Research field (2):
Experimental psychology
, Experimental psychology
Research keywords (5):
Japanese/English language processing
, Mental Lexicon
, Word production
, Bilingual language processing
, Visual word recognition
Research theme for competitive and other funds (7):
2019 - 2023 Revealing how L2 orthography is represented in the lexicon of Japanese-English bilinguals
2015 - 2019 Visual word recognition process of Japanese-English bilinguals: Investigation of L2 orthographic representations and processing system
2013 - 2016 VIsual word recognition processes and lexical representations of Japanese-English bilinguals
2012 - 2015 L2 lexical representations of Japanese-English bilinguals: investigation using masked priming tasks
2011 - 2012 Translation priming effects with Japanese-English bilinguals
2007 - 2011 Visual word recognition process of Japanese-English bilinguals
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Papers (36):
Jessie Wanner-Kawahara, Masahiro Yoshihara, Stephen J. Lupker, Rinus G. Verdonschot, Mariko Nakayama. No morphological connections between L2 past-tense and present-tense verbs for low-proficient bilinguals: Evidence from masked priming. International Journal of Bilingualism. 2025
Masahiro Yoshihara, Mariko Nakayama, Xue Junyi, Yasushi Hino. Does rotation eliminate masked priming effects for Japanese kanji words?. Cognition. 2024. 246. 105759-105759
Liu, C, Wanner-Kawahara, J, Yoshihara, M, Lupker, S. J, Nakayama, M. Cognate Translation Priming with Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals: No Effect of Interlingual Phonological Similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2023
Pan, D. J, Nakayama, M, McBride, C, Cheah, Z. R. E, Zheng, M, Yeung, C. C. L. Cognitive-linguistic Skills and Vocabulary Knowledge Breadth and Depth in Children’s L1 Chinese and L2 English. Applied Psycholinguistics. 2023
Tozawa Anna, Matsunaga Miki, Tsuchiya Masao, Nakayama Mariko, Kumano Hiroaki. Development of a Japanese Version of the Work-related Acceptance and Action Questionnaire and Examination of Its Reliability and Validity. Japanese Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. 2022. advpub
The Phonological unit of Japanese Kanji words: Revisited by the masked priming picture naming task.
(The 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 2017)
L2-L1 noncognate translation priming effects in episodic recognition and lexical decision tasks: A test of the episodic L2 hypothesis
(The 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 2017)
The phonological unit of Japanese Kanji words.
(The 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, the U. S. A 2016)
Is there lexical competition in the recognition of L2 words for different-script bilinguals? A masked priming investigation with Japanese-English bilinguals
(The 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, the U. S. A 2016)
Conceptual and phonological priming in the masked prime same-different task.
(The 56th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, the U.S.A. 2015)
2007 - 2013 Waseda University School of Arts, Letters and Sciences Psychology
2003 - 2006 University of Calgary Faculty of Graduate Studies Psychology
2001 - 2003 University of Calgary Department of Psychology
2000 - 2001 University of British Columbia, Okanagan Department of Psychology
1992 - 1997 Kanda University of International Studies Department of Foreign Language English
Professional career (4):
Ph.D (Waseda University)
MSc (University of Calgary)
学士 (BA, Psychology) (カルガリー大学 (カナダ))
学士 (地域文化) (神田外語大学)
Work history (8):
2023/04 - 現在 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Professor
2019/04 - 2023/03 Tohoku University Division of Language Research, Department of Language Sciences, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Associate Professor
2018/04 - 2019/03 Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University Division of Language Research, Department of Language Sciences Senior Assistant Professor
2016/04 - 2018/03 Rikkyo University College of Contemporary Psychology Department of Psychology Specially Appointed Associate Professor
2016/04 - 2018/03 Rikkyo University Graduate School of Contemporary Psychology Field of Study: Psychology Specially Appointed Associate Professor
2013/10 - 2016/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Restart Postdoc (RPD)
2011/04 - 2013/03 Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Research Associate
2007/04 - 2011/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
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Awards (3):
2021/05 - The Japanese Society for Language Sciences JCHAT Award Best Paper