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Principle Investigator
The Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory is one of the few laboratories on the campus of the California Institute of Technology which exclusively concentrates on the study of perception, cognition, and action in humans. Our lab employs psychophysical paradigms and a variety of recording techniques such as eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG), as well as, brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and recently ultrasound neuromodulation (UNM). We try to bridge the gap between cognitive and neurosciences. We would like to understand how the brain adapts real-world constraints to resolve perceptual ambiguity and to reach ecologically valid, unique solutions. In addition to our continuing interest in surface representation, motion perception, attention, and action, we also focus on crossmodal integration (including VR environments), visual preference/attractiveness decision, social brain, flow and choke in the game-playing brains, individual differences related to “neural, dynamic fingerprint” of the brain.
News:
- Prof. Kirschvink and Prof. Shimojo published a paper on human magnetoreception in eNeuro. (Journal article) (The Project Page) (The Guardian article) (Youtube cover)
- The updated information for CNS/Bi/SS/Psy 176 – Cognition course is on CNS wiki
- Dr. Stiles and Prof. Shimojo published a paper on intuitive texture stimuli for sensory substitution in Scientific Reports. Journal article. Caltech Media Article.
- Dr. Stiles and Prof. Shimojo published a book chapter on Sensory Substitution and Crossmodal Plasticity in the Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization. Links: hardcover version at OUP or hardcover version at Amazon
- Dr. Stiles and Prof. Shimojo published a paper on constancy learning with sensory substitution in Frontiers in Psychology
- Dr. Gharib and Prof. Shimojo published a paper on social preferences in Autism in Neuropsychologia
- Prof Levitan, Dr. Stiles, and Prof. Shimojo published a paper on crossmodal rate adaptation in Scientific Reports
Prof. Shimojo’s work in Japanese language:
- The dimension of Implicit Cognition (Yuuhi Kaku, 2019, in press).
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Modern World in A Blackbox (Nihon Hyoronsha, 2017).
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For his older books in Japanese, please visit: here
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Prof. Shimojo has been writing as a regular scientific columnist for a Japanese newspaper (Asahi Shimbun) digital site (Asahi WEBRONZA). Here are all the articles until recently (3 month ago).