Shigeaki Nishina, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Address

Honda Research Institute Japan
8-1 Honcho, Wako-shi,
Saitama 351-0188, Japan

E-mail

nishina at jp.honda-ri.com

Tel

+81-48-462-2121 ext 7354

Fax

+81-48-462-5221

Education

Dec 1999

Ph.D. in Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Supervisor: Prof. Toshio Inui, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

Mar 1995

M.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Mar 1993

B.A. in Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Award and Fellowship

Sep 2002

Award for encouragement of young scientist from Japanese Neural Network Society.

Apr 1995 to Mar 1998

Research fellow at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Professional and Practical Experiences

Mar 2009 to present

Senior Scientist, Honda Research Institute Japan

Apr 2006 to Feb 2009

Research Associate, Boston University

Apr 2004 to Apr 2006

Research Scientist, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.

Sep 2004 to Mar 2005

Interim Researcher, Boston University

Apr 1999 to Mar 2004

Researcher, ATR International.

Jan 1997 to Mar 1999

Intern Researcher, ATR Human Information Processing Laboratories.

Research Interests

Membership in Societies

• Society for Neuroscience (http://web.sfn.org/)
• Vision Sciences Society (http://www.vision-sciences.org/)
• Japanese Psychological Association (http://www.psych.or.jp/)
• IEICE (http://www.ieice.org/)

Professional Skills

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..
• Nishina, S., & Kawato, M. (2004). A computational model of spatio-temporal dynamics in depth filling-in. Neural Networks, 17(2), 159-163.
• Nishina, S., Okada, M., & Kawato, M. (2003). Spatio-temporal dynamics of depth propagation on uniform region. Vision Research, 43(24), 2493-2503.
• Okada, M., Nishina, S., & Kawato, M. (2003). The neural computation of the aperture problem: an iterative process. Neuroreport, 14(14), 1767-1771.
• Nishina, S., & Inui, T., (1999). 3-dimensional object recognition based on view-based representation and image transformation. Cognitive Studies, 6(4), 432-443. (in Japanese)
• Nishina, S., Okada, M., & Kawato, M. (2001). Spatio-temporal dynamics in interpolating depth profiles. Trans. IEICE Japan, J83-D-II(10), 2312-2319. (in Japanese)

Conference Presentations

• Nishina, S., Náñez, J., Kawato, M., Watanabe, T. (2009). Global motion is processed as the entire unit but learned locally. VSS 2009 in Naples, FL. (talk presentation)
• Kim, D., Nishina, S., Watanabe, T. (2009). Decisions on “when” and “what” are biased by different temporal spans of past incidences. VSS 2009 in Naples, FL. (talk presentation)
• Yazdanbakhsh, A., Nishina, S., Watanabe, T. (2009). Perceptual asynchrony between sinusoidally modulated luminance and depth. VSS 2009 in Naples, FL.
• Nishina, S., Seitz, A., Kawato, M., Watanabe, T. (2007). Subliminal visual feature is learned better when spatially closer to attended task. VSS 2007 in Sarasota, FL.
• Nishina, S., Seitz, A., Kawato, M., Watanabe, T. (2006). The spatio-temporal window of task-irrelevant perceptual learning. Journal of Vision, 6(6):165.
• Nishina, S., Seitz, A., Kawato, M., Watanabe, T. (2005). The spatial spread of task-irrelevant perceptual learning. 35th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
• Nishina, S., Kawato, M. (2004). Theoretical analysis of depth propagation on uniform region. International Workshop on Fuzzy Systems & Innovational Computing 2004.
• Nishina, S., Okada, M., & Kawato, M. (1999). Temporal properties of depth filling-in. Perception, Vol. 28 Supplement ECVP Abstracts, p. 121.
• Nishina, S. & Inui, T. (1997). Differential effect of object complexity on 2-D and 3-D matching processes. Perception, Vol. 26 Supplement ECVP Abstracts, p.51.
• Nishina, S. & Inui, T. (1996). The contribution of 3-dimensional information during viewpoint dependent object recognition. 26th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 22, Part 2, p. 885.
• Nishina, S. & Inui, T. (1995). Generalization function for view-based object recognition. Perception, Vol. 24 Supplement ECVP Abstracts, p.117.

Ph.D. Dissertation