Aki Tsuruhara

Biographic Data

ID8864263
NAMEAki Tsuruhara
GIVEN NAMESAki
FAMILY NAMETsuruhara
SIGNATURETSURUHARA A
AFFILIATIONSChuo University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • Two‐ to three‐month‐old infants prefer moving face patterns to moving top‐heavy patterns

    Open AccessHiroko Ichikawa, Aki Tsuruhara et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research2013

    Newborn infants prefer face‐like patterns over non‐face‐like patterns. This preference is explained by newborns' preference for a “top‐heavy” configuration, that is, for geometric patterns that have more elements in the upper part than in the lower part of the configuration ( S imion, V alenza, M acchi C assia, T urati, & U miltà, 2002). However, for 3‐month‐old infants, face preference cannot be explained only by a preference for “top‐heaviness”…

  • Infants' perception of human body orientation and the effect of a surrounding square

    Open AccessAki Tsuruhara, So Kanazawa et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research2010

    We examined two hypotheses about infants' perception of orientation. The first is that infants develop an expectation that the human body is normally vertical. To examine this hypothesis, we compared the preferential looking to vertical and oblique versions of a silhouette of a human body, to an inverted body, and to a grating. Our second hypothesis is that presenting a figure inside a frame affects the perception of orientation. To examine the s…