Research keywords (4)：
experimental psychology
, psychophysiology
, electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERP)
, kawaii / cuteness
Research theme for competitive and other funds (30)：
2025 - 2028 Changes in the body's center of pressure as a new window to the mind: A feasibility study
2025 - 2028 大脳半球機能差からみた接近・回避動機づけに関する実験的検討
2025 - 2027 Understanding the rewarding nature of cute/kawaii stimuli
2021 - 2026 Studies on the utility of "kawaii" emotion and its real-world applications
2020 - 2023 対象への接近傾向と回避傾向を二次元で評価する心理生理学的方法の開発
2017 - 2020 The effect of listening to high-resolution digital audio on cognitive function
2017 - 2020 Effects of the feelings of kawaii on psychophysiological states and social relations
2017 - 2020 認知負荷と回避動機づけに注目した欺きの認知過程の解明
2012 - 2017 Recognition and concealment: Proposing a new cognitive process model for the concealed information test
2013 - 2015 接近-回避の動機づけ状態を脳波で判定する新しい手法の開発
2011 - 2014 自己の対人関係調整機能の検討-社会的痛み制御の二過程モデルの構築と展開-
2011 - 2013 Behavioral science approach to the functions of "kawaii" as an emotion
2010 - 2011 A new algorithm for examining stimulus discrimination using event-related brain potentials
2007 - 2010 Behavioral science on multilayered processes of social pain
2009 - 2009 Early cortical responses correlate with subsequent visual exploration
2008 - 2009 Cognitive psychophysiological examination of interest using the probe stimulus method
2008 - 2008 映像コンテンツの“かわいさ”に基づく注意・感情誘導技術の開発
2006 - 2008 Functional significance of the error-related negativity in observers who detect errors made by others
2006 - 2008 自己調整過程についての社会心理生理学的検討
2007 - 2007 Event-related brain potentials corroborate subjectively optimal delay in computer response to a user's action
2005 - 2007 触覚刺激に対する脳電位を指標とした視聴覚体験の評価
2006 - 2007 マウスクリックパラダイムによる事象関連電位の測定
2004 - 2005 触覚刺激に対する脳電位を指標とした視聴覚体験の評価
2002 - 2004 Examination of dreaming process in rapid eye movement sleep using eye-movement-related potentials
2002 - 2004 知的好奇心に関する脳の情報処理
2002 - 2002 Event-related potentials elicited by self-initiated auditory and visual events
2000 - 2001 インタラクティブな環境における脳の情報処理
1999 - 2001 Occurrence of Sleepiness and Mechanism of Attention during Sleep
2000 - 2000 好奇心に関する脳の情報処理
1996 - 1997 ワーキングメモリの個人差に関する基礎的研究
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Papers (163)：
Kai Ishida, Tomomi Ishida, Hiroshi Nittono. Which instrument should play here? Decoding predicted musical timbre from EEG signals during omission. Cortex. 2025. 192. 64-77
Nakamura, N., Gobara, A., Nittono, H. Postural responses to cute animal pictures: The effect of image size. Acta Psychologica. 2025. 258. 105255
Kai Ishida, Hiroshi Nittono. Different voice part perceptions in polyphonic and homophonic musical textures. Psychology of Music. 2025. 53. 5. 725-745
Ishida, K., Nittono, H. Active inference in music perception: Motor engagement to syncopation modulates rhythmic prediction error. Psychophysiology. 2025. 62. 7. e70113
Shiomi, M., Kato, Y., Nittono, H., Anzai, E., Saiwaki, N. Effects of a robot’s head-tilting motion and hand gesture on the feeling of kawaii toward the robot and its outfit. Advanced Robotics. 2025
Namiha, I, Nittono, H. A short history of compound words derived from “kawaii”. Bulletin of Graduate School of Human Sciences Osaka University. 2024. 50. 49-67
Masahiro Shiomi, Yuina Kato, Hiroshi Nittono, Emi Anzai, Naoki Saiwaki. The feeling of kawaii toward a robot's head-tilting motion: Effects of speed, direction, and accompanying hand gestures. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, ROMAN 2024, Pasadena, CA, USA, August 26-30, 2024. 2024. 69-74
Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Symbiotic touch interaction between human and robot (Edited by Shiomi, M. & Sumioka, H)
CRC Press 2024 ISBN:1032470267
The psychology of "kawaii" and beyond: Introduction to the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of Osaka
(Internal seminar at Prof. Markus Ullsperger's lab at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany 2025)
JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
, THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
, Association for Psychological Science
, Society for Psychophysiological Research
, 日本感情心理学会
, 日本認知心理学会
, 日本臨床神経生理学会
, International Organization of Psychophysiology
