+: equal contributions; *: corresponding author

Papers in submission, under review, or under revision

Hayashi, M.+, Yoshio, M.+, Oe, Y., Koike, M., & Kambara, T.* (under revision). Cognitive, Sensory, and emotional effects of typefaces and characters in Japanese nonsense words. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Oe, Y., Yoshio, M., Hayashi, M., Kasai, C., & Kambara, T.* (under revision). Spiky figures correspond with Japanese names written with square characters. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Kambara, T.*, Shinya, M., Yoshio, M., Ishimizu, K., Kakuno, S.,Nakatani, T., Otsuka, M., & Sunagawa, A. (under revision). Faster key-press responses to front vowels than back vowels when matching heard vowels with represented vowels. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Papers in preparation (Authors and the order of them may be changed in the research)

Nagasaki et al. Two experiments were done. During preparating the draft.

Yoshio, M., Okada, N., Kawano, R., Kondo, N., Tamakawa, S., & Kambara, T.* (in preparation). Vowel length in Japanese words changes gustatory imageries. Appetite.

Wang, N.+, Lin, Z.+, Yoshio, M.+, Yan, Y., Yang, Y., Ando, M., & Kambara, T.* (submitted). Voicing effects of initial consonants on the perceptual and emotional evaluation of written Japanese mimetic words for modes and sounds. WORD.

Yoshio, M., & Kambara, T. The first and second preregistered studies were completed. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Otani, S., Yoshio, M., & Kambara, T. The first and second preregistered experiments were completed.

Xia, N., Yoshio, M., & Kambara, T. Preregistered studies were done.

Kobori, K. K. et al. We are preparing preregistered studies.

Symbol project 1 All studies were conducted.

Symbol project 2 All studies were conducted.

Conditioning project 1 All studies were conducted.

Publications

Wang, N.+, Yoshio, M.+, & Kambara, T.* (in press). Evaluative conditioning of sweet meanings using sweet and non-sweet food names as unconditioned stimuli and new words as conditioned stimuli. Cognition and Emotion.

Yoshio, M.*, & Kambara, T.* (in press). Alliteration and meter in Japanese real- and pseudo-poems: Emotional and aesthetic impacts. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Sasaki, M.*, Tsutsumi, K., Kinoshita, H., Nishijima, M., Matsumura, C., Toyota, A., & Kambara, T. (in press). A case study of associations between human visual-vocal commands and behaviors in a lactating Steller Sea Lion pup (Eumetopias jubatus). International Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Obinna, U., Kabir, R. S., Yoshio, M., Yanamoto, D., & Kambara, T.* (in press). Effects of pictorial referents on the associative learning of spoken word forms in a Nigerian language: An experimental investigation with L1 Japanese users. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. DOI

Kitazawa, Y., Sakakura, K., Uda, H., Kuroda, N., Ueda, R., Firestone, E., Lee, M. L., Jeong, J. W., Sonoda, M., Osawa, S. I., Ukishiro, K., Ishida, M., Kakinuma, K., Ota, S., Takayama, Y., Iijima, K., Kambara, T., Endo, T., Suzuki, K., Nakasato, N., Iwasaki, M., & Asano, E. (in press). Visualization of functional and effective connectivity underlying auditory descriptive naming. Clinical Neurophysiology. DOI

Sasaki, M.*, & Kambara, T. (2024). A case study of spontaneous category formation and behavioral expression in a language-trained Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 37, 1-14. DOI

Horinouchi, H., Liu, X., Kabir, R. S., Kobayashi, R., Haramaki, Y., & Kambara, T.* (2024). Get the picture: Learning referents in a single-day context. Word, 70(1), 22-43. DOI

Ando, M., & Kambara, T.* (2023). Japanese written pseudowords can be conditioned to Japanese spoken words with positive, negative, and active emotions. Cognitive Processing, 24, 387-413. DOI

Kitazawa, Y., Sonoda, M., Sakakura, K., Mitsuhashi, T., Firestone, E., Ueda, R., Kambara, T., Iwaki, H., Luat, A. F., Marupudi, N. I., Sood, S., & Asano, E.* (2023). Intra– and inter–hemispheric network dynamics supporting object recognition and speech production. NeuroImage, 270, 119954. DOI

Morita, A.*, & Kambara, T. (2022). Color bizarreness effects in object memory: Evidence from a recall test and eye-tracking. Color Research and Application, 47(1), 55-64. DOI

Morita, A.*, & Kambara, T. (2021). Bizarreness and typicality effects of color on object recognition memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 128(6), 2469-2489. DOI

Yan, Y., Yang, Y., Ando, M., Liu, X., & Kambara, T.* (2021). Multisensory connections of novel linguistic stimuli in Japanese as a native language and referential tastes. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(3), 999-1010.  DOI

Yang, Y., Yan, Y., Ando, M., Liu, X., & Kambara, T.* (2021). Associative learning of new word forms in a first language (L1) and haptic referents in a single-day experiment. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(2), 616-626. DOI

Lin, Z.+, Wang, N.+, Yan, Y., & Kambara, T.* (2021). Vowel length expands perceptual and emotional evaluations in written Japanese sound-symbolic words. Behavioral Sciences, 11(6), 90. DOI

Liu, X., Horinouchi, H., Yang, Y., Yan, Y., Ando, M., Obinna, U. J., Namba, S., & Kambara, T.* (2021). Pictorial referents facilitate recognition and retrieval speeds of associations between novel words in a second language (L2) and referents. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 605009. DOI

Iwaki, H.+, Sonoda, M.+, Osawa, S.*, Silverstein, B. H., Mitsuhashi, T., Ukishiro, K., Takayama, Y., Kambara, T., Kakinuma, K., Suzuki, K., Tominaga, T., Nakasato, N., Iwasaki, M.*, & Asano, E.* (2021). Your verbal questions beginning with 'what' will rapidly deactivate the left prefrontal cortex of listeners. Scientific Reports, 11, 5257. DOI

Ando, M.+, Liu, X.+, Yan, Y.+, Yang, Y.+, Namba, S.+, Abe, K., & Kambara, T.* (2021). Sound-symbolic semantics of written Japanese vowels in a paper-based survey study. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 617532. DOI

Kambara, T.*, & Umemura, T. (2021). The relationships between initial consonants in Japanese sound symbolic words and familiarity, multi-sensory imageability, emotional valence, and arousal. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50(4), 831-842. DOI

Kambara, T.*, Umemura, T., Ackert, M., & Yang, Y. (2020). The relationship between psycholinguistic features of religious words and core dimensions of religiosity: a survey study with Japanese participants. Religions, 11(12), 673. DOI

Namba, S., & Kambara, T.* (2020). Semantics based on the physical characteristics of facial expressions used to produce Japanese vowels. Behavioral Sciences, 10(10), 157. DOI

Sugiura, A.+, Alqatan, Z.+, Nakai, Y., Kambara, T., Silverstein, B. H., & Asano, E.* (2020). Neural dynamics during the vocalization of ‘uh’ or ‘um’. Scientific Reports, 10, 11987. DOI

Ikegaya, N.+, Motoi, H.+, Iijima, K., Takayama, Y., Kambara, T., Sugiura, A., Silverstein, B. H., Iwasaki, M., & Asano, E.* (2019). Spatiotemporal dynamics of auditory and picture naming-related high-gamma modulations: a study of Japanese-speaking patients. Clinical Neurophysiology, 130, 1446-1454. DOI

Kambara, T., Brown, E. C., Silverstein, B. H., Nakai, Y., & Asano, E.* (2018). Neural dynamics of verbal working memory in auditory description naming. Scientific Reports, 8, 15868. DOI

Kambara, T., Sood, S., Alqatan, Z., Klingert, C., Ratnam, D., Hayakawa, A., Nakai, Y., Luat, A. F., Agarwal, R., Rothermel, R., & Asano, E.* (2018). Presurgical language mapping using event-related high-gamma activity: the Detroit procedure. Clinical Neurophysiology, 129, 145-154. DOI

Shigemune, Y.*, Tsukiura, T., Nouchi, R., Kambara, T., & Kawashima, R. (2017). Neural mechanisms underlying the reward-related enhancement of motivation when remembering episodic memories with high difficulty. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 3428-3443. DOI

Kambara, T.+, Brown, E. C.+, Jeong, J. W., Ofen, N., Nakai, Y., & Asano, E.* (2017). Spatio-temporal dynamics of working memory maintenance and scanning of verbal information. Clinical Neurophysiology, 128, 882-891. DOI

Nakai, Y., Jeong, J. W., Brown, E. C., Rothermel, R., Kojima, K., Kambara, T., Shah, A., Mittal, S., Sood, S., & Asano, E.* (2017). Three- and four-dimensional mapping of speech and language: a study of 100 patients with epilepsy. Brain, 140, 1351-1370. DOI

Akimoto, Y.*, Nozawa, T., Kanno, A., Kambara, T., Ihara, M., Ogawa, T., Goto, T., Taki, Y., Yokoyama, R., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Sekiguchi, A., Takeuchi, H., Miyauchi, C. M., Sugiura, M., Okumura, E., Sunda, T., Shimizu, T., Tozuka, E., Hirose, S., Nanbu, T., & Kawashima, R. (2016). High-gamma power changes after cognitive intervention: preliminary results from twenty-one senior adult subjects. Brain and Behavior, 6, e00427. DOI

Akimoto, Y.*, Nozawa, T., Kanno, A., Ihara, M., Goto, T., Ogawa, T., Kambara, T., Sugiura, M., Okumura, E., & Kawashima, R. (2014). High-gamma activity in an attention network predicts individual differences in elderly adults’ behavioral performance. NeuroImage, 100, 290-300. DOI

Sugiura, M.*, Yomogida, Y., Mano, Y., Sassa, Y., Kambara, T., Sekiguchi, A., & Kawashima, R. (2014). From social-signal detection to higher social cognition: an fMRI approach. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1303-1309. DOI

Shigemune, Y.*, Tsukiura, T., Kambara, T., & Kawashima, R. (2014). Remembering with gains and losses: effects of monetary reward and punishment on successful encoding activation of source memories. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 1319-1331. DOI

Tsukiura, T.*, Shigemune, Y., Nouchi, R., Kambara, T., & Kawashima, R. (2014). Age-related differences in prefrontal, parietal and hippocampal activations during correct rejections of faces. Japanese Psychological Research, 56, 2-14. DOI

Tsukiura, T.*, Shigemune, Y., Nouchi, R., Kambara, T., & Kawashima, R. (2013). Insular and hippocampal contributions to remembering people with an impression of bad personality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 515-522. DOI

Kambara, T.*, Tsukiura, T., Yokoyama, S., Takahashi, K., Shigemune, Y., Miyamoto, T., Takahashi, D., Sato, S., & Kawashima, R. (2013). Differential contributions of the inferior parietal and inferior frontal regions to the processing of grammatical and semantic relationships in wh-questions. Language Sciences, 37, 14-21. DOI

Akimoto, Y.*, Kanno, A., Kambara, T., Nozawa, T., Sugiura, M., Okumura, E., & Kawashima, R. (2013). Spatiotemporal dynamics of high-gamma activities during a 3-stimulus visual oddball task. PLoS ONE, 8, e59969. DOI

Nouchi, R.*, Taki, Y., Takeuchi, H., Hashizume, H., Nozawa, T., Kambara, T., Sekiguchi, A., Miyauchi, C. M., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, H., & Kawashima, R. (2013). Brain training game boosts executive functions, working memory and processing speed in the young adults: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 8, e55518. DOI

Kambara, T.*, Tsukiura, T., Shigemune, Y., Kanno, A., Nouchi, R., Yomogida, Y., & Kawashima, R. (2013). Learning-dependent changes of associations between unfamiliar words and perceptual features: a 15-day longitudinal study. Language Sciences, 35, 80-86. DOI

Kambara, T.*, Yokoyama, S., Takahashi, K., Miura, N., Miyamoto, T., Takahashi, D., Sato, S., & Kawashima, R. (2011). Lexical categories and the human brain: an fMRI study. Studies in Language Sciences, 10, 187-199.

Tsukiura, T.*, Sekiguchi, A., Yomogida, Y., Nakagawa, S., Shigemune, Y., Kambara, T., Akitsuki, Y., Taki, Y., & Kawashima, R. (2011). Effects of aging on hippocampal and anterior temporal activations during successful retrieval of memory for face-name associations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 200-213. DOI

Tsukiura, T.*, Mano, Y., Sekiguchi, A., Yomogida, Y., Hoshi, K., Kambara, T., Takeuchi, H., Sugiura, M., & Kawashima, R. (2010). Dissociable roles of the anterior temporal regions in successful encoding of memory for person identity information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2226-2237. DOI