Last Update: 29th May, 2024
Megumi Kobayashi Ph. D, Psychology
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities,
Niigata University, JAPAN
Research interests
How and when do we acquire the ability to recognize people?- When we were babies or children? But, we hardly remember that time.
I've examined the development of person recognition ability based on face and body information in infancy and children by using infants' looking behavior and brain activation (e.g., functional near-infrared spectroscopy).
Also, I'm recently interested in the atypical development of visual processing in autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), premature birth babies, etc.
NEWS
2024.05.19
I had a poster presentation, entitled "The relative contribution of face and body for person recognition in infancy," on VSS 2024.
2023.07.13
Our new paper has been officially out in PLOS ONE.
Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2023). The role of scenic context on upright face preference in infancy. PLoS ONE, 18(7), e0288253. [link]
2023.07.06
Our new paper has been accepted in PLOS ONE!
Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (accepted). The role of scenic context on upright face preference in infancy. PLOS ONE
2022.10.11
I gave a poster presentation entitled "Development of cortical processing of dynamic bodies in infancy" on fNIRS 2022.
2022.07.10
I gave a talk entitled "The impact of COVID-19 outbreak on infant's processing of the mother's face" in the symposium "The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on early cognitive development across the world" on XXIII ICIS 2022.
2022.06.02
I had a poster presentation, entitled "Nine-month-old infants can recognize a caricature of their mother's faces," on V-VSS 2022.
2022.04.01
I moved to the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University as an Associate Professor.
2021.10.06
The new paper has been published!
Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & O'Toole, A. J. (2021). Cortical processing of dynamic bodies in the superior occipito-temporal regions of the infants' brain: Difference from dynamic faces and inversion effect. NeuroImage, 244, 118598 [link]