind, Brain and Education at Erice: Ten Years
Kashino, M., Shimojo, S., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Critical Roles of Implicit Interpersonal Information in Communication. In Nishida, T. (ed.). Human-Harmonized Information Technology ((1), pp.271-290.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2015). A transient auditory signal shifts the perceived offset position of a moving visual object. In Yamada, Y., Kawabe, T., & Miyazaki, M. (eds.). Awareness Shaping or Shaped by Prediction and Postdiction (pp.58-67.), Frontiers.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2014). Effects of successful experience and positive feedback on learning and rehabilitation. In Kansaku, K., Cohen, L., & Birbaumer, N. (eds). Clinical Systems Neuroscience (pp.291-302.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Matsumoto, Y., Watanabe, K. (2014). Perception and trust towards a lifelike android robot in Japan. In H. K. Kim et al. (eds.). Transactions on Engineering Technologies (pp. 485-497.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Matsumoto, Y., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Perception of an android robot in Japan and Australia: A cross-cultural comparison. In Social Robotics (pp. 166-175.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Optimal Fractal Feature and Neural Network: EEG Based BCI Applications. In Fazel-Rezai, R. (ed.). Brain-Computer Interface Systems - Recent Progress and Future Prospects (pp.91-114. 280 pages), IntechOpen.DOI / LINK
Mougenot, C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Sensory stimulation of designers. In Fukuda, S. (ed.). Emotional Engineering. 2(5), (pp.63-71.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Human-machine communication: State-of-the-art technologies. ECTI Transactions on Communication Engineering, Vol.7(4). ECTI-E-Magazine (pp.3-12.).DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Crossmodal interactions in visual competition. In Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience for Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Applications, Chapter 7 (pp.64-72.), IGI Global.DOI / LINK
Yatabe, K., Goto T., Watanabe, K., Kaga, M., & Inagaki, M. (2012). Reading and writing achievement tests for assessing orthographical and phonological impairments of Japanese children with developmental disorders. In Sittiprapaporn, W. (ed.). Learning Disabilities (pp.69-86/376), IntechOpen.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Murata, K., Norieda, S., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Abstract feelings emerging from haptic stimulation. In El Saddik, A. (ed.). Haptics Rendering and Applications, IntechOpen.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2011). Exceeding the limits: Behavioral enhancement via external influence. In Kansaku, K., & Cohen, L. (eds.). Systems Neuroscience and Rehabilitation (pp. 117-129.), Springer.DOI / LINK
Mougenot, C., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Verbal stimuli in design creativity: a case study with Japanese sound-symbolic words. In Taura, T., & Nagai, Y. (eds.). Design Creativity 2010 (pp.231-238), Springer.DOI / LINK
Nagai, M., Suganuma, M., Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., Miller, G., & Freyd, J.J. (2010). Conceptual influence on the flash-lag effect and representational momentum. In Nijhawan, R. & Khurana, B. (eds.). Space and Time in Perception and Action (pp.366-378), Cambridge University Press.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2007). Crossmodal attention in event perception. In Itti, L., Rees,G., & Tsotsos, J. (eds), Neurobiology of Attention (pp.538-543), Elsevier.DOI / LINK
Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K. & Scheier, C. (2001). The resolution of ambiguous motion: Attentional modulation and development. In Braun, J., Koch, C., & Davis, J. (eds.). Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits (pp.243–264/344), The MIT Press.DOI / LINK
Shimojo, S., Tanaka, Y., & Watanabe, K. (1997). Stimulus-driven facilitation and inhibition of visual information processing in environmental and retinotopic representations of space. In Ito, M. (ed.). Brain and Mind: For Better Understanding of the Dynamic Function of Mind and its Supporting Brain Mechanism (pp.19-38/354), Elsevier Advanced Technology.

Proceedings

Bucher, B., & Watanabe, K. (2024). The healthy=tasty intuition seems to prevail in Japan. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering (ISASE2024)
Yang, Y., Chen, N., Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Red backgrounds enhance dominance judgement of both human faces and simple geometric shapes. Proceedings of AIC2023 the 15th Congress of the International Colour Association.
Shirai, R., Yamamoto, K., Sugiura, S., & Watanabe, K. (2023). What type of advice does change decisions on moral dilemma effectively? Proceedings of the 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023) pp.60-64.DOI / LINK
Kobayashi, M., Saegusa, C., Sugiyama, H., Tsuchiya, Y., Kawashima, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Effects of facial expressions and parts on changes in facial attractiveness by brief oresentation. Proceedings of the 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023),pp.143-147.DOI / LINK
Bucher, B., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Do fictive sexual orientations induce in-group bias in emotion recognition?. Proceedings of the 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023),pp.220-225.DOI / LINK
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Hirosawa, T., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2023). Autism Detection in Children using Common Spatial Patterns of MEG Signals. Proceedings for Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2023), pp.1-4.DOI / LINK
Makino, R., Kodama, K., Tomono, T., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Effect of combination of three human-like objects' directions on choice between the two apertures. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45, pp.3110-3115. DOI / LINK
Teraji, T., Shiroshita, K., Komori, M., Nakamura, K., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Exploring facial traits associated with beauty and cuteness based on an alternative forced choice task. Proceedings for 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), pp.1-6.DOI / LINK
Shiroshita, K., Komori, M., Nakamura, K., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Application of Gaussian process preference learning for visualizing facial features related to personality traits. Proceedings for 2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), pp.1-6.DOI / LINK
Komori, M., Shiroshita, K., Nakagami, M., Nakamura, K., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Investigation of facial preference using Gaussian process preference learning and generative image model. In: Saeed, K., & Dvorský, J. (eds.). Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management. CISIM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.12883.DOI / LINK
Schäfer, A., Isomura, T., Reis, G., Watanabe, K., & Stricker, D. (2020). MutualEyeContact: A conversation analysis tool with focus on eye contact. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications pp. 1-5. DOI / LINK
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2020). Classification of autism in young children by phase angle clustering in magnetoencephalogram signals. 2020 National Conference on Communications (NCC), pp.1-6.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, T., Mikuni, J., Shimane, D., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Accounting for private taste: Facial shape analysis of attractiveness and Inter-individual variance. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.203-206.DOI / LINK
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Size-numerosity interaction depends retinal rather than perceived size, 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.199-202.DOI / LINK
Oishi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Self-initiation of visual object motion has little influence on visual mislocalization by auditory stimuli. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.195-198.DOI / LINK
Mukai, K., Onagawa, R., Tanaka, T., Watanabe, K., & Kudo K. (2020). Deciding when to start in 100-m sprints at Athletic World Championships. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.191-194.DOI / LINK
Kobayashi, M., Watanabe, K., & Nakamura, K. (2020). Attractive faces are rewarding irrespective of face category: Motivation in viewing attractive faces in Japanese viewers. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.186-190.DOI / LINK
Ilic, I., Yang, J., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, K., Mizokami, Y., & Webster, M.A. (2019). Blue-yellow asymmetries in the perception of illuminant vs. surface color. 19th Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, Journal of Vision 19(10):296b.DOI / LINK
Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2019). How People Attribute Minds to Non-Living Entities. 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.213-217.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Jiang, X., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Color-Shape Association in Chinese People. 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.209-212.DOI / LINK
Knox, E., & Watanabe, K. (2018). AIBO robot mortuary rites in the Japanese cultural context. Proceedings for 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.2020-2025.DOI / LINK
Kitamura, M., Kurata, K., Oya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Development of human-agent attachment by form of address. 2018 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, pp.101-105.DOI / LINK
Loria, T., Hajj, J., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L. (2018). Visual attention influences audiovisual event perception and the susceptibility to the fusion illusion. Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS). 2018 Annual Conference, 50(1), 46DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K., Kashino, M., Nakazawa, K., & Shimojo, S. (2018). Implicit ambient surface information: From personal to interpersonal. Joint proceedings of the ACM IUI 2018 Workshops co-located with the 23rd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2018)DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., Wada, M., & Watanabe K. (2018). Link between color-space association, left-right confusion, mirror image copy, and autistic traits. 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). pp.268-271.DOI / LINK
Fidalgo, A.R., Takahashi, K., Murata A., & Watanabe K. (2018). Audiovisual semantic congruency effect with onomatopoeia. 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). pp.254-259.DOI / LINK
Sen, S., Daimi, S.N., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2017). A machine learning approach to decode mental states in Bistable perception. 2017 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), pp.1-6.DOI / LINK
Sen, S., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2017). Decoding mental states in bistable perception by using source based wavelet features. 2017 IEEE Calcutta Conference (CALCON), pp.144-149.DOI / LINK
Knox, E., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Ethical considerations of gendering very humanlike androids from an interdisciplinary perspective. 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp.539-546.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2017). Explicit and implicit aspects of human cognition and behavior. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), p.XVIII.DOI / LINK
Murata, A., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Relations between personality traits and empathy for social pain and physical pain. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.284-287.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Impacts of cue reliability and explicit instruction on visual attention. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.270-273.DOI / LINK
Dall, J.O., Watanabe, K., & S⊘rensen, T.A. (2016). Category specific knowledge modulate capacity limitations of visual short-term memory. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.275-280.DOI / LINK
Ueda, N., Watanabe, K., & Tanaka, K. (2016). Gender differences in visuomotor sequence learning. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.271-274.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Takahashi, T., Watanabe, K., & Velonaki, M. (2016). How people perceive different robot types: A direct comparison of an android, humanoid, and non-biomimetic robot. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.265-270.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe K. (2016). Effects of synchronous motion and spatial alignment on animacy perception. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.261-264.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Watanabe, K., & Velonaki, M. (2016). The influence of robot appearance and interactive ability in HRI: A cross-cultural study. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, J.J., Howard, A., Salichs, M., & He, H. (eds). Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9979, pp.392-401.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Watanabe, K., Silvera-Tawil, D., & Velonaki, M. (2016). Expectations towards two robots with different interactive abilities. 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), pp.433-434.DOI / LINK
Yamamoto, K., Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Depth cue combinations for density judgment in three-dimensional display. 2015 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2015), pp.1198-1202.DOI / LINK
Watanabe, K. (2015). Explicit and implicit aspects of embodied knowledge. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 911–913.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Takahashi, T., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Perception of a humanoid robot: A cross-cultural comparison. 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp.821-826.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki M., Matsumoto Y., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Touching an android robot: Would you do it and how? 2015 International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, pp.8-13.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M., Takahashi, T., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Changes in perception of a small humanoid robot. 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), pp. 83-89.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamaguchi, Y. (2015). Adding information does not necessarily help the motion perception: a study of the curtate cycloid illusion. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.176-179.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Namatame, M., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Consistency of color-shape associations in deaf people. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.173-175.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Effects of image blur on visual perception and affective response. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.169-172.DOI / LINK
Yamamoto, K., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). The role of global configuration in detection of mirror and translational symmetries. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.165-168.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Seeing objects as face modulates visual search performance. Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific, pp.1-5.DOI / LINK
Chien, S., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Distortion of visual localization in three-dimensional virtual space. Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific, pp.1-4.DOI / LINK
Saegusa, C., Yamaoka, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Seeing faces in noise: Exploring machine and human face detection processes by the reverse correlation method. Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific, pp.1-5.DOI / LINK
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Matsumoto, Y., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Perception of an android robot in Japan and Australia: A cross-cultural comparison. International Conference in Social Robotics, pp. 166-175.DOI / LINK
Yamamoto, K., Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2014). The effect of occlusion on the flash-lag effect. ASIAGRAPH 2014, Bali, Indonesia.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Cognitive characteristics of human vision: A tutorial. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), p. XXIDOI / LINK
Matsuyoshi, D., Kuraguchi, K., Ashida, H., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Interhemispheric differences in the perception of human gaze direction. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.116-118.DOI / LINK
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., Nagamori, Y., Namatame, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Color-shape association in deaf and hearing people. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.112-115.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Face is beautiful: Aesthetic evaluation of pareidolian faces. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.108-111.DOI / LINK
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Is an attractive face attractive for all? An exploratory research on attractiveness evaluation by female observers. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.105-107.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Chamnongthai, K., Arita, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of time windowing for extraction of expression from Japanese speech: Higuchi's fractal dimension. 13th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2013), pp.665-668.DOI / LINK
Iwayama, K., Hirata, Y., Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., Takahashi, K., Yoshimura, Y., Ueno, S., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., Suzuki, H., & Aihara, K. (2013). Temporal dynamics of functional networks from multivariate electrophysiological time series. Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2013, M-131.DOI / LINK
Chen, N, Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Correlated preference for color and shape. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.297-300.DOI / LINK
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Hair-color matching and self-concept: An exploratory study on Japanese women. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.289-292.DOI / LINK
Ueda, H., Arita, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of different manners of speaking on voice like ability, credibility, and intentionality ratings. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, 2013, pp.117-120.DOI / LINK
Yonemura, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Person recognition based on memory of back view. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.58-61.DOI / LINK
Duan, F., Phothisonothai, M., Kikuchi, M., Yoshimura, Y., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., & Aihara, K. (2013). Boosting specificity of MEG artifact removal by weighted support vector machine. 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp.6039-6042.DOI / LINK
Duan, F., Tsubomi, H., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., & Aihara, K. (2013). Brain network efficiency and Intelligent scores of children. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics(IV), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2013, pp.3-7DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Arita, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Extraction of expression from Japanese speech based on time-frequency and fractal features. 10th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2013, pp. 1-5.DOI / LINK
Haring, K. S., Watanabe, K., & Mougenot C. (2013). The influence of robot appearance on assessment. 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 131-132.DOI / LINK
Abe, M.O., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effect of a partner's presence during practice on subsequent joint action. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). pp.182-183.DOI / LINK
Ikeda, H., Kasahara, K., Tanaka, S., Hanakawa, T., Honda, M., Kato, R., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Visual-motor sequence learning by competitive fighting game experts. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.178-181.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Posterior probability estimation for actual and artifactual components from MEG data. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). pp.176-177.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Short-term memory for event duration: An MEG study. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.173-175.DOI / LINK
Watanabe K. (2013). Perception, attention, action, decision making from cognitive science perspective. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). p. xxvi DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Tsubomi, H., Kondo, A., Kikuchi, M., Yoshimura, Y., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). A comparison of actual and artifactual features based on fractal analyses: Resting-state MEG data. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing, pp.1257-1265.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Duan, F., Tsubomi, H., Kondo, A., Aihara, K., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Artifactual component classification from MEG data using support vector machine. The 5th 2012 Biomedical Engineering International Conference(BMEiCon2012), pp.1-5.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Iwayama, K, Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., Yoshimura, Y., Hirata, Y., Aihara, K., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Measuring cognitive abilities and resting-state neuromagnetic signals in children. The 5th 2012 Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCon2012), pp.1-5.DOI / LINK
Phothisonothai, M., Tsubomi, H., Kondo, A., Kikuchi, M., Yoshimura, Y., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Linear and nonlinear features for automatic artifacts removal from MEG data based on ICA. Proceedings of the 2012 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA). [6411790]DOI / LINK
Mougenot C., & Watanabe K. (2012). Studying designers: Affective components of design creativity. Proceedings of ICDC 2012 - 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity, vol.2, pp. 61-69.DOI / LINK
Haring K. S, Watanabe, K., Ragni, M., & Konieczny, L. (2012). The use of ACT-R to develop an attention model for simple driving tasks. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 34, pp.432-437.DOI / LINK
Mougenot C., & Watanabe K. (2012). Are sounds more inspirational than images? Proceedings of International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC '12)
Phothisonothai, M., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Thai speech assessment based on fractal theory. 9th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, pp.1-4.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Norieda, S., Murata, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Feelings of animacy and pleasantness from tactile stimulation: Effect of stimulus frequency and stimulated body part. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 3292-3297.DOI / LINK
Ogata, K., Suto, S., Kumada, T., Watanabe, K., & Ifukube, T. (2011). Interface design of a central monitoring device taking cognitive aging into account. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp.2455-2460.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Murata, K., Norieda, S., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Improving Shared Experiences by Haptic Telecommunication. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.210-215.DOI / LINK
Yatabe, K., Watanabe, K., DaSalla, SC., & Hanakawa, T. (2011). Mastery biases agent-representation in visual perception of handwritings. In J. Guerrero (Ed.) 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp. 129-133.DOI / LINK
Kondo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Separating estimation process from response by using the sequential effect. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.95-99.DOI / LINK
Yamamoto, K., Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Extrinsic motivation underlies precise temporal production. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.91-94.DOI / LINK
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Overestimation and underestimation in learning and transfer. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering, pp.81-86.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Hidaka, S., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Decoding subjective simultaneity from neuromagnetic signals. In: Supek, S., & Sušac, A. (eds). 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism Advances in Biomagnetism (Biomag2010), pp.191-194.DOI / LINK
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Norieda, S., Sendoda, M., Murata, K., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Japanese onomatopoeias and sound symbolic words in describing interpersonal communication. Proceedings of International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER), vol.2, pp.2162-2171.DOI / LINK
Mougenot, C., Watanabe, K., Bouchard, C., & Aoussat, A. (2010). Kansei information processing in product design: Exploring the role of visual information in designers' activity. Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER), vol.2, pp.1855-1864.DOI / LINK
Ariga, A., Kitamura-Suzuki, M., Watanabe, K., & Yoshikawa, S. (2010). Perceiving the faces of Buddha statues: On the relation with viewpoint and affective evaluation. Proceedings of International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER), vol.2, pp.766-773.DOI / LINK
Iwayama, K., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., Hirata, Y., Aihara, K., & Suzuki, H. (2010). Synchronized brain activity changes related to perceptual alternations. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, pp.747-750.
Seya, Y. Sato, K., Kimura, Y., Ookubo, A., Yamagata, H., Kasahara, K., Fujikake, H., Yamamoto, Y., Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Effects of peripheral visual information on performance of video game with hemi-spherical immersive projection screen. Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, 5DOI / LINK
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., Kawai, T., Kato, R., Sato, T., Yamazaki, T., & Yamagata, H. (2006). Dynamic evaluation of distribution of visual attention during playing video game. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI International conference on advances in computer entertainment technology, pp.96–es.DOI / LINK

Invited and Keynote Talks

Watanabe, K. (2024). Understanding religious beliefs. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Watanabe, K. (2024). Implicit Behavioral/Emotional Contagion. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Innovation Seminar, Okinawa, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2023). Implicit contagion and others. Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC). at the MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Watanabe, K. (2022). Perceiving and understanding faces, animacy, and existence. AI and the Human: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction, Berlin, Germany.
Watanabe, K. (2021). Explicit and implicit aspects of human-human and human-machine interactions. Social BRIDGES: The near-future of AI: How will humans and AI interact in 5 years? University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany [e-Conference]
Watanabe, K. (2019). Exploring human minds with minimalist approach and inclusive approach, International Conference on Applying Neuroscience to Business, Shiseido Global Innovation Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2019). Implicit behavioral/emotional contagion. Centre for Motor Control, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Watanabe, K. (2019). Agency, experience, and social interactions in cognitive scientific views. International Symposium - Beyond anthropomorphism: rethinking human-machine relations in robotics and A.I. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Watanabe, K. (2018). Empathy in cognitive science: Implicit behavioral/affective contagion. The Age of Super Sensing 2018, Japan Society, New York, USA.
Watanabe, K. (2018). Teaching and learning from a cognitive scientific view: Interpersonal and interpersonal understanding of education. 3rd International Conference on Educational Neuroscience, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Watanabe, K. (2018). Behavioral/emotional contagion: ambient information goes implicitly. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Watanabe, K. (2018). Ambient information goes implicit. On what is between: an interdisciplinary dialogue around MA (間). Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Animacy perception & implicit ambient contagion. Keynote talk at A BETTER VERSION OF YOU, Art Sonje Center for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Implicit processes for crossmodal and intramodal interaction. Symposium on Synesthesia, Expertise, and Multisensory Perception, Sino-Danish Center (SDC). for Education and Research, Beijing, China.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Dynamics of attractiveness judgments (Symposium: Attractiveness and bodily interactions at implicit levels – Reading social evaluation from eyes and/or bodily interactions). The 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2017), Tainan, Taiwan.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Implicit interpersonal communication via bodily and brain synchrony. Symposium for "Cultural Neuroscience of Face Processing and Interpersonal Communication" International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017), Vienna, Austria.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Implicit behavioral contagion and ambient surface information. Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, France.
Watanabe, K. (2017). Keynote Talk: Explicit and implicit aspects of human cognition and behavior. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Pattaya, Thailand.
Watanabe, K. (2016). Implicit Contagion in Cognition, Behavior, and Emotion. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, California, USA
Watanabe, K. (2015). Measuring and enhancing performances from cognitive science perspective. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Watanabe, K. (2015). Explicit and implicit aspects of embodied knowledge. 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan
Watanabe, K. (2015). Toward harmonized fusion of humans and robots: A cognitive science perspective. Social HRI: Overcoming Barriers Through Appearance, Behaviour and Context-Based Design. The 24th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2015), Kobe International Conference Center, Hyogo, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Implicit behavioral/social contagion. Queensland Brain Institute, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Implicit behavioral/social contagion. Mini-Symposium on Cognition, Decision-making and Social Function, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Watanabe K., Oshlyansky, L., Herrmann, B., Spikins, P. (2014). The mind across cultures. A British Academy Early Careers Networking Event, University of York, UK.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Creative design from cognitive science perspective. Department of Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Implicit behavioral/social contagion. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of College London, London, UK.
Watanabe, K. (2014). Cognitive characteristics of human vision: A tutorial. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST-2014), Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.(Keynote talk)
Watanabe, K. (2013). Crossmodal semantic priming of visual sensitivity with onomatopoeia, Dept. de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain.
Watanabe, K. (2013). Implicit processes in perception, attention and action. Department of Psychology, Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Watanabe, K. (2013). Digitalization of education from a cognitive-science perspective. 8th International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education., Science Education in the Digital Era. Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy.
Watanabe, K. (2013). Implicit behavioral contagion: A potential marker of implicit social interaction. Italy-Japan workshop on complex systems: the multidisciplinary contribution, Tokyo, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2013). Perception, attention, action, decision making from cognitive science perspective. 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST-2013), Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.(Keynote talk)
Watanabe, K. (2012). Measuring cognitive performances and its relation to educational practices: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations between basic research and applied fields. 7th International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education. Teaching: A New Frontier of the Neurocognitive Sciences, Education and Culture. Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy.
Watanabe, K. (2012). Implicit behavioral contagion. The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Departmental Colloquia, Tubingen, Germany.
Watanabe, K. (2011). Maintaining visual attention over time: Effects of object continuity. Symposium on Attentional Selection at Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong, China.
Watanabe, K. (2011). How people look faces differently. The Whitehead Lectures in Cognition, Computation and Culture, University London, Goldsmiths College, London, UK.
Watanabe, K. (2011). Perceiving the faces of Buddha status. Cultural Strategies for Overcoming Negative Emotion, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Mougenot C., & Watanabe K. (2011). Creative Stimulation in Design : A Cognitive Approach. 4th International Workshop on Design Theory (Design Society SIG)., Mines ParisTech, Paris, France.
Watanabe, K. (2010). Implicit processes in attention, action, and decision making. Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University School of Science and Technology), Espoo, Finland.
Watanabe, K. (2010). Implicit behavioral contagion. Conference on Systems-neuroscience and Rehabilitation, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan.
Ono, F., Horii, S., Watanabe, K. (2010). The effect of environmental context on time perception. Conference on Systems-neuroscience and Rehabilitation, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2009). Implicit processes in attention, action, and decision making. The Whitehead Lectures in Cognition, Computation and Culture, University London, Goldsmiths College, London, UK.
Watanabe, K. (2007). Solving ambiguity in visual event perception by auditory signal. 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain.
Watanabe, K., & Takahashi, K. (2007). Cognitive sciences toward universal communication. First International Symposium on Universal Communication, Kyoto, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2004). Asymmetric mislocalization of a visual flash ahead of and behind a moving object. Vision Lab. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Watanabe, K. (2003). From motivation to action: Neural activity in caudate nucleus. International Workshop on "Motivation and Brain", Tamagawa University Brain Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2003). From motivation to action: Neural activity in caudate nucleus. Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan.
Watanabe, K. (2000). When sound affects vision: Effect of auditory saliency on visual motion perception and its relation to crossmodal attention. The Annual meeting for Theoretical Neurobiology, New York University, New York, USA.
Watanabe, K. (1999). When a sound affects vision: Auditory-visual integration and its development. The House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Watanabe, K. (1995). Interaction between multi-modal surface representation and proprioceptive smooth pursuit. Human Frontier Science Program Conference, International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Conferences

Onagawa, R., Kudo, K., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Subjective processes underlie risk-seeking bias in action timing selection under risk. Society for the Neural Control of Movement 2024, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Kusafuka, A., Yamamoto, R., Okegawa, T., Yamasaki, D., Takao, S., Kudo, K., & Watanabe, K. (2024). Impact of targets by human and object on accuracy in motor task. Society for the Neural Control of Movement 2024, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Bucher, B. & Watanabe, K. (2024). The healthy = tasty intuition seems to prevail in Japan. The 10th International Society of Affective Science and Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yang, Y., Chen, N., Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Red backgrounds enhance dominance judgement of both human faces and simple geometric shapes. AIC2023 the 15th Congress of the International Colour Association, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Alemany, M., Wokke, M.E., Chiba, T., Narumi, T., Kaneko, N., Yokoyama, H., Watanabe, K., Nakazawa, K., Imamizu, H., & Koizumi, A. (2023). Fear in action: Fear conditioning and alleviation through body movements. Society for Neuroscience 2023, Washington DC, USA. [top 50]
Mukai, K., Isomura, T., Onagawa, R., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Influence of relative position between two persons on heart rate. Performance and Expertise 2023 Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Shirai, R., Yamamoto, K., Sugiura, S., & Watanabe, K. (2023). What type of advice does change decisions on moral dilemma effectively? The 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023), Koh Samui, Thailand
Kobayashi, M., Saegusa, C., Sugiyama, H., Tsuchiya, Y., Kawashima, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Effects of facial expressions and parts on changes in facial attractiveness by brief presentation. Proceedings of the 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023), Koh Samui, Thailand
Bucher, B., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Do fictive sexual orientations induce In-Group bias in emotion recognition?. Proceedings of the 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2023 (ICSEC 2023), Koh Samui, Thailand
Dalmaso, M., Vicovaro, M., Sarodo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Becoming the other: The self can be associated with unfamiliar faces from different social groups. 28th Congress of the Italian Association of Psychology, Florence, Italy
Mukai, K., Isomura, T., & Watanabe, K. (2023). The relationship between social relationships and interpersonal distance. International Conference on Cognitive Science, Seoul, South Korea.
Sarodo, A., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). The role of perceptual novelty in the temporal oddball effect. European Conference on Visual Perception 2023, Paphos, Cyprus.
Takao, S., Cavanagh, P., & Watanabe, K. (2023). The shortened line segment illusion. European Conference on Visual Perception 2023, Paphos, Cyprus.
Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Color–shape associations in children and parent–child pairs. COGSCI2023, Sydney, Australia.
Mukai, K., Isomura, T., Onagawa, R., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Influence of relative position between two persons on heart rates. COGSCI2023, Sydney, Australia.
Hughes, Y., Mukai, K., Watanabe, K., & Kudo, K. (2023). An on-line study about recognition of improvisation theatre using audio-visual information. COGSCI2023, Sydney, Australia.
Makino, R., Kodama, K., Tomono, T., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Effect of combination of three human-like objects' directions on choice between the two apertures. COGSCI2023, Sydney, Australia.
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Hirosawa, T., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2023). Autism detection in children using common spatial patterns of MEG signals. Proceedings for Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2023). Sydney, Australia.
Ishii, T., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Children's religious belief in Japan: The relationships with empathy and parental belief. The 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, Hong Kong, China
Hung S.M., Wu D.W., Hsieh, P.J., Shimojo, S., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Semantics induces invisibility in an audiovisual illusion. ASSC2023, New York, USA. oral
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2023). Correlation between perceived size and depth changes in the dynamic ebbinghaus illusion. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2023), Florida, USA
Sarodo, A., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Adaptation-based duration distortion shows face category specificity. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2023), Florida, USA
Isomura, T., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Cardiac afferent activity modulates the perceived intensity of emotional faces in school-age children. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium
Bucher, B., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Investigation of interaction In-Group biases of sexual orientation and race on emotion recognition. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium
Saito, T., & Watanabe, K. (2023). Moral violation and dehumanization: Harming and degrading behaviors lead more dehumanizing perception. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium
Teraji, T,. Shiroshita, K., Komori, M., Nakamura, K., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2022). Exploring facial traits associated with beauty and cuteness based on an alternative forced choice task. ACII 2022 workshop on Culture-Originated Affect, Nara, Japan
Karpus, J., Krüger, A., Verba, J.T, Shirai, R., Bahrami, B., Watanabe, K., & Deroy, O. (2022). Social interactions with machines -- Algorithm exploitation: humans are keen to exploit benevolent AI. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany
Sarodo, A., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe. K (2022). The influence of category deviations on the temporal oddball effect. European Conference on Visual Perception 2022, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., Mruczek, R., Caplovitz, G., & Cavanagh, P. (2022). Does induced depth contribute to the dynamic Ebbinghaus illusion? European Conference on Visual Perception 2022, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Shirai, R., & Watanabe, K. (2022). The open biological negative image set (OBNIS). with emotional ratings. (Poster). Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, California USA
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P, (2022). Dynamic Ebbinghaus vs the contracting-expanding square illusions: so similar and yet not the same. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2022), Florida, USA
Karpus, J., Krüger, A., Verba, J.T,, Shirai, R., Bahrami, B., Watanabe, K., & Deroy, O. (2022). Do people in Japan cooperate more with artificial agents? Lessons from game theory and psychology. AI and the Human: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction, Berlin, Germany
Shiroshita K., Komori M., Nakamura K., Kobayashi M., & Watanabe K. (2021). Application of Gaussian process preference learning for visualizing facial features related to personality traits. 2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), Brisbane, Australia
Komori, M., Shiroshita, K., Nakagami, M., Nakamura, K., Kobayashi, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Investigation of facial preference using Gaussian process preference learning and generative image model. 20th International Conference of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (CISIM 2021), Ełk, Poland
Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Are facial impressions in the eyes of beholder?: the relative contributions of face- and perceiver-variance in perception of trait impressions from faces. (Poster). European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP2021). [online]
Takao, S., Anstis, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2021). The motion-induced size illusion is driven by motion that follows the test prove. (Poster). European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP2021). [online]
Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Effect of sexual orientation on the incentive salience of the sexual arousing image. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2020+). [online]
Sasaki, K., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Higher discrimination sensitivity for trustworthiness than untrustworthiness from facial appearance. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2020+). [online]
Ishii, T. & Watanabe, K. (2021). Religious belief and social cognitive ability in Japan: A meta-analytic assessment. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2020+). [online]
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2021). Prosodic conformity facilitates egocentric bias of emotional estimation for conversation partner. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2020+). [online]
Takao, S., Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2021). Dynamic presentation boosts the Ebbinghaus illusion but eliminates (reduces) simultaneous contrast and Muller-Lyer illusions. V-VSS 2021 [online]
Endo, N., Kato, T., Kaneko, N., Ogawa, T., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2021). Modulation of auditory cortical response to self-generated sound by walking during split-belt treadmill adaptation. Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM). [online]
Zhang, Y., Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Concept-color association in Chinese and Japanese student. KEER2020, Tokyo, Japan. [online]
Tanaka, T., Watanabe, K., & Tanaka, K. (2020). Immediate action-effects facilitate response speed via stimulus-response association. Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [online] (poster).
Kaneko, N., Yokoyama, H., Masugi, Y., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2020). Changes in cortical networks during motor imagery and action observation of walking. Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference 2020 [online]
Kato, N., Ibaraki, T., Yamazaki, T., Sashihara, K., Nakamura, Y., Shimizu, J., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Multi-dimensional taste preferences and daily beverage drinking: A data-driven approach. International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT)2020. [online]
Endo, N., Kaneko, N., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2020). Modulation of auditory cortical response to self-generated sound by walking. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS2020). [online]
Lee, K.R., Nakamura, K., Nakashima, Y., Yamaguchi, M.Y., Watanabe, K., & Webster, M. A. (2020). Individual and population differences in face categories. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2020). [Virtual: V-VSS]
Schäfer, A., Isomura, T., Reis, G., Watanabe, K., & Stricker, D. (2020). MutualEyeContact: A conversation analysis tool with focus on eye contact. In Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2020). [online]
Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Belief in gods and cultural transmission: Pre-registered replication of Gervais & Najle (2015). using the international social survey programme data. The 21st annual convention of the society for personality and social psychology (SPSP2019), New Orleans, USA
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Prosodic synchrony unconsciously modulates fun of conversation. The 21st annual convention of the society for personality and social psychology (SPSP2019), New Orleans, USA
Barik, K., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2020). Classification of autism in young children by phase angle clustering in magnetoencephalogram signals. National conference on communications (NCC), IIT Kharagpur, India (oral)
Oishi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Self-initiation of visual object motion has little influence on visual mislocalization by auditory stimuli. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2020), Amari Pattaya, Thailand
Tanaka, T., Mikuni, J., Shimane, D., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Accounting for private taste: Attractiveness and Inter-individual differences. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2020), Amari Pattaya, Thailand
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Size-numerosity interaction depends retinal rather than perceived size. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2020), Amari Pattaya, Thailand
Mukai, K., Tanaka, T., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Deciding when to start in 100-m sprints at Athletic World Championships. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2020), Amari Pattaya, Thailand
Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Attractive faces are rewarding irrespective of face category: Motivation in viewing attractive faces in Japanese viewers. 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2020), Amari Pattaya, Thailand
Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Theory of mind or moral concern? Social cognitive ability and religious belief in Japan. 58th Annual Conference of Taiwan Psychological Association, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Sociosexuality judgments based on physical appearance The 58th Annual Convention of the Taiwan Psychological Association, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Loria, T., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L. (2019). What can audiovisual illusions teach us about gaze vs. action related spatial attention? Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA
Otsuka, Y., Palmer, C., Watanabe, K., & Clifford, C. (2019). Gaze adaptation induced by the bloodshot illusion. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Leuven, Belgium
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2019). The prospective-contrast and retrospective-assimilation effects within and across visual hemifields. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Leuven, Belgium
Chen, N., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Red biases sex categorization of bodies. European Conference on Vision Perception (ECVP), Leuven, Belgium
Nakamura, K., Mikuni, J., Helmut, L., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Data-driven mathematical model of universality and cultural differences in facial attractiveness judgements. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Leuven, Belgium
Ueda, N., Tanaka, K., Maruo, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Watanabe, K., & Hanakawa, T. (2019). Increased central bias in time reproduction in schizophrenia with dominant positive symptoms. WPA World Congress of Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal
Knox, E., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Transformational affects of death in artificial life: AIBO robot mortuary rites in Japan. Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference 2019, Tokyo, Japan
Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Data-driven mathematical modeling reveals hidden cues to attractiveness: Are attractive faces always feminine-looking?. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Yarimizu, H., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamaguchi, M. (2019). Cultural differences in the generalization of the mere exposure effect. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Kondo, A., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Serial dependence in perception of facial attractiveness. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Suzuki, T., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Correlations among geometrical illusions dissociate length illusions from size illusions. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Takao, S., Clifford, C., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Angular tuning of tilt illusion depends upon duration. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Chen, N. & Watanabe, K. (2019). Color-shape associations in kids and parent-kid pairs. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Zhang, Y., Chen, N., Anllo, H., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Grapheme-gender associations in Japanese people. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Lee, J.J., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Female bias in face memory. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Osaka, Japan
Zhou, Y., Nakamura, K., Murata, A., Watanabe, K., & Watanabe, J. (2019). An investigation of the influence of false heartbeat feedback on subjective facial attractiveness. IEEE World Haptic Conference, Tokyo, Japan
Kaneko, N., Yokoyama, H., Masugi, Y,, Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2019). Activity in the sensorimotor cortex during action observation of walking combined with motor imagery. International Society of Posture & Gait Research (ISPGR), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Oishi, H., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Sense of agency in continuous action is influenced by outcome feedback in one-back trials. Association Scientific Study of Consciousness, Ontario, Canada
Knox, E., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Omikuji. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA): Lux Aeterna. Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Effect of color-shape association on visual process. Association for Psychological Science (APS). Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA
Takao, S., & Watanabe K. (2019). Prospective-contrast and retrospective-assimilation effects in size and brightness perception. Association for Psychological Science (APS). Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA
Kitamura, M., Sasaki, K., Ishii, T., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Do we precisely monitor our own advice-taking behaviors? Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DUCOG2019), Dubrovnik, Croatia
Ilic, I., Yang, J., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, K., Mizokami, Y., & Webster, M.A. (2019). Blue-yellow asymmetries in the perception of illuminant vs. surface color. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2019), Florida, USA
Loria, T., Hajj, J., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L. (2019). The deployment of spatial attention during goal-directed action alters audio-visual integration. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2019), Florida, USA
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. (2019). A new companion species: Attachment to robots as pets, confidantes, gurus and lovers. European Robotics Forum, Bucharest, Romania
Kobayashi, M., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K (2019). Gender differences in effort-based motivation to view sexually arousing stimuli. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2019). The magical number 10: Limited but efficient human face recognition. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Sasaki, K., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Spatial congruency bias in identifying object is based on retinotopic processing. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Is Red Romantic? Implicit Association between Red and Romance. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Murata, A., Abe, M., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Implicit effect of dyadic coordination during joint action. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Sense of agency for action-effect grouping with illusory visual events. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France
Chen, Na., Jiang, X., & Watanabe, K. (2019). Color-shape association in Chinese people. 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2019), Phuket, Thailand
Ishii, T. & Watanabe, K. (2019). How people attribute minds to non-living entities: Two-dimensional structure of mind-perception in Japan. 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2019), Phuket, Thailand
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. (2018). AIBO robot mortuary rites in the Japanese cultural context. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain
Kitamura, M., Kurata, K., Oya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Development of product attachment in human-agent interaction. 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Southampton UK
Yokoyama, H., Kaneko, N., Masugi, Y., Tagawa, T., Watanabe, K., & Nakazawa, K. (2018). Enhanced unidirectional motor cortex to muscle connectivity in beta and gamma bands during voluntary gait task in humans. Society for Neuroscience 2018, San Diego, CA, USA
Loria, T., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L. (2018). Modulation of audio-visual processes at attended vs. unattended spatial locations. Society for Neuroscience 2018, San Diego, USA
Loria, T., Hajj, J., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Tremblay, L. (2018). Visual attention influences audiovisual event perception and the susceptibility to the fusion illusion. Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology, Toronto, Canada
Chen, N., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Is red more attractive? Clothing color effect on female body attractiveness. International Association of Empirical Aesthetics Congress (IAEA2018), Toronto, Canada
Takao, S., Clifford, C.W.G., & Watanabe, K (2018). The Ebbinghaus size illusion depends more on the retinal than perceived size of surrounding stimuli. (Oral). 41st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP2018), Trieste, Italy
Watanabe, K. (2018). Facial attractiveness judgments across cultures (Symposium "Culture shapes face processing"). The 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2018), Hangzhou, China
Takao, S., Clifford, C.W.G., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Temporal modulation of contextual effect on orientation perception. The 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2018), Hangzhou, China
Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Data-driven quantitative modeling of facial attractiveness. The 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2018), Hangzhou, China
Saegusa, C., Richoz, A-R., Caldala, R., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Parts-based facial attractiveness judgment in different cultures. The 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2018), Hangzhou, China
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Effects of voice prosody on interpersonal impression formation. 5th Annual Conference of European Philosophical Society of the study of Emotions (EPSSE 2017), Talin, Estonia
Sasaki, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamada, Y. (2018). Emotional judgment of invisible trypophobic images. The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Krakow, Poland
Oishi, H., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Unpredictable feedback of results in continuous action retrospectively influences sense of agency. The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Krakow, Poland
Loria, T., Tanaka, K., Tremblay, L., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Attentional modulation of multisensory event perception in a voluntary reaching movement. The 19th Annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, Canada
Kitamura, M., Sasaki, K. & Watanabe, K. (2018). Effects of advice credibility on change opinion. 30th Association for Psychological Science (APS). Annual Convention, San Francisco, USA
Lasrado, S., Sokhn, N., Tanaka, K., Watanabe, K., & Caldara, R. (2018). Race at First Sight. The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2018), Florida, USA
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2018). The Ebbinghaus illusion changes numerosity perception The 18th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2018), Florida, USA
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Size contrast versus size assimilation in the Ebbinghaus illusion. 45th annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, Tasmania, Australia
Yanai, K., Murata, A., Mizutani, R., Ichiboshi, A., Komatsuzaki, K., Thapliya, R., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Evaluating human-robot interaction from inside and outside comparison between the first-person and the third-party perspectives. The 7th International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Emotion Research (KEER2018), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Watanabe, K., Kashino, M., Nakazawa, K., & Shimojo, S. (2018). Implicit ambient surface information: From personal to interpersonal. IUI 2018 Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction and Harmonious Collaboration for Wisdom Computing, Tokyo, Japan.
Ikeda, H., Wada, M., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Link between color-space association, left-right confusion, mirror image copy, and autistic traits 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2018), Chiangmai, Thailand
Fedalgo, A., Takahashi, K., Murata, A., & Watanabe, K. (2018). Audiovisual semantic congruency effect with onomatopoeia. 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2018), Chiangmai, Thailand
Sen, S., Daimi, S.N., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2017). A machine learning approach to decode mental states in bistable perception. 2017 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), Singapore, Singapore
Sen, S., Watanabe, K., Bhattacharya, J., & Saha, G. (2017). Decoding mental states in bistable perception by using source based wavelet features. 2017 IEEE Kolkata Conference (CALCON), Kolkata, India
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K (2017). Accepting advice takes longer than rejecting. Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Knox, E., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Ethical Considerations of Gendering Very Humanlike Androids from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Lisbon, Portugal
Takao, S., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Asymmetric temporal order tuning of the Ebbinghaus size illusion. 40th European Conferenceon Visual Perception (ECVP 2017), Berlin, Germany
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Attractiveness judgment of facial parts: Attractive facial parts are looked longer. 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2017), Berlin, Germany
Murata, A., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Social learning of fear from others showing different responsiveness. International Ethological Conference (BEHAVIOR 2017), Estriol, Portugal
Murata, A., Kameda, T., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Bidirectional effect of emotional contagion for pain during face-to-face interaction. Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (COGSCI 2017), London, UK
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Variability in advice taking in decision making. Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (COGSCI 2017), London, UK
Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2017). The magical number 10 in face recognition. 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2017), Tainan, Taiwan
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Parts-based facial attractiveness judgment is modulated by attention to detail. 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2017), Tainan, Taiwan
Dall, J.O., Watanabe, K., & Sørensen, T.A. (2017). Expertise prompts initial faster processing followed by increased short-term memory. 17th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS2017), Florida, USA
Dall, J.O., Watanabe, K., & Sørensen, T.A. (2017). The asymmetric influence of expertise on short-term memory and processing speed. Neuroscience Day 2017, Aarhus, Denmark
Megumi, F., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Can we guess the potential impact of the research? Analysis of abstracts in a psychological journal. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017), Vienna, Austria
Takao, S., Murata, A., Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Gaze-cueing effect by single eye: Nasal versus temporal shift. 2017 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017), Vienna, Austria
Watanabe, K. (2017). Implicit interpersonal communication via bodily and brain synchrony. Symposium for "Cultural Neuroscience of Face Processing and Interpersonal Communication" International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017), Vienna, Austria
Kitamura. M., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Judgment of standing postures with different attitudes with short exposure time. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017), Vienna, Austria
Suzuki, T., Kitamura, M., Otsuka, S., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Onomatopoeic classification of pure tones. International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering (ISASE2017), Tokyo, Japan
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Impacts of cue reliability and explicit instruction on visual attention. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2017), Pattaya, Thailand
Murata, A., & Watanabe, K. (2017). Relations between personality traits and empathy for social pain and physical pain. 9th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2017), Pattaya, Thailand
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). The influence of robot appearance and interactive ability in HRI: A cross-cultural study. International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2016), Kansas City, USA
Yonemura, K., Ariga, A., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Elimination of the back-view bias in attractiveness judgement with short-term exposure. International Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research Conference (KEER 2016), University of Leeds, UK
Murata, A., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Parzuchowski, M., Tirado, C., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Engaging facial muscular activity biases the emotion recognition of point-light biological walkers. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016), Barcelona, Spain
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Visual search asymmetry between photographs and illustrations of animals and man-made objects. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016), Barcelona, Spain
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Variability of false-consensus in decision making. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), Yokohama, Japan
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Time evaluation while performing sequential actions. International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), Yokohama, Japan
Tanaka, K., Kawai, T., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Effects of adding a color stimulus sequence to a spatial response sequence on visuomotor sequence learning. Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2016), Fremantle, Australia
Watanabe, K., & Tanaka, K. (2016). Emotional inhibition increases risky decisions in a gambling task. The first meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Kitamura, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Variability in advice taking in decision making. The first meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Lee, R. K., Tanaka, K., Kakizaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Changes in audiovisual cue utilization strategy when cues become unreliable. Vision Science Society 16th Annual Meeting (VSS2016), Florida, USA
Haring, K. S., Watanabe, K., Silvera-Tawil, D., & Velonaki, M. (2016). Expectations towards two robots with different interactive abilities. 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), Christchurch, New Zealand
Kim, S., Takahashi, M., Watanabe, K., & Kawai, T. (2016). The effects of functional disparity on route memory in stereoscopic images. Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2016, San Francisco, California, USA
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Effects of synchronous motion and spatial alignment on animacy perception 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2016), Chiangmai, Thailand
Ueda, N., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Gender differences in visuomotor sequence learning 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2016), Chiangmai, Thailand
Dall, J., Watanabe, K., & Sørensen, A. K. (2016). Category specific knowledge modulate capacity limitations of visual short-term memory. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2016), Chiangmai, Thailand
Tanaka, K. Chien, S., Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2016). Memory distortion of depth of a visual stimulus for perception and action. 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST2016), Chiangmai, Thailand
Yamamoto, K., Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Depth cue combinations for density judgment in three-dimensional display. 2015 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2015), Hong Kong, China
Haring, K.S., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Perception and acceptability of robots in the first time interaction. International Workshop on Intervention of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a Humanoid Robot (ASD-HR 2015), JSAI International Symposia on AI 2015 (IsAI-2015), Kanagawa, Japan
Abe, M., Koike, T., Okazaki, S., Sugawara, S., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., & Sadato, N. (2015). Neural substrates of motor coordination in joint action. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA
Meilinger, T., Takahashi, K., Foster, C., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & de la Rosa, S. (2015). Spatial orientation as a social cue – the case of objects and avatars. 6th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2015), Rome, Italy
Watanabe, K. (2015). Explicit and implicit aspects of embodied knowledge. 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Takahashi T., Velonaki M., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Perception of a humanoid robot: A cross-cultural comparison. The 24th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2015), Kobe, Japan
Takao, S., Kondo, A., Ariga, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Magnifying glass optical illusion occurs for multiple stimuli but not for a single stimulus. The 19th annual meeting of ASSC, Paris, France
Takahashi, K., Itagaki, T., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Feeling animacy from tactile vibration. 16th International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa, Italy
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki M., Matsumoto Y., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Touching an android robot: Would you do it and how? 2015 International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), Singapore, Singapore
Lee, R. K., Tanaka, K., Hachisuka, K., Okuno, E., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Cleaving to cues that are no longer informative: Audio-visual asymmetry in cue utilization. Vision Science Society 15th Annual Meeting, Florida, USA
Foster, C., Takahashi, K., Kurek, S., Horeis, C., Bäuerle, M., de la Rosa, S., Watanabe, K., Butz, M.V., & Meilinger, T. (2015). Looking at me? Influence of facing orientation of avatars and objects on distance estimation. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Hildesheim, Germany
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M., Takahashi, T., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Changes in perception of a small humanoid robot. 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), Queenstown, New Zealand
Kim, S., Morikawa, H., Mitsuya, R., Kawai, T., & Watanabe, K. (2015). Partially converted stereoscopic images and the effects on visual attention and memory. IS&T/SPIE 2015, San Francisco, California, USA
Yamamoto, K., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015). The role of global configuration in detection of mirror and translational symmetries. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2015). Effects of image blur on visual perception and affective response. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Namatame, M, & Watanabe, K. (2015). Consistency of color-shape associations in deaf people. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., & Yamaguchi, Y. (2015). Adding information does not necessarily help the motion perception: a study of the curate cycloid illusion. 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Saegusa, C., Yamaoka, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Seeing faces in noise: Exploring machine and human face detection processes by the reverse correlation method. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). 2014: Special Session #3 Cognitive Science and Computational Intelligence, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Seeing objects as face modulates visual search performance. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). 2014: Special Session #3 Cognitive Science and Computational Intelligence, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Chien, S., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Distortion of visual localization in three-dimensional virtual space. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). 2014: Special Session #3 Cognitive Science and Computational Intelligence, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phothisonothai, M. & Watanabe, K. (2014). Time-frequency analysis of duty cycle changing on steady-state visual evoked potential: EEG recording. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) 2014, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Matsumoto, Y., Velonaki, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Perception of an android robot in Japan and Australia: A cross-cultural comparison. International Conference in Social Robotics, Sydney, Australia
Tsubomi, H., Fukuda, K., Watanabe, K., & Vogel, E.K. (2014). Electrophysiological measures reveal similar capacity limits for both present and absent information. 17th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Hiroshima, Japan
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & Hölscher, C. (2014). Map-based reference frames are used to organize memory of subsequent navigation experience. Spatial Cognition 2014, Bremen, Germany
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Nagamori, Y., Namatame, M., Watanabe, K. (2014). Color-grapheme associations in deaf people. The 2nd Conference of Asia Color Association (ACA2014), Taipei, Taiwan
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Pattern from visual noise motion: animacy versus intention. 37th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Belgrade, Serbia
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Contribution of parts on the whole changes over time in facial attractiveness judgment. 37th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Belgrade, Serbia
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Modulation of crowding of biological motion by action congruency. 37th European Conferenceon Visual Perception (ECVP), Belgrade, Serbia.
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Seeing objects as face enhances object detection. 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision(APCV 2014), Takamatsu, Japan
Matsuyoshi, D., Kuraguchi, K., Tanaka, Y., Uchida, S., Ashida, H., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Human variation in autistic traits predicts the perception of direct gaze for males, but not for females. 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2014), Takamatsu, Japan
Yamamoto, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Impaired speed estimation of overlapping moving objects. 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2014), Takamatsu, Japan
Tanaka, K., Chen, N., & Watanabe, K. (2014). The level of categorical knowledge affects visual search efficiency. 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2014), Takamatsu, Japan
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Interference of manual reactions by concurrent saccades. 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2014), Takamatsu, Japan
Rei-Fedalgo, A., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K. (2014). Crossmodal semantic priming of visual sensitivity with onomatopoeia. 9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy. [FENS/IBRO Travel Award]
Kitamura, M., Watanabe, K., & Kitagawa, N. (2014). Effects of positive emotion on audiovisual integration. 15th International Multisensory Research Forum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kim, S., Itaoka, H., Morikawa, H., Mitsuya, R., Kawai, T., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Cognitive characteristics of directional judgment through binocular disparity on a virtual tilted screen. The 1st Asian Conference on Ergonomics and Design 2014, Jeju, South Korea. [Best Paper Awards]
Yamamoto, K., Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2014). The effect of occlusion on the flash-lag effect. ASIAGRAPH 2014, Bali, Indonesia
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Implicit transfer in visuomotor sequence learning. Conference on Systems Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Saitama, Japan
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Is an attractive face attractive for all? An exploratory research on attractiveness evaluation by female observers. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Face is beautiful: Aesthetic evaluation of pareidolian faces. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., Nagamori, Y., Namatame, M., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Color-shape association in deaf and hearing people. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Matsuyoshi, D., Kuraguchi, K., Ashida, H., & Watanabe, K. (2014). Interhemispheric differences in the perception of human gaze direction. 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Chonburi, Thailand
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Correlated preference for color combination and shape. The 1st Asia Color Association Conference (ACA2013), Thanyaburi, Thailand
Tsubomi, H., Fukuda, K., Watanabe, K., & Vogel, E. K. (2013). Capacity limits to representing objects still within view. 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Development of visual working memory storage and resistance to distraction in children with Asperger syndrome. 21st Annual Meeting on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Toronto, Canada
Abe, M.O. & Watanabe, K. (2013). How do motor and social characteristics of individuals affect interpersonal organization on goal-directed joint actions? Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Abe, M.O. & Watanabe, K. (2013). A computational model for motor and social effects on joint force productions. Translational and Computational Motor Control, San Diego, USA
Haring K. S., Matsumoto, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). How do people perceive and trust a lifelike robot? International Conferenceon Intelligent Automation and Robotics (ICIAR 2013), San Francisco, USA
Phothisonothai, M., Chamnongthai, K., Arita, Y. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of time windowing for extraction of expression from Japanese speech: Higuchi’s fractal dimension. 13th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2013), Samui Island, Thailand
Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Gaze cueing by face-like objects. 18th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary
Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K (2013). Sequential effects in attractiveness judgment for upright and inverted faces. European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Associations between colors and shapes in Japanese observers. 5th international congress of international association of societies of design research (IASDR2013), Tokyo, Japan
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Gaze of a face fixation stimulus influences the saccadic gap. 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, Lund, Sweden
Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Object motion continuity and the flash-lag effect. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Implicit transfer of mirrored spatial structure in visuomotor sequence learning. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany
Phothisonothai, M. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Physiological signal processing for human-machine communication technology: Recent progress and future prospects. 2013 International Conference on Digital Broadcasting Technologies (ICDB 2013), Bangkok, Thailand
Phothisonothai, M., Tsubomi H., Kondo A., Kikuchi M., Yoshimura Y., Minabe Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). A comparison of actual and artifactual features based on fractal analyses: Resting-state MEG data. 8th Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, Anhui Huangshan, China
Duan, F., Phothisonothai, M., Kikuchi, M., Yoshimura, Y., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., & Aihara, K. (2013). Boosting specificity of MEG artifact removal by weighted support vector machine. 35th Annual international conference of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2013), Osaka, Japan
Iwayama, K., Hirata, Y., Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., Takahashi, K., Yoshimura, Y., Ueno, S., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., Suzuki, H., & Aihara, K. (2013). Temporal dynamics of functional networks from multivariate electrophysiological time series. 35th Annual international conference of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2013), Osaka, Japan
Ueda, H., Arita, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of different manners of speaking on voice like ability, credibility, and intentionality ratings. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2013), Tokyo, Japan
Chen, N., Tanaka, K., Matsuyoshi, D., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Correlated preference for color and shape. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2013), Tokyo, Japan
Yonemura, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Person recognition based on memory of back view. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2013), Tokyo, Japan
Saegusa, C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Hair-color matching and self-concept: An exploratory study on Japanese women. 2013 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2013), Tokyo, Japan
Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Mislocalization of a moving object in three-dimensional space. 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Suzhou, China
Duan, F., Tsubomi, H., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., Watanabe, K., & Aihara, K. (2013). Brain network efficiency and intelligent scores of children. International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, Sigtune, Sweden
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Summation of duration within and across senses. 14th International Multisensory Research Forum, Jerusalem, Israel
Phothisonothai M., Arita Y., & Watanabe K. (2013). Extraction of expression from Japanese speech based on time-frequency and fractal features. 10th Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), Krabi, Thailand
Chien, S. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Depth modulation of attentional repulsion and attraction effects. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting, Florida, USA
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2013). The gap effect is predominantly determined by the awareness of the fixation disappearance. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting, Florida, USA
Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Reference frames in the integration of spatial information across views. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting, Florida, USA
Au, R.K.C., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Underestimation of numerosity in dynamic visual display. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting, Florida, USA
Spokas, A., Cuesta, Prieto, P., Watanabe, K., & Bhattacharya, J. (2013). Connectivity analysis of background MEG in 3‐4 year old children. Explorative study. British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Nottingham, UK
Abe, M.O., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Effects of motor optimization and social interaction on an interpersonal force matching task. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Haring, K.S., Watanabe, K., & Mougenot, C. (2013). The influence of robot appearance on assessment. 8th Annual Conference for Basic and Applied Human-Robot Interaction Research (HRI 2013). Tokyo, Japan
Phothisonothai, M., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Posterior probability estimation for actual and artifactual components from MEG data. Special session on "Fluency in Communication between Human, Machine, and Environment", 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST 2013), Chonburi, Thailand
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2013). Visual-motor sequence learning by competitive fighting game experts. Special session on "Fluency in Communication between Human, Machine, and Environment", 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST 2013), Chonburi, Thailand
Abe, M.O., & Watanabe. K. (2013). Effect of partner’s presence during practice on subsequent joint action. Special session on "Fluency in Communication between Human, Machine, and Environment", 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST 2013), Chonburi, Thailand
Haring, K.S., Mougenot, & Watanabe, K. (2013). Perception of different robot design. Special session on "Fluency in Communication between Human, Machine, and Environment", 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST 2013), Chonburi, Thailand
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe. K. (2013). Short-term memory for event duration: an MEG study. Special session on "Fluency in Communication between Human, Machine, and Environment", 5th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technologies (KST 2013), Chonburi, Thailand
Akutsu, S., Miyamoto, Y., Watanabe, K., & Peng, K. (2013). Cultural differences in representation of three-dimensional space: Linear perspective versus "Mitsuwari" composition. 14th meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, USA
Ono, F., Chien, S., Au, R. K. C., & Watanabe, K. (2012). The effect of backward attention on perception of spatial position. Time and space in perception and action, Special International Seminar for Time Study, Yamaguchi, Japan
Abe, M.O., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Motor optimization and social interaction in joint action. Time and Space in Perception and Action, Special International Seminar for Time Study, Yamaguchi, Japan
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Short-term memory for event duration. Time and Space in Perception and Action, Special International Seminar for Time Study, Yamaguchi, Japan
Phothisonothai, M., Tsubomi H., Kondo A., Kikuchi M., Yoshimura Y., Minabe Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Linear and nonlinear features for automatic artifacts removal from MEG data based on ICA. 4th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). Annual Summit and Conference 2012, California, USA
Phothisonothai, M., Duan, F., Tsubomi, H., Kondo, A., Aihara, K., Yoshimura, Y., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Artifactual component classification from MEG data using support vector machine. 5th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON 2012), Muang, Thailand
Takahashi, K., Iwayama, K., Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., Yoshimura, Y., Hirata, Y., Aihara, K., Kikuchi, M., Minabe, Y., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Measuring cognitive abilities and resting-state neuromagnetic signals in children. 5th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON 2012), Muang, Thailand
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2012). How well do we know others' average liking. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA
Ogata, K., Seya, Y., Watanabe, K., & Ifukube, T. (2012). Effects of adaptive navigation support on the search task on a central control system. 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI2012), Copenhagen, Denmark
Abe, M.O., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effect of visual feedback information on interpersonal force production. Society for Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA
Tsubomi, H., Iwayama, K., Takahashi, K., Kondo, A., Kikuchi, M., Yoshimura, Y., Minabe, Y., Hirata, Y., Aihara, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Neural processes of short-term memory for number recall: Nonlinear interdependence analysis of MEG signals. Society for Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA
Tanaka, S., Seki, K., Hanakawa, T., Harada, M., Sadato, N., Watanabe, K., & Honda, M. (2012). Abacus in the brain: a longitudinal neuroimaging study of a skilled abacus user with a right hemispheric lesion. Society for Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA
Mougenot C., Watanabe K. (2012). Studying designers: Affective components of design creativity. International conference on design creativity (ICDC), Glasgow, UK
Ikeda, H, Watanabe, K., & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Influence of crowding on discriminating the direction of biological motion. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Alghero, Italy
Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Development of visual working memory and its relation to academic performances in elementary school children. European Conference on Visual Perception(ECVP), Alghero, Italy
Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effect of gender membership on sequential decision of face attractiveness.European Conference on Visual Perception(ECVP), Alghero, Italy
Takahashi, K., Yamada, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Dynamic desaturation illusion. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Alghero, Italy
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effects of explicit knowledge on transfer of visuomotor sequence learning. 34th Annual Cognitive Science Conference (COGSCI 2012), Sapporo, Japan
Haring, K.S., Ragni, M., Konieczny, L, & Watanabe, K. (2012). The use of ACT-R to develop an attention model for simple driving tasks. 34th Annual Cognitive Science Conference (COGSCI 2012), Sapporo, Japan
Au, R.K.C., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Retrospective perceptual distortion of position representation does not lead to delayed localization. 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), Incheon, South Korea
Chen, N., Tsubomi, H., Akutsu, S., Peng, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effects of projection geometry in drawing of 3D objects and scenes on reality and preference judgments. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK
Tanaka, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). The relationship of two numerical magnitudes influences spatial shifts of attention. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK
Ueda, H., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Perceptual, rather than physical, disappearance of a fixation point determines the magnitude of the gap effect. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Transient auditory signal shifts perceived offset position of a moving visual object. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK
Au, R.K.C., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Attentional modulation of perception of spatial position does not necessitate visual awareness Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK
Kitamura, M., Watanabe, K., & Kitagawa, N. (2012). Moods alter audiovisual integration. 13th International Multisensory Research Forum, Oxford, UK
Mougenot, C., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Are sounds more inspirational than images? International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC 2012), Texas, USA
Ikeda, H., Fukui, T., Tagai, K., Takata, S., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Politeness perception in action: Subjective impression of handing actions by professional salespersons. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effects of feedback on an energy conservation task under uncertainty. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Chien, S., Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Effects of exposure to and simulated purchase of green products on altruistic and pro-environmental behaviors. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Yonemura, K., Morisaki, A., Ariga, A., Watanabe, K., & Yoshikawa, S. (2012). Interaction between viewing angle and presentation height in perception of Buddha statues. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Haring K.S., Mougenot C., Ono F., & Watanabe K. (2012). Cultural differences in perception and attitude towards robots. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Mougenot C., Ikeda H., & Watanabe K. (2012). Influence of designers' kansei on design outcomes. International Conferenceon Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Penghu, Taiwan
Phothisonothai, M., & Watanabe, K. (2012). Thai speech assessment based on fractal theory. 9th annual international conference of Electrical Engineering/Electronics. Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI), Hua Hin, Thailand
Yun, K., Watanabe, K., Shimojo, S. (2011). Unconscious finger movement synchronization as a somatic marker of implicit social interaction. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
Tagai, K., Kumada, T., Nagai, M., Iwaki, S., Niki, K., Watanabe, K., Shumakura, H., Takata, S. (2011). Differential brain responses to polite and impolite actions: An fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
Sugawara, S., Tanaka, S., Okazaki, K., Watanabe, K., Sadato, N. (2011). Social praise enhances the off-line improvement of the procedural motor skill. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
Watanabe, K., Abe, M.O., Takahashi, K., Shimojo, S. (2011). Short-term active interactions enhance implicit behavioral mirroring. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
Abe, M.O., Watanabe, K. (2011). Interpersonal optimization for error correction in a goal-directed joint action. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA
Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2011). Implicit and explicit auditory modulation on vision. Symposium on "Audiovisual interaction: How early does it occur?" at 12th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2011), Fukuoka, Japan
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Multi-modal inference in animacy perception for artificial object. 12th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2011), Fukuoka, Japan
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Norieda, S., Murata, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Feelings of animacy and pleasantness from tactile stimulation: Effect of stimulus frequency and stimulated body part. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Ogata, K., Suto, S., Kumada, T., Watanabe, K., & Ifukube, T. (2011). Interface design of a central monitoring device taking cognitive aging into account. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Yamamoto, K., Ono, F., Yamada, Y., Sasaki, K., Ihaya, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Extrinsic motivation underlies precise temporal production. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2011), Takamatsu, Japan
Kondo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Separating estimation process from response by using the sequential effect. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2011), Takamatsu, Japan
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Murata, K., Norieda, S., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Improving shared experiences by haptic telecommunication. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2011), Takamatsu, Japan
Tanaka, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Overestimation and underestimation in learning and transfer. 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE 2011), Takamatsu, Japan
Takahashi, K., Sugawara, S., Tanaka, S., Watanabe, K., & Sadato, N. (2011). Neural substrates for storage of duration information: An fMRI study. 8th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Florence, Italy
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Consistency of likability to objects across views and time. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong, China
Chien, S-E., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Differential effects of transient signals on disappearance and appearance locations of moving stimuli. 3rd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Beijing, China
Chen N., Tsubomi H., & Watanabe K. (2011). Effects of familiarity and preference on visual search for brand logos. 3rd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Beijing, China
Yatabe, K, Hosoda, C., Watanabe, K., & Hanakawa, T. (2011). Priming effect of sense of agency in handwritten traces. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan
Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Sequential effects in attractiveness judgment for faces. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Differential factors for time retrospection and time production. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Forward and backward attention concurrently but differently induce mislocalization of visual stimuli. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan
Ueda, H., Kondo, A., Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Implicit modulation of visual detection of facial expression. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan
Kondo, A & Watanabe, K. (2011). Crossmodal interaction in sequential effects. Conference on Systems-neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Saitama, Japan
Chien, S., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Effect of transient signals on disappearance location of moving stimuli. Conference on Systems-neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Saitama, Japan
Mougenot, C., & Watanabe, K. (2011). Creative stimulation in design: A cognitive approach. 4th Design Theory SIG Workshop, Paris, France
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2011). How well do we know others' preferences? International Workshop for Young Researchers "Knowing Self, Knowing Others", Kyoto, Japan
Mougenot, C. & Watanabe, K. (2010). Verbal stimuli in design creativity: a case-study with Japanese sound-symbolic words. First International Conference on Design Creativity, Kobe, Japan
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K. (2010). The effect of the temporal predictability of an exogenous cue on visual perception and memory. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Tanaka, S., Kato, R., Hanakawa, T., Ikeda, H., Kasahara, K., Hosoda, C., Mori, M., Honda, M., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Neuro-anatomy of action video-game experts: A structural MRI study. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Tagai, K., Kumada, T., Nagai, M., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Differential brain responses to polite and impolite actions: A NIRS study. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Tanaka, T., Takano, Y., Tanaka, S., Watanabe, K., Hanakawa, Honda, M., & Hironaka, N (2010). Modulation of extracellular dopamine levels in the striatum by transcranial direct current stimulation. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Yatabe, K., Inagaki, M., Suzuki, K., Kaga, M., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Hand-actions implied in hand-written Chinese radicals in the human motor system. 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kobe, Japan
Ikeda, H., Miyao, M., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Characteristics of visuomotor sequential learning in ADHD and Asperger syndrome. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Takahashi, K. Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Illusory motion of blurred blue–red edges. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Inter-trial effect in luminance processing revealed by MEG. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Task-irrelevant simple auditory feedback can reinforce saccadic eye movements. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Seya, Y., Tsutsui, K. I., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Cueing effects in a useful field of view task. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Environmental reference frame alters the perceived orientation of three-dimensional object. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland
Yatabe K, Inagaki M, Suzuki K, Watanabe K, Kaga M. (2010).Motion perception of explicit and implicit hand action associated with writing letters. 50th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, USA
Chien, S-E., Watanabe, K., & Yang, L-X. (2010). Feature-location binding when tracking moving objects does not affect distribution of attention within objects. Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Attention can distort visual space backwards. Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Takahashi, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Auditory transient recovers change detection of imperceptible visual stimulus. 11th International Multisensory Research Forum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Takahashi, K., Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2010). The blurry heart illusion. 6th Annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, FL, USA
Takahashi, K., Hidaka. S., & Watanabe. K. (2010). Decoding subjective simultaneity from neuromagnetic signal. 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism (Biomag 2010), Dubrovnik, Croatia
Mougenot, C., Watanabe, K., Bouchard, C., & Aoussat, A. (2010). Kansei information processing in product design: Exploring the role of visual information in designers' activity. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Paris, France
Ariga, A., Kitamura-Suzuki, M., Watanabe, K., & Yoshikawa, S. (2010). Perceiving the faces of Buddha statues: On the relation with viewpoint and affective evaluation. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Paris, France
Takahashi, K., Mitsuhashi, H., Norieda, S., Sendoda, M., Murata, K., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Japanese onomatopoeias and sound symbolic words in describing interpersonal communication. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Paris, France
Seya, Y., Watanabe, K. (2010). Minimal time required to process visual information in complex visual task measured by using gaze contingent visual masking. The 3rd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan
Mougenot, C., Aucouturier, J.J., Yamanaka, T., Watanabe, K. (2010). Comparing the effects of visual and auditory stimuli in design creativity. The 3rd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan
Kondo, A., Tsubomi, H., Takahashi, K., Ono, F., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Neuromagnetic activity reflecting brightness in the human visual cortex. The 3rd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan
Ono, F., Takahashi, K., Kondo, A., & Watanabe, K. (2010). Neuromagnetic responses related to endogenous metrical interpretation. The 3rd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan
Iwayama, K., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K., Hirata, Y., Suzuki, H., & Aihara, K. (2010). Synchronized brain activity changes related to perceptual alternations. International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 15th '10), Oita, Japan
Ariga, A., Kawahara, J., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Object-based maintenance of attentional state in rapid serial visual presentation. The 50th Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA
Ariga, A., Kawahara, J., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Temporal gap disrupts attentional state in rapid serial visual presentation. The 17th Object Perception Attention & Memory, Boston, USA
Mougenot, C., Watanabe, K., Bouchard, C., & Aousssat, A. (2009). Visual materials and designers' cognitive activity: Towards in-depth investigations of design cognition. International Association of Societies of Design Research, Seoul, South Korea
Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2009). The expected distractor is rejected belatedly when a local representation of the distractor is available. 39th Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA
Seya, Y. Sato, K., Kimura, Y., Ookubo, A., Yamagata, H., Kasahara, K., Fujikake, H., Yamamoto, Y., Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Effects of peripheral visual information on performance of video game with hemi-spherical immersive projection screen.DiGRA2009, London, UK
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Distortion of visual and auditory duration in short term memory. 10th International Multisensory Research Forum, New York, USA
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Modality-independent modulation of unpredictable event on visual perceptual stability. 13rd Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 13), Berlin, Germany
Tanaka, S., Hanakawa, T., Honda, M., & Watanabe, K. (2009). Enhancement of leg motor function by transcranial direct current stimulation. 19th Neural Control of Movement Society Annual Meeting, Hawaii, USA
Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2009). Visual and auditory duration distorted in short term memory. Mini RIEC Workshop on Multimodal Perception, Sendai, Japan
Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Locus of distractor rejection in rapid serial visual presentation. The 29th International Congress of Psychology (ICP2008), Berlin, Germany
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., & Saida, S. (2008). Rapid and implicit categorization of basic colors. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Brisbane, Australia
Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Visual and auditory modulation of perceptual stability of ambiguous visual patterns. 9th International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Ogawa, K., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Effects of feedback valence on implicit learning of attentional guidance. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Johansson, P., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Choice blindness and consumer decision making. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, NationalTaiwan University, Taiwan
Ariga. A., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Neuromagnetic activities in failure retrieval versus success retrieval of Japanese kanji characters. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Takahashi. K., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Implicit auditory modulation on visual transition of a bistable motion stimulus. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ohyama. J., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Crossmodal temporal memory averaging. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Segnini, R., Aucouturier, JJ., Johansson, P., Hall, L., & Watanabe, K. (2008). When fear is in my voice but not my brain: Feedback effects of emotional voice transformation on self-rated emotion experience. ASSC 12th Annual Meeting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tsubomi, H., Kondo, H., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Common capacity limit for visual perception and working memory. Vision Science Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida, USA
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Implicit learning of attentional guidance modulates visual preference. Vision Science Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida, USA
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Recognizing emotional states from biological motion within noise. Vision Science Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida, USA
Ariga, A., & Watanabe, K. (2008). How an expected distractor is rejected in rapid serial visual presentation. The 2nd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2007). A dual-processes model of attentional guidance for contextual cueing. OPAM 15th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., Kawai, T., Kato, R., Sato, T., Yamazaki, T., Yamagata, H., (2007). Effects of video games on dynamics of visual attention. International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research, Sapporo, Japan
Takahashi, K., Saiki, J., & Watanabe, K. (2007). Recalibration of vision-haptic temporal simultaneity. 8th International Multisensory Research Forum, Sydney, Australia
Ikeda, H., & Watanabe, K. (2007). The power of successful experience: Immediate change in learning strategy for visuomotor sequences. 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, USA
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2007). When to encode implicit contextual cue. 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, USA
Watanabe, K. (2007). Behavioral speed contagion: Automatic modulation of movement timing by observation of body movements.11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, USA
Ikeda, H., Endo, N., Nagai, M., & Watanabe, K. (2007). Brain activation during visuomotor sequence tasks measured by NIRS. 13th Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, USA
Ariga. A., & Watanabe, K. (2007). Category-based and item-based processes in rejecting distractors in RSVP. '07 Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., & Nagai, M (2006). Classification images reveal auditory influence on visual detection of temporal luminance deviation. 7th International Multisensory Research Forum, Dublin, Ireland
Ikeda, H., Watanabe, K., & Hikosaka, O. (2006). Differential effects of explicit knowledge on accuracy and speed in procedural learning: Evidence from differential tolerance against workspace rotation. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Oxford, UK
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K (2006). Unpredictable visual changes cause distortion of temporal memory of visual events. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Oxford, UK
Yokoi, K., Watanabe, K., Kawai, T., Kato, R., Sato, T., Yamazaki, T., & Yamagata, H. (2006). Dynamic evaluation of distribution of visual attention during playing video game. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Hollywood, USA
Ogawa, H., & Watanabe, K. (2006). The time course of contextual modulation in visual search. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, USA
Yokoi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2006). Dynamic distortion of visual space around a moving object. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, USA
Ohyama, J., & Watanabe, K (2005). Temporal magnet effect of visual flash to perceptual event boundaries. ASSC-satellite conference Problems of space and time in perception and action. Pasadena, USA
Beaton, M., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2005). Filling-in of the perceived void in the flash-lag effect. ASSC-satellite conference Problems of space and time in perception and action. Pasadena, USA
Niimi, R., Watanabe, K., & Yokosawa, K. (2005). Rapid successive presentation improves symmetry perception. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA
Yokoi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2005). Distortion of positional representation of visual objects by motion signals. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, USA
Ikeda, H., Blake, R., & Watanabe, K. (2005). Eccentricity dependency of the biological motion perception. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, USA
Watanabe, K., Sayres, R., Shimojo, S., Imada, T., & Nihei, K. (2004). Effect of sodium valproate on neuromagnetic responses to chromatic flicker: Implication to photosensitivity. BIOMAG 2004, Boston, USA
Niimi, R., Yokosawa, K., & Watanabe, K. (2004). Search asymmetry in search for symmetry. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., Paik, Y., & Blake, R. (2004). Preserved gain control for luminance contrast during binocular rivalry suppression. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., & Hikosaka, O. (2003). Electrical stimulation in the primate caudate nucleus reinforces saccadic eye movement. Society for Neuroscience Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA
Bhattacharya, J., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2003). Role of nonlinear brain dynamics as a defensive mechanism against photosensitivity. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Khurana, K., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2003). Flash-lag effect: Speeding up to get ahead? Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Yokosawa, K., Niimi, R., & Watanabe, K. (2003). Temporal characteristics of bilateral symmetry perception: Predominant effect of visible persistence. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Lauwereyns, J., Watanabe, K., & Hikosaka, O. (2002). The dynamics of reward-oriented response bias in monkey caudate nucleus. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., Lauwereyns, J., & Hikosaka, O. (2002). Neural activity for reluctant saccades in monkey caudate nucleus. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K. (2002). Perceptual grouping by motion precedes relative localization of visual stimuli. ECVP (25th European Conference on Visual Perception), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Khurana, B., Cater, R., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2002). Flash-lag based chimeric faces: misalignment is in the brain of the beholder. Visual localization in space-time, Sussex, UK
Watanabe, K. (2002). Time course of perceptual grouping revealed by the asymmetric mislocalization effect. Visual localization in space-time, Sussex, UK
Watanabe, K., Sato, T., & Shimojo, S. (2002). Perceived shifts of flashed stimuli by visible and invisible object motion. Asian Conference on Vision, Gyeongju, South Korea
Watanabe, K. (2002). Reflexive attentional shift caused by indexical pointing gesture. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Sayres, R., Watanabe, K., Shimojo, S., Nihei, K., & Imada, T. (2001). Altered pupillary responses in photosensitive epileptic patients and its relation to electroencephalographic responses. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., & Shimojo, S. (2001). Position capture by object motion through a slit. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Khurana, B., & Watanabe, K. (2001). Priming of faces from one half to the other. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Khurana, B., & Watanabe, K. (2001). Configural face processing and negative priming. British Psychological Society Centenary Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Nijhawan, R., Watanabe, K., Khurana, B., & Shimojo, S. (2000). The color of the 'perceived void' in the flash-lag phenomenon. 23rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Groningen, The Netherlands
Khurana, B., Watanabe, K., & Carter, R.M. (2000). Configural face processes use high spatial frequencies. 23rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Groningen, The Netherlands
Bush, E., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2000). Perceived size of flashed objects influenced by flash-lag effect. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Sheth, B.R., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2000). Motion of the surround drags objects in spatial memory: A motion after-after effect. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Sayres, R., Drew, P., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (2000). Pupillary responses to chromatic flicker. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Khurana, B., Watanabe, K., & Carter, R.M. (2000). The nature of configural information in face perception. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Carter, R.M., Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., & Khurana, B. (2000). Configural information in face processing: Retinal versus perceived. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., Scheier, C., Lewkowicz, D.J., & Shimojo, S. (1999). Temporal window for audio-visual interaction revealed with an ambiguous motion display. The Experimental Psychology Society Workshop on Crossmodal Attention and Multisensory Integration, Oxford, UK
Nijhawan, R, Khurana, B., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1999). Are moving objects processed faster than flashes? 22nd European Conference on Visual Perception(ECVP), Trieste, Italy
Khurana, B., Watanabe, K, & Nijhawan, R. (1999). The role of attention in the flash-lag effect. 22nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy
Watanabe, K., Nijhawan, R., Khurana, B., & Shimojo, S. (1999). Global configuration of moving stimuli modulates the flash-lag effect. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K., & Scheier, C. (1999). Ambiguity solving and attentional modulation in visual motion perception: Effect of single and repetitive sensory signals. Attention Workshop, Catalina Island, California, USA
Watanabe, K., Scheier, C., & Shimojo, S. (1999). Temporal window for audio-visual integration revealed with bistable motion display. Joint Symposium on Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Elat, Israel
Khurana, B., Nijhawan, R., & Watanabe, K. (1998). Extrapolation of stroboscopically moving objects. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Nijhawan, R., Khurana, K., Kamitani, Y., Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1998). Eye-movement based extrapolation leads to decomposition of color. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K. (1998). Misperception of response timing with visual localization tasks. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Nijhawan, R., Shimojo, S., Watanabe, K., Khurana, B., & Scheier, C. (1998). Pursuit eye-movement causes mislocalization of flashed target relative to proprioceptive finger position. 5th annual meeting of cognitive neuroscience, San Francisco, California, USA
Shimojo, S., & Watanabe, K. (1997). Environmental and object-bound components of line motion with saccade. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., & Braun, J. (1997). Psychophysical evidence for contour integration in striate cortex. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1996). Inhibition of return without visual awareness. 19th European Conference on Visual Perception, Strasbourg, France
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1996). Displacement of display frame relative to head affects head-induced illusory motion. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Shimojo, S., Tanaka, Y., & Watanabe, K. (1995). Inhibition of return is more environmental than retinotopic. 18th European Conference on Visual Perception, Tubingen, Germany
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1995). Perception of surface prevents smooth-pursuit eye movement. 18th European Conference on Visual Perception, Tubingen, Germany
Watanabe, K., & Shimojo, S. (1994). Virtual Reality Expo '94 Exhibition, the eye interactive system "Eye Contact", Nagoya International Convention Center, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Academic Awards (selected)

2023
Best Poster Award. International Conference on Cognitive Science, Seoul, South Korea
2023
Presentation Award. Symposium INTERRACTION 2023,
2021
Presentation Award. Japanese Psychological Association Annual Conference
2021
Presentation Award. Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Annual Conference
2021
Impressive Short-paper Award. Human-Agent Interation Symposium
2020
Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Awards for Science and Technology
2020
First prize: Illusory short line segments, Visual Illusion and Auditory Illusion Contest in Japan.
2020
Nominated to the Waseda Key Researcher
2016
Waseda Research Award
2010
Presentation Award, International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research
2010
Finalist, 6th Annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest
2008
Top Reviewer, Vision Research
2006
International Incentive Award, Japanese Psychological Association
2001
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1997
Sloan Foundation Fellowship for Theoretical Neurobiology
1997
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1997
Graduated with highest honors from the University of Tokyo

Media (selected)

Science News(2023/09/01)Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities.LINK
Understanding Shikohin and Our Bodies Through Cognitive Science. Interview with Katsumi Watanabe (Part 1 of 2). (2022/10/06)LINK
Understanding Shikohin and Our Bodies Through Cognitive Science. Interview with Katsumi Watanabe (Part 2 of 2). (2022/10/06)LINK
New York Times (2020/08/31)｢In an Era of Face Masks, We’re All a Little More Face Blind｣LINK
『SBS Japanese』｢Catch the tiger｣(2017/10/17)LINK
『INDEPENDENT』 (2016/3/29): Changing the emotional tone of a person’s voice can alter their mood.
NHK WORLD (2014/07/01). Science View "What science reveals about the sixth sense"
『SBS news』(2013/9/10)｢Life-like robot arrives in Sydney｣
『ABC Australia』(2013/9/10)｢Creative robotics lab hoping to change the face of technology in Australia｣
『The Sydney Morning Herald』(2013/9/10)｢She's got a mind all of her own｣
『NewScientist』(2010/5/14)｢Illusions contest: Blurry heart｣
『NewScientist』(2009/4/18)｢Choice Blindness: You don't know what you want｣LINK
『BBC - HORIZON』(BBC)(2008/2/12)｢How to Make Better Decisions｣

Events (selected)

Visionary Camp at Miraikan [Future of Communication] (March 2019 - September 2020)LINK
Lindsay Webb, Elena Knox, Dawn-Joy Leong, Katsumi Watanabe (2019/1/15-16) 'Snoösphere: sensory modulation in a synthesized night garden', in DARKNESS International Conference, Island Dynamics, Longyearbyen Svalbard, Norway
Elena Knox. & Katsumi Watanabe. Omikuji (御御籤) in Beijing Media Art Biennale (cur. Su Xinping, Zhang Zikang, Song Xiewei, Qiu Zhijie, Chen Xiaowen, Fei Jun, Jo Wei , Zhang Wenchao, Xue Tianchong), CAFA Art Museum Beijing, Suzhou Hanshan Art Museum, 2018; Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shenzhen OCT Art & Design Gallery, 2019
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K.(2019/01/04-2019/01/07) OMIKUJI 御御籤, Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art, City University of Hong Kong, in Algorithmic Art: Shuffling Space and Time.
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. OMIKUJI 御御籤, Beijing Media Art Biennale 2018 (+ National tour in China) (2018/09/05 - 2018/09/25）
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. OMIKUJI 御御籤, Nine Tomorrows (九个明天) @ PowerLong Art Center, National tour Hangzhou, Xiamen, Shanghai and Qingdao, China, curated by Yao Dajuin, Vice Dean China Academy of Art (2018/4/4-8/8)LINK
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. OMIKUJI 御御籤: A better version of you @ 798 Art District Beijing, Beijing. China & Miraikan, Odaiba, Tokyo (2018/3/25-2018/4/1)
Knox, E. & Watanabe, K. OMIKUJI 御御籤: A better version of you @ Art Sonje Center for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea & Miraikan, Odaiba, Tokyo (2017/12/12-17)
Supermanoeuvre, UNSW, Black Dog Institute, & Watanabe, K. Catch the Tiger@ The Big Anxiety: Festival of Arts + Science + People, UNSW Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia（2017/9/20-2017/11/11）
Catch the Tiger @ The Big Anxiety: Festival of Arts + Science + People, Sydney, Australia
Does Free Will Exist? Yokohama Trial @ Yokohama Triennale 2014LINK
It’s All About Money! Confront Yourself Through 10 Experiments (Miraikan, special exhibition)
Stories of One, Everyone and You (Miraikan, permanent exhibition)
Fear Research: Science of Haunted Houses (Miraikan, special exhibition)

Committees

Internal Committees

Department of Intermedia Art & Science: Department Head
Waseda Institutional Review Board of Research Ethics: Chairman
Research Promotion Committees for Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering: Vice Chairman

etc...

Editorial and Review Boards

Scientific Reports
Frontiers in Psychology
PLoS ONE
Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Science
Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking

Teaching Experience

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Introduction to Cognitive Science
Cognition and Communication
Intermedia Art and Science
Experimental Design in Cognitive Psychology
Seminar on Cognitive Science
Career Design

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Cognitive Science Seminar
Mechano-Informatics
Grant Proposal Writing
Brain and Mind (bilingual based on student request)
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
All University Research and Seminar
Cognitive Science (bilingual)
Advanced Research Strategies and Social Systems
Omnibus Lecture Series Coordinator
Digital Humanities

California Institute of Technology, CA, USA

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Teaching Assistant, Vision: From Computational Theory to Neuronal Mechanisms

Other Universities & Colleges

Undergraduate and graduate courses in multiple universities and colleges across many years: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Interaction, etc.

Others

Patents

Japanese Patent 特許第5496037「車両運転支援装置」 2010年9月21日出願（2012年4月5日登録）
US Patent 16/661,309 "DISPLAY APPATUS FOR VHECLE" Filed (October 23, 2019) Approved (December 12, 2020)

Preprints

Watanabe, K. (2021, April 21). Behavioral Synchrony: Implicit motor bonding between individuals. PsyArXiv .Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/wvxu2