Nobuyuki Kawai
Biographic Data
| ID | 6260773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nobuyuki Kawai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nobuyuki |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawai |
| SIGNATURE | KAWAI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0372-1703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reduced childhood social attention in autism model marmosets predicts impaired social skills and inflexible behavior in adulthood
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social and communication impairments and restricted and repetitive behavior. Although there is currently no established cure for ASD, early interventions for deficits of attention to other individuals are expected to reduce the progression of ASD symptoms in later life. To confirm this hypothesis and improve early therapeutic interventions, it is desirable to develo…
A human voice, but not human visual image makes people perceive food to taste better and to eat more
Repeated Stops for a Red Light Induced a Left‐Superior Asymmetrical Brain Activity in the Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy Reflecting Approach Motivation of Anger in Elderly Adults but not in Younger Adults
Previous electroencephalography studies on anger suggest that greater left than right frontal cortical activity is associated with approach motivation of anger. Our previous study showed that greater left‐superior frontal activation of electroencephalography was associated with subjective anger during a traffic jam simulation that forced participants to maintain a slower speed than expected in elderly adults, but not in young adults. We subsequen…
“Granny dumping”
In a simulated moral dilemma, most people would be willing to endorse killing a single individual to save five others, but do people show the same degree of resistance to sacrificing people of different ages? In the present study, participants were asked to choose how acceptable it was to sacrifice one individual from a number of different age groups in order to save five others in a trolley problem. The sacrificial targets were a 70‐year‐old mal…
The reversed work-ethic effect
We investigated how different numbers of responses prior to the presentation of a stimulus influenced preferences for the stimulus in three Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Monkeys were trained for two kinds of simultaneous discriminations that followed a high-effort or a low-effort response. In probe test trials, the stimulus that followed the high-effort and the stimulus that followed the low-effort response during discriminations were presen…
Attentional shift by eye gaze requires joint attention
Researchers have demonstrated that attentional shift triggered by gaze direction is reflexive. However, here we show that attentional shift by gaze direction was not always reflexive, but could be modulated by another's perspective. In Experiment 1, a schematic face's line of sight to a peripheral target was obstructed by a vertical barrier located between the face and the target under two conditions. However, the line of sight of the face was cl…
Crossmodal spatial attention shift produced by centrally presented gaze cues 1
Despite previous failures to identify visual‐upon‐auditory spatial‐cuing effects, recent studies have demonstrated that the abrupt onset of a lateralized visual stimulus triggers a shift of spatial attention in response to auditory judgment. Nevertheless, whether a centrally presented visual stimulus orients auditory attention remained unclear. The present study investigated whether centrally presented gaze cues trigger a reflexive shift of atten…
Effects upon rats' responses on a running wheel of single alternation of large and small rewards and external cues
Thirty‐two rats were trained to run on a running wheel for one or six pellets of food, in either single alternation (SA) or quasi‐random sequences of reward magnitude and with external cues either informing or not informing the rats of the reward magnitude. Reward‐magnitude discrimination was clearly shown when the informative cues were given, but without such cues the SA patterning of responding appeared only late in training. The reward‐magnitu…
Failure of Retrospective Inference in Rats' Taste Aversion
Three experiments explored the possibility of retrospective inference in the rat. Experiment 1 revealed that poisoning of an element of a taste compound after single compound poisoning enhanced aversion to the other element, and that presentation of an element without poison after the compound poisoning reduced aversion to the other element. These results were opposite to those predicted by retrospective inference. Experiment 2 eliminated some co…
Failure of Retrospective Inference in Rats' Taste Aversion
Three experiments explored the possibility of retrospective inference in the rat. Experiment 1 revealed that poisoning of an element of a taste compound after single compound poisoning enhanced aversion to the other element, and that presentation of an element without poison after the compound poisoning reduced aversion to the other element. These results were opposite to those predicted by retrospective inference. Experiment 2 eliminated some co…
Effects upon rats' responses on a running wheel of single alternation of large and small rewards and external cues
Thirty‐two rats were trained to run on a running wheel for one or six pellets of food, in either single alternation (SA) or quasi‐random sequences of reward magnitude and with external cues either informing or not informing the rats of the reward magnitude. Reward‐magnitude discrimination was clearly shown when the informative cues were given, but without such cues the SA patterning of responding appeared only late in training. The reward‐magnitu…
Crossmodal spatial attention shift produced by centrally presented gaze cues 1
Despite previous failures to identify visual‐upon‐auditory spatial‐cuing effects, recent studies have demonstrated that the abrupt onset of a lateralized visual stimulus triggers a shift of spatial attention in response to auditory judgment. Nevertheless, whether a centrally presented visual stimulus orients auditory attention remained unclear. The present study investigated whether centrally presented gaze cues trigger a reflexive shift of atten…
The reversed work-ethic effect
We investigated how different numbers of responses prior to the presentation of a stimulus influenced preferences for the stimulus in three Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Monkeys were trained for two kinds of simultaneous discriminations that followed a high-effort or a low-effort response. In probe test trials, the stimulus that followed the high-effort and the stimulus that followed the low-effort response during discriminations were presen…
Attentional shift by eye gaze requires joint attention
Researchers have demonstrated that attentional shift triggered by gaze direction is reflexive. However, here we show that attentional shift by gaze direction was not always reflexive, but could be modulated by another's perspective. In Experiment 1, a schematic face's line of sight to a peripheral target was obstructed by a vertical barrier located between the face and the target under two conditions. However, the line of sight of the face was cl…
“Granny dumping”
In a simulated moral dilemma, most people would be willing to endorse killing a single individual to save five others, but do people show the same degree of resistance to sacrificing people of different ages? In the present study, participants were asked to choose how acceptable it was to sacrifice one individual from a number of different age groups in order to save five others in a trolley problem. The sacrificial targets were a 70‐year‐old mal…
Repeated Stops for a Red Light Induced a Left‐Superior Asymmetrical Brain Activity in the Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy Reflecting Approach Motivation of Anger in Elderly Adults but not in Younger Adults
Previous electroencephalography studies on anger suggest that greater left than right frontal cortical activity is associated with approach motivation of anger. Our previous study showed that greater left‐superior frontal activation of electroencephalography was associated with subjective anger during a traffic jam simulation that forced participants to maintain a slower speed than expected in elderly adults, but not in young adults. We subsequen…
A human voice, but not human visual image makes people perceive food to taste better and to eat more
Reduced childhood social attention in autism model marmosets predicts impaired social skills and inflexible behavior in adulthood
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social and communication impairments and restricted and repetitive behavior. Although there is currently no established cure for ASD, early interventions for deficits of attention to other individuals are expected to reduce the progression of ASD symptoms in later life. To confirm this hypothesis and improve early therapeutic interventions, it is desirable to develo…
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Autism (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)