CV

Tetsuto Minami, Ph.D.

Tenure track associate professor,

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Toyohashi University of Technology

1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tenpaku, Toyohashi, Aichi, 441-8580, Japan

Education

B.A. in Science (Mar 1994) Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.

M.A. in Science (Mar 1996) Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.

B.A. in Letters (Mar 2000) Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.

M.A. in Informatics (Sep 2001) Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Ph.D. (Mar 2004) Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Job Experiences

1996.4-1998.3 Sanwa bank

2001.4-2004.3 Kyoto Koka Women’s University, part-time lecturer

2002.4-2004.3 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2004.4-2008.2 the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Researcher

2006.12-present the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Visiting Researcher

2008.2-2009.12 Intelligent Sensing System Research Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Associate Professor

2010.1-2014.12 Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Tenure-track Associate Professor

2015.1-2020.3 Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Associate Professor

2020.4- present Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Professor

Publications

1.  Tamura, H.*, Nakauchi, S., Minami, T. Glossiness perception and its pupillary response. Vision Research. accepted.

2. Nguyen, N., Tamura, H.*, Minami, T., Nakauchi, S.  The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions., Cognition and Emotion, 37:7, 1290-1297, DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258575

3. Martinsen, M. M.*, KINZUKA, Y., SATO, F., MINAMI, T., & NAKAUCHI, S. (2023). Breakthrough Time Depends on Letter Type and Upright Orientation–A Pilot Study using Continuous Flash Suppression–. International Journal of Affective Engineering, 22(2), 157-165.

4. Taniyama, Y., Suzuki, Y., Kondo, T.,  Minami, T., Nakauchi, S*. Pupil dilation is driven by perceptions of naturalness of color composition in paintings. Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000580

5. Istiqomah N, Suzuki Y*, Kinzuka Y, Minami T, Nakauchi S. Anisotropy in the peripheral visual field based on pupil response to the glare illusion. Heliyon 2022:e09772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09772.

6. Kinzuka Y*, Sato F, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. The effect of red/blue color stimuli on temporal perception under different pupillary responses induced by different equiluminant methods, PLOS ONE, accepted.

7. Sato F, Shiomoto R, Nakauchi S, Minami T* Backward and forward neck tilt affects perceptual bias when interpreting ambiguous figures, Scientific Reports, accepted.

8. Nakakoga S., Shimizu K., Muramatsu J., Kitagawa T., Nakauchi S., Minami T.* Pupillary response reflects attentional modulation to sound after emotional arousal. Scientific Reports. 2021 Aug 26;11(1):17264.

9. Kinzuka, Y., Sato, F., Minami, T.*, Nakauchi, S., Effect of glare illusion-induced perceptual brightness on temporal perception. Psychophysiology. 2021 Sep;58(9):e13851.

10. Minami T*, Azuma K, Nakauchi S (2020) Steady-state visually evoked potential is modulated by the difference of recognition condition. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235309.

11. Kinzuka Y., Minami T.*, Nakauchi S. Pupil dilation reflects English /l//r/ discrimination ability for Japanese learners of English: a pilot study. Scientific reports. 2020 May 15;10(1):8052..

12. Nakakoga S, Higashi H., Muramatsu j.,  Nakauchi S, Minami T*. Asymmetrical characteristics of emotional responses to pictures and sounds: evidence from pupillometry . PLOS ONE. 2020 Apr 6;15(4):e0230775. 

13. Sato F, Laeng B., Nakauchi S, Minami T*. Cueing the Necker cube: Pupil dilation reflects the viewing-from-above constraint in bistable perception. Journal of Vision. 2020 Apr 9;20(4):7.

14. Higashi H*, Minami T, Nakauchi S. Cooperative update of beliefs and state-transition functions in human reinforcement learning. Scientific Reports. 2019 Nov 27;9(1):17704. 

15. Suzuki Y., Minami T.*, Nakauchi S. Pupil constriction in the glare illusion modulates the steady-state visual evoked potentials. Neuroscience 2019 Aug 7;416:221-228.

16. Suzuki Y.*, Laeng B., Nakauchi S, Minami T. Colorful glares: Effects of colors on brightness illusions measured with Pupillometry. Acta Psychologica 2019 Jul;198:102882.

17. Minami, T.*, Shinkai, T, Nakauchi, S., Hemifield crossings during multiple object tracking affect task performance and steady-state visual evoked potentials. Neuroscience 2019 June; 409:162-168.

18. Minami T.*, Nakajima K. and Nakauchi S., Effects of face color and background color on facial expression perception., Front. Psychol 2018. 9:1012.

19. Suzuki, Y., Minami, T*., Nakauchi, S., Association between pupil dilation and implicit processing prior to object recognition via insight. Scientific Reports 2018, 8, 6843

20. Nihei Y, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. Brain activity related to the judgment of face-likeness. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2018, 12, 56. [frontiers]

21. Higashi H*, Minami T, Nakauchi S. Fluctuation of event-related potentials on transition states. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2017, 27, 75. [frontiers]

22. Nakajima K, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. Interaction between facial expression and color. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 41019.[Pubmed]

23. Minami T*, Nakajima K, Linda C, Nakauchi S. The effects of facial color and inversion on the N170 ERP component. Neuroscience, 2015 Dec 17;311:341-8. [Pubmed]

24. Nakajima K, Minami T*, Nakauchi S.Effects of facial color on the subliminal processing of fearful faces. Neuroscience, 2015 Dec 3;310:472-85. [Pubmed][EurekAlert!]

25. Yokota Y, Minami T*, Naruse Y, Nakauchi S. Neural processes in pseudo perceptual rivalry: An ERP and time-frequency approach. Neuroscience, 2014 Jun 20;271:35-44. [PubMed]

26. Nakajima K, Minami T*, Tanabe HC, Sadato N, Nakauchi S. Facial color processing in the face-selective regions: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 2014 Sep;35(9):4958-64. [PubMed]

27. Minami T*, Noritake Y, Nakauchi S. Decreased beta-band activity is correlated with disambiguation of hidden figures. Neuropsychologia, 2014 Apr;56:9-16. [PubMed]

28. Kongthong N, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. Gamma oscillations distinguish mere exposure from other likability effects. Neuropsychologia 2014 Feb;54:129-38. [PubMed]

29. Kongthong N, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. Semantic processing in subliminal face stimuli: An EEG and tDCS study. Neurosci Lett 2013; 544:141-6. [PubMed]

30. Hashimoto Y, Minami T*, Nakauchi S. Electrophysiological differences in the processing of affect misattribution. PLoS One 2012;7(11):e49132. [PubMed]

31. Nakajima K*, Minami T, Nakauchi S. The face-selective N170 component is modulated by facial color. Neuropsychologia 2012;50(10):2499-505. [PubMed]

32. Minami T*, Goto K, Kitazaki M, Nakauchi S. Effects of color information on face processing using event-related potentials and gamma oscillations. Neuroscience 2011;176:265-73. [PubMed]

33. Minami T*, Goto K, Kitazaki M, Nakauchi S. Asymmetry of P3 amplitude during oddball tasks reflects the unnaturalness of visual stimuli. Neuroreport 2009;20(16):1471-6. [PubMed]

34. Minami T*, Inui T. Roles of the prefrontal neurons in delayed matching-to-category task: a modeling study. Neurocomputing 2005;65:609-616.

35. Minami T*, Inui T. A recurrent neural network model of rule-guided delayed tasks. Neurocomputing 2004;58:761-767.

36. Minami T*, Inui T. A neural architecture for rule-guided behavior: A simulation of physiological experiments. Psychologia 2004;46(4):268-283.

Grants and Fellowships

1. 2018-2020 Principal Investigator, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

2. 2018-2019 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

3. 2018-2021        Co-investigator, INTPART-international Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research: International Partnership for RITMO Center for Excellent Research

4. 2017-2021 Co-investigator,  Challenging Research (Pioneering), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Shigeki Nakauchi).

5. 2017-2021 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

6. 2014-2015 Principal Investigator, Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan. 

7. 2014-2018 Co-investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Shigeki Nakauchi).

8. 2013-2017 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. 

9. 2013-2015 Co-investigator, Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research Project, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiko Terashima).

10. 2011-2013 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

11. 2011-2013 Co-investigator, Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research Project, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiko Terashima).

12. 2010-2013 Principal Investigator, Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan. 

13. 2010-2014 Co-investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Shigeki Nakauchi).

14. 2009-2011 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. 

15. 2009-2011 Co-investigator, Grant from the ministry of health, labor and welfare, Japan (Principal Investigator: Ryohei Hasegawa).

16. 2007-2010 Co-investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (Principal Investigator: Ryohei Hasegawa).

17. 2006-2008 Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

18. 2002-2004 Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

Awards

ISNIP membership award

Minami, T., Inoue, Y.>and Hasegawa, R. Efficient and fatigueless methods of presenting visual stimuli for neurocommunicator system, International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP2011)

ISBET2010 Award

Noritake, Y., Minami, T. and Nakauchi, S. EEG Study of insight process of hidden figures, 7th Annual ECNS / ISNIP Conference