Akiyoshi Kitaoka
Akiyoshi Kitaoka ( Jap. 北岡明佳 , Kitaoka Akiyoshi * 19th August 1961 in the prefecture of Kōchi , Japan ) professor of psychology at the Faculty of Humanities at the Ritsumeikan University in Japan Kyoto .
He first studied biology at Tsukuba University , where he dealt with animal psychology , and at the Tokyo Institute for Neuroscience . In 1991 he did his doctorate at the Psychological Institute of the University of Tsukuba and then dealt intensively with optical illusions regarding shape, color and differences in brightness, as well as shape perception . After completing his doctorate, he first went to the Tōkyō-to Shinkei Kagaku Sōgō Kenkyūjo ( 東京 都 神 経 科学 総 合 研究所 , Institute of Neuroscience Tokyo) and in 2001 as an assistant professor (from 2006 professor) at Ritsumeikan University .
He became famous for his picture Rotating Snakes . In 2006 he received the Gold Prize of the 9th L'Oréal Art and Science of Color competition. In 2007 he received the Award for Original Studies from the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology.
Web links
- Akiyoshi's illusion pages
- For non-commercial purposes, Rotating Snakes . can be downloaded from the following website (RIKEN PROJEKT): Rotating snakes - Visiome Platform . Retrieved January 8, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Kitaoka: Cognitive psychology of visual illusion . In: Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology . Volume 5, 2008, pp. 177-185 (Japanese with English summary).
- ↑ Akiyoshi Kitaoka: Biography. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Discussed in: Hans-Werner Hunziker : In the eye of the reader: foveal and peripheral perception - from spelling to reading pleasure . Transmedia Stäubli Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7266-0068-6
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kitaoka, Akiyoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 北 岡明 佳 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kochi Prefecture , Japan |