The University of Tokyo 2022-2025
Ph. D., Psychophysics, Neuroscience
Department of Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
The University of Tokyo 2018-2020
M.S., Psychophysics, Neuroscience
Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo 2014-2018
B.S., Psychophysics
Department of Integrated Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., & Amano, K. (2024). Decoding time-resolved neural representations of orientation ensemble perception, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18: 1387393. [link]
Yashiro, R. & Motoyoshi, I. (2020). Peak-at-end rule: adaptive mechanism predicts time dependent decision weighting. Scientific Reports, 10: 17822.
Yashiro, R., Sato, H., Oide, T. & Motoyoshi, I. (2020). Perception and decision mechanisms involved in average estimation of spatiotemporal ensembles. Scientific Reports, 10: 1318.
Yashiro, R., Sato, H., & Motoyoshi, I. (2019). Prospective decision making for randomly moving visual stimuli. Scientific Reports, 9: 3809.
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., Yamashita, A., & Amano, K. (2025). Neural representations of implied motion in body-selective regions revealed by caption-based encoding models. 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherland.
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., Yamashita, A., & Amano, K. (2024). Probing unexplored areas in high-dimensional fMRI voxel space using an encoding model and image synthesis. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society 2024, Florida, USA.
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., Yamashita, A., & Amano, K. (2024). Exploring high-dimensional representations of object recognition using encoding models and image synthesis. Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Ono, H., Yashiro. R., Yamashita, A., Amano, K., & Sawayama, M. (2024). Robust object recognition in recurrent neural networks with pruning. Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., & Amano, K. (2023). Temporal dynamics of the visual representation of orientation ensemble perception. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society 2023, Florida, USA.
Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., & Amano, K. (2023). Temporal dynamics of orientation ensemble perception uncovered by EEG. Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Yashiro, R., Sato, H., Oide, T., & Motoyoshi, I. (2019). Perceptual and decision mechanisms of spatiotemporal average estimation of visual stimuli. The Japanese Psychonomic Society, Kobe, Japan.
Yashiro, R., Sato, H., Oide, T., & Motoyoshi, I. (2019). Perceptual decision for average orientation over space and time. The 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Osaka, Japan.
Yashiro, R. & Motoyoshi, I. (2018). Prospective decision making for dynamic visual stimuli, The Japanese Psychonomic Society, Kanagawa, Japan.
Yashiro, R. & Motoyoshi, I. (2018). Prospective decision making for dynamic visual stimuli, Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society 2018, Florida, USA.
Yashiro, R. & Motoyoshi, I. (2018). Prospective decision making for randomly moving visual stimuli, Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
"Understanding the representation underlying human perception through high-dimensional neural data and machine learning models",
The doctoral symposium, Virtual Reality Educational Research Center, the University of Tokyo December 18th, 2023
Recruit. Co., Ltd. 2020-2022
Human Informatcs Laboratories, NTT, Tokyo 26th Feburary, 2024 - 15th March, 2024
Probed the temporal dynamics of image style perception using multivariate pattern analysis, representational similarity analysis, and variance partitioning on EEG data
Best Presentation Award, Vision Society of Japan (2023)
Full repayment exemption for students with outstanding achievements, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) scholarship (2020)
The First National High School Memorial Award, The University of Tokyo (2020)
Student Travel Awards, The 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (2019)
Excellent Presentation Awards, The Japanese Psychonomic Society (2018)
Teaching Assistant, The University of Tokyo 2022
Course: Advanced Neural Engineering
Responsibilities: Prepared presentation slides for 2-hour lecture
Teaching Assistant, The University of Tokyo 2018-2019
Course: Experimental Methods in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, Experiments in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences I
Responsibilities: Answered questions from students in class and graded reports