Scinob Kuroki, Ph.D (Information Science and Technology)


Senior Research Scientist
Sensory Representation Research Group
Human and Information Science Lab
NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Contact Information: shinobu.kuroki.ub [at] hco.ntt.co.jp
3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, JAPAN
Research interest: Tactile perception

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News & Information

  • 2024.02   Our paper is published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics
    Scinob Kuroki and Shin'ya Nishida (2024)
    "Touch cannot attentionally select signals based on feature binding." ->link
  • 2023.11   Made a poster presentation at SfN2023
  • 2023.01   My paper is published in Scientific Reports
    Scinob Kuroki (2023)
    "Anisotropic distortion in the perceived direction of motion on the arm" ->link
  • 2022.05   Made a poster presentation at EH2022
  • 2021.07   Made a poster presentation at SfN2021
  • 2021.07   My paper is published in Scientific Reports
    Scinob Kuroki (2021)
    "Anisotropic distortion in the perceived orientation of stimuli on the arm" ->link
  • 2021.07   Made a poster presentation at WHC2021
  • 2021.05   Our paper is finally published in Journal of Neurophysiology !
    Scinob Kuroki,Masataka Sawayama, and Shin'ya Nishida (2021)
    "The roles of lower- and higher-order surface statistics in tactile texture perception" ->link
  • 2021.03   Our paper is published in i-Perception
    Scinob Kuroki and Shin'ya Nishida (2021)
    "Motion direction discrimination with tactile random-dot kinematograms", 12(2) ->link
  • 2020.02   Our paper is published in Scientific Reports
  • 2019.10   Made a poster presentation at SfN
  • 2019.05   Our preprint is out! 'Haptic metameric textures'
  • 2019.05   Made a poster presentation at VSS
  • 2018.06   Our paper is published in IEEE Transaction on Haptics
  • 2018.06   Made a poster presentation about haptic texture perception at EuroHaptics 2018
  • 2018.03   Our paper is published in Scientific Reports
    Scinob Kuroki and Shin'ya Nishida (2017)
    "Human tactile detection of within- and inter-finger spatiotemporal phase shifts of low-frequency vibrations", 8: 4288. ->link
  • 2017.07   Our paper is published in Frontiers is Psychology
    Scinob Kuroki, Takumi Yokosaka, and Junji Watanabe (2017)
    "Sub-second temporal integration of vibro-tactile stimuli: Intervals between adjacent, weak, and within-channel stimuli are underestimated", fpsyg.2017.01295 ->link
  • 2017.06   Our paper is published in Scientific Reports.
    Scinob Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, and Shin'ya Nishida (2017)
    "Integration of vibrotactile frequency information beyond the mechanoreceptor channel and somatotopy", 11: e0165842 ->link
  • 2017.06   Our paper is published in IEEE Transaction on Haptics.
  • 2017.06   Made a poster presentation about perceived frequency of carrier wave of AM wave at World Haptics 2017
  • 2017.03   Our paper is published in IEEE Transaction on Haptics.
  • 2016.12   Our paper is published in PLOS ONE.
    Scinob Kuroki, Nobuhira Hagura, Shin'ya Nishida, Patrick Haggard, and Junji Watanabe (2016)
    "Sanshool on the fingertip interferes with vibration detection in a rapidly-adapting (RA) tactile channel", 11: e0165842 ->link
  • 2016.11   Made a talk at "Tutorial 1: Perceptual evaluation methods for haptics research" on AsiaHaptics
  • 2016.06   Presented in the symposium "Adaptation in Space and Time" in the 17th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2016).
  • 2016.02   Our paper is published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
    Scinob Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, and Shin'ya Nishida (2016)
    "Neural timing signal for precise tactile timing judgments", 115: 1620-1629 ->link to abstract
  • 2015.10   Our paper is published in Perception.
  • 2015.06   Made a poster presentation about chemical vibration on the fingertip induced by Sanshool (an Asian spice!) in IEEE World Haptics 2015.
    Awarded "Best Work in Progress: People's choice award"
  • 2015.04   Our paper is published in PlosOne.
  • 2014.10   I'm visiting Prof. Patrick Haggard's lab in University College London.
  • 2014.07   Made a talk at symposium on "Shitsukan" of Touch.
  • 2014.06   Made a poster presentation about signal cross-channel and cross-finger interference in touch in Eurohaptics2014.
    Awarded "Honorable mention"
  • 2013.09   Our paper is published in Brain Research.
    Scinob Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, and Shin'ya Nishida (2013)
    "Contribution of within- and cross-channel information to vibrotactile frequency discrimination", 1529: 46-55 ->link to abstract
  • 2013.08   Made a talk at ECVP2013.
  • 2012.06   Made a poster presentation about Weber's-law in temporal frequency discrimination in touch in Eurohaptics2012.
  • 2012.01   Our paper is published in Experimental Brain Research.
    Scinob Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, Kunihiko Mabuchi, Susumu Tachi, and Shin'ya Nishida (2012)
    "Directional remapping in tactile inter-finger motion: a motion aftereffect study", 216: 311-320 ->link to abstract
  • 2010.11   Made a talk in TRGmeeting.
  • 2010.11   Made a poster presentation in SfN 2010.
  • 2010.07   Presented tactile painting system with cutaneous electric stimuli as "Colorful Touch Palette" inACM SIGGRAPH2010 Emerging Technology.
  • 2010.02   Our paper is published in Experimental Brain Research.
    Shinobu Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi, and Shin’ya Nishida (2010) "Somatotopic dominance in tactile temporal processing", Exp Brain Res 203: 51-62 ->link to abstract
  • 2009.11   Made a talk inTRG Meeting.
  • 2009.08   Made a talk in ECVP2009, Awarded "student travel fellowship".


Last modified: Jan. 4, 2023