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Update date: Mar. 03, 2026
Ryo Kitada
Kitada Ryo | Ryo Kitada
Affiliation and department：
Job title：
Professor
Homepage URL (2)：
https://multisensory.mystrikingly.com/#1
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http://touchlab.strikingly.com/
Research field (6)：
Sensitivity (kansei) informatics
, Perceptual information processing
, Experimental psychology
, Basic brain sciences
, Cognitive sciences
, Neuroscience - general
Research keywords (11)：
Neuroimaging
, Developmental Disorders
, fMRI
, Blind or Visually impaired
, Haptics
, Rehabilitation
, 多感覚
, 社会脳
, 感性工学
, 質感
, 顔認知
Research theme for competitive and other funds (18)：
- 2025 - 2030 心地よさを生む社会的触覚の仕組みとその個人差:認知科学的理解の深化
- 2025 - 2028 多感覚・多文化比較アプローチによる感情認識メカニズムの包括的理解
- 2024 - 2025 内受容感覚の順応が環境音の生起する情動に与える影響の検討 ◆
- 2023 - 2025 ムーンショット目標9 こころの安らぎや活力の増大/ 篠田PM 子どものこころを支援する触覚パートナー/研究開発項目2. 触覚刺激が感情に及ぼす効果の評価
- 2021 - 2025 The relationship between touch and social cognition in autism spectrum disorder
- 2020 - 2023 Assessing causality of the association between exercise and neurocognitive gains
- 2017 - 2020 Touch and Blindness: cognitive brain researches on multisensory perception and the effect of visual deprivation on them
- 2017 - 2019 Innovative rehabilitation through kinesthetic illusion
- 2016 - 2019 Tactile stimulation device to control emotional response in psychological and neuroscience research
- 2016 - 2018 触覚の質感を表現するオノマトペの神経基盤
- 2014 - 2018 A Study to Elucidate Control Method of Illusionary Hand Movement Based on Fusion Effects of Kinesthetic and Rubber-Hand Illusions
- 2015 - 2017 A study of controlling virtual reality using tactile illusion and pseudo-haptics
- 2013 - 2016 A classification of tactile illusions and information processing mechanisms of the illusions
- 2013 - 2016 The effect of visual deprivation on the development of the ability to understand others and form social ties
- 2013 - 2015 スキンシップが惹起する情動の脳認知科学的メカニズム
- 2011 - 2013 触覚による表情模倣の神経基盤-晴眼者と視覚障害者の比較
- 2011 - 2012 Crossmodal neural mechanisms underlying material perception
- 2009 - 2010 触覚による顔認知の神経基盤-晴眼者と視覚障害者の比較
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Papers (60)：
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Kai Makita, Ryo Kitada, Takuya Makino, Nodoka Sakakihara, Ayaka Fukuoka, Yuka Mizuno, Hirotaka Kosaka. Reduced preference for smooth over rough surfaces in autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism. 2026
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Rika Oya, Ryoya Onishi, Soichiro Matsumura, Zen Somei, Shun Suzuki, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Ryo Kitada. Affective Touch with Mid-Air Ultrasound: A Psychophysical Comparison with Real Materials. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2025
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Achille Pasqualotto, Utek Leong, Ryo Kitada. Touching soft materials slows affective visual processing. Frontiers in Psychology. 2025. 16
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Ayaka Fukuoka, Ryo Kitada, Kai Makita, Takuya Makino, Nodoka Sakakihara, Lauri Nummenmaa, Hirotaka Kosaka. Reduced relationship-specific social touching and atypical association with emotional bonding in autistic adults. Molecular autism. 2025. 16. 1. 31-31
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Yuto Kurihara, Hirotaka Kosaka, Bianca A. Schuster, Ryo Kitada, Takanori Kochiyama, Hidehiko Okazawa, Rieko Osu, Yuko Okamoto. Visual Body Part Representation of the Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Univariate and Multivariate fMRI Study. Imaging Neuroscience. 2025
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MISC (35)：
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北田亮. 触質感と感情の関係性-社会的触覚の側面から-. 生理心理学と精神生理学. 2024. 42. 1
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小丹枝涼哉, 大屋里佳, 松村蒼一郎, 曽明然, 鈴木颯, 篠田裕之, 北田亮. Psychophysical investigation of tactile textures induced by airborne ultrasound: Comparison with real objects. 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会論文集(CD-ROM). 2024. 29th
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北田 亮. 認知神経科学者の海外サバイバル-特集 グローバルな研究者像を探る. 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌 = Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan / 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会 編. 2023. 28. 3. 17-20
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北田亮. ソーシャルタッチの心理物理学的性質と神経基盤. 臨床神経生理学(Web). 2023. 51. 5
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栗原勇人, 栗原勇人, 小坂浩隆, SCHUSTER Bianca, 北田亮, 河内山隆紀, 岡沢秀彦, 大須理英子, 岡本悠子. 自閉スペクトラム症者と定型発達者における身体部位表象. 日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会プログラム・抄録集. 2023. 25th
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Books (8)：
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感覚・知覚心理学ハンドブック 第三版
誠信書房 2025 ISBN:9784414305050
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質感科学ハンドブック = Handbook of shitsukan science
東京大学出版会 2025 ISBN:9784130603256
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Pervasive haptics
Springer Japan 2016
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心理学研究法 第1巻 知覚
誠信書房 2011
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Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th edition)
John Wiley & Sons 2010
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Lectures and oral presentations (48)：
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ASMRを惹起する視聴覚刺激の視点と時間的同期性が 視聴時の情動に及ぼす影響
(日本基礎心理学会第44回大会 2025)
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自閉スペクトラム症における触覚選好の非定型性 - 物体表面の物理的滑らかさから知覚される快さの低下
(日本基礎心理学会第44回大会 2025)
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Tactile preferences and interpersonal touch in autism: Insights from psychophysical and social network studies
(IEEE World Haptics 2025 Workshop: Haptic materials from physics to perception 2025)
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自閉症スペクトラム障害における触覚嗜好の非定型性-人体の柔らかさを模した物体 に対する快感情の低下-
(日本基礎心理学会第43回大会 2024)
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空中超音波はどのような触質感を喚起するか:実物体との比較による検討
(日本基礎心理学会第43回大会 2024)
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Education (3)：
- 2000 - 2005 Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
- 2003 - 2004 Queen's University (Ontario Canada) Department of Psychology
- 1997 - 2000 Kyoto University Human Studies
Professional career (1)：
Work history (9)：
- 2023/10 - 現在 Kobe University Graduate School of Intercultural Studies Professor
- 2021/04 - 2023/09 Kobe University Graduate School of Intercultural Studies Associate Professor
- 2021/04 - 2022/03 Nanyang Technological University School of Social Sciences
- 2020/09 - 2021/03 南洋理工大学 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Associate Professor (cross-appointment)
- 2017/01 - 2021/03 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Social Sciences Nanyang Associate Professor
- 2008/08 - 2016/12 National Institutes of Natural Sciences Assistant Professor
- 2008/08 - 2016/12 The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Assistant Professor (Cross-Appointed)
- 2007/04 - 2008/08 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers
- 2005/07 - 2007/03 Queen's University Department of Psychology, Center for Neuroscience Postdoctoral fellow
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Committee career (4)：
- 2020/11 - 現在 Associate Editor (Cortex, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cortex/editorial-board)
- 2011/12 - 現在 Reviewing Editor ( Frontiers in Integrative Physiology)
- 2021 - 2023 日本心理学会 国際賞選考委員
- 2020 - 2023 Editorial Board Member (Psychological Science, https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/pss)
Awards (3)：
- 2022/10 - Kobe University President's award (financial contribution)
- 2016/04 - Nanyang Associate Professorship Nanyang assistant professorship
- 2015 - The Japanese Psychological Association JPA Awards for International Contributions to Psychology
Association Membership(s) (5)：
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
, SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
, JAPANESE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
, THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
, THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
