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Cognitive Informatics Lab
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The lab uses experiments and AI to uncover how humans perceive the world, and applies the findings to new media technologies.
AboutAbout the lab
How do humans perceive the world?
Humans perceive the outside world from signals captured by sensory organs such as the eyes, make decisions, and communicate with the people around them.
The Cognitive Informatics Lab studies the information processing that underlies these human cognitive abilities, using psychological and behavioral experiments, measurement of brain activity, and computer simulation.
In particular, the lab focuses on comparing the characteristics of information processing in AI (artificial neural networks) and in humans, and also develops information and communication technologies based on findings from brain and cognitive science.
Key terms
- Psychophysics
- A method that measures human perception and behavior as stimuli are varied, in order to infer the information processing of the brain
- Material appearance
- Qualities such as gloss, softness, and material-like character that we sense from how things look or feel to the touch
- Metacognition
- The function by which a person monitors how certain their own cognition and judgments are
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on three areas: human sensory information processing, media technologies that exploit the characteristics of perception, and decision-making and self-monitoring.
*Illustrative imageHuman Sensory Information Processing
The lab investigates computational theories of human vision and the representation of information in the brain, combining psychophysics with computer graphics and other methods. Tactile and auditory perception, multisensory integration, and metacognition are also studied.
*Illustrative imageMedia Technologies That Exploit the Characteristics of Perception
By making good use of the characteristics of our senses in displays, augmented reality, and similar technologies, efficiency can be improved far more than by reproducing things completely in physical terms, and things that seemed impossible can become possible. The lab develops such perception-based media technologies.
*Illustrative imageDecision-Making and Self-Monitoring
The human brain monitors its own internal representations, noticing errors and flexibly adjusting behavior. Using behavioral experiments and computer simulation, the lab elucidates the information processing behind decision-making and metacognition.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShinya Nishida
- Associate ProfessorKiyofumi Miyoshi
- Program-Specific LecturerYANG YungHao
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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: “Human eye iris 1” Kamil Saitov / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Human Sensory Information Processing: “Grey square optical illusion line” http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sakurambo / Public domain (cropped)
- Media Technologies That Exploit the Characteristics of Perception: “Augmented Reality Headset 02” This image is a work by Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons user C.Suthorn. When reusing, credit me as d / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Decision-Making and Self-Monitoring: “Rubik's cubing” Radhika41 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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