Department of Psychology,Chuo University

Publications

Articles

• Tokuda, T,, Ikeda, T., Monden, Y., Mizushima, S. G., Inoue, T., Nagashima, M., Shimamura, K., Arakawa, A., Kobayashi, M., Kuroiwa, C., Ujiie, Y., Dan, H., Kyutoku, Y., Taniguchi, T., Shimoizumi, H., Yamagata, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Sakuta, R., & Dan, I. (2018). Methylphenidate-Elicited Distinct Neuropharmacological Activation Patterns Between Medication-Naive Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Children With and Without Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Functional NearInfrared Spectroscopy Study. Neuropsychiatry , 8(2), 739-744.
• Kobayashi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2018). Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is a cross-cultural phenomenon in infancy: A behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopy study with Japanese infants. Developmental Science, 21(1), e12498. doi: 10.1111/desc.12498
• Inoue, T., Sakuta, Y., Shimamura, K., Ichikawa, H., Kobayashi, M., Otani, R., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Kakigi, R., Sakuta, R. (2015). Differences in the pattern of hemodynamic response to self-face and stranger-face images in adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. PLoS ONE, 10(7) e0132050:1-12.
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kakigi, R. (2014) The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: A fNIRS-adaptation study. BMC Neuroscience, 15:81. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-15-81
• Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Hill, H., Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2013). Eye contrast polarity is critical for face recognition by infants.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115(3), 598-606.
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2012). Size-invariant representation of face in infant brain: fNIRS-adaptation study, NeuroReport, 23(17), 984-988.
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kakigi, R. (2012). Do infants recognize the Arcimboldo images as faces? Behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 22-36.
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). Do infants represent the face in a viewpoint-invariant manner? Neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:153. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00153.

Presentations

• Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., O'Toole, A. J. (2017). Infants' recognition of approaching people. Society for Research in Child Development 2017 Biennial Meeting, Face Processing Pre-Conference (Invited talk) (Austin, USA)
• Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2017). Infants’ face detection in natural scene. Vision Sciences Society 17th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)
• Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2016). Infants’ recognition of caricature of mother’s face. Vision Sciences Society 16th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)
• Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2015). Developmental changes in face identity processing: fNIRS-adaptation studies. The 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Singapore)
• Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kakigi, R., & Lee, K. (2015). Neural correlates of own- and other-race face processing in infants: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Vision Sciences Society 15th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2014) The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: A fNIRS adaptation study. fNIRS 2014. (Montreal, Canada).
• Kobayashi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2014) Perceptual narrowing toward adult faces in Japanese infants: a behavioral and a near-infrared spectroscopic study. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Kagawa, Japan).
• Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kobayashi, M. (2014) Processing of Facial Identity in Infants' Brain: fNIRS-adaptation Studies. The 19th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, (Symposium; Berlin, Germany)
• Proietti, V., Kobayashi, M., Quadrelli, E., Bulf, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K. & Macchi Cassia, V. (2013). Cross-cultural evidence of perceptual narrowing toward adult faces in 3- and 9-month-old infants. Joint Cognitive Psychology Section & Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2013. (Reading, UK).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2012). Development of facial representation in infancy: NIRS-adaptation study. 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Perception and Recognition. (Okazaki, Japan).
• Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Harold, H., Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2012). The role of contrast polarity of eyes on face recognition by 7-to-8month-olds. 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Perception and Recognition (Okazaki, Japan)
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.(2012) Face representation in infant temporal region investigated by the neural adaptation paradigm; the near-infrared spectroscopic study. 18th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Minneapolis, USA).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). Do infant represent the facial identity in a viewpoint-invariant manner? The neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2010). Is the faces represented in a viewpoint-invariant manner? Neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. 41th NIPS International Symposium. (Okazaki, Japan).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kakigi, R. (2010). Is the faces represented in a viewpoint-invariant manner? Neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. 41th NIPS International Symposium. (Okazaki, Japan).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R. (2010). Adaptation effect for facial identity in infants. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).
• Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Kobayashi, M., Hill, H., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009) . Face discrimination in infants and adults: the role of contrast polarity of the eyes. The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).
• Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R. (2009). Do infants recognize the Arcimbold images as faces? Behavioral and Near-infrared spectroscopic study. The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).　

Grants

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists.