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Published papers
O’Donohue, M., Lacherez, P., & Yamamoto, N. (in press). Musical training and auditory-visual detection: Effects on reaction times, multisensory integration, modality-shifting, and selective attention. Music Perception.
Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (in press). What visually directed action reveals about perception of ambulatory space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Costa, C., Pezzetta, R., Toffalini, E., Grassi, M., Cona, G., Miniussi, C., Bauer, P. J., Borgomaneri, S., Brysbaert, M., Chambers, C. D., Edelstyn, N., Eerland, A., Gilbert, S. J., Nitsche, M. A., Poldrack, R. A., Puce, A., Ridderinkhof, K. R., Swaab, T. Y., Umiltà, C., Wiener, M., & Scarpazza, C. on behalf of the PECANS Extended Working Group*. (2025). Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS statement for human studies. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), Article 182. (*I contributed to the publication as a member of this consortium.)
O’Donohue, M. P., Lacherez, P., & Yamamoto, N. (2025). Effects of short- and long-term experience on two classical measures of the multisensory temporal integration window. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(3), 386–404.
Van Pelt, J., Lowe, B. G., Robinson, J. E., Donaldson, M. J., Johnston, P., & Yamamoto, N. (2025). An event-related potential study of onset primacy in visual change detection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(4), 1219–1229.
Yamamoto, N., & Nightingale, M. (2024). How well do we do social distancing? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(5), 1106–1112.
Anastasiou, C., Baumann, O., & Yamamoto, N. (2023). Does path integration contribute to human navigation in large-scale space? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(3), 822–842. [Open-access version]
Baker, K. S., Johnston, P., Yamamoto, N., & Pegna, A. J. (2023). Event-related potentials index prediction error signalling during perceptual processing of emotional facial expressions. Brain Topography, 36(3), 419–432.
Lowe, B. G., Robinson, J. E., Yamamoto, N., Hogendoorn, H., & Johnston, P. (2023). Same but different: The latency of a shared expectation signal interacts with stimulus attributes. Cortex, 168, 143–156.
O’Donohue, M., Lacherez, P., & Yamamoto, N. (2023). Audiovisual spatial ventriloquism is reduced in musicians. Hearing Research, 440, Article 108918.
Rubie, E., Haworth, N., & Yamamoto, N. (2023). Passing distance, speed and perceived risks to the cyclist and driver in passing events. Journal of Safety Research, 87, 86–95.
Baker, K. S., Yamamoto, N., Pegna, A. J., & Johnston, P. (2022). Violated expectations for spatial and feature attributes of visual trajectories modulate event-related potential amplitudes across the visual processing hierarchy. Biological Psychology, 174, Article 108422. [Open-access version]
O’Donohue, M., Lacherez, P., & Yamamoto, N. (2022). Musical training refines audiovisual integration but does not influence temporal recalibration. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 15292.
Allen-Davidian, Y., Russo, M., Yamamoto, N., Kaufman, J., Pegna, A. J., & Johnston, P. (2021). Turning the face inversion effect on its head: Violated expectations of orientation, lighting, and gravity enhance N170 amplitudes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(2), 303–314.
Baker, K. S., Pegna, A. J., Yamamoto, N., & Johnston, P. (2021). Attention and prediction modulations in expected and unexpected visuospatial trajectories. PLOS ONE, 16(10), Article e0242753.
Shelton, A. L., & Yamamoto, N. (2021). Visual memory, spatial representation, and navigation. In J. Rummel (Ed.), Current issues in memory: Memory research in the public interest (pp. 27–63). Routledge.
Tiwari, K., Kyrki, V., Cheung, A., & Yamamoto, N. (2021). DeFINE: Delayed feedback-based immersive navigation environment for studying goal-directed human navigation. Behavior Research Methods, 53(6), 2668–2688. [Open-access version]
Rubie, E., Haworth, N., Twisk, D., & Yamamoto, N. (2020). Influences on lateral passing distance when motor vehicles overtake bicycles: A systematic literature review. Transport Reviews, 40(6), 754–773. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., Fox, M. J., Boys, E., & Ord, J. (2019). Effects of orientation change during environmental learning on age-related difference in spatial memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 365, 125–132. [Open-access version]
Li, X., Allen, P. A., Lien, M.-C., & Yamamoto, N. (2017). Practice makes it better: A psychophysical study of visual perceptual learning and its transfer effects on aging. Psychology and Aging, 32(1), 16–27.
Yamamoto, N. (2017). Distance perception. In J. S. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, & B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (continuously updated ed., pp. 1–5). Springer International Publishing. [Open-access version]
Donaldson, M. J., & Yamamoto, N. (2016). Detection of object onsets and offsets: Does the primacy of onset persist even with bias for detecting offset? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(7), 1901–1915. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., Incera, S., & McLennan, C. T. (2016). A reverse Stroop task with mouse tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 670.
Yamamoto, N., Meléndez, J. A., & Menzies, D. T. (2014). Homing by path integration when a locomotion trajectory crosses itself. Perception, 43(10), 1049–1060. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., Philbeck, J. W., Woods, A. J., Gajewski, D. A., Arthur, J. C., Potolicchio, S. J., Jr., Levy, L., & Caputy, A. J. (2014). Medial temporal lobe roles in human path integration. PLOS ONE, 9(5), Article e96583.
Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2013). Intrinsic frames of reference in haptic spatial learning. Cognition, 129(2), 447–456. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2013). Peripheral vision benefits spatial learning by guiding eye movements. Memory & Cognition, 41(1), 109–121. [Open-access version]
Donaldson, M. J., & Yamamoto, N. (2012). Detection of object onset and offset in naturalistic scenes. In C. Stachniss, K. Schill, & D. Uttal (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 7463. Spatial Cognition VIII (pp. 451–460). Springer-Verlag. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N. (2012). The role of active locomotion in space perception. Cognitive Processing, 13(Suppl. 1), S365–S368. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & DeGirolamo, G. J. (2012). Differential effects of aging on spatial learning through exploratory navigation and map reading. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4, Article 14.
Yamamoto, N., & Hirsch, D. A. (2012). "What" versus "how" in nonvisual whole-body movement. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2558–2563). Cognitive Science Society.
Shelton, A. L., & Yamamoto, N. (2009). Visual memory, spatial representation, and navigation. In J. R. Brockmole (Ed.), The visual world in memory (pp. 140–177). Psychology Press.
Yamamoto, N., & Shelton, A. L. (2009). Orientation dependence of spatial memory acquired from auditory experience. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(2), 301–305. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & Shelton, A. L. (2009). Sequential versus simultaneous viewing of an environment: Effects of focal attention to individual object locations on visual spatial learning. Visual Cognition, 17(4), 457–483. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & Shelton, A. L. (2008). Integrating object locations in the memory representation of a spatial layout. Visual Cognition, 16(1), 140–143. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & Shelton, A. L. (2007). Path information effects in visual and proprioceptive spatial learning. Acta Psychologica, 125(3), 346–360. [Open-access version]
Yamamoto, N., & Shelton, A. L. (2005). Visual and proprioceptive representations in spatial memory. Memory & Cognition, 33(1), 140–150. [Open-access version]
Ohba, T., Yanagimachi, K., Kinoshita, R., Yamamoto, N., Tamagawa, H., & Itoh, F. (2002). 利用者の移動費用から見たWebGISによる情報提供の便益評価 [Benefit evaluation for information providing system by WebGIS in view of users' travel costs]. Theory and Applications of GIS, 10(1), 59–66.
Yamamoto, N., & Okabe, A. (2002). 曲線通路における方向判断についての実験による分析 [An experimental analysis of direction judgment in a curved corridor]. Journal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering, 67(559), 165–170.
Yamamoto, N., & Okabe, A. (2002). 曲がり角が一つある通路における定性的方向推論についての実験による分析 [Qualitative spatial reasoning about directions in a corridor containing a single turn]. MERA Journal, 7(2), 11–20.
Yamamoto, N. (1999). 海外論文紹介：住宅および抵当市場の空間解析におけるGISの利用 [Review: GIS and spatial analysis of housing and mortgage markets]. The Quarterly Journal of Housing and Land Economics, 33, 36–39.
Manuscripts in progress
O’Donohue, M., Yamamoto, N., Odegaard, B., & Lacherez, P. (2024). A Bayesian prior in multisensory spatial perception is attenuated in musicians and is further attenuated following instruction. SSRN, 4977920.
Yamamoto, N., Mach, D. E., Philbeck, J. W., & Van Pelt, J. (2018). Why is the duration of imagined walking underproduced? A dual-representation view on the mental imagery of locomotion. PsyArXiv.
Last updated on 3 June 2025 by Naohide Yamamoto