So Kanazawa Ph.D.

Japan Women's University
E-mail: kanazawas@fc.jwu.ac.jp




Wada, Y.,Inada, Y., Yang, J., Kunieda, S., Masuda, T., Kimura, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2012). Infant visual preference for fruit enhanced by congruent in-season odor. Appetite, 58(3),1070-1075.doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.02.002 [ PubMed ]

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.

Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Motoyoshi, I. (2011). Perception of surface glossiness by infants aged 5 to 8 months. Perception, 40, 1491-1502.

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.

Yamashita, W., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2011). Infant learning ability for recognizing artificially-produced three-dimensional faces and objects. Journal of Vision, 11(6):9, 1-11

Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2011). Finding a face in a face-like object. Perception, 40, 500-502.

Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2011). The movement of internal facial features elicits 7 to 8 month-old infants' preference for face patterns. Infant and Child Development, 20(5), 464-474.

Otsuka, Y., Hill, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Spehar, B.(2012). Perception of Mooney faces by young infants: The role of local feature visibility, contrast polarity and motion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 164-179.

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.

Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T.,Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Corrow, S. & Yonas, A. (2010). The development of the ability of infants to utilize static cues to create and access representations of object shape. Journal of Vision, 10(12):2, 1-11.

Takashima, M.,Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, K. M., & Shiina, K. (2011). Amodal completion in infants: Straight continuity vs. symmetry. Japanese Psychological Research, 53(1), 103-108.

Yang, J., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Perception of Munker-White illusion in 4- to 8- month old infants.Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 589-595.

Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2010). Infant brain activity while viewing facial movement of point-light displays as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Neuroscience Letters, 482, 90-94.

Yoshino, D., Idesawa, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Infant perception of the rotating Kanizsa square. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 196-208.

Kawabe, T., Shirai, N., Wada, Y., Miura, K., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K. (2010) Audiovisual tau effect in infancy. PLoS ONE, 5(3), e9503.

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.

Tsuruhara, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2010). Infants’ perception of human body orientation and the effect of a surrounding square. Japanese Psychological Research, 52(4), 281-290.

Shirai, N., Imura, T., Hattori, Y., Adachi, I., Ichihara, S., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Tomonaga, M. (2010). Asymmetric perception of radial expansion/contraction in Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) infants. Experimental Brain Research, 202, 319-325.

Kimura, A., Wada, Y., Yang, J., Otsuka, Y, Dan, I., Masuda, T., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Infants' recognition of objects using canonical color. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 54, 363-368.

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.

Yang, J., Kanazawa, S. & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). Perception of neon color spreading in 3- to 6- month old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 461-467.

Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K. & Yonas, A. (2009). Infant's ability to form a common representation of an object's shape from different pictorial depth cues: a transfer-across-cues study. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 468-475.

Yamazaki, Y., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010) Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in 5- to 8- month old infants. Japanese Psychological Research, 52, 33-40.

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.

Shirai, N., Birtles, D., Wattam-Bell, J., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2009). Asymmetrical cortical processing of radial expansion/contraction in infants and adults. Developmental Science, 12(6), 946-955.

Tsuruhara, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). Infants can't discriminate the orientation of a grating surrounded by an oblique square. Perception, 38(7), 1035-1044.

Otsuka, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Abdi, H. & O'Toole A.J. (2009). The recognition of moving and static faces by young infants. Child Development, 80(4), 1259-1271.

Otsuka, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). The effect of occlusion on motion integration in infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(1), 72-82.

Otsuka, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Spehar, B. (2008). Infants' perception of transparency. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science (Summary of Awarded Presentation), 27 (1), 125-126.

Otsuka, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Spehar, B. (2008). The perception of illusory transparent surfaces in infancy: early emergence of sensitivity to static pictorial cues. Journal of Vision, 8(16), 1-12.

Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Midorikawa, A., Kanazawa, S., Dan, I., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (in press). Sound Enhances Detection of Visual Target in Infancy: A Study Using Illusory Contours. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2008). Sensitivity to rotational motion in early infancy. Experimental Brain Research, 190, 201-206.

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.

Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A.(2008). Infants' sensitivity to shading and line junctions. Vision Research, 48, 1420-1426.

Shirai N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). Early development of sensitivity to radial motion at different speeds. Experimental Brain Research.185, 461-467.

Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., & Okamura, H. (2008). Infants' perception of subjective contours from apparent motion. Infant Behavior and Development. 31, 127-136. [abstract & demo]

Okamura, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). Development of chromatic induction in infancy. Infant and Child Development. 16(6), 629-648.

Shirai, N., Birtles, D., Wattam-Bell, J., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2007). Development of asymmetrical cortical responses to radial expansion/contraction. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 25(2), 275-276.

Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). Perception of motion transparency in 5-month-old infants. Perception. 36 (1), 145-156.

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.

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2006). Perceptual transparency in 3- to 4-month-old infants. Perception, 35(12), 1625-1636.

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Development of modal and amodal completion in infants. Perception, 35(9), 1251-1264.

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Anisotropic motion coherence sensitivities to expansion/contraction motion in early infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 29, 204-209. [abstract & demo]

Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2006). Perception of motion trajectory of object from the moving cast shadow in infants. Vision Research, 46(5), 652-657.

Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Perception of opposite-moving dots in 3- to 5-month-old infants. Vision Research, 46(3), 346-356.

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2005). Young infants' sensitivity to shading stimuli with radial motion. Japanese Psychological Research, 47(4), 286-291.

Otsuka Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K, & O'Toole AJ, Abdi H.(2005) The Effect of Motion Information on Infants’Recognition of Unfamiliar Face. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 24 , 125-126.

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2004). Sensitivity to linear-speed-gradient of radial expansion flow in infancy. Vision Research, 44, 3111-3118. [abstract & demo]

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S. & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2004). Asymmetry for the perception of expansion/contraction in infancy.Infant Behavior and Development, 27(3) , 315-322.[abstract & demo]

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2004). The effect of support ratio on infants' perception of illusory contours. Perception, 33, 807-816.


Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2011). Infants’ recognition of dynamic subtle facial expression. Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. (Florida, 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).

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).

Tsuruhara, A., Kaneko, H., Kanazawa, S., Otsuka, Y., Shirai, N., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2011). Infants’ ability to perceive depth produced by vertical disparity. Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Yamashita, W., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2011).The effect of gaze direction on 3D face learning in infants. Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2010). Infant brain activity in perceiving the facial movement of point-light display. 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).

Yamashita, W., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2010). The effect of gaze direction in the artificially-produced face learning. 41th NIPS International Symposium. (Okazaki, Japan).

Otsuka Y., Hill H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M. K., Spehar B., (2010). Perception of Mooney face by 3- and 4-month-old infants: the role of local features, contrast polarity, and motion. The 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

Tsuruhara, A., Sherryse Corrow, S., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K.& Albert Yonas, A. (2010). Infants’ perception of depth from a pictorial cue: Comparing monocular and binocular preferential-looking. The 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

Tsuruhara, A., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2010). Infants' preference of moving face-like figure to top-heavy figure. The 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Taipei, Taiwan).

Yamashita, W., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Infant learning ability for recognizing artificially-produced 3D objects. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

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).

Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R. (2010). Infants’ brain activity in perceiving facial movement of point-light display. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Yonas, A. (2010). A transfer-across-depth-cues study of the ability of infants to access a representation of 3-D shape from shading and linejunction information. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Motoyoshi, I. (2010). Perception of surface glossiness in infants. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Ichikawa, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2010) "'Possible' movement of internal facial features promotes 7- and 8-month-old infants' preference for face patterns. 17th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Maryland, USA).

Tsuruhara, A., Katsumata, Y., Kitazaki, M., Hanazawa, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2009). Infants' visually induced postural sway: The effect of the attractiveness of fixation mark. The 15th International Conference on Perception and Action. (Minnesota, USA).

Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). Visual freezing effect by sound in infants. The 10th International Multisensory Research Forum. (New York, USA).

Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R. (2009). Configural processing in mother's face perception for infants. Vision Sciences Society Nineth 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. Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Yang, J., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kuriki, I. (2009). Color constancy in 4-5-month old infants. 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. Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).　

Yamazaki, Y., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2009). Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in 5- to 8- month old infants. Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Yonas, A. (2009). 'Infants' ability to perceive 3D shape from pictorial cues : Transfer-across-depth-cues study.' Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA).

Hibi, Y., Kumada, T., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). Inter-trial facilitation on visual feature search in infants. Psychonomic Society 49th Annual Meeting, (Chicago, U.S.A.).

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).

Otsuka, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Spehar, B. (2008). Perception of illusory transparent surface by young infants. The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting, (Florida, USA).

Yang, J., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). Perception of neon color spreading in 3- to 6- month old infants. The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

Tsuruhara, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). Effects of reference frame on the perception of human-body orientation in infancy. The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2007). Perception of shape from shading and line junctions in infants. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).

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).

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M.K., Konishi, Y., Abdi, H., & O’Toole, A.J. (2007). Three-months recognition memory for faces in moving and static figures. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). Differential development of radial and rotational motions in early infancy. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).

Tsuruhara, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2007). Perception of orientation with an oblique and upright frame in infancy. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).

Yamaguchi, M.K., Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., Otsuka, Y., Tsuruhara, A., & Kaneko, H. (2007). Perception of surface slant produced by horizontal and vertical disparities in human infants. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, (Arezzo, Italy).

Shirai, N., Kawabe, T., Wada, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Miura, K. (2007). Auditory temporal intervals distort infant perception of visual spatial interval. 8th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, (Sydney, Australia).

Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Dan, I., Kohyama, K., Midorikawa, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). Sound enhances visual detection of illusory contour in infants.8th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, (Sydney, Australia).

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Abdi, H., O’Toole, A.J. (2007). The development of face discrimination skill in infants. The Vision Sciences Society Seventh Annual Meeting, (Florida, USA).

Shirai, N., Birtles, D., Wattam-Bell, J., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S.,Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2006). Anistropic cortical responses for radial expansion/contraction in infants and adults. 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, (St Petersburg, Russia).

Kanazawa, S., Kitaoka, A., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2006). Infants see the "Rotating Snake" illusion. 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, (St Petersburg, Russia).

Otsuka Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K. (2006) Infants’ perception of partly occluded object in ambiguous motion display. 29th European Conference on Visual Perception, (St Petersburg, Russia).

Nakato, E., Kanazawa, 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).

Kanazawa, S., Kitaoka, A., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Perception of illusory motion in 6- to 8-month old infants. The 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies , (Kyoto, Japan)

Okamura, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2006). Infant's perception of Color-from-Motion stimulus. The 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies , (Kyoto, Japan)

Otsuka Y., Nakato E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K. & Kakigi R. (2006). Interhemispheric asymmetry in infants' face recognition measured by near infrared spectroscopy. The 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies , (Kyoto, Japan)

Shirai N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2006). Velocity sensitivity to radial and rotational motion in 3 months of age. The 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies , (Kyoto, Japan)

Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai N., Otsuka Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2006). Perception of 3-D shape from moving cast shadow in human infants. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Perceptual development of directional transparent motion in infancy. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

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).

Otsuka Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2006). The effect of occlusion on motion integration in infants. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

Shirai N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2006). Early development of velocity sensitivity to rotational motion. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting,(Florida, USA).

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2005). Early development of velocity sensitivity to radial motion. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, (A Coruna, Spain)

Otuska, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2005). The effect of occlusion information on motion integration in infants. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, (A Coruna, Spain)

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)

Konuma, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2005). Analytical and configural processing in infants' gaze perception. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, (A Coruna, Spain)

Okamura, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2005). Chromatic induction in infancy. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, (A Coruna, Spain)

Otsuka Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K , O'Toole AJ, Abdi H.(2005) The Effect of Motion Information on Infants’Recognition of Unfamiliar Face. The Vision Sciences Society 5th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)

Shirai N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2005). Early Development of Anisotropic Sensitivities for expansion/contraction Detection. The Vision Sciences Society 5th Annual Meeting. (Sarasota, USA)

Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2004). Perception of Motion Transparency in Infancy. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2004). Development of Modal and Amodal Completion in Infants. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2004). Development of the sensitivity to linear-acceleration of radial expansion flow. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

Yamaguchi, M.K., Otsuka, Y., Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Abdi, H. (2004). Infant's Facial Learning in Poor Visual Acuity. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2003). Perception of motion transparency in infants. 26th European Conference on Visual Perception (Paris, France)

Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,& Yamaguchi, M.K.（2003). Modal and amodal contour completion in infancy. 26th European Conference on Visual Perception (Paris, France)

Shirai N., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.（2003). Development of asymmetry for the perception of expansion/contraction. 26th European Conference on Visual Perception (Paris, France)

Otsuka Y., Kanazawa, S.,& Yamaguchi M.K. (2002). Infants' perception of subjective contours in the static and moving figures. The XIIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Toronto, Canada)

Yamaguchi M.K., Tomonaga, M., & Kanazawa, S. (2002). Constructing the prototype face: Infant and monkeys. The XIIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Toronto, Canada)


Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B), by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). 2009 Apr.-2012 Mar.(Research Project Number:21300104)