Research fields

Cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
I am interested in how human brain represents the higher-cognitive functions such as the visual perception, attention, and social interactions. I would like to make it clearer through brain imaging techniques and experimental psychological methods.  I am also interested in the effects of emotional stimuli on cognitive process.

Subjects

Special lecture on Cognitive Psychology and human communication, cognition and perception.

Human Communication Course

http://web.cla.kobe-u.ac.jp/graduate-en/course-g-en/human-en.html
 

Recent Publication (selected)

Kawashima, T., & Matsumoto, E. (2018) Negative cues lead to more inefficient search than positive cues even at later stages of visual search. ActaPsychologica (accepted)
Kawashima, T., & Matsumoto, E. (2017). Cognitive control of attentional guidance by visual and verbal working memory representations. Japanese Psychological Research, 59, 49–57.
Kirjakovski, A., & Matsumoto, E. (2016） Numerosity underestimation in sets with illusory contours. Vision Research, 122 34-42 doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2016.03.005.
Kawashima, T., & Matsumoto, E. (2016). Electrophysiological evidence that top-down knowledge controls working memory processing for subsequent visual search. NeuroReport, 27, 345–349.
Matsumoto, E., (2015) The attentional capture by emotional distractor faces differed between adult’s and children’s facial expression. Perception, 44, pp.68-69.
Kabata T, Matsumoto E. (2012) Cueing effects on target location probability and repetition. Vision Research. 73, pp.23-29 2012.
Matsumoto, E. (2010). Bias in attending to emotional facial expressions: Anxiety and visual search efficiency. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 414-424. DOI:10.1002/acp.1686