Cognitive Psychological Research about Head Based Attentional Modulation

• Project/Area Number: 25780441
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (2014); Tohoku University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: NAKASHIMA Ryoichi 独立行政法人理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 研究員 (30626073)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 視覚的注意 / 頭部方向 / 眼球運動 / 頭部と眼球の協調関係 / 頭部運動 / 頭部と眼球の協調的関係 / 視覚的認知 / 視覚探索

Outline of Final Research Achievements

People usually see things using frontal viewing, and avoid eccentric gaze where the directions of the head and eyes are largely different. This study examined the relationship between head direction and visual attention to clarify visual perceptual effects of head direction. Results of visual search experiments show that lateral viewing increased the time required to detect a target in a serial attentive search task. Further, we conducted a visual identification experiment where a target was presented in the peripheral visual field. We manipulated the participants’ head direction and fixation position: the head was directed to the fixation location, the target position, or the opposite side of the fixation. The performance was highest when the head was directed to the target position even when there was misalignment of the head and eye. The results suggest that visual perception (visual attentive processing) can be influenced by both head direction and fixation position.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Facilitation of visual perception in head direction: Visual attention modulation based on head direction (2015)
  • Author(s): Ryoichi Nakashima & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Journal Title: PLoS ONE Volume: 10(4): e0124367. Issue: 4 Pages: 1-11
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124367
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Eye-head coordination for visual cognitive processing (2015)
  • Author(s): Yu Fang, Ryoichi Nakashima, Kazumichi Matsumiya, Ichiro Kuriki, & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Journal Title: PLoS ONE Volume: 10(3): e0121035 Issue: 3 Pages: 1-17
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121035
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Eye-position distribution depending on head orientation when observing movies on ultrahigh-definition television (2015)
  • Author(s): Yu Fang, Masaki Emoto, Ryoichi Nakashima, Kazumichi Matsumiya, Ichiro Kuriki, & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Journal Title: ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications Volume: 3(2) Pages: 149-154
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Visual attention modulation based on head direction (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoichi Nakashima & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Journal Title: The Japanes Journal of Psychonomic Science Volume: 33(1) Pages: 131-132
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Why do we move our head to look at an object in our peripheral region? Lateral viewing interferes with attentive search (2014)
  • Author(s): R. Nakashima and S. Shioiri
  • Journal Title: PLoS One Volume: Vol. 9 (3) Issue: 3 Pages: 1-7
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092284
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 視線方向・頭部方向と視覚的注意 (2015)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一・熊田孝恒
  • Organizer: 「注意と認知」第13回合宿研究会
  • Place of Presentation: ホテルサンルートプラザ名古屋（愛知）
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-15 – 2015-03-17
• [Presentation] 視線が向きやすい方向に注意も向きやすい：視線・頭部方向と視覚的注意 (2014)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一・熊田孝恒
  • Organizer: 日本基礎心理学会大33回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 首都大学東京（東京）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-06 – 2014-12-07
• [Presentation] 横目観察では視覚処理が妨害される (2014)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一・塩入諭
  • Organizer: 日本基礎心理学会大33回大会サテライトオーラルセッション
  • Place of Presentation: 首都大学東京（東京）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-05
• [Presentation] Head direction information improves the accuracy of gaze estimation (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoichi Nakashima, Yu Fang, Akinori Hiratani, Kazumichi Matsumiya, Ichiro Kuriki, & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Organizer: The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision
  • Place of Presentation: Takamatsu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-19 – 2014-07-22
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Multiple gaze saccades during unrestrained eye-head movement in visual search (2014)
  • Author(s): Yu Fang, Ryoichi Nakashima, Kazumichi Matsumiya, Ichiro Kuriki, & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Organizer: The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision
  • Place of Presentation: Takamatsu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-19 – 2014-07-22
• [Presentation] The visual processing facilitation by the head direction (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoichi Nakashima & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Organizer: The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision
  • Place of Presentation: Takamatsu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-19 – 2014-07-22
• [Presentation] 視覚的注意に対する頭部方向バイアス (2014)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一、塩入諭
  • Organizer: 「注意と認知」第12回合宿研究会
  • Place of Presentation: ホテルサンルートプラザ名古屋（愛知県）
• [Presentation] 頭部運動情報を考慮した視線予測地図による視線位置推定 (2013)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一・方昱・平谷皓倫・松宮一道・栗木一郎・塩入諭
  • Organizer: 日本視覚学会2013年夏季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌市立大学（北海道）
• [Presentation] Gaze estimation with a saliency map and head movements (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryoichi Nakashima, Yu Fang, Akinori Hiratani, Kazumichi Matsumiya, Ichiro Kuriki, & Satoshi Shioiri
  • Organizer: International Joint Workshop on Advanced Sensing / Visual Attention and Interaction (ASVAI2013)
  • Place of Presentation: LOISIR HOTEL NAHA (Okinawa)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 頭部方向ベースの視覚的注意 (2013)
  • Author(s): 中島亮一、塩入諭
  • Organizer: 日本基礎心理学会第32回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢市文化ホール（石川県）