Yumiko Otsuka　PhD

School of Psychology
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
E-mail: yumikoot@gmail.com



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.


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.

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, 105, 256-263.

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.

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.

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 & Performance, 35(1), 72-82.

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):462-72.

Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Midorikawa, A., Kanazawa, S., Dan, I., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). Sound Enhances Detection of Visual Target in Infancy: A Study Using Illusory Contours. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 305-322.

Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). The development of face recognition and neural activity in infancy. The Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 62(12), 1920-1923. (in Japanese)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2005). The development of face recognition and the effect of motion information in early infancy. The Journal of the Japanese Society of Baby Science. (in Japanese)

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

Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2003). Infants' perception of illusory contours in static and moving figures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 86(3), 244-251.



Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M. K., Spehar B. (2012). Spatial and temporal dynamics of visual perception in 8-month-old infants. 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (The University of New South Wales).

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).

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).

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. 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies. (Baltimore, 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. 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies. (Baltimore, 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.

Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Harold, 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).

Yamazaki, Y., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K. (2009). Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in 5- to 8- month old infants. 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).

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).

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., 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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Nakato E., Otsuka, Y., Yamaguchi, M.K., & 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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Otsuka, 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)