I am a Senior Scientist at
Honda Research Institute Japan.
My primary interest is how we perceive continuous and stable world
from spatially and temporally limited, degraded, and dispersed visual
input. Current research topics include plasticity of human visual
system and internal representation of visual surfaces.
Biography
I studied experimental psychology at Kyoto University and received
Ph.D. in 1999. I started working at ATR in Kyoto when I was a graduate
student, and then continued working as a Research Scientist at ATR
until 2006. I joined Boston University Vision Sciences Laboratory as
an Interim Researcher in 2004, and as an Research Associate from 2006
to 2009. Currently, I am a Senior Scientist at Honda Research
Institute Japan, in Wako, Japan, and working on interdisciplinary
researches on human sensory systems and machine intelligence.
Recent Publications
Nishina, S., Kawato, M., & Watanabe, T. (2009). Perceptual learning of
global pattern motion occurs on the basis of local motion,
Journal of Vision, 9(9):15, 1-6.
Yoshioka, T., Toyama, K., Kawato, M., Yamashita, O., Nishina,
S., Yamagishi, N., & Sato, M. (2008). Evaluation of hierarchical
Bayesian method through retinotopic brain activities reconstruction
from fMRI and MEG signals.
Neuroimage, 42(4), 1397-1413.
Nishina, S., Seitz, A., Kawato, M., & Watanabe,
T. (2007). Effect of spatial distance to the task stimulus on
task-irrelevant perceptual learning of static Gabors.
Journal of Vision, 7(13):2, 1-10.
Nishina, S., Yazdanbakhsh, A., Watanabe, T., & Kawato,
M. (2007). Depth propagation across an illusory surface.
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 24, 905-910..
