Prof. Takashi KUSUMI

Professor of Cognitive Psychology

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Directory Database of Research and Development Activities

• INTERESTS
• EDUCATION
• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
• EDITORIAL AND GOVERNING BOARD
• ACADEMIC HONOR
• SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

INTERESTS

1. Research
1. Metaphor, Story understanding and Emotion
2. Analogy and Similarity
3. Critical thinking, Decision making, Risk perception and Regret
4. Metamemory and Metacognition
5. Expertise, Practical intelligence and Tacit knowledge
6. Human-computer interaction, Virtual reality and E-learning
2. Teaching
1. Cognitive Psychology
2. Educational Psychology
3. Data analysis in Psychology

EDUCATION

1978-1982	Gakushuin University. B.A. in Psychology
1982-1984	Gakushuin University. M.A. in Psychology
1984-1987	Gakushuin University. Ph.D in Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1987-1990	Lecturer of Psychology, Gakushuin University (JAPAN)
1990-1994	Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of Tsukuba (JAPAN)
1994-1999	Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JAPAN)
1997	Visiting Scholar, Prof. R. Gibbs's lab,
	Psychology Dep., University of California, Santa Cruz
1997-1998	Visiting Scholar, Prof. K. Holyoak's lab,
	Psychology Dep., University of California, Los Angels
1999-2007	Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Kyoto University (JAPAN)
2007-	Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Kyoto University (JAPAN)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Cognitive Science Society
• Psychonomic Society
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Risk Analysis: Japan-Section
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• Japanese Psychological Association
• Japanese Cognitive Science Society
• Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
• Japanese Society of Cognitive Psychology
• Japan Society of Developmental Psychology
• Japanese Association of Social Psychology
• Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence
• Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
• Japan Society for Educational Technology
• Behavioral Metrics Society
• Japan Reading Association
• Society of Expression-Formation Studies
• Japanese Society for Study of Career education
• Liberal and Educational Society of Japan

　

EDITORIAL AND GOVERNING BOARD

Editorial board,
1990-1994	Advances in Japanese Cognitive Science
1992-1994	Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology
1994-1996	Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
1998-2003	Japanese Journal of Psychology, Japanese Psychological Research
1998-2003	Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
1998-	Psychologia: An international Journal of Psychological Sciences
2003-	Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology
2004-2006 2007-	Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
Governing board,
1989-1992	Japanese Cognitive Science Society
1997-2003	Japanese Cognitive Science Society
2007-	Japanese Cognitive Science Society
2003-	Japanese Society of Cognitive Psychology

ACADEMIC HONOR

• 1990 Annual conference award by Japanese Cognitive Science Society
• 2003 The most 'Outstanding Paper' in the 2002 volume: European Journal of Marketing
• 2006 'Outstanding Paper' in the 2005 volume: Japanese Journal of Psychology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Papers

　

2008

Sugimori, E. & Kusumi, T.  (2008).  Limiting Attentional Resources Influences Performance and Output Monitoring of an Event-Based Prospective Memory Task .　 European Journal of Cognitive Psychology  DOI: 10.1080/09541440802003108

Komeda,H., Kawasaki, M., Tsunemi, K., & Kusumi, T. (in press). The differences between estimating protagonists' and evaluating readers' emotion in narrative comprehension. Cognition and Emotion. DOI: 10.1080/02699930801949116

Sugimori, E. & Kusumi, T.  (2008).  Output monitoring error: Effects of previously encoded action phrases. Psychologia,　51(1),76-88.

　

Sugimori, E. & Kusumi, T. (2008). Relationship between cue word activation and prospective memory performance. Psychological Reports, 102, 317-327. DOI   10.2466/PR0.102.1.317-327

2007

Kojima, T. & Kusumi, T. (2007) Spatial term apprehension with a reference object's rotation in three-dimensional space. Cognitive Processing, published online in Springer (http://www.springerlink.com/content/1612-4782), DOI 10.1007/s10339-007-0181-z  [PDF]

Kojima, T. & Kusumi, T. (2007) .  Computing positions indicated by spatial terms in three-dimensional space. Psychologia, 30,, 203-223. DOI   10.2117/psysoc.2007.203

2006

Kusumi, T. 2006 Human metacognition and the deja vu phenomenon. In K.Fujita & S. Itakura (Eds.)　Diversity of Cognition: Evolution, Development, Domestication, and Pathology (pp.302-314). Kyoto University Press [PDF]

Kojima, T. & Kusumi, T. 2006 The effect of the extra object on the linguistic apprehension of spatial relationship between two objects. Spatial Cognition and Computation 6, 145-160. DOI   10.1207/s15427633scc0602_2

Komeda, H. & Kusumi, T. 2006 The effect of a protagonists' emotional shift on situation model construction Memory & Cognition, . 34(7).,1548-1556 PDF!.

Before 2005

Otani, H., Kusumi,T., Kato, K. Matsuda, K., Kern, R.P., Widner,R. Jr., & Ohta, N. 2005 Remembering a nuclear accident in Japan: Did it trigger flashbulb memories? Memory, 13, (1), 6 - 20. [PDF]

Kuriyama, N.，Yamagishi，K., &　Kusumi，T．(2003).  Effects　of　instructions　and　representation on mathematical problem solving. Psychological Reports,  93, 603-609. DOI   10.2466/PR0.93.6.603-609

Matsuo, M. & Kusumi, T. 　2002　 Salesperson’s procedural knowledge, experience and performance: An empirical study in Japan. European Journal of Marketing, 36(7&8),840-854. DOI  10.1108/03090560210430836

Komeda, H. & Kusumi, T.  2002  Reader's changing emotions related to the construction of a situation model. Tohoku Psychologica Folia, 61,48-54.[PDF]

Sugimura, K. & Kusumi, T. 2000 A container image schema and polysemous meaning in Japanese verb. Japanese Society,4, 65-80.

Satou, K., Shiratori, N., Nunokawa, H., Kusumi, T.,  &  Noguchi, N. 1997 A user interface metaphor for distributed systems. Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science),80(11),  82-93.[PDF]

Matsuda, N., Ihara, J., & Kusumi, T. 1994 Belief, preference and willingness under uncertainty. Japanese Psychological Research, 36, 29-40.

Kusumi, T. 1994 Semantic change of topic in metaphor comprehension: Interaction of constituent words. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 65, 197-205. (In Japanese with English summary).[PDF]

Kusumi, T. 1994 Individual differences in risk perception and decision making under uncertainty. Japanese Psychological Review, 37(3) 337-356. [PDF]

Kusumi, T. 1988 Comprehending of synesthetic expressions: Cross-modal modifications of sense adjectives. The Japanese Journal of psychology, 58, 373-380. (In Japanese with English summary).[PDF]

Kusumi, T. 1987 Effects of categorical dissimilarity and affective similarity between constituent words on metaphor appreciation. Journal of Psycholinguistic research, 16, 577- 596. [PDF]

Kusumi, T. 1985 Similarity between constituent words or phrases of metaphors: Effects of feature salience in comprehending metaphors. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 56,269-276. (In Japanese with English summary)

Proceedings

2008

2007

Tanaka,Y. &  Kusumi, T. (2007).　The Effect of Belief in Implicit Assumption on Evaluation of the Enthymeme. Poster session presented at 28th annual conference of The Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Nabeta, T. & Kusumi,T. (2007).　Haptic Memory Capacity.  Poster session presented at the 48th ANNUAL MEETING　of the　PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY　Long beach

Matsuda, K. & Kusumi, T. (2007).　The Effects of Emotional Association and Intervals on Evaluation of Advertised Products. Poster session presented at the 48th ANNUAL MEETING　of the　PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY　Long beach

Tomohiro Taira, T., Nakamoto, K., Kidoguchi, K., Kimura, Y., Tsunemi, K., Igawa,Y., & Kusumi, T. 2007 Comprehension of Concrete and Abstract Action-Sentence. Poster session presented at 28th Annual Conference on the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville.

　

Tsunemi, K., & Kusumi, T.  2007 The Role of Autobiographical Memories in Story Comprehension.  Poster session presented at 28th Annual Conference on the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville.

　

Kojima,T., & Kusumi, T.  2007  Construction of Acceptability Computation Algorithm for Projective Spatial Terms . Poster session presented at 28th Annual Conference on the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville.

　

2006

　

KusumiT.,Fukao,K.,Murai，T.,Yamada,M.,& Sengoku, A. Déjà vu and jamais vu in normal and epileptic patients: False recognition influenced by familiarity.  Ｐｏｓｔｅｒ session presented at 47th ANNUAL MEETING　of the　PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY　Houston, Texas　Thursday, November 16 – Sunday, November 19, 2006

　

Kojima,T. &  Kusumi,T.  The effect of a reference object's orientation on the apprehension of spatial terms. 3rd International Conference on Spatial Cognition Rome, Perugia:September 12-15, 2006

　

Komeda, H., Taira, T., Tsunemi, K., & Kusumi, T.  Readers’ affective responses to characters in narrative comprehension　16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse　July 13-15, 2006, at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

　

Kojima,T. &  Kusumi,T.  Do You Understand Spatial Terms Similarly?  5th International Conference on Cognitive Science Vancouver, Canada, July 26, 2006

　

Matsuda, K. & Kusumi , T. Effect of the correlational attributes on mere exposure in concept formation　The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in cooperation with the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science Vancouver, Canada, July 26-29, 2006

　

Kojima,T. &  Kusumi,T. The Effect of an Extra Object on the Apprehension of Projective Spatial Terms. The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in cooperation with the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science Vancouver, Canada, July 26-29, 2006

　

Hattori, T. & Kusumi The Influence of Procedural and Conceptual Examples on Mathematical Problem Solving. Poster session presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada  July 26-29, 2006 [PDF] 

Taira, T. & Kusumi, T. The Effect of Metaphor Familiarity on Semantic Activation The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in cooperation with the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science Vancouver, Canada, July 26-29, 2006

2005

Sugimori, E. & Kusumi, T. 2005 How does performing a dual-task influence imagination inflation?.　　The 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society Toronto

Nakamoto, K. & Kusumi, T. 2004 The effect of repeated presentation and aptness of figurative comparisons on preference for metaphor forms Annual Meeting　of Conference on Cognitive Science [PDF]

Matsuda, K. & Kusumi, T. 2004 The Mere Exposure Effect on Incidental Concept Formation Annual Meeting　of Conference on Cognitive Science [PDF]

Kojima, T. & Kusumi, T. 2004 The relationship between Japanese spatial terms and visual factors in three- dimensional virtual space Annual Meeting of Conference on Cognitive Science [PDF]

Komeda, H. & Kusumi, T. 2004 The effect of a character’s emotional shift on narrative comprehension Annual Meeting of Conference on Cognitive Science [PDF]

Before 2003

Sugimori, E.　＆　Kusumi,　T.　2003 Response biases of time and quality in source judgment. 3rd Tsukuba International Conference on Memory

Matsuda,K．　＆　Kusumi，　T.　2003 A mere exposure effect for the concept formation: The effect of typicality and the number of exposures on affect and recognition judgment　3rd　Tsukuba International Conference on Memory

Kusumi, T. 2001 Image schemas of emotion in pictorial metaphors. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor.

Kusumi, T. 2000 A triangular model of metaphoric representation.　　Workshop of Braiding the multiple threads of interdisciplinary research on metaphor　Proceedings of the 17th Annual meeting on the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. <abstract> <PDF File>

Jimura, K., Komazaki, H., Matsuoka, T., Nakagawa, M, & Kusumi, T. 2000 A dynamical model of insightful memory retrieval. Proceedings of the 22ed Annual Conference on the Cognitive Science Society. 711-716.[PDF]

Kusumi, T. 1999 Effects of analogical message on risk perception-attitudes towards the risks and benefits of nuclear power plant. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Matsuo, M. & Kusumi, T. 1999　A salesperson’s procedural knowledge and performance: The moderating effect of sales experience Paper presented at the Third World Management of Congress on the　Intellectual Capital, Hamilton, Canada.

Matsuo, M. & Kusumi, T. 1999 The influence of sales department culture on performance through sales style: An empirical study of Japanese Firms. Paper presented at 1999 Midwest Academy of Management Conference, Nebraska

Kusumi, T. 1999 Effects of analogical message on risk perception-attitudes towards the risks and benefits of nuclear power plant. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Terao, A. Ichikawa, S., & Kusumi, T. 1996 The effect of heuristic induction on transfer in mathematical problem solving. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p.854). San Diego, CA.

Kusumi, T. 1996 Image schema of emotion in drawing task. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p.791). San Diego, CA.

Kusumi, T., Nunokawa, H., & Satou, K. 1994 Interface metaphors and their roles in the learning of computer systems. In Proceedings of FRIEND21 '94 International symposium on next generation human interface (Metaphor II, pp.1-16), Tokyo.

　

PAST EVENTS

International seminar on deja vu and memory (March 15-16, 2006)

October. 3, 2008