Research Interest

My lab studies capacity limits of visual consciousness, attention, and working memory, using a combination of psychophysical and electrophysiological methods.

Conference presentation

• Tsubomi, H., & Fukuda, K. (2024,11) Focusing on a subset of items enhances visual working memory performance for low-capacity individuals. 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, USA. Poster reprint

Selected papers

• Tsubomi, H., Fukuda, K., Kikumoto, A., Mayr, U., & Vogel, E. K. (2024) Task termination triggers spontaneous removal of information from visual working memory. Psychological Science. 35, 995-1009.

• Fukuda, K., Pereira, A. E., Saito, J. M., Tang, T. Y., Tsubomi, H., & Bae, G. (2022) Working memory content is distorted by its use in perceptual comparisons.  Psychological Science. 33, 816-829.

• Sone, H., Kang, M.-S., Li, A. Y., Tsubomi, H., & Fukuda, K. (2021) Simultaneous estimation procedure reveals object-based, but not space-based, dependence of visual working memory representations. Cognition. 209, 104579.

• Tsubomi, H., & Watanabe, K. (2017) Development of visual working memory and distractor resistance in relation to academic performance. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 154, 98-112.

• Tsubomi, H., Fukuda, K., Watanabe, K., & Vogel, E. K. (2013) Neural limits to representing objects still within view. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 8257-8263.

• Tsubomi, H., Ikeda, T., & Osaka, N. (2012) Primary visual cortex scales individual’s perceived brightness with power function: Inner psychophysics with fMRI. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 1341-1347.

• Tsubomi, H., Ikeda, T., Hanakawa, T., Hirose, N., Fukuyama, H., & Osaka, N. (2012) Dissociable neural activations of conscious visibility and attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 496-506.

• Tsubomi, H., Ikeda, T., Hanakawa, T., Hirose, N., Fukuyama, H., & Osaka, N. (2009) Connectivity and signal intensity in the parieto-occipital cortex predicts top-down attentional effect in visual masking: an fMRI study based on individual differences. Neuroimage, 45, 587-597.