Research Interests: Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science
Research Topic: Implicit cognitive mechanisms
Hirokazu came up with his first research question as an undergraduate student while playing mah-jong with his friends: How do good mah-jong players develop their power of intuition? From there, he started studying the human attentional mechanisms that filter incoming inputs for further detailed analysis and how they are affected by implicit memory. In the Hakubi project, he will develop a new methodology to clarify the mechanisms of high-level implicit cognitive processes, such as creativity and intuition.