Yumiko Otsuka

Current affiliation

Department of Psychology, Chukyo University

email: y-otsuka [@] lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp

Experiences

1. 2005/04-2007/03 　JSPS Research Fellow （DC2）

2. 2007/04-2010/03 　JSPS Research Fellow （PD）

3. 2010/04-2013/03 　ARC Postdoctral Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales

4. 2013/04-2013/12 　Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney

5. 2014/01-2015/03 　Research Associate, School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales

6. 2015/04-2023/03 　　Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University

7. 2023/04-current Professor, Department of Psychology, Chukyo University

Educational History

March 2007 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Psychology: Chuo University, Japan

March 2004 Master of Science (M.S.) in Psychology 2004: Chuo University, Japan

March 2002 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Psychology: Chuo University, Japan

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

1.  Shirai, N., Kawai, M., Imura, T., & Otsuka, Y. (2022). A novel on-demand remote testing system for infant visual perception. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 40(2), 110-120. https://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.40.27

2.  Palmer, C.J., Otsuka, Y., Clifford, C.W.G. (2020). A sparkle in the eye: Illumination cues and lightness constancy in the perception of eye contact. Cognition, 205, 104419. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104419

3.  Otsuka, Y., & Clifford, C.W.G. (2018). Influence of head orientation on perceived gaze direction and eye-region information. Journal of Vision, 18(12):15. doi: 10.1167/18.12.15.

4.  Nguyen, A.T.T., Palmer, C.J., Otsuka, Y., Clifford, C.W.G. (2018). Biases in perceiving gaze vergence. Journal of Experimental Psychology General,147(8):1125-1133. doi: 10.1037/xge0000398.

5.  Otsuka, Y., Mareschal, I., Clifford, C.W. (2016). Testing the dual-route model of perceived gaze direction: Linear combination of eye and head cues. Journal of Vision. 16(8):8. doi: 10.1167/16.8.8.

6.  Watson, T.L., Otsuka, Y., Clifford, C.W. (2016). Who are you expecting? Biases in face perception reveal prior expectations for sex and age. Journal of Vision, 16(3):5. doi: 10.1167/16.3.5.

7. Mareschal, I., Otsuka, Y., Clifford, C.W., Mareschal, D. (2016).  "Are you looking at me?" How children's gaze judgments improve with age. Developmental Psychology, 52(5):695-703. doi: 10.1037/dev0000100.

8. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Clifford, C.W.G., Kanazawa, S. & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2016) Wollaston’s Effect in Infants: Do Infants Integrate Eye and Head Information in Gaze Perception?. Journal of Vision, 16(3): 4, 1–8. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/16.3.4

9. Valenza, E., Otsuka,Y., Bulf, H., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S. Yamaguchi, M.K. (2015). Face orientation and motion differently affect the deployment of visual attention in newborns and 4-month-old infants. PLoS One, 10(9): e0136965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136965

10. Clifford, C.W.G., Mareschal, I., Otsuka, Y., & Watson, T.L. (2015). A Bayesian approach to person perception. Consciousness and Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.03.015

11. Otsuka, Y., Mareschal I., & Clifford, C.W.G. (2015). Gaze constancy in upright and inverted faces. Journal of Vision,15(1):21, 1–14.

12. Mareschal, I., Otsuka, Y.., & Clifford, C.W.G. (2014). A generalized tendency towards direct gaze with uncertainty, Journal of Vision, 14(12): 27, 1-9.

13. 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.

14. Otsuka, Y., Mareschal I., Calder, A., & Clifford, C.W.G. (2014). Dual-route model of the effect of head orientation on perceived gaze direction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 40(4), 1425-1439.

15. Otsuka, Y. (2014). Face recognition in infants: a review of behavioural and near-infrared spectroscopic studies. Japanese Psychological Research, 56 (1), 76-90.

16. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Spehar, B. (2014). Temporal dynamics of spatial frequency processing in infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception & Performance, 40(3), 995-1008.

17. Otsuka, Y. (2014). Face recognition in infants: a review of behavioural and near-infrared spectroscopic studies. Japanese Psychological Research, 56 (1), 76-90.

18. Ichikawa, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2013). Contrast reversal of the eyes impairs infants' face processing: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2556-2561.

19. Tsuruhara, A., Kaneko, H., Kanazawa, S., Otsuka, Y., Shirai, N. & Yamaguchi M.K. (2013). Infants' sensitivity to vertical disparity for depth perception. Optical Review, 20(3), 277-281.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Otsuka, Y., Hill, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Spehar, B. (2012). Perception of Mooney faces by young infants: The role of local feature visibility, contrast polarity and motion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 164-179.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Motoyoshi, I. (2011). Perception of surface glossiness by infants aged 5 to 8 months. Perception, 40, 1491-1502.

26. Tsuruhara, A., Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Hill, H. (2011). The hollow-face illusion in infancy: do infants see a screen based rotating hollow mask as hollow? i-Perception, 2(5), 418-427.

27. Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2011). Distinct differences in the pattern of hemodynamic response to happy and angry facial expressions in infants- A near-Infrared Spectroscopic study-. NeuroImage, 54, 1600-1606.

28. Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S.,Yamaguchi, M. K., Honda,Y., & Kakigi, R. (2011). I know this face: Neural Activity during the Mother' Face Perception in 7- to 8-Month-Old Infants as investigated by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Early Human Development, 87, 1-7.

29.  Kimura, A., Wada, Y., Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Dan, I., Masuda, T., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010). Infants' recognition of objects using canonical color. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105, 256-263.

30. Honda,Y., Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Kojima, S., Yamaguchi, M. K. & Kakigi, R. (2010). How do infants perceive scrambled face?: A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Brain Research, 1308, 137-146.

31. Yamazaki, Y., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2010) Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in 5- to 8- month old infants. Japanese Psychological Research, 53, 33-40.

32. Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Konuma, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Tomonaga, M. (2009). Perception of Illusory shift of eye gaze direction by infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 422-428.

33. Otsuka, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Abdi, H. & O'Toole A.J. (2009). The recognition of moving and static faces by young infants. Child Development. 80 (4), 1259–1271.

34. Otsuka, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). The effect of occlusion on motion integration in infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception & Performance, 35(1), 72-82.

35.  Otsuka, Y. (2009). Development of visual form perception in infancy: from objects to faces,Japanese Psychological Review, 52(1), 51-62.

36.  Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, S., & Kakigi, R. (2009). When do infants differentiate profile face from frontal face? A near-infrared spectroscopic study. Human Brain Mapping, 30(2):462-72.

37. Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Midorikawa, A., Kanazawa, S., Dan, I., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2009). Sound Enhances Detection of Visual Target in Infancy: A Study Using Illusory Contours. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 305-322.

38. Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2008). The development of face recognition and neural activity in infancy. The Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 62(12), 1920-1923. (in Japanese)

39. Otsuka, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Spehar, B. (2008). The perception of illusory transparent surfaces in infancy: early emergence of sensitivity to static pictorial cues. Journal of Vision, 8(16), 1-12.

40. Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2008). Infants' sensitivity to shading and line junctions. Vision Research, 48, 1420-1426.

41. Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Watanabe, S., & Kakigi, R. (2007). Neural activation to upright and inverted faces in infants measured by near infrared spectroscopy. NeuroImage, 34 (1), 399-406.

42. Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2007). Perception of motion transparency in 5-month-old infants. Perception. 36 (1), 145-156.

43.  Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Perception of opposite-moving dots in 3- to 5-month-old infants. Vision Research, 46(3), 346-356.

44. Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2006). Perception of motion trajectory of object from the moving cast shadow in  infants. Vision Research, 46(5), 652-657.

45. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Development of modal and amodal completion in infants. Perception, 35(9), 1251-1264.

46. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2006). Perceptual transparency in 3- to 4-month-old infants. Perception, 35(12), 1625-1636.

47. Otsuka Y., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2005). The development of face recognition and the effect of motion information in early infancy. The Journal of the Japanese Society of Baby Science. (in Japanese)

48.  Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2004). The effect of support ratio on infants' perception of illusory contours. Perception, 33, 807-816.

49. Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2003). Infants' perception of illusory contours in static and moving figures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 86(3), 244-251.

Book Chapter

1. Otsuka Y. (2017)Development of recognition memory for faces during infancy. In T. Tsukiura & S. Umeda (Eds.) Memory in Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society (pp 207-225). Springer. 

Conference Presentation

1. 1. Otsuka, Y,  Clifford C (2018年8月) How does head orientation influence perceived gaze direction from each of the two eyes? Psychophysical experiments and analysis of geometrical cues in the stimulus eye region .　41st European Conference on Visual Perception (Trieste, Italy) 

   2. Otsuka, Y. (2018年7月) Symposium "Neural basis for emergence of individuality and face-body expression"Do Infants Have Direct Gaze Prior? The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society(Kobe, Japan)

   3. Yumiko Otsuka, Colin Clifford (2017年7月) The influence of head orientation on perceived gaze direction and eye region information 13th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision（Tainan,, Taiwan）

   4. Yumiko Otsuka, Isabelle Mareschal, Colin W, G. Clifford　Invited Symposium "The many faces of face perception" (2016年7月) The dual-route model of the influence of head orientation on eye gaze perception .The 31st International Congress of Psychology, (Yokohama, Japan) 

   5. Yumiko Otsuka, Hiroko Ichikawa, So Kanazawa, Masami K Yamaguchi. (2016年7月) Spatial and temporal stimulus characteristics eliciting attention to faces in early infancy . Invited Symposium"Cultural and social factors in the development of face recognition"The 31st International Congress of Psychology, (Yokohama, Japan)

   6. Tamara Watson, Yumiko Otsuka, Colin Clifford(2015年5月) Uncertainty and bias in estimation of the sex and age of faces Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2015

   7. Otsuka, Y., Mareschal, I., Calder, A.J. & Clifford, C. W.G. (2014年11月) Dual route model of the effect of head orientation on perceived gaze direction. The 4th Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (Brisbane, Australia).

   8. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Spehar, B. (2014年7月) Temporal dynamics of spatial frequency processing for objects and faces in infants. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Kagawa, Japan). Sympoium"Infant Visual Perception and Beyond: Motion, Color, Object, and Face Perception, and Cross-modal Rule Learning"

   9. Otsuka, Y., Mareschal, I., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Clifford, C.G.W. (2014年7月) Gaze constancy in adults and infants. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Kagawa, Japan). 

   10. Hill, H.C.H, Shrimpton, S. Otsuka, Y., Shriver, M.D., Claes, P.D. (2014年7月). Positive eyes facilitate use of pigment and shape information from the rest of the face. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Kagawa, Japan).

   11. Yamashita, W., Otsuka, Y., Tanaka, A., Sato, K., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2014年7月) Infants' visual discrimination of mirror letter images. The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. (Kagawa, Japan).

   12. Ichikawa, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M. K. (2014年7月)  Disruptive effect of inversion and contrast-reversal on infants' gaze perception.  The 19th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Berlin, Germany).

   13. Ichikawa, H, Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M. K., & Kakigi, R (2012年11月) Infants’ brain activity for the faces with contrast-negated eyes. 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Perception and Recognition. (Okazaki, Japan).

   14. Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Hill, H., Kobayashi, M., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K. (2012年11月) The role of contrast polarity of eyes on face recognition by 7-to-8month-olds. 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Perception and Recognition. (Okazaki, Japan).

   15. Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2012年11月) Development of facial representation in infancy: NIRS-adaptation study. 43rd NIPS International Symposium: Face Perception and Recognition. (Okazaki, Japan).

   16. Ichikawa, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.  (2012年9月) Contrast reversal of the eyes diminishes infants' face processing The 35th European Conference on Visual Perception. (Alghero, Italy).

   17. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Spehar, B  (2012年6月) Temporal Aspects of Coarse to Fine Image Processing in 7- to 8-Month Old Infants. 18th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Minneapolis, USA)

   18. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Yamashita, W., Kanazawa. S., Bulf, H., Valenza, E., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2012年6月） Do Faces Attract Young Infants’ Attention? Examination of Attentional Shift Behavior in 4-Month-Old Infants. 18th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Minneapolis, USA)

   19. Otsuka, Y., Ichikawa, H., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M. K., Spehar B. (2012年4月） Spatial and temporal dynamics of visual perception in 8-month-old infants. 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (The University of New South Wales)

   20. Kobayashi, M., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.  (2011年5月） Do infant represent the facial identity in a viewpoint-invariant manner? The neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA) 

   21. Otsuka, Y., Hill H., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M. K., Spehar B. (2010年8月） Perception of Mooney face by 3- and 4-month-old infants: the role of local features, contrast polarity, and motion.  The 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception. (Lausanne, Switzerland)

   22. Kobayashi,M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R. (2010年5月） Adaptation effect for facial identity in infants. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)

   23. Nakato, E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R.  (2010年5月） Infants’ neural responses to facial expressions using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)

   24. Yang, J., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Motoyoshi, I.(2010年5月） Perception of surface glossiness in infants. Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)

   25. Nakato E., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.(2010年3月）Recognition of the mother's face in infants: behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic studies.(2010 International Conference on Infant Studies. (Baltimore, USA)

   26. Ichikawa H, Otsuka Y., Kanazawa S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2010年3月）Possible' movement of internal facial features promotes 7- and 8-month-old infants' preference for face patterns. (2010 International Conference on Infant Studies. (Baltimore, USA)

   27. Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2009年7月）Visual freezing effect by sound in infants. The 10th International Multisensory Research Forum(New York, USA)

   28. Otsuka, Y., Motoyoshi, I., Harold, H., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi M.K.(2009年5月）Face discrimination in infants and adults: the role of contrast polarity of the eyes.The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   29. Yamazaki, Y., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K.(2009年5月）Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in 5- to 8- month old infants. The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   30. Kobayashi,M., Otsuka, Y., Nakato, E., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kakigi, R.(2009年5月）Do infants recognize the Arcimbold images as faces? Behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic study. The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   31. Otsuka, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Konishi, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi M.K., & Spehar, B.(2008年5月）Perception of illusory transparent surface by young infants. The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   32. Nakato E., Otsuka Y., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.(2008年5月）Perception of mother’s face using near-infrared spectroscopy.The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting。(Florida, USA)

   33. Yamaguchi, M.K., Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., Otsuka, Y., Tsuruhara, A., & Kaneko, H.(2007年8月）Perception of surface slant produced by horizontal and vertical disparities in human infants. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception.(Arezzo, Italy)

   34. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Konishi, Y., Abdi, H., & O’Toole, A.J.(2007年8月）76. Three-months recognition memory for faces in moving and static figures. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception.(Arezzo, Italy)

   35. Nakato, E., Hill, H., Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2007年8月）The hollow face illusion in infancy. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception.(Arezzo, Italy)

   36. Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A.(2007年8月）Perception of shape from shading and line junctions in infants.30th European Conference on Visual Perception.(Arezzo, Italy)

   37. Wada, Y., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., Dan, I., Kohyama, K., Midorikawa, A., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2007年7月）Sound enhances visual detection of illusory contour in infants. 8th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum. (Sydney, Australia)

   38. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2006年8月）Infants’ perception of partly occluded object in ambiguous motion display29th European Conference on Visual Perception,(St Petersburg, Russia)

   39. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K., Abdi, H., & O’Toole, A.J.(2007年5月）The development of face discrimination skill in infants. The Vision Sciences Society Seventh Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   40. Nakato E., Otsuka, Y., Yamaguchi, M.K., & Kakigi, R.(2007年5月）Infants’ brain activity on perception of different view faces using Near-infrared spectroscopy.The Vision Sciences Society Seventh Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   41. Otsuka, Y., Nakato E., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi, M.K. & Kakigi, R.(2006年6月）Interhemispheric asymmetry in infants' face recognition measured by near infrared spectroscopy.The 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Kyoto, Japan)

   42. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2006年5月）The effect of occlusion on motion integration in infants. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   43. Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2006年5月）Perceptual development of directional transparent motion in infancy. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting.　(Florida, USA)

   44. Imura, T., Yamaguchi, M.K., Kanazawa S., Shirai N., Otsuka Y., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A.(2006年5月）Perception of 3-D shape from moving cast shadow in human infants. The Vision Sciences Society Sixth Annual Meeting.(Florida, USA)

   45. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2005年8月）The effect of occlusion information on motion integration in infants. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception.(A Coruna, Spain)

   46. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M.K , Abdi,H. & O’Toole, A.J.(2005年5月）The effect of motion information on infants’ recognition of unfamiliar face. The Vision Sciences Society 5th Annual Meeting. (Florida, USA)

   47. Yamaguchi, M.K., Otsuka, Y., Shirai, N., Kanazawa, S., & Abdi,H.(2004年5月）Infant's facial learning in poor visual acuity. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

   48. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2004年5月）Development of modal and amodal completion in Infants.The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

   49. Kanazawa, S., Shirai, N., Otsuka, Y., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2004年5月）Perception of motion transparency in infancy. The XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. (Chicago, USA)

   50. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K. (2003年9月) Modal and amodal contour completion in infancy. 26th European Conference on Visual Perception. (Paris, France)

   51. Otsuka, Y., Kanazawa, S., & Yamaguchi, M.K.(2002年4月）Infants' perception of subjective contours in the static and moving figures.The XIIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Toronto, Canada)