Masataka Sawayama, Ph.D.

2024.06  [Conference presentation]

Sawayama, M. (May, 2025). Seeing invisible material from visible image features, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Hirano, J., Sawayama, M., Miyoshi, K., Nishida, S. (May, 2025). Individual differences in color perception with novel color axes, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Xiao, B., Liao, C., Sawayama, M. (May, 2025). Probing visual and semantic representations in material perception using psychophysics and deep learning, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Shioya, K., Hayashi, K., Li, B., Matsumoto, N., Sawayama, M., Matsuda, K., Miura, K., Eldridge, M., Saunders, R., Richmond, B., Nagai, Y., Miyakawa, N., Minamimoto, T., Katakami, S., Okado, M., Kawano, K., Sugase-Miyamoto, Y., (June, 2025). Neural Representations of Shape and Material of Objects in Monkey Area TE, Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) 2025, Sydney, Australia.

Nakayama, R., Sai, R., Uno, K., Sawayama, M., Tsuchiya, N., Amano, K. (June, 2025). Comparing relational measures of emotional experiences: pairwise judgement and spatial arrangement based on emotional similarity, Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) 2025, Sydney, Australia.

Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., Yamashita, A., Amano, K. (August, 2025). Neural representations of implied motion in body-selective regions revealed by caption-based encoding models. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2025. 06 [Journal Article]

Adolphe, M., Pech, M., Sawayama, M., Maurel, D., Delmas, A., Oudeyer, P. Y., Sauzeon, H. (2025). Exploring the potential of artificial intelligence in individualized cognitive training: A systematic review, PLoS ONE 20(6): e0316860, 1-38. (Article)

2025. 04 [News]

I started working as an associate professor at Hokkaido University.

2024.10  [Preprint]

Nishimura Y., Sawayama M., Yamashita, A., Nakayama, H. & Amano, K. (2024) BrainCodec: Neural fMRI codec for the decoding of cognitive brain states. arXiv, 2410.04383, 1-32. (Article)(Code)

2024.09  [Journal Article]

Liao C., Sawayama M., & Xiao B. (2024) Probing the Link Between Vision and Language in Material Perception Using Psychophysics and Unsupervised Learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(10):e1012481, 1-23. (Article)

2024.09  [Journal Article]

Takahashi N., Sawayama M., Chen X., Motomura, Y., Takeichi, H., Miyauchi, S., & Hiramatsu, C. (2024) Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Event-Related Potentials in Response to Color Saliency Differences Among Various Color Vision Types. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1-17. (Article)

2024.08  [Journal Article]

Kovač G., Portelas R., Sawayama M., Dominey P.F., Oudeyer P-Y. (2024) Stick to your role! Stability of personal values expressed in large language models. PLoS ONE 19(8): e0309114. (Article)

2024.08  [Journal Article]

Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., & Amano, K. (2024). Decoding time-resolved neural representations of orientation ensemble perception. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, 1387393. (Article)