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Akihiro Tanaka, Ph.D.
  • Professor
  • Department of Psychology
    Tokyo Woman’s Christian University

Research Interest

As a cognitive psychologist, I am interested in communication and multisensory integration. My research topic includes emotion perception, speech perception, multisensory perception, and cultural differences in these cognitive functions.

Career

【EDUCATION】

2004
Ph. D., Psychology, University of Tokyo
1999
M. A., Psychology, University of Tokyo
1997
B. A., Literature, Waseda University

【PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE】

2023
Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2023
Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
2021-
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
2017-
Professor, Department of Psychology, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
2012-2017
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
2010-2012
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Tokyo, Japan
2008-2010
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2005-2008
Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2004-2005
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2002-2004
Research Resident, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Tokorozawa, Japan

Publications

Papers

International Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2019). The development of eye gaze patterns during audiovisual perception of affective and phonetic information. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing. https://doi.org/10.21437/avsp.2019-6
  • Kawase, M., Adachi, I., & Tanaka, A. (2017). Multisensory perception of emotion for human and chimpanzee expressions by humans. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2017.115-118. https://doi.org/10.21437/AVSP.2017-22
  • Kawahara, M., Sauter, D., ＆Tanaka, A. (2017). Impact of culture on the development of multisensory emotion perception. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2017.109-114. https://doi.org/10.21437/AVSP.2017-21
  • Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2017). The developmental path of multisensory perception of emotion and phoneme in Japanese speakers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2017,105-108. https://doi.org/10.21437/AVSP.2017-20
  • Tanaka, A., Takagi, S., Hiramatsu, S., Huis In’t Veld, E. & de Gelder, B. (2015). Towards the development of facial and vocal expression database in East Asian and Western cultures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation, and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2015.63-66. https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/avsp_2015/tanaka15_avsp.html
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka, A. (2015). Optimal timing of audio-visual text presentation: the role of attention. Proceedings of the International Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation, and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2015.185-189. https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/avsp_2015/takahashi15_avsp.html
  • Takagi, S., Miyazawa, S., Huis In’t Veld, E., de Gelder, B., Hamano, Y., Tabei, K., & Tanaka, A. (2015). Comparison of multisensory display rules in expressing complex emotions between cultures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation, and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2015.57-62. https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/avsp_2015/takagi15_avsp.html
  • Miyazawa, S., Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Nishimoto, T. (2010). Effects of speech-rate conversion on asynchrony perception of audio-visual speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2010.190-193.
  • Koizumi, A., Tanaka, A., Imai, H., Hiramatsu, S., Hiramoto, E., Sato, T., & de Gelder, B. (2010). The effects of anxiety on the perception of emotion in the face and voice. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2010.194-198.
  • Tanaka, A., Koizumi, A., Imai, H., Hiramatsu, S., Hiramoto, E., & de Gelder, B. (2010). Cross-cultural differences in the multisensory perception of emotion. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2010.49-53.
  • Tanaka, A., Asakawa, K., & Imai, H. (2009). Recalibration of audiovisual simultaneity in speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2009.113-116.
  • Sakamoto, S., Tanaka, A., Numahata, S., Imai, A., Takagi, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2009). Aging effect on audio-visual asynchrony perception: comparison of time-expanded speech and a moving image of a talker's face. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2009.9-12.
  • Asakawa, K., Tanaka, A., & Imai, H. (2009). Temporal recalibration in audio-visual speech integration using a simultaneity judgment task and the McGurk identification task. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1669-1673.
  • Tanaka, A., Asakawa, K., & Imai, H. (2009). Temporal recalibration to audiovisual asynchrony in speech. Proceedings of Mini RIEC Workshop on Multimodal Perception.65-70.
  • Sakamoto, S., Tanaka, A., Numahata, S., Imai, A., Takagi, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2008). Effect of audio-visual asynchrony between time-expanded speech and a moving image of a talker's face on detection and tolerance thresholds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2008.79-82.
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Tsumura, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2007). Auditory-visual speech perception and intermodal asynchrony. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics.
  • Sakamoto, S., Tanaka, A., Tsumura, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2007). Efffect of speed difference between time-expanded speech and talker's moving image on word or sentence intelligibility. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2007, 238-242.
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Tsumura, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2007). Effects of intermodal timing difference and speed difference on intelligibility of auditory-visual speech in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2007, 258-263.
  • Tanaka, A., Mori, K., & Takano, Y. (2002). Functional segregation of segmental features, pitch-accents, and nondistinctive suprasegmental features in working memory. Proceedings of the 1st Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, 112(5), 2271. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4808621
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2000). Is musical ability related to the prosody learning of second language? Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1059.
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (1999). Sentence processing by analogy. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, 866-869.

Preprints & Technical Research Reports, etc.

  • Nakamura, A., & Tanaka, A. (2023). Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognise in others’ faces. PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/t2sqh
  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2021). Universality and cultural specificity in the emotion perception from touch. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m5z8y
  • Nakamura, A., & Tanaka, A. (2021). Subclinical depression inhibits the sense of agency at the sensorimotor level. PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/e7qru
  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2021). Touch and voice in communicating positive and negative emotions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mkx59
  • Tanaka, A., Takagi, S., Harada, T., Huis In't Veld, E., de Gelder, B., Hamano, Y., Tabei, K., Sadato, N. (2020). Culture influences audiovisual emotion perception in early sensory areas. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.10.332437

Presentations at International Conferences

  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2024). "Can Humans Perceive Emotions Just by Seeing Touching Hand?" 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion
  • Tanaka, A., Takagi, S., Hiramatsu, S., Huis in't Veld, E. M. J., & de Gelder B. (2024). "JADMEED: Multimodal Emotional Expression Database for Cross-Cultural Research and Affective Computing." 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion
  • Nakamura, A. K., Yamamoto, H. W., & Tanaka, A. (2023). "Immigration Modulates Audiovisual Emotion Integration in Adults: The Effect of the Host Culture and Migration itself." The 21st International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2023). "The Prototypical Expressions Can Facilitate the Perception of Various Positive Emotions through Face, Voice, and Touch." The 21st International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2022). "The perception of positive emotion from face, voice, and touch." Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE22)
  • Nakamura, A., & Tanaka, A. (2021). "Disentangling intentional binding from causal binding." The 32nd International Congress of Psychology
  • Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2019). "The development of eye gaze patterns during audiovisual perception of affective and phonetic information." The 15th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
  • Oya, R., & Tanaka, A. (2019). "Touch cannot be perceived accurately at categorical level but can be perceived sufficiently at quadrant level." 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
  • Tanaka, A., Kawahara, M., & Sauter, D. (2018). "Development of cultural differences in emotion perception from faces and voices." The 19th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2018)
  • Kawahara, M., Yamamoto, H. W., & Tanaka, A. (2018). "Language, but not race induces vocal superiority in audiovisual emotion perception." The 19th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2018)
  • Yamamoto, H. W., Kawahara, M., & Tanaka, A. (2017). "The developmental path of multisensory perception of emotion and phoneme in Japanese speakers." International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2017
  • Tanaka, A., Sauter, D., & Kawahara, M. (2016). "Cross-cultural differences in the development of emotion perception from face and voice between Japanese and Dutch speakers." 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan
  • Tanaka, A. (2016). "WIAS as a Multidisciplinary Environment." 10th anniversary symposium Waseda Institute for Advanced Study(WIAS）
  • Takagi, S., & Tanaka, A. (2016). "Cultural differences and its neural basis differences in emotion perception from facial and vocal expressions." The 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka, A. (2016). "Effect of auditory information on reading comprehension: Comparison of audio-visual presentation with oral reading." The 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Kawahara, M., Sauter, D., & Tanaka, A. (2016). "Development of cultural differences in emotion perception from face and voice." The 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Sawada, Y., & Tanaka, A. (2016). "The effects of intervals and loudness of sounds on animacy perception." The 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Tanaka, A., Kawahara, M., & Sauter, D. (2016). "Impact of culture on the development of emotion perception from face and voice." The 17th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2016)
  • Takagi, S., Harada, T., Sadato, N., Huis In’t Veld, E. M. J., de Gelder, B., Hamano, Y., Tabei, K., & Tanaka, A. (2015). "The neural basis of cultural differences in emotion perception from facial and vocal expressions." The 16th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2015)
  • Tanaka, A., Takagi, S., Hiramatsu, S., Huis in't Veld, E. M. J., & de Gelder B. (2015). "Emotion perception from faces and voices is modulated by perceivers' cultural background and cultural familiarity." The 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
  • Takagi, S., Tabei, K., ＆Tanaka, A. (2014). "Comparison of Emotion Perception between artificial and non-artificial stimuli representing different emotions by faces and voices." The 15th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2014)
  • Tanaka, A., Takagi, S., ＆ Tabei, K. (2014). "Cultural differences in emotion perception by face and voice representing basic six emotions." The 15th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2014)
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka,A. (2013). "Integration of text and speech information during audio-visual presentation." 9th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2013)
  • Takagi, S., Miyazawa, S., Huis in't Veld, E. M. J., de Gelder, B., & Tanaka, A. (2013). "The cultural differences in multisensory display rules in expressing the complex emotions." 9th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2013)
  • Miyazawa, S., Tanaka., A., & Nishimoto., T. (2012). "Short-term memory for tonal and verbal information: comparison with absolute and non-absolute pitch possessors." The 34th annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Cogsci 2012)
  • Tanaka, A. (2012). "Cultural Differences in the Multisensory Perception of Emotion."
  • Tabei, K., & Tanaka, A. (2012). "Multisensory perception of six basic emotions in music." Proceedings of International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
  • Tanaka, A. (2012). "Cultural Differences in Emotion Perception by Face and Voice." The 30th International Congress of Psychology, Invited Symposium “Cultural/linguistic specifications of cognitive functions for communication”
  • Koizumi, A., Tanaka, A., Imai, H., Hiramoto, E., Hiramatsu, S., & de Gelder., B. (2011). "The effects of anxiety on the recognition of multisensory emotional cues with different cultural familiarity." The 12th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Ujiie, U., Asai, T., Tanaka, A., Asakawa, K., & Wakabayashi, A. (2011). "Individual differences in the McGurk effect: An Examination with the Autism trait and Schizotypal Personality." The 12th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Takagi, S., Hiramatsu, S., Huis in't Veld, E. M. J., de Gelder B., & Tanaka, A. (2011). "Recording and validation of audiovisual expressions by faces and voices." The 12th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Asakawa, K., Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., & Suzuki, Y. (2010). "Audio-visual synchrony perception of simplified speech sounds heard as speech or non-speech." The 11th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Tanaka, A., Miyazawa, S., Stekelenburg, J., & Vroomen, J. (2010). "Temporal order judgment of audiovisual speech in Dutch and Japanese." The 11th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Stienen, B., Tanaka, A., & de Gelder, B. (2009). "Modulatory effect of voice on conscious and nonconscious processing of emotional body language." The 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Tanaka, A., Koizumi, A., Imai, H., Hiramatsu, S., Hiramoto, E., & de Gelder, B. (2009). "Perception of emotion in face and voice: Crosscultural comparison." The 10th International Multisensory Research Forum
  • Stienen, B., Tanaka, A., & de Gelder, B. (2009). "Modulatory effect of voice on conscious and nonconscious processing of emotional body language." The 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Tanaka, A., Koizumi, A., Imai, H., Hiramatsu, S., Hiramoto, E., & de Gelder, B. (2009). "The perception of emotions in faces and voices: crosscultural comparison between Japanese and Dutch." ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers Social Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Numahata, S., Sakamoto, S., Tanaka, A., Imai, A., Tsugi, T., & Suzuki, Y. (2008). "Effect of time-expanded speech on detection/tolerance thresholds of audio-visual asynchrony." The 3rd International Symposium on Medical, Bio- and Nano-Electronics
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Suzuki, Y., & Tsumura, K. (2007). "Auditory-visual speech perception and intermodal asynchrony." The 19th International Congress on Acoustics
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Tsumura, K., & Suzuki, Y. (2007). "Effects of intermodal timing difference and speed difference on intelligibility of auditory-visual speech in younger and older adults." International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2007
  • Koizumi, A., Ikeda, K., Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2007). "Emotional stroop task with facial expressions and emotional words." The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2007). "Working memory for pitch in speech and nonspeech sounds." Language and Music as Cognitive Systems
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., Tsumura, K., & Suzuki, Y. (2006). "Effects of intermodal timing difference and speed difference on auditory-visual speech perception." The 4th Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2005). "Working memory for prosody and its role in spoken language processing." The 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka, A. (2005). "Sentence comprehension by reading silently and orally." The 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences
  • Tanaka, A., Sakamoto, S., & Suzuki, Y. (2005). "Effects of speech-rate and pause duration on sentence intelligibility in younger and older normal-hearing listeners." 149th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka, A. (2005). "The interaction between the effects of concurrent tapping and irrelevant speech on verbal STM." The 3rd Tsukuba International Conference on Memory
  • Takahashi, M., & Tanaka, A. (2004). "The effects of irrelevant speech and concurrent tapping on sentence comprehensions in reading silently and orally." The 2nd International Conference on Working Memory
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2004). "Rehearsal mechanisms for pitch information in spoken language and musical tone." The 2nd International Conference on Working Memory
  • Tanaka, A., Mori, K., Sato, Y., Koizumi, T., Huruya, I., Minagawa, Y., Hayashi, R., &Tauchi, H. (2003). "Relationship between subjective percepts and cortical responses to speech stimuli measured by near-infrared spectroscopy." The 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science
  • Tanaka, A., Mori, K., & Takano, Y. (2002). "Functional segregation of segmental features, pitch-accents, and non-distinctive suprasegmental features in working memory." First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2002). "Working memory for speech pitch." The 3rd Tsukuba International Conference on Memory
  • Tanaka, A., & Nakamura, K. (2001). "Do verbal memory affect the proficiency of L2 speaking?: Evidence from Japanese adult learner of English." The Third Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Studies
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (2000). "Is musical ability related to the prosody learning of second language." The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Tanaka, A., & Takano, Y. (1999). "Sentence processing by analogy." Poster presented at The Second Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science