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Cognitive Science Lab
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A lab that explores the sense of agency and the implicit and explicit aspects of sequence learning.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the implicit and explicit in perception, cognition, and action
The lab scientifically investigates the implicit and explicit processes in human perception, cognition, and action.
Recent projects examine the implicit and explicit processes of sequence learning, and how the consequences of actions (action effects) influence the way the sense of agency arises and changes.
Using methods from experimental psychology and cognitive science, the lab also studies crossmodal correspondences, crossmodal phenomena, and response facilitation and inhibition.
The lab is recruiting research students from inside and outside the university, as well as applicants hoping to enter the master's or doctoral program.
Key terms
- Sense of agency
- The subjective feeling that one is controlling one's own actions and causing events in the outside world
- Sequence learning
- Learning in which one acquires actions performed in a fixed order, such as typing on a keyboard
- Action effect
- A sensory consequence, such as a light or a sound, that occurs immediately after an action
NewsLab news
A joint research paper with the University of Cologne and others was published in the international journal Psychological Research
A joint research paper was accepted by the international journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
A paper on the sense of agency over movement was published in the international journal Royal Society Open Science
A paper on the classification of crossmodal correspondences was published in the international journal PLOS ONE
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's current main research themes are the processes by which the sense of agency is generated and altered, together with the attention, learning, and memory involved; the implicit and explicit processes in sequence learning; and response facilitation and inhibition. The lab's website introduces research on sequence learning, the sense of agency, response facilitation, action and memory, psychological time and mental disorders, and the association between color and shape.
Transfer in visuomotor sequence learning
Using button-press tasks, the lab studied the learning of behavioral sequences such as typing, and showed that acquired skills transfer implicitly to new sequences. It is now interested in the role that action effects play in sequence learning.
Retrospective changes in the sense of agency
The lab is interested in how the sense of agency arises, how it changes depending on the environment, how it affects subsequent actions and learning, and how it can be measured. It also runs experiments using continuous actions close to those of everyday life.
Response facilitation by action effects
Regarding the phenomenon in which responses become faster when sensory feedback appears immediately after an action, the lab successfully replicated earlier studies and showed that associations among stimulus, action, and feedback contribute to it. It is examining the mechanism in relation to the sense of agency.
Action and memory
It is known that stimuli presented close in time to one's own actions are well remembered. Focusing on the temporal relationship between action and stimulus presentation, the lab investigates the mechanism behind this memory-enhancing effect.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, doctoral and master's students, research students, and technical assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKanji Tanaka
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