Department of Psychology,Chuo University

Publications

Articles

• Nakato, E. Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2018) Holistic processing in mother's face perception for infants. Infant Behavior and Development 50, 257-263. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.01.007
• Ichikawa, H., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Shimamura, K., Sakuta, Y., Sakuta, R., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2014). Hemodynamic response of children with attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) to emotional facial expressions. Neuropsychologia 63, 51-58. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.010.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tsuruhara, A.*, Nakato, E.*, Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Hill, H. (2011). The hollow-face illusion in infancy: do infants see a screen based rotating hollow mask as hollow? i-Perception, 2(5), 418-427. *The first two authors equally contributed to the study.
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). Distinct differences in the pattern of hemodynamic response to happy and angry facial expressions in infants- A near-Infrared Spectroscopic study-. NeuroImage, 54, 1600-1606.
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M. K., Honda,Y., & Kakigi, R. (2011). I know this face: Neural Activity during the Mother' Face Perception in 7- to 8-Month-Old Infants as investigated by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Early Human Development, 87, 1-7.
• Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Learning unfamiliar faces in infants: the advantage of the regular sequence presentation and the three-quarter view superiority. Japanese Psychological Research, 52(4), 257-267.
• Honda,Y., Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Kojima, S., Yamaguchi, M. K. & Kakigi, R. (2010). How do infants perceive scrambled face?: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Brain Research, 1308, 137-146.
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Konuma, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Tomonaga, M. (2009). Perception of Illusory shift of eye gaze direction by infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 422-428.
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, S., & Kakigi, R. (2009). When do infants differentiate profile face from frontal face? A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Human Brain Mapping, 30(2), 462-472.
• Nakato, E., Kobayashi, K., Yamaguchi, M.K., (2009)　The Neural Activity on Infants' Face Recognition [in Japanese] The Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, 92(1), 61-66.
• Nakato, E. (2008) The recognition of one's own face over changes in viewpoint [in Japanese] ，Kaogaku，8，57-64.
• Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Yamaguchi, M.K.（2008）The Development of Face Recognition and Neural Activity in Infancy [in Japanese] The journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 62(12), 1920-1923.
• Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, S., & Kakigi, R. (2007). Neural activation to upright and inverted faces in infants measured by near infrared spectroscopy. NeuroImage, 34 (1), 399-406.
• Nakato, E., & Nagata, Y. (2006) The analysis of visual information on the human head from a viewpoint change under the inverted presentation. SCIS & ISIS 2006, 1292-1297.
• Nakato, E., & Nagata, Y. (2002). Identificaton of Familiar People Viewed from a Variety of Viewpoints [in Japanese] The Japanese journal of psychology, 73(4), 314-323.

Presentations

• Nakato, E., Kanazwa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). A near-infrared spectroscopy study on the mother’s face perception in infants. 34th European Conference on Visual Perception. The 34th European Conference on Visual Perception. (Toulouse, France).
• Nakato, E. , Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). A longitudinal study on infants’ face perception by near-infrared spectroscopy. Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E. (2010). Familiar vs. unfamiliar faces to infants studied by NIRS. 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. (Kobe, Japan) invited speaker.
• 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).
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R. (2010). Infants’ neural responses to facial expressions using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2010). Recognition of the Mother's Face in Infants: Behavioral and Near-infrared Spectroscopic Studies. XVIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Baltimore, USA).
• Nakato, E.,Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2009). Configural processing in mother's face perception for infants. The Vision Sciences Society Nineth Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E., Otsuka Y., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2008). Perception of mother’s face using near-infrared spectroscopy. The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting, (Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E., Hill, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). The hollow face illusion in infancy. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).
• Nakato, E., Otsuka Y., Yamaguchi MK., Kakigi, R. (2007). Infants’ brain activity on perception of different view faces using Near-infrared spectroscopy. The Vision Sciences Society Seventh Annual Meeting, (Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E.,Kanazwa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). The 3/4 view effect in infancy - Behavioral and Neuroscience data. 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, (St Petersburg, Russia).
• Nakato, E., Kanazawa S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2006). The 3/4 view effect and the rotation information in infants' face recognition. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).
• Nakato, E.,Kanazawa, S. & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2005). The effect of rotation information on infant's recognition of unfamiliar faces viewed from different viewpoint. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, (A Coruna, Spain)
• Nakato, E., (2004). Recognition of one's own face viewed from a variety of viewpoints. 27th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Budapest, Hungary)
• Nakato, E., & Nagata, Y. (2001). Recognitions of human heads from different viewpoints change under inverted presentation. 24th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Kusadasi, Turkey)
• Nakato, E.,& Nagata, Y. (1999). Identification of human head by using band-pass filter. 22nd European Conference on Visual Perception, (Trieste, Italy)
• Nakato, E., & Nagata, Y. (1998). Identification of human heads from a variety of viewpoints. 21st European Conference on Visual Perception, (Oxford, UK)

Grants

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas,"Face perception and recognition", by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. 2011 Apr.-2013 Mar. (Research Project Number:23119726)
• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B), by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS). 2009 Apr.-2012 Mar.(Research Project Number:21700297)
• Center of Developmental Education and Research Award, by CODER (Center of Developmental Education and Research), September 2008.