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Kitagami Lab
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A cognitive psychology lab that explores the mechanisms of memory and cognition through experiments.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring human memory and cognition.
Kitagami Lab studies how people understand and remember, through memory, eyewitness testimony, metacognition, motivation, and design such as pictograms.
From basic cognitive psychology to applied research related to education, design, and consumer behavior, the lab tests its ideas with experiments and data.
The lab is part of the Psychology Division, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.
Graduate and undergraduate students pursue research in cognitive psychology based on their own interests.
Key terms
- eyewitness testimony
- What a person states about an event they witnessed. The lab investigates the accuracy of such reports and how errors arise
- metacognition
- Judgments about one's own cognition, such as "how well do I understand this?" or "will I be able to remember this later?"
- pictogram
- A graphic symbol that conveys meaning through a picture. The lab uses pictograms as a subject for studying how design affects people's judgments and behavior
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The lab investigates the mechanisms of how people understand and remember, using cognitive psychology experiments and data. Its work ranges from basic research to applied research related to education, design, and consumer behavior.
*Illustrative imageMemory and eyewitness testimony
Viewing memory as a process that is reconstructed each time it is recalled, the lab uses experiments to examine face recognition, reports of witnessed events, and the influence of information given afterward, in order to clarify how memory can be accurate and how errors arise.
*Illustrative imageMetacognition and learning
The lab examines the accuracy of metacognition, which is judgment about one's own cognition, as well as the choice of learning strategies, self-regulated learning, and their relationship with motivation, to explore the conditions that support better learning.
*Illustrative imageDesign and cognition
Using pictograms, websites, and product packaging as subjects, the lab studies how beauty, clarity, and ease of use affect people's judgments and behavior. From factors such as perceptual fluency and the layout of visual information, it considers designs that communicate well.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members are faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and graduate research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorShinji Kitagami
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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: “Institut of Psychology Szeged EEG Laboratory 2” Csaba Segesvári camera-man at Délmagyarország lapcom Kft. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Memory and eyewitness testimony: “Oppstilling-2” Oslo police / Public domain (cropped)
- Metacognition and learning: “Sias Library - Students Studying 2017” Gary Todd / CC0 (cropped)
- Design and cognition: “Family Restroom Sign” MarkBuckawicki / CC0 (cropped)
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