Jun Kawahara

JAPANESE

Jun-ichiro Kawahara, Ph. D.

Senior Research Scientist
Cognition and Action Research Group
Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8566, Japan

TEL: 029-861-6790
FAX: 029-861-6790
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Updated: January, 11 2010

Research Topics

Keywords: mental set, attention, explicit/implicit memory, visual and haptic recognition, metaattention

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Publications

Kawahara, J. (in press). Measuring the spatial distribution of the metaattentional spotlight. Consciousness and Cognition. [pdf]
Inukai, T., Kumada, T., & Kawahara, J. (in press). Attentional capture decreases when distractors remain visible during rapid serial visual presentations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [pdf]
Inukai, T., Kawahara, J., & Kumada, T. (in press). Nonspatial Inter-Dimensional Attentional Capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [pdf]
Leber, A., Kawahara, J. & Gabari, Y. (2009). Long-term abstract learning of attentional set. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1385-1397. [pdf]
Kumada, T., Kawahara, J. Takeda, Y., Nagai, M., & Takita, M. (2009). Stress measurement based on performance of cognitive tasks for future use in the ISS. Journal of the Japan Society of Microgravity Application, 26, 260-268. [pdf]
Osugi, T., Kumada, T., & Kawahara, J. (2009). The spatial distribution of inhibition in preview search. Vision Research, 49, 851-861. [pdf]
Spalek, T. M., Kawahara, J. & Di Lollo, V. (2009). Flicker is a primitive visual attribute in visual search. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 319-322. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (2009). When do additional distractors reduce the attentional blink? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1043-1061. [pdf]
Lleras, A., Levinthal, B., & Kawahara, J. (2009). Past rejections lead to future misses: Selection-related inhibition produces blink-like misses of future (easily detectable) events. Journal of Vision, 9, Article 26, 1-12. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. & Enns, J. T. (2009). Selection difficulty and inter-item competition are independent factors in rapid visual stream perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 146-158.[pdf]
Kihara, K., Kawahara, J., & Takeda, Y. (2008). Electrophysiological evidence for independent consolidation of multiple targets. NeuroReport, 19, 1493-1496. [pdf]
Olivers, C. N. L., Spalek, T. M., Kawahara, J., & Di Lollo, V. (2009). The attentional blink: Increasing target salience provides no evidence for resource depletion. A commentary on Dux, Asplund, and Marois (2008). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 214-218. [pdf]
Ghorashi, S., Jefferies, L. N., Kawahara, J., & Watanabe, K. (2008). Does attention accompany the conscious awareness of both location and identity of an object? Psyche, 14, 1-13. [pdf]
Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2008). The effect of false memory on temporal perception. Psychological Research, 72, 61-64. [pdf]
Lleras, A., Kawahara, J., Wan, X. I., & Ariga, A. (2008). Inter-trial inhibition of focused attention in pop-out search. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 114-131. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (2007). Auditory-visual contextual cueing effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1399-1408. [pdf]
Kawahara, J., Nabeta, T. & Hamada, J. (2007). Area-specific attentional effect in the Delboeuf Illusion. Perception, 36, 670-685. [pdf]
Jefferies, L. N., Ghorashi, S. M. S., Kawahara, J., & Di Lollo, V. (2007). Ignorance is bliss: The role of observer expectation in dynamic spatial tuning of the attentional focus. Perception & Pshychophysics, 69, 1163-1175. [pdf]
Yamada, Y., & Kawahara, J. (2007). Dividing attention between two different categories and locations in rapid serial visual presentations. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1218-1229. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (2007). Implicit learning of spatiotemporal context during divided attention. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 25, 193-198. (written in English). [pdf]
Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2007). The subjective size of visual stimuli affects the perceived duration of their presentation. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 952-957. [pdf]
Ono, F., Yamada, K., Chujo, K. & Kawahara, J. (2007). Feature-based attention influences later temporal perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 544-549. [pdf]
Kawahara, J., & Yamada, Y. (2006). Two non-contiguous locations can be attended concurrently: Evidence from the attentional blink. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 594-599. [pdf]
Kawahara, J., Kumada, T., & Di Lollo, V. (2006). The attentional blink is governed by a temporary loss of control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 886-890. [pdf]
Nabeta, T., & Kawahara, J. (2006). The reduction of false recognition through haptic presentation of objects. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 801-812. [pdf]
Kawahara, J., Enns, J. T., & Di Lollo, V. (2006). The attentional blink is not a unitary phenomenon. Psychological Research, 70, 405-413. [pdf ]
Nabeta, T., & Kawahara, J. (2006). Congruency effect of presentation modality on haptic and visual false memory of real objects. Memory, 14, 307-315. [pdf]
Di Lollo, V., Smilek, D., Kawahara, J., & Ghorashi, S. M. S. (2005). System reconfiguration, not resource limitation, determines the efficiency of visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1080-1087.
Nabeta, T., Kawahara, J., & Chujo, K. (2005). The length of study phase on auditory false recognition. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 24, 11-15. (written in English)
Yamada, Y., & Kawahara, J. (2005). Lag-1 sparing in the attentional blink with multiple RSVP streams. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 24, 1-10. (written in English) [pdf]
Ono, F., Jiang, Y., & Kawahara, J. (2005). Inter-trial contextual cueing: Association across successive visual search trials guides spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 703-712. [pdf]
Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2005). The effects of implicit and explicit memory on temporal production. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 474-482. [pdf]
Di Lollo, V., Kawahara, J., Ghorashi, S. M., & Enns, J. T. (2005). The attentional blink: Resource limitation or temporary loss of control? Psychological Research, 69, 191-200. [pdf]
Tamaoka, K., Sakai, H., Kawahara, J., Miyaoka, Y., Lim, H., & Koizumi, M. (2005). Priority information used for the processing of Japanese sentences: Thematic roles, case particles or grammatical functions? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 34, 281-332.
Ariga, A., & Kawahara, J. (2004). The perceptual and cognitive distractor-previewing effect. Journal of Vision, 4, 891-903. (refereed full paper). [pdf]
Maruishi, M., Tanaka, Y., Muranaka, H., Tsuji, T., Ozawa, T., Imaizumi, S., Miyatani, M., Kawahara, J. (2004). Brain activation during manipulation of the myoelectric prosthetic hand: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. NeuroImage, 21, 1604-1611.
Kawahara, J. (2004). Attentional Blink. Japanese Psychological Review, 46, 501-526.
Ono, F., Kawahara, J., & Matsuda, F. (2003). Previous subthreshold exposures reduce perceived duration. Current Psychology of Cognition, 22, 27-40.
Kawahara, J., & Yamada, Y. (2004). Does one’s name attract visual attention? Visual Cognition, 11, 997-1017. [pdf]
Nabeta, T., Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2003). Transfer of spatial context from visual to haptic search. Perception, 32, 1352-1358. [pdf]
Ono, F., Nabeta, T., & Kawahara, J. (2004). Are the visually marked items encoded as a context? The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 75, 207-212.
Kawahara, J. (2003). Contextual cueing in 3-D layouts defined by binocular disparity. Visual Cognition, 10, 837-852. [pdf]
Tamaoka, K., Sakai, H., Kawahara, J., & Miyaoka, Y. (2003). The effects of phrase-length order and scrambling in the process of visually-presented Japanese sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32, 431-454. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (2003). The effect of observer’s set on the processing of temporally distributed items. Japanese Psychological Research, 45, 109-114. (in English)
Kawahara, J. (2003). Mere presence of distractors: Another determining factor for the attentional blink. Japanese Psychological Research, 45, 140-151. (in English) [pdf]
Kawahara, J., Zuvic, S. M., Enns, J. T., & Di Lollo, V. (2003). Task switching mediates the attentional blink even without backward masking. Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 339-351. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (2002). Facilitation of local information processing in the attentional blink as indexed by shooting line illusion. Psychological Research, 66, 116-123. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. & Yokosawa, K. (2001). Preattentive perception of multiple illusory line motion: A formal model of parallel independent-detection in visual search. Journal of General Psychology, 128, 357-383.
Di Lollo, V., Kawahara, J., Zuvic, S., & Visser, T. (2001). The preattentive emperor has no clothes: a dynamic redressing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 479-492. [pdf]
Kawahara, J., Di Lollo, V., & Enns, J. T. (2001). Attentional requirements in visual detection and identification: Evidence from the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 969-984. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. & Miyatani, M. (2001). The effect of voluntary and involuntary cueing of attention on feature integration. Journal of General Psychology, 128, 57-75.
Ngohayon, S. L., Kawahara, J., & Toshima, T. (1999). The effect of meaning on visual image segmentation. Psychologia, 42, 170 - 182.
Kawahara, J. & Sato, T. (1998). Distribution of visual attention on partially occluded objects. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 17, 47-48. (with abstract in English)
Kawahara, J., & Toshima, T., (1997). Stimulus-driven control of attention: Evidence from visual search for moving target among static nontargets. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 15, 77-87. (In English)
Kawahara, J., Yokosawa, K., Nishida, S., & Sato, T. (1996). Illusory line motion in visual search: Attentional facilitation or apparent motion? Perception, 25, 901-921. [pdf]
Kawahara, J. (1996). The effect of stimulus-driven factor on attentional capture: Evidence from visual search paradigm containing static and dynamic stimuli. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 67, 25-32. (with abstract in English)
Yoshida, H., Kawahara, J., Maedo, S., & Toshima, T., (1995). Object-specific priming in apparent motion display. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 66, 354-360.(with abstract in English)
Kawahara, J. (1993). The effect of stimulus motion on visual search. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 64, 396-400. (with abstract in English)

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Conference Presentations

Kawahara, J. & Lleras, A. (2008). Inter-trial inhibition of focused attention in oddball search. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

Inukai, T., Kumada, T., & Kawahara, J. (2008). Attentional capture is reduced when distractors remain visible in rapid serial visual presentation. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida.

Osugi, T., Kumada, T., & Kawahara, J. (2008). The spatial distribution of visual marking. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida.

Leber, A. B., & Kawahara, J. (2008). Abstract learning of attentional set. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Naples, Florida.

Kawahara, J. & Yamada, Y. (2007). Dividing attention between two different categories and location. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Longbeach, California.

Inukai, T., Kawahara, J. & Kumada, T. (2007). Nonspatial attentional capture cannot be eliminated under feature search mode. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Longbeach, California.

Kawahara, J. (2007). Distractors both Distractors both exaggerate and reduce the attentional blink. “Blinks of the mind: New insights in temporal attention and consciousness”, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Colloquium: Amsterdam.

Polychronopoulos, K., Levinthal, B., Kawahara, J., & Lleras, A. (2007). Inter-trial suppression of selective attention in RSVP streams. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J. (2007). Cross-modal contextual cueing: Auditory and visual association guides spatial attention. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2007). Subjective area size influences time perception. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J., & Gabari, Y. (2006). Learning of attentional set transfers between spatial visual search and RSVP identification tasks. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas.

Kawahara, J. (2006). The capacity limit of visual processing measured in the attentional blink paradigm. Asian Conference on Vision, Matsue, Japan.

Leber, A. B., Kawahara, J. & Gabari, Y. (2006). Reactivation of attentional set after 1-day and 1-week delays. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J. & Kumada, T. (2006). Perception of three targets in dual RSVP streams: resource depletion or a temporary loss of control? Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Ono, F. & Kawahara, J. (2006). The effect of feature-based attention on time perception. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Lleras, A. & Kawahara, J. (2005). Temporal dynamics of suppression in the distractor previewing effect. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario.

Nabeta, T., Okada, K, & Kawahara, J. (2005). Congruency effect of presentation modality on haptic, visual, and auditory false memory. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario.

Ono, F., & Kawahara, J. (2005). Brief stimuli that evoke false memories seem to last longer. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J., Gabari, Y., & Enns, J. T. (2005). Testing the two-stage competition model of the attentional blink: Competition or a cost in distractor rejection? Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Jefferies, L. N., Kawahara, J., Ghorashi, S. M. , & Di Lollo, V. (2004). Dynamic spatial tuning of attentional focus in the attentional blink. Psychonomic Society Annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Ghorashi, S. M., Jefferies, L. N., & Kawahara, J. (2004). Spatial processing during a period of inattention: Evidence from the attentional blink and the shooting-line illusion. Psychonomic Society Annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Kawahara, J. (2004). Mere presence of distractors: another factor of the attentional blink phenomenon. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science 14th Annual meeting, St John's, N.F.

Ariga, A., Lleras, A., & Kawahara, J. (2004). Task relevance and response suppression in the distractor previewing effect. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Ono, F., Jiang, Y., & Kawahara, J. (2004). Contextual cueing effect between successive trials. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J., & Yamada, Y. (2004). Two non-contiguous locations can be attended concurrently: Evidence from the attentional Blink. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Sakai, H., Kawahara, J., Tanaka, J., Maruishi, M., Muranaka, H., & Doujyo, H. (2004). Grammatical processing is independent of lexical memory: An fMRI study of Japanese verb morphology. Cognitive Neuroscience Society of America, San Francisco, California.

Sakai, H., Kawahara, J., Tanaka, J., Maruishi, M. Muranaka, H., & Doujyo, H. (2003). The role of left inferior frontal cortex in the processing of verb morphology. KIT International Symposium on Brain and Language. Tokyo.

Ghorashi, S. Smilek, D., Kawahara, J., & Di Lollo, V. (2003). System Configuration, not Resource Limitation, Determines the Efficiency of Visual Search. Psychonomic Society Annual meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

Nabeta, T., & Kawahara, J. (2003). Contexts Transfer From Visual to Haptic Search. Psychonomic Society Annual meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

Nabeta, T., Kawahara, J., Ono, F., & Chujo, K. (2003). Haptic False Memory and Modality Effect. Tactile Research Group Meeting (TRG2003), Vancouver, B.C.

Ariga, A., & Kawahara, J. (2003). The perceptual and cognitive distractor-previewing effect. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM2003), Vancouver, B.C.

Kawahara, J., Ghorashi, S., Enns, J. T. and Di Lollo, V. (2003). Task-set is vulnerable to exogenous resetting during target identification. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Tamaoka, K., Sakai, H., Kawahara, J., Miyaoka, Y., & Lim, H. (2003). Priority information used for the processing of Japanese sentences: Thematic roles, case particles or grammatical functions? the fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo.

Ono, F., Nabeta, T., & Kawahara, J. (2002). Contextual cueing & Visual marking: Are the visually marked items encoded as a context? Object Perception and Memory (OPAM2002), Kansas City, Missouri.

Kawahara, J. (2002). Contextual cueing effect in three-dimensional layouts. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J., Zuvic, S. M., Enns, J. T., & Di Lollo, V. (2001). Task switching mediates the attentional blink even without backward masking. Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.

Kawahara, J. (2001). Local facilitation of information processing in the attentional blink as indexed by the shooting line illusion, Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Sarasota, Florida.

Kawahara, J., Di Lollo, V., & Enns, J. T. (2000). Attentional switching mediates the attentional blink. Annual meeting of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ngohayon, S. L., Kawahara, J., & Toshima, T. (1999). The effect of meaning on visual image segmentation. 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, Waseda University, Tokyo.

Kawahara, J., Di Lollo, V., & Enns, J. T. (1999). Attentional blink: Separating what we see from when we see it. Annual meeting of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Others

Lleras, A., Levinthal, B. R., & Kawahara, J. (in press). The remains of the trial: Goal-determined inter-trial suppression of selective attention. In N. Srinivasan (Ed.), Attention: Progress in Brain Research Series, Elsevier.

Kawahara, J., & Tanaka, M. (in press). Attention and Eye Movement (Chui to Gankyu Undo, Chapter 7). In I. Murakami (Ed.), Illust Lecture Cognitive Neuroscience (Ninchi Shinkei Kagaku, in Japanese) Ohmusha.

Kawahara, J. (2009). Sensation and Perception (Kankaku to Chikaku, Chapter 2). In T. Muto, T. Ikegami, Y. Fukumaru, T. Mori (Eds.), Textbook of Psychology (Yokuwakaru Shinrigaku, in Japanese) (pp. 22-37). Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.

Kawahara, J. (2007). Temporal aspect of attention. In T. Oyama and T. Wake (Eds.), Handbook of Sensation and Perception (Kankaku Chikaku Handbook) (in Japanese) Seishin Shobo. Pp. 72-77, 97-100.

Enns, J. T., Visser, T. A. W., Kawahara, J., & Di Lollo, V. (2001). Visual Masking and Task Switching in the Attentional Blink. In K. Shapiro (Ed.), The limits of attention: Temporal constraints on human information processing. Oxford University Press. Pp. 65-81.

Kawahara, J. Yokosawa, K., & Sato, T. (1998). Preattentive perception of illusory line motion. In Selection and Integration of Visual Information. Science and Technology Association and National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology. Tsukuba, Japan, Pp.223-228.

The 2009 Japanese Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Early and Middle Career Contributions

The 2007 Japanese Psychonomic Society Research Awards

The 2007 Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology Awards

The 2004 Japanese Psychological Association Research Awards

The 2003 Japanese Psychonomic Society Awards (awarded to Nabeta, T. and Kawahara, J.)

The 2002 Japanese Psychonomic Society Awards (awarded to Nabeta, T., Ono, F., and Kawahara, J.)

The 2002 Japanese Psychonomic Society Awards (awarded to Ono, F., Fujiki, D., & Kawahara, J.)

The 2001 Japanese Psychonomic Society Awards

The 1998 Japanese Psychonomic Society Awards

The 1997 Japanese Psychological Association Research Awards

2006 April - present Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

2003 August - 2004 August Visiting Assistant Professor, Vision Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Canada.

2003 April - 2006 March Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Hiroshima University, Japan.

2001 November Visiting Scholar, Vision Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Canada.

1999 October - 2003 March Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Hiroshima University, Japan.

1998 August - 1999 September Postdoctoral Fellow, Vision Laboratory, Dr. James T. Enns and Dr. Vincent Di Lollo, University of British Columbia, Canada.

1997 April - 1998 July Postdoctoral Fellow, Vision Laboratory, Dr. Takao Sato, Department of Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan.

1997 April - 1999 September Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. (Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for young Scientists.)

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