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Cognitive Psychology and Informatics Lab
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A lab that explores the characteristics of human cognition, such as perception and memory, through experimental psychology.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how human cognition works through psychological experiments
The Cognitive Psychology and Informatics Lab studies human cognitive functions such as perception, attention, memory, imagery, and Kansei (sensibility), mainly using the methods of experimental psychology.
Psychological issues surrounding the use of computers are also among its research subjects.
On the lab's website, it is presented as the "Cognitive Psychology and Informatics / Communication Psychology Division," which consists of two labs belonging to the Department of Human-Social Information Sciences.
The lab also works with the information literacy education program of the Graduate School of Information Sciences, and information education and computer literacy are among its main research themes.
Key terms
- Cognition
- The mental processes by which people take in and process information, such as seeing, paying attention, remembering, and understanding
- Eye tracking
- A method of recording eye movements with a device to study where and how people look at a screen or a page
- Psychophysics
- A method of measuring the relationship between the physical properties of stimuli such as light and sound and the sensations and perceptions that people experience
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates the characteristics of various cognitive processes, including human perception, attention, memory, imagery, and Kansei (sensibility), mainly using the methods of experimental psychology. It also studies psychological issues in the use of computers.
*Illustrative imageHow visual design communicates
The lab examines how people perceive various kinds of visual design, such as manga, web design, and diagrams, and what emotions and motivation they find in them. This is empirical research using eye tracking and psychophysical methods.
*Illustrative imageICT use and mental health
The lab examines how the use of ICT devices such as PCs and smartphones, and of services such as social media, affects quality of life and mental health. It focuses in particular on older adults, using questionnaire surveys and interviews.
MembersFaculty
The members page of the Cognitive Psychology and Informatics division lists the faculty, including those with concurrent appointments.
- Professor (Concurrent)Kazumichi Matsumiya
- Associate ProfessorYuichi Wada
- Assistant ProfessorRyo Saito
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Optical Illusion (67183712)” Dennis Sylvester Hurd / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- How visual design communicates: “Virtual Learning - Web Design” Digits.co.uk Images / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- ICT use and mental health: “Senior smartphone XL-Viewer 5000” 80 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Language Informatics Lab): “Data center infrastructure in the United States” DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Linguistic Text Analysis Lab): “Tree diagram for "How kind you are"” Brett / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Political Communication Lab): “Historical documents in the Swedish National archives” OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Literacy Lab): “Students using a computer laptop” Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) / CC0 (cropped)
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