Dean of School of Psychology / Professor
Hirohito M. Kondo, Ph.D.


Biography
Hirohito Kondo conducted research on the nature of working memory and attentional control while a PhD student. He obtained his PhD (Experimental Psychology) from Kyoto University in 2002 and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow. His interest in conscious awareness has led him to investigate where and how meaningful perceptual objects are formed in the human brain. He took up a Research Scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in 2003. He was also a Visiting Scholar, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University from 2014 to 2016. He came to Chukyo University at Nagoya in 2017, where he is currently a Professor of the School of Psychology.
Research Interests

A major goal of his research is to understand the neural mechanisms that enable people to see and hear meaningful perceptual objects in ambiguous sensory inputs. He is also interested in temporal dynamics of attentional fluctuation because the reduction of attentional levels can cause mental distraction, cognitive errors, and even serious accidents. His particular focus concerns individual differences in perceptual organization and sustained attention. He combines various approaches to these aims, such as psychophysical, neuroimaging (fMRI/MRS), and genotyping methods.
Service to Scientific Community
Associate Editor |
Frontiers in Neuroscience Frontiers in Psychology |
Editorial Board |
Scientific Reports |
Executive Board | Japanese Psychonomic Society |
Lead Guest Editor | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Special Issue on 'Sensing and Feeling' (appear) Special Issue on 'Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis' (published in 2017) |
Guest Editor | Scientific Reports Special Issue on 'Time Perception' (published in 2022) |
Organizer | CNRS-NTT Joint Seminar 2016 Theme: 'Theoretical and Experimental Approaches towards Auditory Scene Analysis' |
Researcher / Part-Time Lecturer
Yuko Haga, Ph.D. | Keywords: autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), face perception |
Research Assistant
Manami Ueda, M.A. | Clinical psychologist |
Graduate Students
Yohsuke Hasegawa | Keywords: binocular rivalry |
Rikuto Suzuki | Keywords: auditory illusion, highly sensitive person (HSP) |
Shinya Tokuda | Keywords: face perception |
Liu Ruoyu | Keywords: autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) |
Mizuki Niijima | Keywords: auditory perception |
Daigo Hozaki | Keywords: autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) |
Shoki Maeda | Keywords: auditory illusion |
Former Members
Jean-Michel Hupé | University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and CNRS |
Hao Tam Ho | École normale supérieure (Ens) |
Ryuju Hasegawa | IT consultant |
Kanae Tada | IT professional |