Hiroyuki Muto ｜ Program-Specific Assistant Professor ｜Cognitive Psychology / Mathematical Psychology
I investigate perceptual and cognitive mechanisms of visuospatial imagery, visual illusions, and gambling behavior using methods of experimental psychology and statistical modeling.
Email: muto.hiroyuki.8x[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp
B.A., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychological and Physical Science, Aichi Gakuin University, 2014
M.A., Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2016
JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), 2016-2019
Ph.D., Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2019
JSPS Research Fellow (PD), 2019-2020
Project Researcher, Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, Ritsumeikan University, 2019-2020
Specially Appointed Researcher/Fellow, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2019-2020
Visiting Researcher, Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, Ritsumeikan University, 2020-current
Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, 2020-current
[Book chapters]
Muto, H. (2019). Bayesian inference on probabilities of winning angels in Chocoball: Modelling of count data using multinomial and geometric distributions. In H. Toyoda (Ed.), Exciting Bayes modeling 2: Frontiers of research opened by cases (pp. 1-13). Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo. (In Japanese.)
Muto, H. (2018). Is a rotated letter correct or mirrored? The mixed-process model accounting for response times in a mental rotation task. In H. Toyoda (Ed.), Exciting Bayes modeling: Frontiers of research opened by cases (pp. 79–92). Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo. (In Japanese.)
[Peer-reviewed papers]
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
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
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
Mizuhara, K., Muto, H., & Nittono, H. (2019). A reexamination of postdiction within a free-choice task. The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16(2), 25–31. (In Japanese with an English abstract.) https://doi.org/10.5265/jcogpsy.16.25
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
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