Research Field: Auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology
Mechanisms for analyzing auditory scenes
Attention and saliency
Shitsukan of sound / acoustic environment
Space perception
Measurement, evaluation, and modeling of physiological functions
Electroencephalography (EEG) : From brainstem to cortex
"Eye metrics": pupillometry and microsaccades
Oto-acoustic emission
Artificial neural network
Mechanisms and evaluation of hard-of-hearing problem
"Hidden" hearing loss
Noise-induced hearing loss
Effect of age
Autism, hyperacusis
News
Paper that compares autism spectrum disorder and typically developed adults in sensitivities to interaural time and level differences has been published on Scientific Reports. (Nov. 2022).
Paper reporting a phenomenon that the pupil dilates according to the luminance of the space to which auditory attention is directed has been published on Jouranal of Cognitive Neuroscience. (Oct. 2022).
Paper indicating that the frequency of perceptual switching is associated with baseline pupil size has been published on Psychophysiology. (Feb. 2022).
Paper demonstrating that expectations of the timing and intensity of a stimulus are reflected to auditory peripheral processing has been published on Cerebral Cortex. (Jan. 2022).
Paper indicating that amplitude modulation of sounds is converted to phase modulation, which may contribute to perception has been published on Hearing Researach. (Jun. 2021).
Paper that suggests abnormalities in auditory peripheral processes of autism spectrum disporder adults has been published on Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. (Jun. 2021).
Paper that compared saccade propeties between visual and auditory targets has been published on Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. (Nov. 2020).
Paper examining the factors that elicit binaural-sound induced "frisson" sensation has appeared in Frontiers in Psychology. (Jan. 2020).
Paper reporting that the state of the eye's iris muscles reflects underlying cognitive processes has appeared in Journal of Neurophysiol. (Jan. 2020).
Paper on the relationship of sound saliency and eye-metrical responses has appeared in Journal of Neuroscience. (Sep. 2019).
Paper on the pupil dilation response to the violation of regularity of sound sequences has appeared in Nature Communications (Sep. 2019).
Paper on the emergence of auditory-system-like representation of amplitude modulation a deep neural network has appeared in Journal of Neuroscience. Here is a news release on that topic. (Jul. 2019)
Paper on the pupil and music listening has appeared in Journal of Eye Movement Research (Dec. 2018).
Gave a talk on data-driven approaches to auditory neurophysiology as Seminar on brain, hearing and speech sciences for universal speech communication (Sendai, Japan; Oct. 2018)
We found that auditory-system-like information representation emerges in an artificial neural network optimized for generic auditory classification tasks. A preprint paper on this work is open on bioRxiv (Apr. 2018).
Gave a talk entitled "Eye metrics as indicators of auditory salience?" at Symposium: Understanding auditory salience, 41th ARO Midwinter Meeting (San Diego, USA) (Feb. 2018).
Paper on a novel objective audiometry based on light-synchronized tapping has been accepted for Acoustical Science and Technology (Jan. 2018).
Paper on the effects of reverberation on sound-based material perception (Koumura & Furukawa) has been accepted for Scientific Reports (Dec. 2017).
Papers on integration of interaural level and time difference cues in the cortex (Altmann et al.) have been accepted for Frontiers in Neuroscience and NeuroImage (Jul. 2017).
Paper on auditory stream segregation in spectral and amplitude-modulation domains (Yamagishi et al.) has been accepted for Hearing Research (Mar. 2017).
Co-organized special session"Perspectives of Research in Overlooked Hearing Problems" at the 5th ASA-ASJ Joint Meeting (Honolulu, USA) (Nov. 2016).
Paper on distraction of auditory change detection performance (Petsas et al.) has been accepted for Hearing Research (Aug. 2016).