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| Jiale YANG |  |
| School of Psychology | |
| Associate Professor |
Last Updated :2025/05/14
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Jiale YANG
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- School of Psychology, Associate Professor
- Department of Psychology, Associate Professor
- Graduate School of Psychology, Associate Professor
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Academic & Professional Experience
- Apr. 2022, 9999, Chukyo University, School of Psychology
- Apr. 2022, 9999, Chuo University, Research and Development Initiative
- Apr. 2009, 9999, Chuo University, The Institute of Cultural Sciences
- Apr. 2019, Mar. 2022, Chuo University, Research and Development Initiative
- Apr. 2016, Mar. 2019, The University of Tokyo
- Apr. 2016, Mar. 2019
- Sep. 2016, Feb. 2018
- Apr. 2015, Mar. 2016, Japan Women's University, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences
- May 2013, Apr. 2015, Chuo University, Research and Development Initiative
- Sep. 2012, Mar. 2013
- Apr. 2011, Aug. 2012
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Published Papers
- Effects of multisensory stimulation on infants' learning of object pattern and trajectory.
Ganea, N., Addyman, C., Yang, J., & Bremner, A.
Child Development, 95, 2133, 2149, 2024, refereed, Joint Work - Cortical signatures of visual body representation develop in human infancy
Yang, J., Ganea, N., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Bhattacharya, J., & Bremner, A. J.
Scientific Reports, 14696, 14696, 2023, refereed, Joint Work - チャイルド・サイエンス, 22, 49, 53, Sep. 2021
- Development of body representations in human infancy
Yang, J; Yamaguchi, M. K; Bremner, A. J
1, 1, 18, 28, Mar. 2021 - The Development of Binocular Suppression in Infants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
11, 23 Oct. 2020 - Sound symbolism processing is lateralized to the right temporal region in the prelinguistic infant brain
Yang Jiale; Asano Michiko; Kanazawa So; Yamaguchi Masami K; Imai Mutsumi
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9, 17 Sep. 2019 - Infant Can Visually Differentiate the Fresh and Degraded Foods: Evidence From Fresh Cabbage Preference
Yang Jiale; Okajima Katsunori; Kanazawa So; Yamaguchi Masami K
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 10, 30 Jul. 2019 - Cortical response to categorical color perception in infants investigated by near-infrared spectroscopy
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi; Ichiro Kuriki
113, 9, 2370, 2375, Mar. 2016, Perceptual color space is continuous; however, we tend to divide it into only a small number of categories. It is unclear whether categorical color perception is obtained solely through the development of the visual system or whether it is affected by language acquisition. To address this issue, we recruited prelinguistic infants (5- to 7-mo-olds) to measure changes in brain activity in relation to categorical color differences by using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). We presented two sets of geometric figures to infants: One set altered in color between green and blue, and the other set altered between two different shades of green. We found a significant increase in hemodynamic responses during the between-category alternations, but not during the within-category alternations. These differences in hemodynamic response based on categorical relationship were observed only in the bilateral occipitotemporal regions, and not in the occipital region. We confirmed that categorical color differences yield behavioral differences in infants. We also observed comparable hemodynamic responses to categorical color differences in adults. The present study provided the first evidence, to our knowledge, that colors of different categories are represented differently in the visual cortex of prelinguistic infants, which implies that color categories may develop independently before language acquisition. - Pre-constancy Vision in Infants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi; Isamu Motoyoshi
25, 24, 3209, 3212, Dec. 2015, Our visual system can easily estimate the constant color and material of external objects despite dynamic changes in the retinal image across viewpoints and illuminations in natural scenes. It is commonly believed that this high-level visual function, called "perceptual constancy,'' is acquired through postnatal learning [1], building upon low-level functions that have developed earlier, such as image discrimination. However, we demonstrate here that before developing perceptual constancy, 3- to 4-month-old infants have a striking ability to discriminate slight image changes due to illumination that are not salient for adults. These young infants lose this ability after 5 months of age and then develop an ability to perceive distal surface properties (glossy or matte) at 7-8 months of age. Moreover, we identify the transition period between these two functions at 5-6 months of age, wherein infants show difficulty in both image and surface discrimination. These findings support the notion that acquiring perceptual constancy leads to a loss of sensitivity to variant information, which is negligible for constant surface material perception. We suggest that the immature visual system may initially directly access local image features and then develops a complementary constant neural representation of the properties of an object. - Infants' visual system nonretinotopically integrates color signals along a motion trajectory
Jiale Yang; Junji Watanabe; So Kanazawa; Shin'ya Nishida; Masami K. Yamaguchi
15, 1, 2015, Whereas early visual processing has been considered primarily retinotopic, recent studies have revealed significant contributions of nonretinotopic processing to the human perception of fundamental visual features. For adult vision, it has been shown that information about color, shape, and size is nonretinotipically integrated along the motion trajectory, which could bring about clear and unblurred perception of a moving object. Since this nonretinotopic processing presumably includes tight and elaborated cooperation among functional cortical modules for different visual attributes, how this processing matures in the course of brain development is an important unexplored question. Here we show that the nonretinotopic integration of color signals is fully developed in infants at five months of age. Using preferential looking, we found significantly better temporal segregation of colors for moving patterns than for flickering patterns, even when the retinal color alternation rate was the same. This effect could be ascribed to the integration of color signals along a motion trajectory. Furthermore, the infants' color segmentation performance was comparable to that of human adults. Given that both the motion processing and color vision of 5-month-old infants are still under development, our findings suggest that nonretinotopic color processing develops concurrently with basic color and motion processing. Our findings not only support the notion of an early presence of cross-modal interactions in the brain, but also indicate the early development of a purposive cross-module interaction for elegant visual computation. - Can Infants Tell the Difference between Gold and Yellow?
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
8, 6, Jun. 2013, There is a large literature focused on the color perception of matte surface. However, recent research showed that the component of surface specular reflection, such as glossiness, also affects categorical color perception. For instance, the color term "gold'' was used to name high specular stimuli within a specific range of chromaticity, which overlaps with those of yellow and orange for low specular stimuli. In the present study, we investigated whether the component of surface specular reflectance affects the color perception of 5- to 8-month-old infants by using the preferential looking technique. In the first experiment, we conducted a simple test to determine whether infants perceive yellow and gold as the same color by comparing their preference for these colors over green. If the infants perceive yellow and gold as the same color, they would show similar preference scores over green. On the other hand, if infants show different preference scores over green, it indicates that infants do not perceive yellow and gold as the same color. Only the 7-8 month-old infants showed different preference scores for gold and yellow over green. This result indicates that the 7-8 month-old infants perceive gold and yellow as different colors. In Experiment 2, we eliminated the component of specular reflectance on the gold surface and presented it against green to infants. A similar preference score of yellow over green was obtained. This result suggests that the difference between the preference scores for gold and yellow over green in Experiment 1 was based on representations of glossiness. - Investigation of color constancy in 4.5-month-old infants under a strict control of luminance contrast for individual participants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi; Ichiro Kuriki
115, 1, 126, 136, May 2013, The current study examined color constancy in infants using a familiarization paradigm. We first obtained isoluminance in each infant as defined by the minimum motion paradigm and used these data to control the luminance of stimuli in the main experiments. In the familiarization phase of the main experiment, two identical smiling face patterns were presented side by side in surrounding patches of various colors, presented on a computer-controlled display. The colors in the stimuli simulated the chromaticity of color chips (OSA uniform color scale) under a certain illuminant. The chromaticity of the whole pattern was changed to simulate illuminant color changes in the test phase except for one of the smiling face patterns that preserved its chromaticity and luminance. If infants had color constancy, they would perceive the face without any change in the chromaticity and luminance as a novel object surface and would show preference for it. Two types of illuminant changes were applied, from 6500 to 10,000 K and from 6500 to 4500 K, in correlated color temperature. The luminance contrast between the background and the face patterns remained constant across the illuminant changes. Our results showed that 4.5-month-old infants preferred the pattern that did not change its chromaticity under both types of illuminant color changes. This finding suggests that 4.5-month-olds may have color constancy under the strict control of luminance contrast. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. - Infant visual preference for fruit enhanced by congruent in-season odor
Yuji Wada; Yuna Inada; Jiale Yang; Satomi Kunieda; Tomohiro Masuda; Atsushi Kimura; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
58, 3, 1070, 1075, Jun. 2012, We explored the ability of infants to recognize the smell of daily foods, including strawberries and tomatoes, by using a preferential-looking-technique. Experiment 1 was conducted while strawberries were in season (from March to June) in order to enhance the frequency of participant exposure to strawberries outside of the laboratory. Thirty-seven infants aged 6-8 months were tested with a stimulus composed of a pair of photos of strawberries and tomatoes placed side by side and accompanied by a strawberry odor, a tomato odor, or no odors. Infants showed a preference for the strawberry picture when they smelled the congruent odor, but no such preference for the tomato picture. These results suggest that even young infants can recognize olfactory-visual congruency. We conducted Experiment 2 while strawberries were out of season (from July to September) to reduce participant exposure to strawberries in their daily life. Twenty-six infants aged 6-8 months were tested with a stimulus composed of a pair of photos of strawberries and tomatoes placed side by side and accompanied by a strawberry odor, or no odors. In Experiment 2, the olfactory-visual binding effect disappeared. This implies that visual-olfactory binding is triggered by an observer's experience. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. - Perception of surface glossiness by infants aged 5 to 8 months
Jiale Yang; Yumiko Otsuka; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi; Isamu Motoyoshi
40, 12, 1491, 1502, 2011, We examined glossiness perception in infants using a preferential looking paradigm. In experiment 1, the images of two doll-shaped objects with matte and glossy surfaces were presented to infants aged 5 to 6 and 7 to 8 months. The results showed that the 7 to 8 month olds, but not the 5 to 6 month olds, looked significantly longer at the glossy object than at the matte object. In experiment 2, we additionally employed an object that was matte and covered with textures of white paint splashes, whose luminance histogram was almost identical to that of the glossy object. The results showed that the 7 to 8 month old infants could discriminate between the glossy object and the textured object even though both had similar luminance histograms. Qualitatively similar results were obtained for simple spheres that did not contain facial features. Therefore, the results of experiments 1 and 2 were not due to differences in the visibility of the dolls' facial features. These findings suggest that 7 to 8 month old infants perceive difference between glossy objects and matte objects on the basis of surface representations. - Perception of Munker-White illusion in 4-8-month-old infants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
33, 4, 589, 595, Dec. 2010, There have been numerous studies of the Munker-White illusion but few have focused on the perceptual development of it in human Infants Therefore this study explores the perceptual development of the Munker-White illusion in Infants In this study we created two kinds of Munker-White illusion patterns that had different subjective saturation and investigated infants preference for these two kinds of patterns Previous studies have shown that Infants had a preference for high colorimetric saturation stimuli Therefore if Infants could perceive the Munker-White Illusion we postulated that they would show a preference for stimuli that have high subjective saturation In experiment 1 4-8-month-old infants showed a preference for the stimuli that had a higher subjective saturation In experiment 2 we confirmed that the preference shown in experiment 1 was not dependent on the difference of the color area ratio that existed in the stimuli of experiment 1 Our results suggest that 4-8-month-old Infants can perceive Munker-White illusion (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved - The development of color perception in infant
YANG Jiale; YAMAGUCHI Masami K.
日本色彩学会誌, 日本色彩学会, 34, 2, 157, 163, 01 Jun. 2010 - Infants' recognition of objects using canonical color.
Atsushi Kimura; Yuji Wada; Jiale Yang; Yumiko Otsuka; Ippeita Dan; Tomohiro Masuda; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
105, 3, 256, 263, Mar. 2010, We explored infants' ability to recognize the canonical colors of daily objects, including two color-specific objects (human face and fruit) and a non-color-specific object (flower), by using a preferential looking technique. A total of 58 infants between 5 and 8 months of age were tested with a stimulus composed of two color Pictures of an object placed side by side: a correctly colored Picture (e.g., Fed strawberry) and an inappropriately colored picture (e.g., green-blue strawberry). The results showed that, overall, the 6- to 8-month-olds showed preference for the Correctly colored pictures for color-specific objects, whereas they did not show preference for the correctly colored pictures for the non-color-specific object. The 5-month-olds showed no significant preference for the correctly colored pictures for all object conditions. These findings imply that the recognition, of canonical color for objects emerges at 6 months of age. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. - Perception of neon color spreading in 3-6-month-old infants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi
32, 4, 461, 467, Dec. 2009, Although lots of studies about neon color spreading have been reported, few of these studies have focused on the perceptual development of it in human infants. Therefore, this study explores the perceptual development of neon color spreading in infants. In experiment 1, we examined 3-6-month-olds' perception of neon color spreading in static conditions. In experiment 2, we examined 3-6-month-olds' perception of neon color spreading in moving conditions. Our results suggest that while only 5-6-month-old infants show a preference for neon color spreading in the static condition, 3-4-month-old infants also prefer neon color spreading if motion information is available. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Books etc
Conference Activities & Talks
- Development of sense of agency in infancy
Yang, J., & Wen, W.
The International Congress of Infant Studies 2024, 2024, Joint Work - The development of blue-yellow asymmetries in infants
Jiale Yang , Yoko Mizokami , So Kanazawa , Masami K. Yamaguchi , Michael Webster
Vision Sciences Society, 2022, Joint Work, refereed - 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- Nov. 2019
- Tactile influences on visual processing of bodily information in infants
Yang, J; Natasa, G; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M. K; Bremner, A
Vision Sciences Society 19th Annual Meeting, 23 May 2019 - 乳児における素材の視・触覚弁別の発達
楊嘉楽; GANEA Natasa; 金沢創; 山口真美; BREMNER Andrew
基礎心理学研究, Mar. 2019 - 2019
- 2019
- 乳児における視触覚統合による身体表象の活性化
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; ANDREW Bremner
Vision, Jan. 2019 - 乳児における視触覚統合による視覚処理の促進効果
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; BREMNER Andrew
Vision, Jul. 2018 - The development of haptic-visual interactions underlying material perception in infancy
Yang, J; Natasa, G; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M. K; Bremner, A
The International Congress of Infant Studies 2018 Congress, May 2018 - Representation of sound symbolism in the infant brain: Investigation using the near-infrared spectroscopy
Yang, J; Asano, M; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M. K; Imai, M
The International Multisensory Research Forum 2017, May 2017 - 乳児における両眼間抑制の発達
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美
Vision, Jul. 2016 - The development of binocular suppression in infants
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K
Vision Sciences Society 16th Annual Meeting, May 2016 - 乳児における視野闘争の発達
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美
基礎心理学研究, 31 Mar. 2016 - 乳児における前‐恒常性視覚(pre‐constancy vision)の検討
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; 本吉勇
Vision, 20 Jan. 2016 - Cortical representation for the categorical color perception in infants investigated by near-infrared spectroscopy
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K; Kuriki, I
Society for Neuroscience, Sep. 2015 - 乳児における鮮度知覚の発達
楊嘉楽; 田中礼紀; 岡嶋克典; 金沢創; 山口真美
Vision, 20 Jul. 2015 - Cortical response to categorical color perception in infants investigated by near-infrared spectroscopy
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K; Kuriki, I
The 23rd Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society, Jun. 2015 - 乳児における表面知覚の発達と局所画像知覚の喪失
楊嘉楽; 本吉勇; 金沢創; 山口真美
Vision, 20 Jan. 2014 - Development of categorical color perception in infants
Jiale Yang; So Kanazawa; Masami K. Yamaguchi; Ichiro Kuriki
The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, 2014, PION LTD - Can Infants tell the difference between gold and yellow?
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K
The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Jul. 2013 - 乳児における「金色」のカテゴリカル知覚
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美
基礎心理学研究, 2013 - 乳児における視覚と嗅覚の連合の形成とその持続
稲田祐奈; 小川紗貴子; 作田由衣子; 和田有史; 楊嘉楽; 國枝里美; 金沢創; 山口真美
日本赤ちゃん学会学術集会プログラム・要旨集, 02 Jun. 2012 - 乳児における視覚に対する嗅覚の影響
稲田祐奈; 和田有史; 楊嘉楽; 國枝里美; 増田知尋; 木村敦; 金沢創; 山口真美
基礎心理学研究, 2012 - 乳児のカテゴリカル色知覚における脳活動―NIRSによる検討―
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; 栗木一郎
Vision, 20 Jul. 2011 - 4‐5ケ月児における色カテゴリー知覚
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; 栗木一郎
基礎心理学研究, 31 Mar. 2011 - Perception of surface glossiness in infants
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K; Motoyoshi, I
The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting, May 2010 - 31 Mar. 2010
- 乳児における光沢の知覚
楊嘉楽; 大塚由美子; 金沢創; 山口真美; 本吉勇
Vision, 20 Jan. 2010 - 4~5カ月の乳児における色恒常性
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美; 栗木一郎
基礎心理学研究, 2010 - Color constancy in 4-5-month old infants
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K; Kuriki, I
The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting, May 2009 - 2009
- 乳児における色同化知覚の発達
楊嘉楽; 金沢創; 山口真美
Vision, 20 Jul. 2008 - Perception of neon color spreading in 3- to 6- month old infants
Yang, J; Kanazawa, S; Yamaguchi, M.K
The Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting, May 2008 - 2008
Misc
Other Research Activities
Research Grants & Projects
- 2023
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, The development of body ownership in infants - a rubber hand illusion study -, 202004, 202203, 20K14265 - 201910, 202103
- 201604, 201903
- 201104, 201303