Journal Articles
*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]
*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]
*Kobayashi, M., Ikeda, T., Tokuda, T., Monden, Y., Nagashima, M., Mizushima, S. G., Inoue, T., Shimamura, K., Ujiie, Y., Arakawa, A., Kuroiwa, C., Ishijima, M., Kishimoto, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamagata, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Sakuta, R., & Dan, I. (2020). Acute administration of methylphenidate differentially affects cortical processing of emotional facial expressions in ADHD children as studied by functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Neurophotonics, 7(2), 025003. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Kakigi, R., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2020). Infants' recognition of their mothers' faces in facial drawings. Developmental Psychobiology, 62(8),1011-1020. [link]
Tokuda, T., Ikeda, T., Monden, Y., Mizushima, S. G., Inoue, T., Nagashima, M., Shimamura, K., Arakawa, A., Kobayashi, M., Kuroiwa, C., Ujiie, Y., Dan, H., Kyutoku, Y., Taniguchi, T., Shimoizumi, H., Yamagata, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Sakuta, R., & Dan, I. (2018). Methylphenidate-elicited distinct neuropharmacological activation patterns between medication-naive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children with and without comorbid autism spectrum disorder: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neuropsychiatry, 8(3), 917-929. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2018). Cover Image. Developmental Science, 21(1), e12652. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2018). Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is cross-cultural phenomenon in infancy: A behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic study with Japanese infants. Developmental Science, 21(1), e12498. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2016). Infant recognition of caricature of mother's face. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Society (Summary of Awarded Presentation), 35(1), 97-98.
*Inoue, T., Sakuta, Y., Shimamura, K., Ichikawa, H., Kobayashi, M., Otani, R., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Kakigi, R., & Sakuta, R. (2015). Differences in the pattern of hemodynamic response to self-face and stranger-face images in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. PLOS ONE, 10(7), e0132050. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kakigi, R. (2014) The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: A fNIRS-adaptation study. BMC Neuroscience, 15:81. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-15-81 [link]
*Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Hill, H., Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2013). Eye contrast polarity is critical for face recognition by infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115(3), 598-606. [link]
*Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2012). Size-invariant representation of face in infant brain: fNIRS-adaptation study. NeuroReport, 23(17), 984-988. [link]
*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. [link]
*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. [link]