Papers (English)

Kawahara, M. & Tanaka, A. (2025). Impact of partial occlusion of the face on multisensory emotion perception: Comparison of pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 20(1): e0307631. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307631

Diana, F., Kawahara, M., Saccardi, I., Hortensius, R., Tanaka, A., & Kret, M. (2022). A cross-cultural comparison on implicit and explicit attitudes towards artificial agents. International Journal of Social Robotics. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00917-7

Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2021). A web-based auditory and visual emotion perception task experiment with children and a comparison of lab data and web data. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:702106. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.702106

Kawahara, M., Sauter, D. A., & Tanaka, A. (2021). Culture shapes emotion perception from faces and voices: changes over development. Cognition and  Emotion. 35(6):1175-1186.  https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1922361　[Media coverage]

Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., Kret, M. E., & Tanaka, A. (2020). Cultural differences in emoticon perception: Japanese see the eyes and Dutch the mouth of emoticons. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 15(6): e0234553. https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2020.80

Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2020). Audiovisual emotion perception develops differently from audiovisual phoneme perception during childhood. PLoS ONE, 15(6): e0234553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234553

Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2019). Japanese children’s audiovisual emotion perception and its relation to their sensitivity to pitch-accentual pattern. Acoustical Science and Technology, 40(6), 410-412. https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.40.410

Kawahara, M., Yamamoto, H. W., & Tanaka, A. (2019). Language or appearance? The trigger of the in-group effect in multisensory emotion perception. Acoustical Science and Technology, 40(5), 360-363. https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.40.360