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Hiroyuki Muto's Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology Laboratory

Research Achievements

Publications (Peer-reviewed)
  1. Muto, H., Nakai, R., Taniguchi, N., Yagi, M., Fukumoto, Y., Okada, S., Okada, S., & Kobayashi, M. (2025). Reduced human-body advantage in mental rotation among patients with knee osteoarthritis. Experimental Brain Research, 243(11), Article 234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-025-07179-5
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  2. Muto, H. (2025). A ruler-based technique to rigorously control the size of visual stimuli for online psychological experiments. The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(1), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.5265/jcogpsy.2415
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  3. Muto, H., Nakai, R., Murai, T., Yoshikawa, S., & Abe, N. (2025). Baccarat gamblers follow trends rather than adhere to the gambler’s fallacy: Analyses of field data from a casino. Acta Psychologica, 258, Article 105172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105172
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  4. Yoshioka, T., Muto, H., & Saiki, J. (2025). Functional perspectives in mental jigsaw puzzles: Insights from eye-tracking, questionnaire, and behavioral data. PLOS ONE, 20(4), Article e0321217. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321217
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  5. Kambara, A., Muto, H., Sodekawa, Y., & Yamada, M. (2024). Exploring individual psychological characteristics associated with unmarried status: Focusing on attachment style Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, 40(2), 152-161. https://doi.org/10.14966/jssp.2023-020
  6. Huang, H., Muto, H., & Kanamaru, T. (2023). An attempt to measure the familiarity of specialized Japanese in the nursing care field. Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, 4(2), 57-74. https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.2.57
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  7. Muto, H., Gondo, Y., Inagaki, H., Masui, Y., Nakagawa, T., Ogawa, M., Onoguchi, W., Ishioka, Y., Numata, K., & Yasumoto, S. (2023). Human-body analogy improves mental rotation performance in people aged 86 to 97 years. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), Article 74785. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.74785
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  8. Muto, H., Suzuki, M., & Sekiyama, K. (2022). Advanced aging effects on implicit motor imagery and its links to motor performance: An investigation via mental rotation of letters, hands, and feet. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14, Article 1025667. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.1025667
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  9. Kasuga, A., Yasumoto, S., Nakagawa, T., Ishioka, Y., Kikuchi, A., Inagaki, H., Ogawa, M., Hori, N., Masui, Y., Choe, H., Muto, H., Kabayama, M., Godai, K., Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., Ishizaki, T., & Gondo, Y. (2022). Older adults’ resilience against impact of lifestyle changes during the COVID-19. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 8, Article 233372142211162. https://doi.org/10.1177/23337214221116226
  10. Muto, H. (2021). Evidence for mixed processes in normal/mirror discrimination of rotated letters: A Bayesian model comparison between single- and mixed-distribution models. Japanese Psychological Research, 63(3), 190-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12306
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  11. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2021). Sex differences in mental rotation performance through holding weights by the hands. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 40(4), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620952334
  12. Muto, H. (2021). Correlational evidence for the role of spatial perspective-taking ability in the mental rotation of human-like objects. Experimental Psychology, 68(1), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000505
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  13. Kurihara, Y., & Muto, H. (2021). Behavioral responses of Japanese macaques to playback-simulated intergroup encounters. Behavioural Processes, 182, Article 104279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104279
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  14. Muto, H., & Nagai, M. (2020). Mental rotation of cubes with a snake face: The role of the human-body analogy revisited. Visual Cognition, 28(2), 106-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1727598
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  15. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2019). Object's symmetry alters spatial perspective-taking processes. Cognition, 191, Article 103987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.024
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  16. Muto, H., Ide, M., Tomita, A., & Morikawa, K. (2019). Viewpoint invariance of eye size illusion caused by eyeshadow. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1510. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01510
  17. Mizuhara, K., Muto, H., & Nittono, H. (2019). A reexamination of postdiction within a free-choice task. Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16(2), 25-31. (In Japanese.) https://doi.org/10.5265/jcogpsy.16.25
  18. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2018). Spatial perspective taking mediated by whole-body motor simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44 (3), 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000464
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  19. Muto, H. (2015). The effects of linearity on sentence comprehension in oral and silent reading. Japanese Psychological Research, 57(3), 194-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12079
MISC (Non-Peer-reviewed)
  1. Muto, H. (2025). coglyphr: An R package to compute glyph centers of gravity from image data. Jxiv. https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.1531
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  2. Saiki, J. & Muto, H. (2023). Computational approaches in cognitive science: Past, present, and future. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 30(1), 46-55. (In Japanese.) https://doi.org/10.11225/cs.2022.074
  3. Muto, H. (2022). Psychonomic science and mathematical models in the modern era. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 41(1), 49. (In Japanese.) https://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.41.9
  4. Muto, H. (2022). The future of psychology opened by open data, open materials, and open analysis scripts. Kagaku, 92(9), 800-805. (In Japanese.) http://hdl.handle.net/2433/276378
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  5. Muto, H., Gondo, Y., Kasuga, A., Nakagawa, T., Ishioka, Y., Onoguchi, W., Kikuchi, A., Inagaki, H., Ogawa, M., Hori, N., Masui, Y., Choe, H., Cheng, Y., Matsumoto, K., Yasumoto, S., Kabayama, M., Godai, K., Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., & Ishizaki, T. (2021). Associations among anxiety, risk perception, preventive behaviors, and personality in Japanese older adults aged 78 to 99 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vzgcp
  6. Muto, H. (2021). Introduction to hierarchical Bayesian modeling for experimental psychologists: A tutorial using R and Stan. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 39(2), 196-212. (In Japanese.) https://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.39.27
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  7. Muto, H. (2021). Introduction to studies demonstrating the usefulness of Bayesian statistical modeling in cognitive psychology: Understanding inter-individual and inter-trial variability. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 28(1), 182-187. (In Japanese.) https://doi.org/10.11225/cs.2020.077
Presentations at International Conferences
  1. ○Kasuga, A., Yasumoto, S., Nakagawa, T., Ishioka, Y., Kikuchi, A., Inagaki, H., Ogawa, M., Hori, N., Masui, Y., Choe, H., Muto, H., Kabayama, M., Godai, K., Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., Ishizaki, T., & Gondo, Y. (2023). Older adults’ social interaction changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poster presented at the 12th International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia/Oceania Regional Congress, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, June 12 to 14 (Presentation date: June 14). Poster
  2. ○Matsumoto, K, Hirokawa, K., Muto, H., Nakagawa, T., Ogawa, M., Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., & Gondo, Y. (2023). Associations between 2D:4D digit ratio and frailty among 80-years old Japanese elderly: A cross-sectional analysis of the SONIC study. Poster presented at the 12th International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia/Oceania Regional Congress, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, June 12 to 14 (Presentation date: June 12). Poster
  3. ○Hirokawa, K., Matsumoto, K., Muto, H., Nakagawa, T., Ogawa, M, Ikebe, K., Kamide, K., & Gondo, Y. (2023). Associations between 2D:4D digit ratio and cognitive function among elderly Japanese people: A cross-sectional analysis of the SONIC study. Poster presented at the 12th International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia/Oceania Regional Congress, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, June 12 to 14 (Presentation date: June 12). Poster
  4. Kobayashi, H., Muto, H., Shimizu, H., & Ogawa, H. (2021). Effects of interstimulus spacing on flanker interference investigated by hierarchical diffusion modeling. Oral presented at the 18th Annual Convention of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (online), March 3 to 4 (Presentation date: March 4). Talk
  5. Muto, H. (2020). Correlational evidence for the adoption of egocentric mental rotation in same/different comparisons of human-like objects. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society's 61st Annual Meeting (Online), November 19 to 22 (Presentation date: November 19). Poster
  6. Muto, H., Gondo, Y., Inagaki, H., Masui, Y., Nakagawa, T., Ogawa, M., Onoguchi, W., Ishioka, Y., Numata, K., & Yasumoto, S. (2019). Effectiveness of body analogy for mental rotation in the oldest-old people. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society's 60th Annual Meeting, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Montreal, November 14-17 (Presentation date: November 16). Poster
  7. Kobayashi, H., Muto, H., Shimizu, H., & Ogawa, H. (2019). A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model of flanker interference. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Montreal, November 14. Poster
  8. Muto, H. (2019). How does body analogy help mental rotation? Disentangling bottom-up and top-down processes. Poster presented at the 15th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, Ritsumeikan University, Ibaraki, July 29 to August 1 (Presentation date: July 29). Poster
  9. Kurihara, Y., & Muto, H. (2019). Behavioral responses of Japanese macaques to simulated intergroup encounters: evidence from field playback experiments. Oral presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, March 15 to 19 (Presentation date: March 17). Talk
  10. Muto, H., & Morikawa, K. (2018). Mental rotation of ears: Which type of transformation is elicited by left/right judgements of unmovable body parts? Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, September 10 to 14 (Presentation date: September 13). Poster
  11. Muto, H., Ide, M., Tomita, A., & Morikawa, K. (2018). Eye size illusion caused by eye shadow is independent of face orientation. Oral presented at the 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, Lake View Hotel, Hangzhou, July 13-16 (Presentation date: July 14). Talk
  12. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2017). Holding heavy bags in hands improves mental rotation performance in females but not in males. Cognitive Science, GIS NTU Convention Center, Taipei, September 1-3 (Presentation date: September 3). Poster
  13. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2017). Agent's symmetry elicits egocentric transformations for spatial perspective-taking. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Hilton London Metropole, London, July 26 to 29 (Presentation date: July 29). Poster
  14. Muto, H., Kano, S., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2016). Imagining a face viewed from novel angles in advance facilitates face identification. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Sheraton Boston, Boston, November 17. Poster
  15. Muto, H., Matsushita, S., & Morikawa, K. (2016). Comparison between foot and hand responses for a spatial perspective-taking task. Poster presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, July 24-29 (Presentation date: July 26). Poster
Desertations
  1. Muto, H. (2019). Cognitive mechanisms of spatial perspective taking (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Osaka University, Suita.
  2. Muto, H. (2016). An embodied cognition approach to spatial perspective taking: The role of movement planning (Unpublished master dissertation). Osaka University, Suita.
  3. Muto, H. (2014). The effects of linearity on sentence comprehension in oral and silent reading (Unpublished undergraduate dissertation). Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin.
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