Taya, Shuichiro

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Affiliation

Faculty of Law （Hiyoshi）

Position

Assistant Professor/Senior Assistant Professor
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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2008

    University of Southampton, School of Psychology

  • 2009
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    2010

    University of Surrey, School of Psychology

  • 2010
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    2012

    Queen Mary, University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

  • 2012
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    2016

    Taisho University, Dept. of Human Science, Faculty of Human Studies, Lecturer

  • 2016
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    Present

    慶応義塾大学, 法学部（日吉心理学教室）, 専任講師

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1996.04
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    2000.03

    Kyushu University, 文学部, 心理学専攻

    University, Graduated

  • 2000.04
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    2002.03

    Kyushu University, 人間環境学府, 行動システム心理学コース

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 2002.04
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    2005.03

    Kyushu University, 人間環境学府, 行動システム心理学コース

    Graduate School, Withdrawal after completion of doctoral course requirements, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

  • 修士（人間環境学）, Kyushu University, Coursework, 2002.03

  • 博士（心理学）, Kyushu University, 2007.07

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Experimental psychology

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • spatial perception

  • vision

  • visual illusion

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • Orientation-specific learning of the prior assumption for 3D slant perception

    Taya S., Sato M.

    Scientific Reports （Scientific Reports)  8 （ 1 ）  2018.12

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    We usually interpret a trapezoidal image on our retina as a slanted rectangle rather than a frontoparallel trapezoid, because we use a statistical assumption (i.e. rectangles are more common than trapezoids), called a ‘prior’, for recovering the 3D world from ambiguous 2D images. Here we report that the shape prior for recovering 3D slant can be updated differently depending on the slant axis orientation (horizontal vs. vertical). The participants were exposed to a variety of trapezoidal images surrounded by a stereoscopic reference plane. The perspective transformation of the images was interpreted as 2D shape, rather than 3D slant because the surrounding plane enhanced disparity. We found that, after continuous exposure to such images, the participants relied less on the shape information for recovering 3D slant, suggesting the update of priors via experience (i.e., rectangles are less common than trapezoids). Importantly, the learning effect was context (slant-axis) specific although partially transferred across contexts; the training with horizontal-axis slant reduced the reliance on perspective even in vertical-axis slant estimation but not vice versa. The results suggest that context-specific training is vital to update the prior for the horizontal-axis slant, whereas it is not required to update the prior for a vertical-axis slant.

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Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • A psychophysical study on functional aspects of visual filling phenomena

    2020.04
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    2023.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

  • 奥行き情報の矛盾が生み出す超立体感：「二重否定仮説」の検討

    2017.04
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    2020.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

  • Individual differences in visual perception and visual cognition caused by the difference in inter-ocular distance.

    2014.04
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    2018.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Principal investigator

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • QUESTIONS OF HUMANITY 1

    2023

  • PSYCHOLOGY 2

    2023

  • PSYCHOLOGY 1

    2023

  • COMPOSITE LECTURE IN NATURAL SCIENCE2

    2023

  • ADVANCED STUDIES IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 1

    2023

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