Makoto Ichikawa's Research interests

• Time and space in perceptual and cognitive experience related studies
  How the time and space experienced by human observer differ from the physical time and space?
  What factors affect the structures of the time and space in human experience?
  What kind of limitation does exist for the human perceptual and cognitive processings?

 
• Psychophysics for motion and depth related studies
  How the perceived and recognized motion and depth are related to various stimulus conditions?

 
• Effects of active observation and observer-stimulus interaction on perception and cognition related studies
  How the active observation affects the perceptual and cognitive processing?
  How the observer-stimulus interacton would contribute to the perceptual and cognitive processing?

 
• Cross modal interaction in perception and cognition related studies
  How the vision, audition, kinesthesis, and the other perceptual modality interact with each other?

 
• Integration processing in perception and congnition related studies
  How the perceptual or cognitive information are integrated?
  What kind of rules exist in determining the perception, cognition, and impression formation if there are various information?

 
• Aesthetic effects of images, sounds, and environment related studies
  What kind of rules exist in determining the impression for the images, sounds, environment around us?

 
• Blindness to perceptual events, attention, and cognitive slip related studies
  What kind of spatiotemporal conditions of the stimulus exaggerate (or prevent) the blindness to perceptual events and cognitive slips?
  What kind of observer's conditions exaggerate (or prevent) the blindness to perceptual events and cognitive slips?

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Selected Publications

Recent Presentations in Conferences