Updated on 2025/07/16

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YAMAMOTO HISAKO
 
Organization
Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences Associate Professor
School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences
Title
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Institute of Literature and Human Sciences

Position

  • Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences 

    Associate Professor  2025.04 - Now

  • School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences 

    Associate Professor  2025.04 - Now

Degree

  • 博士（教育学） （ The University of Tokyo ）

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Cognitive science  / Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science

Research Interests

  • emotion

  • speech perception

  • Cognitive psychology

  • language aquisition

  • audiovisual integration

  • Developmental psychology

Professional Memberships

  • 日本基礎心理学会

  • 日本認知科学会

  • 日本発達心理学会

  • 日本教育心理学会

  • 日本心理学会

Job Career (off-campus)

  • Osaka Metropolitan University   Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences

    2025.04 - Now

  • Ritsumeikan University   College of Comprehensive Psychology

    2023.04 - 2025.03

Papers

  • Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? Reviewed

    Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

    Frontiers in Psychology   16   2025.01（ eISSN:1664-1078 ）

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    Authorship：Lead author   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

    Introduction

    Individuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. In contrast, those from East-Asian cultures rely more on voices. This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whether common features of migration produce a similar modification regardless of the destination.

    Methods

    We examined how immigrants from Western countries to Japan perceive emotional expressions from faces and voices using MRI scanning.

    Results

    Immigrants behaviorally exhibited a decrease in the influence of emotions in voices with a longer stay in Japan. Additionally, immigrants with a longer stay showed a higher response in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, a brain region associated with audiovisual emotional integration, when processing emotionally congruent faces and voices.

    Discussion

    These modifications imply that immigrants from Western cultures tend to rely even less on voices, in contrast to the tendency of voice-dominance observed in native Japanese people. This change may be explained by the decreased focus on prosodic aspects of voices during second language acquisition. The current and further exploration will aid in the better adaptation of immigrants to a new cultural society.

    DOI： 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1533274

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  • A cross-cultural study on attention allocation during information integration

    Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research)  2027

  • A cross-cultural study on attention allocation during information integration

    Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research)  2026

  • A cross-cultural study on attention allocation during information integration

    Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research)  2025

Charge of on-campus class subject

  • 心理学研究演習1

    2025   Weekly class   Undergraduate

  • 心理学実験演習2（心理学実験）

    2025   Weekly class   Undergraduate

  • 心理学実験演習1（心理学実験）

    2025   Weekly class   Undergraduate

  • 人間行動学研究演習1

    2025   Intensive lecture   Undergraduate

  • 心理学研究指導1

    2025   Intensive lecture   Graduate school

  • 心理学総合研究演習1

    2025   Weekly class   Graduate school

  • 心理学特殊問題研究B

    2025   Weekly class   Graduate school

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Charge of off-campus class subject

  • 心理学（専門）

    2023
    -
    Now
    Institution：Keio University

  • Language Development

    2023
    -
    Now
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • Introductory Seminar 2

    2023
    -
    2025
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • Advanced Seminar

    2023
    -
    2025
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • Topics in Comprehensive Psychology 2

    2023
    -
    2025
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • 心理学実験II

    2023
    -
    2024
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • 心理学統計法I

    2023
    -
    2024
    Institution：Ritsumeikan University

  • 心理・コミュニケーション概論

    2023
    Institution：Tokyo Woman's Christian University

  • 実験演習III

    2021
    Institution：Tokyo Woman's Christian University

  • 2年次演習（心理学）

    2017
    Institution：Tokyo Woman's Christian University

  • 教育心理学

    2014
    Institution：Seigakuin University

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