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Perception and Cognitive Psychology Lab
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A lab that uses psychological experiments to investigate human cognitive characteristics and the usability of information devices.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how human cognition works through psychological experiments.
The Perception and Cognitive Psychology Lab studies the characteristics and mechanisms of human cognition through psychological experiments.
Research topics include the integration of visual features, visual working memory, and procedural memory.
The lab also studies how information devices are used, looking for clues to presentation methods, such as scrolling displays, that let people obtain information efficiently.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name “Morita Lab.”
Key terms
- Visual working memory
- Memory used to hold something you have seen in mind for a short time while you work with it
- Procedural memory
- Memory for actions learned through repetition, such as the steps of an operation
- Scrolling display
- A display method that shows text or images too large for the screen a little at a time by moving them up and down or left and right
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As a rule, the Perception and Cognitive Psychology Lab conducts psychological experiments to study how human cognition works and how information devices are used. Its goal is one of the following: to examine the characteristics of cognition, to obtain clues for improving usability, or to create content and systems that make use of cognitive characteristics.
*Illustrative imageExploring How Human Cognition Works
Based on psychological experiments, the lab examines the characteristics and mechanisms of human cognition. Research topics include the integration of visual features, visual working memory, and procedural memory.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating the Usability of Information Devices
The lab studies how information devices are used, aiming to obtain clues for improving usability. Research topics include scrolling displays that let people obtain information more efficiently.
*Illustrative imageCreating Content That Makes Use of Cognitive Characteristics
The lab also aims to create content and systems that make good use of cognitive characteristics. In particular, it envisions devising more efficient display methods for smartphones and improving current scrolling displays.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Perception and Cognitive Psychology Lab are faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorHiromi Morita
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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: “A computer keyboard and mouse are positioned on a wooden des” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Exploring How Human Cognition Works: “NIH visual cliff experiment (cropped)” From Gibson and Walk (1960). Copyright 1960 Nature Publishing Group. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Investigating the Usability of Information Devices: “Project User Experience Testing ( )” Samuel Mann from Dunedin, New Zealand / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Creating Content That Makes Use of Cognitive Characteristics: “OLED Display” Samsung Galaxy Note 10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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