The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science
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Volume 33, Issue 2
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The 30th Anniversary Special Article
Original Article
  • Personal implications of specific long-term memories on social events: Retrospective and current memory of older Japanese adults' experiences of visiting world expositions
    David Anderson, Hiroyuki Shimizu
    2015 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 167-175
    Published: March 30, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: May 14, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.33.26
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    This study explored the retrospective and current memory implications of older Japanese adults' experiences of visiting World Expositions, concerning their own personal implications and significance of the specific long-term memories of these kinds of social events. Two independent data sets of older Japanese visitors' long-term memories of two different Japanese World Expositions (Osaka 1970 and Aichi 2005), based on responses to specific relating items in the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire (MCQ) instrument, were analyzed. The visiting experiences were encountered at two very different stages of the participants' lives: Visiting Expo 1970 was encountered while they were young adults and Expo 2005 while they were at the life stage of retirees. The study revealed a relationship between retrospective and current memory implications, and evidence that personal memories of these specific social events with a long retention interval had greater implications than those memories with a short interval.
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Research Note
  • Attractiveness of multiple simultaneously presented objects: Effects of stimulus specificity
    Hidekazu Yarimizu
    2015 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 176-181
    Published: March 30, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: May 14, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.33.27
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    Previously, Yarimizu and Kawahara (2014) found that observers could judge the attractiveness of multiple human faces as a whole, but it was unclear whether the result was specific to human faces. The present study investigated this point by using non-face objects. Participants were briefly (1.5 s) presented with two frames, each depicting four pairs of shoes, and were required to choose the most attractive one. Although they failed to make a judgment within this time frame, they gave a definitive response when the exposure time was extended to 4.0 s. This finding confirmed that they were able to improve their judgment when sufficient time was given and judgment for attractiveness of multiple objects as a whole was not specific to human faces.
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Book Review
Tutorial
  • Technical topics in virtual reality research as of 2014
    Michiteru Kitazaki
    2015 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 184-193
    Published: March 30, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: May 14, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.33.29
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    Virtual-reality research aims to create substantially identical percepts and experiences of the real world for human users by presenting artificial sensory inputs. I describe technical topics in recent virtual reality studies as of 2014, and especially focused on physically and psychologically critical components of reality, various modality-specific displays and apparatus, position and action sensors, and development software. While these technologies are progressing on going, relatively standard and general technology and products are selected in the paper. Perceptual psychology and psychonomic sciences give an evolution to the virtual-reality research, and virtual reality studies promote investigation of reality in perceptual psychology and psychonomic sciences.
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Report
  • Foundation of “the Science of Mental Time”: a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
    Ikuya Murakami
    2015 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 196-198
    Published: March 30, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: May 14, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.33.30
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    This short note is a report on the recent foundation of “the Science of Mental Time”: a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, started in 2013. This interdisciplinary research team consists of 5-year Programmed Researches titled “Present”, “Past”, “Future”, “Pathological Conditions”, “Linguistics and Philosophy”, and “Comparative Ethology”, as well as many 2-year Proposed Researches. The main goals of this research team is to disentangle intricate questions about time representations in the mind, to propose suggestions for future approaches in applied psychology, and to clarify phylogeny and ontogeny of mental time. For these purposes, investigators from diverse disciplines are vigorously working together through semiannual meetings, occasional symposia, and collaborative research projects.
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