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  • Øvervoll, M, Schettino, I, Suzuki, H, Okubo, M, & Laeng, B. (2020). Filtered beauty in Oslo and Tokyo: A spatial frequency analysis of facial attractiveness, PLOS ONE, 13(8) e0201603
  • Nakashima, S., Ukezono, M., Sudo, R., Nunoi, M., Kitagami, S., Okubo, M., Toriyama, R., Morimoto, Y., Takano, Y. (2019). Development of a Japanese version of the 20-item prosopagnosia index (PI20-J) and examination of its reliability and validity, 90, 474-481.
  • Okubo, M. (2019).Computer & Education and null hypothesis significance testing: Any efforts for statistical reform? Computer & Education, 47(1), 12-17.
  • Okubo, M. & Ishikawa, K. (2019). The big warm smile of cheaters: lateral posing biases and emotional expressions in displaying facial trustworthiness Laterality, 24, 678-696.
  • Suzuki, A., Ueno, M., Ishikawa, K., Kobayashi, A., Okubo, M., & Nakai, T. (2019). Age-related differences in the activation of the mentalizing-and reward-related brain regions during the learning of others' true trustworthiness. Neurobiology of aging, 73, 1-8.
  • Okubo, M. (2019). Faces of glory: the left-cheek posing bias for medallists of Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitions. Laterality, 24, 56-64.
  • Laeng, B., Kiambarua, K.G., Hagen, T., Bochynska A., Lubell, J., Suzuki, H., & Okubo, M. (2018). The ``face race lightness illusion'': An effect of the eyes and pupils? PLOS ONE, 13(8) e0201603
  • Ishikawa, K., Suzuki H., & Okubo, M. A. (2018). Effects of social anxiety on metaphorical associations between emotional valence and clothing brightness Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 61 , 32-37.
  • Okubo, M., Ishikawa, K., & Kogayashi, A. (2017). The cheek of a cheater: Effects of posing the left and right hemiface on the perception of trustworthiness, Laterality, 23, 209-227.
  • Okubo, M., Ishikawa, K., Kogayashi, ., & Suzuki, H. (2017). Can I trust you? Laterality of facial trustworthiness in an ecconomic game. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41, 21-34
  • Ishikawa, K. & Okubo, M., I (2016). Overestimation of the subjective experience of time in social anxiety: Effects of facial expression, gaze direction and time course. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychopathology, 7(611) .
  • Ishikawa, K. & Okubo, M., I (2016). Overestimation of the subjective experience of time in social anxiety: Effects of facial expression, gaze direction and time course. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychopathology, 7(611) .
  • Okubo, M. (in press). Null hypothesis significance tests and reduroducibility Japanese Psychological Review (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M., Ishikawa, K., Kobayashi, A. Laeng, B., & Tommasi, L. (2015). Cool guys and warm husbands: The effect of smiling on male facial attractiveness for short- and long-term relationships. Evolutionary Psychology, 13, 1474704915600567.
  • Okubo, M. & Suzuki, H. (2014). A Japanese version of the FLANDERS handedness questionnaire. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 85, 474-481. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M.  (2014). Closed ANOVA and its beyond. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 32, 213-216. (in Japanese)
  • Kobayashi, A. & Okubo, M. (2014). Assessment of working memory capacity with a Japanese version of the Operation Span Test. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 85, 60-68. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Ishikawa, K., Yamaguchi, M., Sawa, K., Takata, N., & Okubo, M. (2014). The effect of interpersonal dependency on judgment of gaze direction. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 85, 87 - 92. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M., Ishikawa, K., & Kobayashi, A. (2013). No trust on the left side: Hemifacial asymmetries for trustworthiness and emotional expressions. Brain and Cognition, 82, 181-186.
  • Okubo, M. & Jiang, Y. (2013). Grotesque Impressions Enhance the Gaze Cueing Effect. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 1, 215-221.
  • Okubo, M., Kobayashi, A., & Ishikawa, K. (2012). A fake smile thwarts cheater detection. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 36, 217-22.
  • Ishikawa, K., Okamura, Y., & Okubo, M. (2012). Judgment of gaze direction related to social anxiety: facial expressions and interpretation biases. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 83, 225-231. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Michimata, C., Saneyoshi, A., Okubo, M., & Laeng, B. (2011). Effects of the global and local attention on the processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations. Brain and Cognition, 77, 292-297.
  • Ishii, Y., Okubo, M., Nicholls, M. E. R., & Imai, H. (2011). Lateral biases and reading direction: A dissociation between aesthetic preference and line bisection. Brain and Cognition, 5, 242-247.
  • Okubo, M. & Ishikawa, K. (2011). Automatic semantic association between emotional valence and brightness in the right hemisphere. Cognition and Emoition, 25, 1273-1280.
  • Laeng, B., Okubo, M., Saneyoshi, A., & Michimata, C. (2011). Processing spatial relations with different apertures of attention, Cognitive Science, 35, 279-329.
  • Okubo, M. (2010). Reduced perceptual asymmetries in depressed females, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 34, 571-575
  • Okubo, M., Laeng, B., Saneyoshi, A., & Michimata, C. (2010). Exogenous attention differentially modulates the processing of categorical and coordi- nate spatial relations, Acta Psychologica, 135, 1-11.
  • Okubo, M. (2010). Right movies on the right seat: Laterality and seat choice, Applied Cognitive Psychology. 24, 90-99.
  • Okubo, M. (2009). Statistical reform in Japan: The case of Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 28, 88-93. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M. (2008). Brain imaging and psychonomic science. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 27, 63-64. (in Japanese)
  • Okubo, M., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2008). Hemispheric asymmetries for temporal information processing: Transient detection versus sustained monitoring, Brain and Cognition, 66, 168-175.
  • Nicholls, M. E. R., Orr, C. A., Okubo, M. & Loftus, A. (2006). Satisfaction guaranteed: The effect of spatial biases on Likert scales. Psychological Science, 17, 1027-1028.
  • Okubo, M., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2006). A stimulus-dependent dissociation between the cerebral hemispheres under free-viewing conditions. Experimental Brain Research, 172, 49-56.
  • Okubo, M., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2005). Flexible contrast gain control in the right hemisphere. Brain and Cognition, 59, 269-276.
  • Okubo, M., Misawa, G., & Mugishima, Y. (2005). Facilitation of return in voluntary orienting to visual attributes. Japanese Psychological Research, 47, 271-279.
  • Okubo, M., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2005). Hemispheric asymmetries in temporal resolution: Contribution of the magnocellular pathway. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 755-759.
  • Okubo, M., & Michimata, C. (2004). The role of high spatial frequencies on hemispheric processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1576-1582.
  • Maehara, G., Okubo, M., & Michimata, C. (2004). Effects of background color on detecting spot stimuli presented to the upper and lower visual fields. Brain and Cognition 55, 558-583.
  • Takano, Y., Ishikawa, J., & Okubo, M. (2002). Specialized-function theory vs. versatile-function theory: A reply to Hiraishi, Hasegawa, & Hasegawa (2002).  Cognitive Studies, 9, 586-591 (in Japanese)
  • Okubo, M., & Michimata, C. (2002). Hemispheric processing of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in the absence of low spatial frequencies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 291-297.
  • akano, Y., Okubo, M., Ishikawa, J., & Fujii, D. (2001). Is Reasoning Ability Inherited?: A Test of Cosmides's Account of the Wason Selection Task. Cognitive Studies, 8, 287-300. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M., & Michimata, C.(2001). Spatial relation and hemispheric asymmetries: Contribution of spatial frequency processing. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 20, 39-40. (in Japanese with English abstract)
  • Okubo, M., & Takano, Y. (2001). Absence of perceptual segmentation in image generation by normals. Japanese Psychological Research, 43, 121- 129.
  • Michimata, C., Okubo, M., & Mugishima, Y. (1999). Effects of background color on the global and local processing of hierarchically organized stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 1-8.

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